Forschungsthemen

• Neuronale Schaltkreise
• Energiehomöostase
• Melanocortin-System
• Fressverhalten

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Chesters, R. A., Pepper, F., Morgan, C., Cooper, J. D., Howes, O. D., Vernon, A. C., Stone, J. M.: Brain volume in chronic ketamine users - relationship to sub-threshold psychotic symptoms and relevance to schizophrenia. Psychopharmacology in press (E-pub ahead of print) (2022). [Open Access]

Bonneau, M., Sullivan, S. T. O., Gonzalez-Lozano, M. A., Baxter, P., Gautier, P., Marchisella, E., Hardingham, N. R., Chesters, R. A., Torrance, H., Howard, D. M., Jansen, M. A., McMillan, M., Singh, Y., Didier, M., Koopmans, F., Semple, C. A., McIntosh, A. M., Volkmer, H., Loos, M., Fox, K., Hardingham, G. E., Vernon, A. C., Porteous, D. J., Smit, A. B., Price, D. J., Kirsty Millar, J.: Functional brain defects in a mouse model of a chromosomal t(1;11) translocation that disrupts DISC1 and confers increased risk of psychiatric illness. Transl. Psychiatry 11(1):135 (2021). [Open Access]

Hosny, N. A., Seyforth, J. A., Spickermann, G., Mitchell, T. J., Almada, P., Chesters, R., Mitchell, S. J., Chennell, G., Vernon, A. C., Cho, K., Srivastava, D. P., Forster, R., Vettenburg, T.: Planar Airy beam light-sheet for two-photon microscopy. Biomed. Opt. Express 11(7), 3927-3935 (2020). [Open Access]

Brawek, B., Chesters, R., Klement, D., Müller, J., Lerdkrai, C., Hermes, M., Garaschuk, O.: A bell-shaped dependence between amyloidosis and GABA accumulation in astrocytes in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol. Aging. 61, 187-197 (2018).

Richetto, J., Chesters, R., Cattaneo, A., Labouesse, M. A., Gutierrez, A. M. C., Wood, T. C., Luoni, A., Meyer, U., Vernon, A., Riva, M. A.: Genome-Wide Transcriptional Profiling and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Maternal Immune Activation Model of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Cereb. Cortex 27(6), 3397-3413 (2017). [Open Access]

Chand, A. N., Galliano, E., Chesters, R. A., Grubb, M. S.: A distinct subtype of dopaminergic interneuron displays inverted structural plasticity at the axon initial segment. J. Neurosci. 35(4), 1573-1590 (2015). [Open Access]