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Julieta studied Biology and completed her PhD in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in the lab of Prof. Alberto Carlos Frasch in Argentina. She moved to Germany to work as postdoc in the lab of Prof. Hannah Monyer at the University Hospital Heidelberg, where she focused on postnatal neurogenesis in mammalian models. She founded her own group at the Department of Clinical Neurobiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in 2014. Her team investigated molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in neural cell proliferation and migration in brain development and malignant growth.
She joined Nature Cancer in 2024 and is based in Heidelberg, Germany.

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Springer Nature (Germany): Heidelberg, DE

2024-01 to present | Associate Editor (Nature Cancer)
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Works (18)

Spatial transcriptomics map of the embryonic mouse brain – a tool to explore neurogenesis

Biology Open
2023-10-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Barbara Di Marco; Javier Vázquez-Marín; Hannah Monyer; Lázaro Centanin; Julieta Alfonso
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Spatial transcriptomics map of the embryonic mouse brain: a tool to explore neurogenesis

2023-08-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Barbara Di Marco; Javier Vázquez-Marín; Hannah Monyer; Lázaro Centanin; Julieta Alfonso
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Targeting fatty acid oxidation via Acyl-CoA binding protein hinders glioblastoma invasion

Cell Death & Disease
2023-04-29 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2041-4889
Contributors: Ceren Duman; Barbara Di Marco; Ekaterina Nevedomskaya; Berk Ulug; Ralf Lesche; Sven Christian; Julieta Alfonso
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Diazepam binding inhibitor governs neurogenesis of excitatory and inhibitory neurons during embryonic development via GABA signaling

Neuron
2022-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0896-6273
Contributors: Isabelle Everlien; Ting-Yun Yen; Yu-Chao Liu; Barbara Di Marco; Javier Vázquez-Marín; Lázaro Centanin; Julieta Alfonso; Hannah Monyer
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Correction: Neurogenesis of medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens continues into adulthood and is enhanced by pathological pain

Molecular Psychiatry
2021-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Diego García-González; Ionut Dumitru; Annalisa Zuccotti; Ting-Yun Yen; Vicente Herranz-Pérez; Linette Liqi Tan; Angela Neitz; José Manuel García-Verdugo; Rohini Kuner; Julieta Alfonso et al.
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From benzodiazepines to fatty acids and beyond: revisiting the role of ACBP/DBI

Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism
2021-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1043-2760
Contributors: Thierry Alquier; Catherine A. Christian-Hinman; Julieta Alfonso; Nils Færgeman
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Neurogenesis of medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens continues into adulthood and is enhanced by pathological pain

Molecular Psychiatry
2021-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Diego García-González; Ionut Dumitru; Annalisa Zuccotti; Ting-Yun Yen; Vicente Herranz-Pérez; Linette Liqi Tan; Angela Neitz; José Manuel García-Verdugo; Rohini Kuner; Julieta Alfonso et al.
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Reciprocal Interaction between Vascular Filopodia and Neural Stem Cells Shapes Neurogenesis in the Ventral Telencephalon

Cell Reports
2020-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2211-1247
Contributors: Barbara Di Marco; Elizabeth E. Crouch; Bhavin Shah; Ceren Duman; Mercedes F. Paredes; Carmen Ruiz de Almodovar ; Eric J. Huang; Julieta Alfonso
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Emerging intersections between neuroscience and glioma biology

Nature Neuroscience
2019-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1097-6256
Part of ISSN: 1546-1726
Contributors: Erik Jung; Julieta Alfonso; Matthias Osswald; Hannah Monyer; Wolfgang Wick; Frank Winkler
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Acyl-CoA-Binding Protein Drives Glioblastoma Tumorigenesis by Sustaining Fatty Acid Oxidation

Cell Metabolism
2019-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1550-4131
Contributors: Ceren Duman; Kaneschka Yaqubi; Angelika Hoffmann; Azer Aylin Acikgöz; Andrey Korshunov; Martin Bendszus; Christel Herold-Mende; Hai-Kun Liu; Julieta Alfonso
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Diazepam Binding Inhibitor Promotes Stem Cell Expansion Controlling Environment-Dependent Neurogenesis

Neuron
2017-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0896-6273
Contributors: Ionut Dumitru; Angela Neitz; Julieta Alfonso; Hannah Monyer
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Experimental Cerebral Malaria Spreads along the Rostral Migratory Stream

PLOS Pathogens
2016-03-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1553-7374
Contributors: Angelika Hoffmann; Johannes Pfeil; Julieta Alfonso; Felix T. Kurz; Felix Sahm; Sabine Heiland; Hannah Monyer; Martin Bendszus; Ann-Kristin Mueller; Xavier Helluy et al.
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Downregulation of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Receptor 1 Promotes the Switch from Tangential to Radial Migration in the OB

The Journal of Neuroscience
2015-10-07 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 0270-6474
Part of ISSN: 1529-2401
Contributors: Julieta Alfonso; Horst Penkert; Ceren Duman; Annalisa Zuccotti; Hannah Monyer
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Subventricular Zone-Derived Neuroblasts Use Vasculature as a Scaffold to Migrate Radially to the Cortex in Neonatal Mice

Cerebral Cortex
2012-10-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1047-3211
Part of ISSN: 1460-2199
Contributors: C. Le Magueresse; J. Alfonso; C. Bark; M. Eliava; S. Khrulev; H. Monyer
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Diazepam Binding Inhibitor Promotes Progenitor Proliferation in the Postnatal SVZ by Reducing GABA Signaling

Cell Stem Cell
2012-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1934-5909
Contributors: Julieta Alfonso; Corentin Le Magueresse; Annalisa Zuccotti; Konstantin Khodosevich; Hannah Monyer
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“Small Axonless Neurons”: Postnatally Generated Neocortical Interneurons with Delayed Functional Maturation

The Journal of Neuroscience
2011-11-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0270-6474
Part of ISSN: 1529-2401
Contributors: Corentin Le Magueresse; Julieta Alfonso; Konstantin Khodosevich; Ángel A. Arroyo Martín; Christine Bark; Hannah Monyer
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Neurogenesis and widespread forebrain migration of distinct GABAergic neurons from the postnatal subventricular zone

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2008-12-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Part of ISSN: 1091-6490
Contributors: Dragos Inta; Julieta Alfonso; Jakob von Engelhardt; Maria M. Kreuzberg; Axel H. Meyer; Johannes A. van Hooft; Hannah Monyer
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The stress-regulated protein M6a is a key modulator for neurite outgrowth and filopodium/spine formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2005-11-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Part of ISSN: 1091-6490
Contributors: Julieta Alfonso; María E. Fernández; Benjamin Cooper; Gabriele Flugge; Alberto C. Frasch
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