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Dr Laura Morcom

PhD Student
Queensland Brain Insitute
l.morcom@uq.edu.au

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (8)
Conference Papers (3)
Thesis (1)

Book Chapter

Morcom, Laura R., Edwards, Timothy J. and Richards, Linda J. (2016). Cortical architecture, midline guidance, and tractography of 3D white matter tracts. Axons and brain architecture. (pp. 289-313) edited by Kathleen S. Rockland. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801393-9.00014-1

Journal Articles

Morcom, Laura, Edwards, Timothy J., Rider, Eric, Jones-Davis, Dorothy, Lim, Jonathan W. C., Chen, Kok-Siong, Dean, Ryan J., Bunt, Jens, Ye, Yunan, Gobius, Ilan, Suárez, Rodrigo, Mandelstam, Simone, Sherr, Elliott H. and Richards, Linda J. (2021). DRAXIN regulates interhemispheric fissure remodelling to influence the extent of corpus callosum formation. eLife, 10 e61618. doi: 10.7554/eLife.61618
Morcom, Laura, Gobius, Ilan, Marsh, Ashley P. L., Suárez, Rodrigo, Lim, Jonathan W. C., Bridges, Caitlin, Ye, Yunan, Fenlon, Laura R., Zagar, Yvrick, Douglass, Amelia M., Donahoo, Amber-Lee, Fothergill, Thomas, Shaikh, Samreen, Kozulin, Peter, Edwards, Timothy J., Cooper, Helen M., IRC5 Consortium, Sherr, Elliott H., Chédotal, Alain, Leventer, Richard J., Lockhart, Paul J. and Richards, Linda J. (2021). DCC regulates astroglial development essential for telencephalic morphogenesis and corpus callosum formation. eLife, 10 e61769, 1-35. doi: 10.7554/eLife.61769
Suárez, Rodrigo, Paolino, Annalisa, Fenlon, Laura R., Morcom, Laura R., Kozulin, Peter, Kurniawan, Nyoman D. and Richards, Linda J. (2018). A pan-mammalian map of interhemispheric brain connections predates the evolution of the corpus callosum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (38), 9622-9627. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1808262115
Suarez, Rodrigo, Paolino, Annalisa, Kozulin, Peter, Fenlon, Laura R., Morcom, Laura R., Englebright, Robert, O'Hara, Patricia J., Murray, Peter J. and Richards, Linda J. (2017). Development of body, head and brain features in the Australian fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata; Marsupialia: Dasyuridae); A postnatal model of forebrain formation. Plos One, 12 (9) e0184450, 1-18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184450
Gobius, Ilan, Suarez, Rodrigo, Morcom, Laura, Paolino, Annalisa, Edwards, Timothy J., Kozulin, Peter and Richards, Linda J. (2017). Astroglial-mediated remodeling of the interhemispheric midline during telencephalic development is exclusive to eutherian mammals. Neural Development, 12 (1) 9, 9. doi: 10.1186/s13064-017-0086-1
Marsh, Ashley P. L., Heron, Delphine, Edwards, Timothy J., Quartier, Angelique, Galea, Charles, Nava, Caroline, Rastetter, Agnes, Moutard, Marie-Laure, Anderson, Vicki, Bitoun, Pierre, Bunt, Jens, Faudet, Anne, Garel, Catherine, Gillies, Greta, Gobius, Ilan, Guegan, Justine, Heide, Solveig, Keren, Boris, Lesne, Fabien, Lukic, Vesna, Mandelstam, Simone A., McGillivray, George, McIlroy, Alissandra, Meneret, Aurelie, Mignot, Cyril, Morcom, Laura R., Odent, Sylvie, Paolino, Annalisa, Pope, Kate ... Depienne, Christel (2017). Mutations in DCC cause isolated agenesis of the corpus callosum with incomplete penetrance. Nature Genetics, 49 (4), 511-514. doi: 10.1038/ng.3794
Gobius, Ilan, Morcom, Laura, Sua´rez, Rodrigo, Bunt, Jens, Bukshpun, Polina, Reardon, William, Dobyns, William B., Rubenstein, John L.R., Barkovich, James, Sherr, Elliott H. and Richards, Linda J. (2016). Astroglial-mediated remodeling of the interhemispheric midline is required for the formation of the corpus callosum. Cell Reports, 17 (3), 735-747. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.09.033
Faridar, Alireza, Jones-Davis, Dorothy, Rider, Eric, Li, Jiang, Gobius, Ilan, Morcom, Laura, Richards, Linda, Sen, Saunak and Sherr, Elliott (2014). Mapk/Erk activation in an animal model of social deficits shows a possible link to autism. Molecular Autism, 5 (57) 57, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/2040-2392-5-57

Conference Papers

Gobius, I., Morcom, L., Suarez, R., Bunt, J., Sherr, E. H. and Richards, L. J. (2015). Astroglial-mediated remodeling of the interhemispheric midline underlies the formation of the corpus callosum in eutherian mammals. 25th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry Jointly with the 13th Meeting of the Asian Pacific Society for Neurochemistry in Conjunction with the 35th Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, Cairns, QLD Australia, 23-27 August 2015. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/jnc.13188
Suarez, R., Paolino, A., Kozulin, P., Morcom, L., Fenlon, L. and Richards, L. (2015). Developmental scenarios for the evolutionary origin of the corpus callosum. 25th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry Jointly with the 13th Meeting of the Asian Pacific Society for Neurochemistry in Conjunction with the 35th Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, Cairns, QLD Australia, 23-27 August 2015. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/jnc.13188
Gobius, I., Morcom, L., Suarez, R., Bunt, J., Sherr, E. and Richards, L. (2015). Astroglial-mediated remodeling of the interhemispheric midline is exclusive to eutherian mammals and underlies the formation of the corpus callosum. 12th European Meeting on Glial Cell Function in Health and Disease, Bilbao, Spain, 15-18 July 2015. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/glia.22870

Thesis

Morcom, Laura (2020). Cellular and genetic regulation of interhemispheric fissure remodelling and corpus callosum formation. PhD Thesis, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.243
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