Publications

Byrne DJ, Garcia-Pardo ME, Cole NB, Batnasan B, Heneghan S, Sohail A, Blackstone C, O'Sullivan NC. (2022) Liver X receptor-agonist treatment rescues degeneration in a Drosophila model of hereditary spastic paraplegia. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 10(1):40. doi: 10.1186/s40478-022-01343-6

Strachan EL*, Mac White-Begg D, Crean J, Reynolds AL, Kennedy BN, O'Sullivan NC. (2021) The Role of Mitochondria in Optic Atrophy With Autosomal Inheritance. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15:784987. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.784987

Garcia-Pardo ME, Simpson JC, O'Sullivan NC*. (2021) A novel automated image analysis pipeline for quantifying morphological changes to the endoplasmic reticulum in cultured human cells. BMC Bioinformatics. 22(1):427. doi: 10.1186/s12859-021-04334-x

Fowler PC, Byrne DJ, Blackstone C, O'Sullivan NC*. (2020) Loss of the Mitochondrial Fission GTPase Drp1 Contributes to Neurodegeneration in a Drosophila Model of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia. Brain Sciences. 10(9):646. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10090646

Fowler PC, Garcia-Pardo E, Simpson JC, O’Sullivan NC*. (2019) neurodegERation: The central role for ER contacts in neuronal function and axonopathy, lessons from hereditary spastic paraplegias and related diseases. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13:1051. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.01051

Byrne DJ, Harmon MJ, Simpson JC, Blackstone C, O’Sullivan NC*. (2017) Roles for the VCP co-factors Npl4 and Ufd1 in neuronal function in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 44(10):493-501

Fowler PC, O’Sullivan NC*. (2016) ER-shaping proteins are required for ER and mitochondrial network organization in motor neurons. Human Molecular Genetics. 25(13):2827-2837

Fowler PC, Byrne DJ, O’Sullivan NC*. (2016) Rare disease models provide insight into inherited forms of neurodegeneration. Journal of Rare Diseases Research and Treatments. 1(3):17-21