Michael Oldham, PhD

Associate Professor
Neurological Surgery
+1 415 502-5498

Michael C. Oldham, PhD studies the organization of the transcriptome in the developing and adult human brain, and how this organization differs among primate species and brains affected by disease.

Publications: 

EPCO-37. LONGITUDINAL TUMOR-WIDE SAMPLING OF GLIOBLASTOMA REVEALS EARLY EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE OF RECURRENCE AND CLUES TOWARDS IDENTIFYING THE BIOLOGICAL TUMOR CENTER.

Neuro-oncology

Benjamin Lerman, Chibo Hong, Patrick Schupp, Lee Chen, Daniel Zamler, Ivan Smirnov, Joanna Phillips, Anny Shai, Janine Lupo, Michael Oldham, Joseph Costello

IMMU-59. AN IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE PROGRAM ENCOMPASSING MULTIPLE IMMUNE CELL TYPES IN GBM TYPIFIED BY NOVEL MARKER LRRC25 ASSOCIATED WITH TYROBP SIGNALING.

Neuro-oncology

Daniel Zamler, Radhika Mathur, Gary Chan, Patrick Schupp, Anny Shai, Hideho Okada, Michael Oldham, Joseph Costello

Proinflammatory immune cells disrupt angiogenesis and promote germinal matrix hemorrhage in prenatal human brain.

Nature neuroscience

Chen J, Crouch EE, Zawadzki ME, Jacobs KA, Mayo LN, Choi JJ, Lin PY, Shaikh S, Tsui J, Gonzalez-Granero S, Waller S, Kelekar A, Kang G, Valenzuela EJ, Birrueta JO, Diafos LN, Wedderburn-Pugh K, Di Marco B, Xia W, Han CZ, Coufal NG, Glass CK, Fancy SPJ, Alfonso J, Kriegstein AR, Oldham MC, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Kutys ML, Lehtinen MK, Combes AJ, Huang EJ

Deconstructing Intratumoral Heterogeneity through Multiomic and Multiscale Analysis of Serial Sections.

Cancers

Schupp PG, Shelton SJ, Brody DJ, Eliscu R, Johnson BE, Mazor T, Kelley KW, Potts MB, McDermott MW, Huang EJ, Lim DA, Pieper RO, Berger MS, Costello JF, Phillips JJ, Oldham MC

Deconstructing Intratumoral Heterogeneity through Multiomic and Multiscale Analysis of Serial Sections.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Schupp PG, Shelton SJ, Brody DJ, Eliscu R, Johnson BE, Mazor T, Kelley KW, Potts MB, McDermott MW, Huang EJ, Lim DA, Pieper RO, Berger MS, Costello JF, Phillips JJ, Oldham MC

Glioblastoma evolution and heterogeneity from a 3D whole-tumor perspective.

Cell

Mathur R, Wang Q, Schupp PG, Nikolic A, Hilz S, Hong C, Grishanina NR, Kwok D, Stevers NO, Jin Q, Youngblood MW, Stasiak LA, Hou Y, Wang J, Yamaguchi TN, Lafontaine M, Shai A, Smirnov IV, Solomon DA, Chang SM, Hervey-Jumper SL, Berger MS, Lupo JM, Okada H, Phillips JJ, Boutros PC, Gallo M, Oldham MC, Yue F, Costello JF

EPCO-39. CLARIFYING THE MOLECULAR CONSEQUENCES OF ONCOGENIC MUTATIONS THROUGH MULTISCALE AND MULTIOMIC ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL TUMORS.

Neuro-oncology

Patrick Schupp, Samuel Shelton, Daniel Brody, Rebecca Eliscu, Brett Johnson, Tali Mazor, Kevin Kelley, Matthew Potts, Michael McDermott, Eric Huang, Daniel Lim, Russell Pieper, Mitchel Berger, Joseph Costello, Joanna Phillips, Michael Oldham

Bulk and mosaic deletions of Egfr reveal regionally defined gliogenesis in the developing mouse forebrain.

iScience

Zhang X, Xiao G, Johnson C, Cai Y, Horowitz ZK, Mennicke C, Coffey R, Haider M, Threadgill D, Eliscu R, Oldham MC, Greenbaum A, Ghashghaei HT

Generation of functional human oligodendrocytes from dermal fibroblasts by direct lineage conversion.

Development (Cambridge, England)

Tanabe K, Nobuta H, Yang N, Ang CE, Huie P, Jordan S, Oldham MC, Rowitch DH, Wernig M

Abstract 3621: 3D spatial sampling and integrated omics reveal sources and patterning of intratumoral heterogeneity in glioblastoma.

Cancer research

Radhika Mathur, Qixuan Wang, Patrick Schupp, Ana Nikolic, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Stephanie Hilz, Chibo Hong, Ivan Smirnov, Marisa LaFontaine, Joanna Phillips, Susan Chang, Yan Li, Janine Lupo, Paul Boutros, Marco Gallo, Michael Oldham, Feng Yue, Joseph Costello

Nests of dividing neuroblasts sustain interneuron production for the developing human brain.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Paredes MF, Mora C, Flores-Ramirez Q, Cebrian-Silla A, Del Dosso A, Larimer P, Chen J, Kang G, Gonzalez Granero S, Garcia E, Chu J, Delgado R, Cotter JA, Tang V, Spatazza J, Obernier K, Ferrer Lozano J, Vento M, Scott J, Studholme C, Nowakowski TJ, Kriegstein AR, Oldham MC, Hasenstaub A, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Alvarez-Buylla A, Huang EJ

ECOA-5. Integrative 3D spatial characterization of genomic and epigenomic intratumoral heterogeneity in glioblastoma.

Neuro-oncology advances

Radhika Mathur, Qixuan Wang, Patrick Schupp, Stephanie Hilz, Chibo Hong, Ivan Smirnov, Marisa Lafontaine, Devika Nair, Sriranga Iyyanaki, Joanna Phillips, Susan Chang, Yan Li, Janine Lupo, Michael Oldham, Feng Yue, Joseph Costello

ALS-associated mutation FUS-R521C causes DNA damage and RNA splicing defects.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Qiu H, Lee S, Shang Y, Wang WY, Au KF, Kamiya S, Barmada SJ, Finkbeiner S, Lui H, Carlton CE, Tang AA, Oldham MC, Wang H, Shorter J, Filiano AJ, Roberson ED, Tourtellotte WG, Chen B, Tsai LH, Huang EJ

Positive Controls in Adults and Children Support That Very Few, If Any, New Neurons Are Born in the Adult Human Hippocampus.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Sorrells SF, Paredes MF, Zhang Z, Kang G, Pastor-Alonso O, Biagiotti S, Page CE, Sandoval K, Knox A, Connolly A, Huang EJ, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Oldham MC, Yang Z, Alvarez-Buylla A

Diagnostic blood RNA profiles for human acute spinal cord injury.

The Journal of experimental medicine

Kyritsis N, Torres-Esp?n A, Schupp PG, Huie JR, Chou A, Duong-Fernandez X, Thomas LH, Tsolinas RE, Hemmerle DD, Pascual LU, Singh V, Pan JZ, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Ferguson AR, Oldham MC, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS

Machine intelligence identifies soluble TNFa as a therapeutic target for spinal cord injury.

Scientific reports

Huie JR, Ferguson AR, Kyritsis N, Pan JZ, Irvine KA, Nielson JL, Schupp PG, Oldham MC, Gensel JC, Lin A, Segal MR, Ratan RR, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS

Profiling the mouse brain endothelial transcriptome in health and disease models reveals a core blood-brain barrier dysfunction module.

Nature neuroscience

Munji RN, Soung AL, Weiner GA, Sohet F, Semple BD, Trivedi A, Gimlin K, Kotoda M, Korai M, Aydin S, Batugal A, Cabangcala AC, Schupp PG, Oldham MC, Hashimoto T, Noble-Haeusslein LJ, Daneman R

MicroRNA Ratios Distinguish Melanomas from Nevi.

The Journal of investigative dermatology

Torres R, Lang UE, Hejna M, Shelton SJ, Joseph NM, Shain AH, Yeh I, Wei ML, Oldham MC, Bastian BC, Judson-Torres RL

Immunopeptidomics and Peptide Expression Profiles to Develop T-Cell Receptors Against Glioma-Associated Antigens.

Neurosurgery

Diego A Carrera, Josie Hayes, Sören Müller, Payal Watchmaker, Samuel Shelton, Nolbert Hilf, Toni Weinschenk, Oliver Schoor, Gary Kohanbash, Michael Oldham, Joseph Costello, Harpreet Singh, Hideho Okada

786 A machine-learning classifier trained with microRNA ratios to distinguish melanomas from nevi.

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

R. Torres, U. Lang, N.M. Joseph, A.H. Shain, I. Yeh, M.L. Wei, M.C. Oldham, B. Bastian, R.L. Judson-Torres

Does Adult Neurogenesis Persist in the Human Hippocampus?

Cell stem cell

Paredes MF, Sorrells SF, Cebrian-Silla A, Sandoval K, Qi D, Kelley KW, James D, Mayer S, Chang J, Auguste KI, Chang EF, Gutierrez Martin AJ, Kriegstein AR, Mathern GW, Oldham MC, Huang EJ, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Yang Z, Alvarez-Buylla A

Sequencing Diversity One Cell at a Time.

Cell

Oldham MC, Kreitzer AC

Secretagogin is Expressed by Developing Neocortical GABAergic Neurons in Humans but not Mice and Increases Neurite Arbor Size and Complexity.

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

Raju CS, Spatazza J, Stanco A, Larimer P, Sorrells SF, Kelley KW, Nicholas CR, Paredes MF, Lui JH, Hasenstaub AR, Kriegstein AR, Alvarez-Buylla A, Rubenstein JL, Oldham MC

1220 MicroRNA signature distinguishing nevi from primary melanoma.

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

R. Torres, U. Lang, S. Shelton, Y. Yeniay, N. Joseph, A. Shain, I. Yeh, M. Oldham, M.L. Wei, B. Bastian, R. Judson

A Glial Signature and Wnt7 Signaling Regulate Glioma-Vascular Interactions and Tumor Microenvironment.

Cancer cell

Griveau A, Seano G, Shelton SJ, Kupp R, Jahangiri A, Obernier K, Krishnan S, Lindberg OR, Yuen TJ, Tien AC, Sabo JK, Wang N, Chen I, Kloepper J, Larrouquere L, Ghosh M, Tirosh I, Huillard E, Alvarez-Buylla A, Oldham MC, Persson AI, Weiss WA, Batchelor TT, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Suvà ML, Phillips JJ, Aghi MK, Mehta S, Jain RK, Rowitch DH

Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults.

Nature

Sorrells SF, Paredes MF, Cebrian-Silla A, Sandoval K, Qi D, Kelley KW, James D, Mayer S, Chang J, Auguste KI, Chang EF, Gutierrez AJ, Kriegstein AR, Mathern GW, Oldham MC, Huang EJ, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Yang Z, Alvarez-Buylla A

GENE-33. THE 3D EVOLUTION AND IN VIVO GROWTH PATTERNS OF GLIOMA CELL POPULATIONS.

Neuro-oncology

Stephanie Hilz, Samuel J Shelton, Llewellyn Jalbert, Hang K Wong, Tali Mazor, Chibo Hong, Josie Hayes, Tracy Luks, Henrik Bengtsson, Annette Molinaro, Michael McDermott, Mitchel S Berger, Daniel Lim, Aaron Diaz, Joanna J Phillips, Susan Chang, Sarah Nelson, Michael C Oldham, Joseph Costello

IMMU-52. SELECTION OF GLIOMA T-CELL THERAPY TARGETS BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF TUMOR IMMUNOPEPTIDOME AND EXPRESSION PROFILES.

Neuro-oncology

Diego Carrera, Josie Hayes, Soeren Mueller, Samuel J Shelton, Toni Weinschenk, Colette Song, Jens Fritsche, Oliver Schoor, Sabrina Kuttruff-Coqui, Norbert Hilf, Gary Kohanbash, Payal Watchmaker, Michael C Oldham, Joseph Costello, Harpreet Singh, Hideho Okada

Genetic Characterization of Stromal Cells in High Grade Gliomas.

International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics

S. Choi, J. Hayes, S. Shelton, L. Jones, T. Mazor, S. Fouse, M. Oldham, J. Costello

Correction: Pleiotropic Mechanisms Indicated for Sex Differences in Autism.

PLoS genetics

Mitra I, Tsang K, Ladd-Acosta C, Croen LA, Aldinger KA, Hendren RL, Traglia M, Lavillaureix A, Zaitlen N, Oldham MC, Levitt P, Nelson S, Amaral DG, Hertz-Picciotto I, Fallin MD, Weiss LA

Resolving stem and progenitor cells in the adult mouse incisor through gene co-expression analysis.

eLife

Seidel K, Marangoni P, Tang C, Houshmand B, Du W, Maas RL, Murray S, Oldham MC, Klein OD

An FAK-YAP-mTOR Signaling Axis Regulates Stem Cell-Based Tissue Renewal in Mice.

Cell stem cell

Hu JK, Du W, Shelton SJ, Oldham MC, DiPersio CM, Klein OD

Pleiotropic Mechanisms Indicated for Sex Differences in Autism.

PLoS genetics

Mitra I, Tsang K, Ladd-Acosta C, Croen LA, Aldinger KA, Hendren RL, Traglia M, Lavillaureix A, Zaitlen N, Oldham MC, Levitt P, Nelson S, Amaral DG, Hertz-Picciotto I, Fallin MD, Weiss LA

GENT-15. INTEGRATED MOLECULAR PROFILING OF HUMAN BRAIN TUMORS THROUGH MULTIOMIC ANALYSIS OF SERIAL SECTIONS (MASS).

Neuro-oncology

Samuel J. Shelton, Brett E. Johnson, Tali Mazor, Matthew B. Potts, Michael F. McDermott, Eric J. Huang, Dan Lim, Russel O. Pieper, Mitchel S. Berger, Joanna J. Phillips, Joseph F. Costello, Michael C. Oldham

Progranulin Deficiency Promotes Circuit-Specific Synaptic Pruning by Microglia via Complement Activation.

Cell

Lui H, Zhang J, Makinson SR, Cahill MK, Kelley KW, Huang HY, Shang Y, Oldham MC, Martens LH, Gao F, Coppola G, Sloan SA, Hsieh CL, Kim CC, Bigio EH, Weintraub S, Mesulam MM, Rademakers R, Mackenzie IR, Seeley WW, Karydas A, Miller BL, Borroni B, Ghidoni R, Farese RV, Paz JT, Barres BA, Huang EJ

Transcriptional architecture of the human brain.

Nature neuroscience

Kelley KW, Oldham MC

ANGI-04Olig2 REGULATES Wnt7b EXPRESSION AND VASCULATURE CHARACTERISTICS IN GLIOMA.

Neuro-oncology

Amelie Griveau, Samuel Shelton, An-Chi Tien, Giorgio Seano, Tracy Yuen, Jennifer Sabo, Jasmine Lau, Arman Jahangiri, Emmanuelle Huillard, Joanna Phillips, Anders Persson, Michael Oldham, William Weiss, Manish Aghi, Charles Stiles, Shwetal Mehta, Tracy Batchelor, Rakesh Jain, David Rowitch

MPTH-29CONNECTING MUTANT GENOTYPES TO ABERRANT TRANSCRIPTIONAL SIGNATURES ACROSS SERIAL SECTIONS OF A HUMAN TUMOR.

Neuro-oncology

Samuel Shelton, Brett Johnson, Tali Mazor, Matthew Potts, Michael McDermott, Eric Huang, Daniel Lim, Russell Pieper, Mitchel Berger, Joanna Phillips, Joseph Costello, Michael Oldham

Molecular identity of human outer radial glia during cortical development.

Cell

Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Chen J, Retallack H, Sandoval-Espinosa C, Nicholas CR, Shuga J, Liu SJ, Oldham MC, Diaz A, Lim DA, Leyrat AA, West JA, Kriegstein AR

miR-302 Is Required for Timing of Neural Differentiation, Neural Tube Closure, and Embryonic Viability.

Cell reports

Parchem RJ, Moore N, Fish JL, Parchem JG, Braga TT, Shenoy A, Oldham MC, Rubenstein JL, Schneider RA, Blelloch R

Radial glia require PDGFD-PDGFR� signalling in human but not mouse neocortex.

Nature

Lui JH, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA, Javaherian A, Kriegstein AR, Oldham MC

Analysis of Mll1 deficiency identifies neurogenic transcriptional modules and Brn4 as a factor for direct astrocyte-to-neuron reprogramming.

Neurosurgery

Potts MB, Siu JJ, Price JD, Salinas RD, Cho MJ, Ramos AD, Hahn J, Margeta M, Oldham MC, Lim DA

DISTINCT AND SEPARABLE ROLES FOR HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE EZH2 IN NEUROGENIC ASTROCYTES.

Neuro-oncology

D. A. Lim, W. W. Hwang, R. D. Salinas, J. J. Siu, K. W. Kelley, R. N. Delgado, M. F. Paredes, A. Alvarez-Buylla, M. C. Oldham, D. A. Lim

Distinct and separable roles for EZH2 in neurogenic astroglia.

eLife

Hwang WW, Salinas RD, Siu JJ, Kelley KW, Delgado RN, Paredes MF, Alvarez-Buylla A, Oldham MC, Lim DA

Two miRNA clusters reveal alternative paths in late-stage reprogramming.

Cell stem cell

Parchem RJ, Ye J, Judson RL, LaRussa MF, Krishnakumar R, Blelloch A, Oldham MC, Blelloch R

ALS-associated mutation FUS-R521C causes DNA damage and RNA splicing defects.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Qiu H, Lee S, Shang Y, Wang WY, Au KF, Kamiya S, Barmada SJ, Finkbeiner S, Lui H, Carlton CE, Tang AA, Oldham MC, Wang H, Shorter J, Filiano AJ, Roberson ED, Tourtellotte WG, Chen B, Tsai LH, Huang EJ

Expression profiling of Aldh1l1-precursors in the developing spinal cord reveals glial lineage-specific genes and direct Sox9-Nfe2l1 interactions.

Glia

Molofsky AV, Glasgow SM, Chaboub LS, Tsai HH, Murnen AT, Kelley KW, Fancy SP, Yuen TJ, Madireddy L, Baranzini S, Deneen B, Rowitch DH, Oldham MC

Integration of genome-wide approaches identifies lncRNAs of adult neural stem cells and their progeny in vivo.

Cell stem cell

Ramos AD, Diaz A, Nellore A, Delgado RN, Park KY, Gonzales-Roybal G, Oldham MC, Song JS, Lim DA

Human-specific regulation of MeCP2 levels in fetal brains by microRNA miR-483-5p.

Genes & development

Han K, Gennarino VA, Lee Y, Pang K, Hashimoto-Torii K, Choufani S, Raju CS, Oldham MC, Weksberg R, Rakic P, Liu Z, Zoghbi HY

Human-specific transcriptional networks in the brain.

Neuron

Konopka G, Friedrich T, Davis-Turak J, Winden K, Oldham MC, Gao F, Chen L, Wang GZ, Luo R, Preuss TM, Geschwind DH

Functional genomic analyses identify pathways dysregulated by progranulin deficiency, implicating Wnt signaling.

Neuron

Rosen EY, Wexler EM, Versano R, Coppola G, Gao F, Winden KD, Oldham MC, Martens LH, Zhou P, Farese RV, Geschwind DH

Neurons show distinctive DNA methylation profile and higher interindividual variations compared with non-neurons.

Genome research

Iwamoto K, Bundo M, Ueda J, Oldham MC, Ukai W, Hashimoto E, Saito T, Geschwind DH, Kato T

Is my network module preserved and reproducible?

PLoS computational biology

Langfelder P, Luo R, Oldham MC, Horvath S

Is human blood a good surrogate for brain tissue in transcriptional studies?

BMC genomics

Cai C, Langfelder P, Fuller TF, Oldham MC, Luo R, van den Berg LH, Ophoff RA, Horvath S

Detecting network modules in fMRI time series: a weighted network analysis approach.

NeuroImage

Mumford JA, Horvath S, Oldham MC, Langfelder P, Geschwind DH, Poldrack RA

The organization of the transcriptional network in specific neuronal classes.

Molecular systems biology

Winden KD, Oldham MC, Mirnics K, Ebert PJ, Swan CH, Levitt P, Rubenstein JL, Horvath S, Geschwind DH

Functional Connectivity Using Weighted Voxel Coexpression Network Analysis.

NeuroImage

JA Mumford, RA Poldrack, MC Oldham, DH Geshwind, P Langfelder, S Horvath

Gene Expression in the Evolution of the Human Brain.

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

M.C. Oldham, D.H. Geschwind

Functional organization of the transcriptome in human brain.

Nature neuroscience

Oldham MC, Konopka G, Iwamoto K, Langfelder P, Kato T, Horvath S, Geschwind DH

A systems level analysis of transcriptional changes in Alzheimer's disease and normal aging.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Miller JA, Oldham MC, Geschwind DH

Genome-wide analyses of human perisylvian cerebral cortical patterning.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Abrahams BS, Tentler D, Perederiy JV, Oldham MC, Coppola G, Geschwind DH

Identification of the transcriptional targets of FOXP2, a gene linked to speech and language, in developing human brain.

American journal of human genetics

Spiteri E, Konopka G, Coppola G, Bomar J, Oldham M, Ou J, Vernes SC, Fisher SE, Ren B, Geschwind DH

Conservation and evolution of gene coexpression networks in human and chimpanzee brains.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Oldham MC, Horvath S, Geschwind DH

Evolutionary genetics: the human brain -- adaptation at many levels.

European journal of human genetics : EJHG

Oldham MC, Geschwind DH

Human brain evolution: insights from microarrays.

Nature reviews. Genetics

Preuss TM, Cáceres M, Oldham MC, Geschwind DH