Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD

Associate Professor
Neurological Surgery

Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD studies the principles of tissue development, the timing of cell generation, intercellular interactions, and developmental lineage relationships to uncover underlying neurodevelopmental events, tissue organization and cellular demographics.

Publications

An enhancer-AAV toolbox to target and manipulate distinct interneuron subtypes.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Furlanis E, Dai M, Garcia BL, Vergara J, Pereira A, Pelkey K, Tran T, Gorissen BL, Vlachos A, Hairston A, Huang S, Dwivedi D, Du S, Wills S, McMahon J, Lee AT, Chang EF, Razzaq T, Qazi A, Vargish G, Yuan X, Caccavano A, Hunt S, Chittajallu R, McLean N, Hewit L, Paranzino E, Rice H, Cummins AC, Plotnikova A, Mohanty A, Tangen AC, Shin JH, Azadi R, Eldridge MAG, Alvarez VA, Averbeck BB, Alyahyay M, Vallejo TR, Soheib M, Vattino LG, MacGregor CP, Banks E, Olah VJ, Naskar S, Hill S, Liebergall S, Badiani R, Hyde L, Xu Q, Allaway KC, Goldberg EM, Nowakowski TJ, Lee S, Takesian AE, Ibrahim LA, Iqbal A, McBain CJ, Dimidschstein J, Fishell G, Wang Y

Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience.

Nature neuroscience

Colonna M, Konopka G, Liddelow SA, Nowakowski T, Awatramani R, Bateup HS, Cadwell CR, Caglayan E, Chen JL, Gillis J, Kampmann M, Krienen F, Marsh SE, Monje M, O'Dea MR, Patani R, Pollen AA, Quintana FJ, Scavuzzo M, Schmitz M, Sloan SA, Tesar PJ, Tollkuhn J, Tosches MA, Urbanek ME, Werner JM, Bayraktar OA, Gokce O, Habib N

An organotypic atlas of human vascular cells.

Nature medicine

Barnett SN, Cujba AM, Yang L, Maceiras AR, Li S, Kedlian V, Pett JP, Polanski K, Miranda AMA, Xu C, Cranley J, Kanemaru K, Lee M, Mach L, Perera S, Tudor C, Joseph PD, Pritchard S, Toscano-Rivalta R, Tuong K, Bolt L, Petryszak R, Prete M, Cakir B, Huseynov A, Sarropoulos I, Chowdhury RA, Elmentaite R, Madissoon E, Oliver A, Campos L, Brazovskaja A, Gomes T, Treutlein B, Kim CN, Nowakowski TJ, Meyer KB, Randi AM, Noseda M, Teichmann SA

Temporally distinct 3D multi-omic dynamics in the developing human brain.

Nature

Heffel MG, Zhou J, Zhang Y, Lee DS, Hou K, Pastor-Alonso O, Abuhanna KD, Galasso J, Kern C, Tai CY, Garcia-Padilla C, Nafisi M, Zhou Y, Schmitt AD, Li T, Haeussler M, Wick B, Zhang MJ, Xie F, Ziffra RS, Mukamel EA, Eskin E, Nowakowski TJ, Dixon JR, Pasaniuc B, Ecker JR, Zhu Q, Bintu B, Paredes MF, Luo C

Type-I-interferon-responsive microglia shape cortical development and behavior.

Cell

Escoubas CC, Dorman LC, Nguyen PT, Lagares-Linares C, Nakajo H, Anderson SR, Barron JJ, Wade SD, Cuevas B, Vainchtein ID, Silva NJ, Guajardo R, Xiao Y, Lidsky PV, Wang EY, Rivera BM, Taloma SE, Kim DK, Kaminskaya E, Nakao-Inoue H, Schwer B, Arnold TD, Molofsky AB, Condello C, Andino R, Nowakowski TJ, Molofsky AV

A foundational atlas of autism protein interactions reveals molecular convergence.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Wang B, Vartak R, Zaltsman Y, Naing ZZC, Hennick KM, Polacco BJ, Bashir A, Eckhardt M, Bouhaddou M, Xu J, Sun N, Lasser MC, Zhou Y, McKetney J, Guiley KZ, Chan U, Kaye JA, Chadha N, Cakir M, Gordon M, Khare P, Drake S, Drury V, Burke DF, Gonzalez S, Alkhairy S, Thomas R, Lam S, Morris M, Bader E, Seyler M, Baum T, Krasnoff R, Wang S, Pham P, Arbalaez J, Pratt D, Chag S, Mahmood N, Rolland T, Bourgeron T, Finkbeiner S, Swaney DL, Bandyopadhay S, Ideker T, Beltrao P, Willsey HR, Obernier K, Nowakowski TJ, Hüttenhain R, State MW, Willsey AJ, Krogan NJ

Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for human cortical astrocytes.

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

Andrews MG, Mukhtar T, Eze UC, Simoneau CR, Ross J, Parikshak N, Wang S, Zhou L, Koontz M, Velmeshev D, Siebert CV, Gemenes KM, Tabata T, Perez Y, Wang L, Mostajo-Radji MA, de Majo M, Donohue KC, Shin D, Salma J, Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Ullian E, Kumar GR, Winkler EA, Crouch EE, Ott M, Kriegstein AR

Rare deleterious mutations of HNRNP genes result in shared neurodevelopmental disorders.

Genome medicine

Gillentine MA, Wang T, Hoekzema K, Rosenfeld J, Liu P, Guo H, Kim CN, De Vries BBA, Vissers LELM, Nordenskjold M, Kvarnung M, Lindstrand A, Nordgren A, Gecz J, Iascone M, Cereda A, Scatigno A, Maitz S, Zanni G, Bertini E, Zweier C, Schuhmann S, Wiesener A, Pepper M, Panjwani H, Torti E, Abid F, Anselm I, Srivastava S, Atwal P, Bacino CA, Bhat G, Cobian K, Bird LM, Friedman J, Wright MS, Callewaert B, Petit F, Mathieu S, Afenjar A, Christensen CK, White KM, Elpeleg O, Berger I, Espineli EJ, Fagerberg C, Brasch-Andersen C, Hansen LK, Feyma T, Hughes S, Thiffault I, Sullivan B, Yan S, Keller K, Keren B, Mignot C, Kooy F, Meuwissen M, Basinger A, Kukolich M, Philips M, Ortega L, Drummond-Borg M, Lauridsen M, Sorensen K, Lehman A, CAUSES Study, Lopez-Rangel E, Levy P, Lessel D, Lotze T, Madan-Khetarpal S, Sebastian J, Vento J, Vats D, Benman LM, Mckee S, Mirzaa GM, Muss C, Pappas J, Peeters H, Romano C, Elia M, Galesi O, Simon MEH, van Gassen KLI, Simpson K, Stratton R, Syed S, Thevenon J, Palafoll IV, Vitobello A, Bournez M, Faivre L, Xia K, SPARK Consortium, Earl RK, Nowakowski T, Bernier RA, Eichler EE

Disruptive mutations in TANC2 define a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with psychiatric disorders.

Nature communications

Guo H, Bettella E, Marcogliese PC, Zhao R, Andrews JC, Nowakowski TJ, Gillentine MA, Hoekzema K, Wang T, Wu H, Jangam S, Liu C, Ni H, Willemsen MH, van Bon BW, Rinne T, Stevens SJC, Kleefstra T, Brunner HG, Yntema HG, Long M, Zhao W, Hu Z, Colson C, Richard N, Schwartz CE, Romano C, Castiglia L, Bottitta M, Dhar SU, Erwin DJ, Emrick L, Keren B, Afenjar A, Zhu B, Bai B, Stankiewicz P, Herman K, University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics, Mercimek-Andrews S, Juusola J, Wilfert AB, Abou Jamra R, Büttner B, Mefford HC, Muir AM, Scheffer IE, Regan BM, Malone S, Gecz J, Cobben J, Weiss MM, Waisfisz Q, Bijlsma EK, Hoffer MJV, Ruivenkamp CAL, Sartori S, Xia F, Rosenfeld JA, Bernier RA, Wangler MF, Yamamoto S, Xia K, Stegmann APA, Bellen HJ, Murgia A, Eichler EE

The Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative: A Convergent Systems Biological Approach to Illuminating Key Molecular Pathways in Neuropsychiatric Disorders.

Cell

Willsey AJ, Morris MT, Wang S, Willsey HR, Sun N, Teerikorpi N, Baum TB, Cagney G, Bender KJ, Desai TA, Srivastava D, Davis GW, Doudna J, Chang E, Sohal V, Lowenstein DH, Li H, Agard D, Keiser MJ, Shoichet B, von Zastrow M, Mucke L, Finkbeiner S, Gan L, Sestan N, Ward ME, Huttenhain R, Nowakowski TJ, Bellen HJ, Frank LM, Khokha MK, Lifton RP, Kampmann M, Ideker T, State MW, Krogan NJ

Human-Specific NOTCH2NL Genes Affect Notch Signaling and Cortical Neurogenesis.

Cell

Fiddes IT, Lodewijk GA, Mooring M, Bosworth CM, Ewing AD, Mantalas GL, Novak AM, van den Bout A, Bishara A, Rosenkrantz JL, Lorig-Roach R, Field AR, Haeussler M, Russo L, Bhaduri A, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA, Dougherty ML, Nuttle X, Addor MC, Zwolinski S, Katzman S, Kriegstein A, Eichler EE, Salama SR, Jacobs FMJ, Haussler D

An analytical framework for whole-genome sequence association studies and its implications for autism spectrum disorder.

Nature genetics

Werling DM, Brand H, An JY, Stone MR, Zhu L, Glessner JT, Collins RL, Dong S, Layer RM, Markenscoff-Papadimitriou E, Farrell A, Schwartz GB, Wang HZ, Currall BB, Zhao X, Dea J, Duhn C, Erdman CA, Gilson MC, Yadav R, Handsaker RE, Kashin S, Klei L, Mandell JD, Nowakowski TJ, Liu Y, Pochareddy S, Smith L, Walker MF, Waterman MJ, He X, Kriegstein AR, Rubenstein JL, Sestan N, McCarroll SA, Neale BM, Coon H, Willsey AJ, Buxbaum JD, Daly MJ, State MW, Quinlan AR, Marth GT, Roeder K, Devlin B, Talkowski ME, Sanders SJ