Publications

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Research Articles & Reviews Published

(in reverse chronological order)

1. ᵃSimoes, F.A., ᵃChristoforidou, E., Raphaelle, C., Dupuis, L., Hafezparast, M. (2024). Severe dynein dysfunction in cholinergic neurons exacerbates ALS-like phenotypes in a new mouse model. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Molecular Basis of Disease. ᵃco-first authors

2. Christoforidou, E., Moody, L., Joilin, G., Simoes, F.A., Gordon, D., Talbot, K., Hafezparast, M. (2024). The ALS-associated TDP-43M337V mutation dysregulates microglia-derived extracellular microRNAs in a sex-specific manner. Disease Models and Mechanisms.

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3. Christoforidou, E., Simoes, F.A., Gordon, D., Talbot, K., Hafezparast, M. (2023). Aberrant dynein function promotes TDP-43 aggregation and upregulation of p62 in male mice harboring transgenic human TDP-43. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration.

4. Christoforidou, E., Joilin, G. & Hafezparast, M. (2020). Potential of activated microglia as a source of dysregulated extracellular microRNAs contributing to neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 17, 135.

5. McDonald, M., Christoforidou, E., Van Rijsbergen, N., Gajwani, R., Gross, J., Gumley, A.I., Lawrie, S.M., Schwannauer, M., Schultze-Lutter, F., Uhlhaas, P.J. (2018). Using Online Screening in the General Population to Detect Participants at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45(3), pp. 600–609.

Open-Access Code & Software

6. Christoforidou, E. (2023). Long-read RNA-seq Plotting Suite: A Collection of MATLAB Functions for Data Processing, Visualization, and Analysis of Long-read RNA Sequencing Data. Zenodo.

7. Christoforidou, E. (2023). COVID-19 Global Data Visualisation: A MATLAB GUI Application. Zenodo.

8. Christoforidou, E., Simoes, F.A. & Hafezparast, M. (2022). NMJ-MN Image Analysis Toolkit: A Comprehensive Tool for Morphometric and Protein Distribution Analysis of Neuromuscular Junction and Motor Neuron Microscopy Images. Zenodo.

9. Christoforidou, E. & Hafezparast, M. (2022). Cell Morphometry: MATLAB Functions for Analysis of Microscopy Images. Zenodo.

Publicly Available Datasets

10. RNA Sequencing Data for Study of Microglia-derived MicroRNA.
    • Repository: European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
    • Accession number: PRJEB61796
    • Secondary accession number: ERP146878
    • Date: 2 May 2024
    • Associated publication: Christoforidou, E., Moody, L., Joilin, G., Simoes, F.A., Gordon, D., Talbot, K., Hafezparast, M. The ALS-associated TARDBP-M337V mutation dysregulates microglia-derived extracellular microRNAs in a sex-specific manner.
    • Brief Description: This dataset includes RNA sequencing data from a study investigating sex-specific, genotype-specific, and context-specific microRNA release from microglia.

Other

11. Christoforidou, E. (2022). Investigating the contributions of impaired cytoplasmic dynein 1, TDP-43, and microglia-derived microRNA to the pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (PhD Thesis, embargoed until 7 February 2025). University of Sussex, Brighton.

My CRediT contributions

(Associated with numbered articles above)

1. Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data Curation, Writing - Review & Editing, Visualization.

2. Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data Curation, Writing - Original Draft, Writing - Review & Editing, Visualization.

3. Software, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data Curation, Writing - Original Draft, Writing - Review & Editing, Visualization.

4. Writing - Original Draft, Writing - Review & Editing, Investigation.

5. Investigation, Data Curation, Visualization.

6. Software.

7. Software.

8. Methodology, Software.

9. Methodology, Software.