Fernando García-Moreno

Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor, Achucarro - Basque Center for Neuroscience

He leads the www.phylobrain.com research group at the Laboratory of Neural Stem Cell and Neurogenesis at Achucarro - Basque Center for Neuroscience.

Research line:

Evolutionary neurodevelopmental biology.

Short term fellowship on neurosciences (2009) of Alicia Koplowitz Foundation; Fellowship for postdoctoral mobility (2009) from Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Long-Term fellowship of the Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP - 2011).

Previous research experience at Cajal Institute – CSIC (Spain) and University of Oxford, UK.

Doctor in Neurosciences (2008) from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

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Kongresuak eta Proceedings

2025

Article / Developmental origins and evolution of pallial cell types and structures in birds

Science

Zaremba, B.; Fallahshahroudi, A.; Schneider, C.; Schmidt, J.; Sarropoulos, I.; Leushkin, E.; Berki, B.; Van Poucke, E.; Jensen, P.; Senovilla-Ganzo, R.; Hervas-Sotomayor, F.; Trost, N.; Lamanna, F.; Sepp, M.; García-Moreno, F.; Kaessmann, H.

Article / Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes

Science

Rueda-Alaña, E.; Senovilla-Ganzo, R.; Grillo, M.; Vázquez, E.; Marco-Salas, S.; Gallego-Flores, T.; Ordeñana-Manso, A.; Ftara, A.; Escobar, L.; Benguría, A.; Quintas, A.; Dopazo, A.; Rábano, M.; Vivanco, M.D.M.; Aransay, A.M.; Garrigos, D.; Toval, Á.; Ferrán, J.L.; Nilsson, M.; Encinas-Pérez, J.M.; De Pittà, M.; García-Moreno, F.

2024

Article / Generation of adult hippocampal neural stem cells occurs in the early postnatal dentate gyrus and depends on cyclin D2

EMBO Journal

Pastor-Alonso, O.; Syeda Zahra, A.; Kaske, B.; García-Moreno, F.; Tetzlaff, F.; Bockelmann, E.; Grunwald, V.; Martín-Suárez, S.; Riecken, K.; Witte, O.W.; Encinas, J.M.; Urbach, A.

Article / BirthSeq, a new method to isolate and analyze dated cells in different vertebrates

Development Cambridge

Rueda-Alanã, E.; Grillo, M.; Vázquez, E.; Salas, S.M.; Senovilla-Ganzo, R.; Escobar, L.; Quintas, A.; Bengurıá, A.; Aransay, A.M.; Bengoa-Vergniory, N.; Dopazo, A.; Encinas, J.M.; Nilsson, M.; Garcıá-Moreno, F.

Article / Open-source, high-throughput targeted in situ transcriptomics for developmental and tissue biology

Development Cambridge

Lee, H.; Langseth, C.M.; Salas, S.M.; Sariyar, S.; Metousis, A.; Rueda-Alanã, E.; Bekiari, C.; Lundberg, E.; Garcıá-Moreno, F.; Grillo, M.; Nilsson, M.

Review / The Phylotypic Brain of Vertebrates, from Neural Tube Closure to Brain Diversification

Brain Behavior and Evolution

Senovilla-Ganzo, R.; García-Moreno, F.

2023

Article / BirthSeq , a new method to isolate dated cells from any tissue in vertebrates

bioRxiv

Eneritz Rueda-Alaña, Marco Grillo, Enrique Vazquez, Sergio Marco Salas, Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo, Laura Escobar, Ana Quintas, Alberto Benguría, Ana María Aransay, Ana Dopazo, Juan Manuel Encinas, Mats Nilsson and Fernando García-Moreno

Article / Open-source, high-throughput targeted in-situ transcriptomics for developmental biologists

bioRxiv

Hower Lee, Christoffer Mattsson Langseth, Sergio Marco Salas, Andreas Metousis, Eneritz Rueda Alana, Fernando Garcia-Moreno, Marco Grillo, Mats Nilsson

Article / Non-uniform temporal scaling of developmental processes in the mammalian cortex

Nature Communications

Paolino, A.; Haines, E.H.; Bailey, E.J.; Black, D.A.; Moey, C.; García-Moreno, F.; Richards, L.J.; Suárez, R.; Fenlon, L.R.

Article / Functional evolutionary convergence of long noncoding RNAs involved in embryonic development

Communications Biology

Olazagoitia-Garmendia, A.; Senovilla-Ganzo, R.; García-Moreno, F.; Castellanos-Rubio, A.

2022

Article / Functional evolutionary convergence of long noncoding RNAs involved in embryonic development

bioRxiv

Ane Olazagoitia-Garmendia, Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo, Fernando Garcia-Moreno, Ainara Castellanos-Rubio

Article / Generation of adult hippocampal neural stem cells occurs in the early postnatal dentate gyrus and depends on cyclin D2

bioRxiv

Oier Pastor-Alonso, Anum Syeda Zahra, Bente Kaske, Fernando García-Moreno, Felix Tetzlaff, Enno Bockelmann, Vanessa Grunwald, Soraya Martin-Suarez, Kristoffer Riecken, Otto Wilhelm Witte, Juan Manuel Encinas, Anja Urbach

Article / “Older circuits get richer”: neurogenesis timeline shapes hubness and neurogenetic profiles of the adult human brain

bioRxiv

I. Diez, F. Garcia-Moreno, N. Carral-Sainz, S. Stramaglia, A. Nieto-Reyes, M. D’Amato, J.M. Cortes, P. Bonifazi

Article / Time in Neurogenesis: Conservation of the Developmental Formation of the Cerebellar Circuitry

Brain Behavior and Evolution

Rueda-Alaña, E.; García-Moreno, F.

2021

Article / Virtual meeting, real and sound science: Report of the 17th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD-2020)

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Araújo, S.J.; Almudi, I.; Bozal-Basterra, L.; Casares, F.; Casas-Tintó, S.; Escalante, A.; García-Moreno, F.; Losada-Pérez, M.; Maeso, I.; Marcon, L.; Ocaña, O.H.; Pampliega, O.; Rada-Iglesias, Á.; Rayon, T.; Sharpe, J.; Sutherland, J.D.; del Campo, C.V.; Barrio, R.

2020

Chapter / Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience Series, 2nd Edition

John Rubenstein, Pasko Rakic, Bin Chen, Kenneth Kwan

García-Moreno F and Molnár Z

Article / Unraveling the transcriptional networks that drive oligodendrocyte fate specification in Sonic hedgehog-responsive neocortical progenitors

bioRxiv

Caitlin C. Winkler, Luuli N. Tran, Ellyn P. Milan, Fernando García-Moreno, Santos J. Franco

Article / In search of common developmental and evolutionary origin of the claustrum and subplate

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Bruguier, H.; Suarez, R.; Manger, P.; Hoerder-Suabedissen, A.; Shelton, A.M.; Oliver, D.K.; Packer, A.M.; Ferran, J.L.; García-Moreno, F.; Puelles, L.; Molnár, Z.

Article / Loss of Dmrt5 Affects the Formation of the Subplate and Early Corticogenesis

Cerebral Cortex

Ratié, L.; Desmaris, E.; García-Moreno, F.; Hoerder-Suabedissen, A.; Kelman, A.; Theil, T.; Bellefroid, E.J.; Molnár, Z.

Review / Variations of telencephalic development that paved the way for neocortical evolution

Progress in Neurobiology

García-Moreno, F.; Molnár, Z.

2018

Article / Absence of Tangentially Migrating Glutamatergic Neurons in the Developing Avian Brain

Cell Reports

García-Moreno, F.; Anderton, E.; Jankowska, M.; Begbie, J.; Encinas, J.M.; Irimia, M.; Molnár, Z.

Article / Dbx1-derived pyramidal neurons are generated locally in the developing Murine neocortex

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Rueda-Alana, E.; Martinez-Garay, I.; Encinas, J.M.; Molnar, Z.; Garcia-Moreno, F.

Article / Mathematical modeling of cortical neurogenesis reveals that the founder population does not necessarily scale with neurogenic output

Cerebral Cortex

Picco, N.; García-Moreno, F.; Maini, P.K.; Woolley, T.E.; Molnár, Z.

2017

Article / Coupled Proliferation and Apoptosis Maintain the Rapid Turnover of Microglia in the Adult Brain

Cell Reports

Askew, K.; Li, K.; Olmos-Alonso, A.; Garcia-Moreno, F.; Liang, Y.; Richardson, P.; Tipton, T.; Chapman, M.A.; Riecken, K.; Beccari, S.; Sierra, A.; Molnár, Z.; Cragg, M.S.; Garaschuk, O.; Perry, V.H.; Gomez-Nicola, D.

2019

Conference organization | New views on the development and evolution of the forebrain

18th Sociedad Española de Neurociencia (SENC) Biannual Conference - Conference organization

Fernando García-Moreno

Conference organization | XI Meeting of the Red NeuroEvoDevo Pedro Ramón y Cajal

18th SENC Biannual Conference - Conference organization

Fernando García-Moreno, Nerea Moreno y Jose Luis Ferrán

Invited talk | Developmental convergence of high order sensory circuits in the amniote pallium

European Conference on Comparative Neurobiology (9ECCN) - Invited talk

Fernando García-Moreno