Dr Ilan Mears
Laboratory Manager
The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute

Book Chapter
Kozulin, Peter, Almarza, Gonzalo, Gobius, Ilan and Richards, Linda J. (2016). Investigating early formation of the cerebral cortex by in utero electroporation: Methods and protocols. Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Development. (pp. 3-20) edited by Walker, David W.. New York, United States: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3014-2_1
Journal Articles
Lin, Cheng-Yu, Gobius, Ilan and Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes, Fernando (2020). Natural killer cell engineering – a new hope for cancer immunotherapy. Seminars in Hematology, 57 (4), 194-200. doi: 10.1053/j.seminhematol.2020.10.002
Harris, Lachlan, Zalucki, Oressia, Gobius, Ilan, McDonald, Hannah, Osinki, Jason, Harvey, Tracey J., Essebier, Alexandra, Vidovic, Diana, Gladwyn-Ng, Ivan, Burne, Thomas H., Heng, Julian I., Richards, Linda J., Gronostajski, Richard M. and Piper, Michael (2018). Erratum: Correction: Transcriptional regulation of intermediate progenitor cell generation during hippocampal development (doi: 10.1242/dev.140681) (Development (Cambridge, England) (2016) 143 24 (4620-4630) PII: dev169631). Development (Cambridge), 145 (14) doi: 10.1242/dev.169631
Mitew, Stanislaw, Gobius, Ilan, Fenlon, Laura R., McDougall, Stuart J., Hawkes, David, Xing, Yao Lulu, Bujalka, Helena, Gundlach, Andrew L., Richards, Linda J., Kilpatrick, Trevor J., Merson, Tobias D. and Emery, Ben (2018). Pharmacogenetic stimulation of neuronal activity increases myelination in an axon-specific manner. Nature Communications, 9 (1) 306, 306. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02719-2
Gobius, Ilan, Suarez, Rodrigo, Morcom, Laura, Paolino, Annalisa, Edwards, Timothy J., Kozulin, Peter and Richards, Linda J. (2017). Astroglial-mediated remodeling of the interhemispheric midline during telencephalic development is exclusive to eutherian mammals. Neural Development, 12 (1) 9, 9. doi: 10.1186/s13064-017-0086-1
Marsh, Ashley P. L., Heron, Delphine, Edwards, Timothy J., Quartier, Angelique, Galea, Charles, Nava, Caroline, Rastetter, Agnes, Moutard, Marie-Laure, Anderson, Vicki, Bitoun, Pierre, Bunt, Jens, Faudet, Anne, Garel, Catherine, Gillies, Greta, Gobius, Ilan, Guegan, Justine, Heide, Solveig, Keren, Boris, Lesne, Fabien, Lukic, Vesna, Mandelstam, Simone A., McGillivray, George, McIlroy, Alissandra, Meneret, Aurelie, Mignot, Cyril, Morcom, Laura R., Odent, Sylvie, Paolino, Annalisa, Pope, Kate ... Depienne, Christel (2017). Mutations in DCC cause isolated agenesis of the corpus callosum with incomplete penetrance. Nature Genetics, 49 (4), 511-514. doi: 10.1038/ng.3794
Harris, Lachlan, Zalucki, Oressia, Gobius, Ilan, McDonald, Hannah, Osinki, Jason, Harvey, Tracey J., Essebier, Alexandra, Vidovic, Diana, Gladwyn-Ng, Ivan, Burne, Thomas H., Heng, Julian I., Richards, Linda J., Gronostajski, Richard M. and Piper, Michael (2016). Transcriptional regulation of intermediate progenitor cell generation during hippocampal development. Development, 143 (24), 4620-4630. doi: 10.1242/dev.140681
Gobius, Ilan, Morcom, Laura, Sua´rez, Rodrigo, Bunt, Jens, Bukshpun, Polina, Reardon, William, Dobyns, William B., Rubenstein, John L.R., Barkovich, James, Sherr, Elliott H. and Richards, Linda J. (2016). Astroglial-mediated remodeling of the interhemispheric midline is required for the formation of the corpus callosum. Cell Reports, 17 (3), 735-747. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.09.033
Lim, Jonathan W. C., Donahoo, Amber-Lee S., Bunt, Jens, Edwards, Timothy J., Fenlon, Laura R., Liu, Ying, Zhou, Jing, Moldrich, Randal X., Piper, Michael, Gobius, Ilan, Bailey, Timothy L., Wray, Naomi R., Kessaris, Nicoletta, Poo, Mu-Ming, Rubenstein, John L. R. and Richards, Linda J. (2015). EMX1 regulates NRP1-mediated wiring of the mouse anterior cingulate cortex. Development, 142 (21), 3746-3757. doi: 10.1242/dev.119909
Fenlon, Laura R., Liu, Sha, Gobius, Ilan, Kurniawan, Nyoman D., Murphy, Skyle, Moldrich, Randal X. and Richards, Linda J. (2015). Formation of functional areas in the cerebral cortex is disrupted in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder. Neural Development, 10 (10) 10, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s13064-015-0033-y
Faridar, Alireza, Jones-Davis, Dorothy, Rider, Eric, Li, Jiang, Gobius, Ilan, Morcom, Laura, Richards, Linda, Sen, Saunak and Sherr, Elliott (2014). Mapk/Erk activation in an animal model of social deficits shows a possible link to autism. Molecular Autism, 5 (57) 57, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/2040-2392-5-57
Suarez, Rodrigo, Gobius, Ilan and Richards, Linda J. (2014). Evolution and development of interhemispheric connections in the vertebrate forebrain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 (JULY) 497, 1-14. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00497
Aggarwal, Manisha, Gobius, Ilan, Richards, Linda J. and Mori, Susumu (2014). Diffusion MR microscopy of cortical development in the mouse embryo. Cerebral Cortex, 25 (7), 1970-1980. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu006
Unni, Divya K., Piper, Michael, Moldrich, Randal X., Gobius, Ilan, Liu, Sha, Fothergill, Thomas, Donahoo, Amber-Lee S., Baisden, John M., Cooper, Helen M. and Richards, Linda J. (2012). Multiple Slits regulate the development of midline glial populations and the corpus callosum. Developmental Biology, 365 (1), 36-49. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.02.004
Moldrich, Randal X., Gobius, Ilan, Pollak, Thomas, Zhang, Jiangyang, Ren, Tianbo, Brown, Lucia, Mori, Susumu, Romero, Camino De Juan, Britanova, Olga, Tarabykin, Victor and Richards, Linda J. (2010). Molecular regulation of the developing commissural plate. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 518 (18), 3645-3661. doi: 10.1002/cne.22445
Conference Papers
Gobius, I., Morcom, L., Suarez, R., Bunt, J., Sherr, E. H. and Richards, L. J. (2015). Astroglial-mediated remodeling of the interhemispheric midline underlies the formation of the corpus callosum in eutherian mammals. 25th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry Jointly with the 13th Meeting of the Asian Pacific Society for Neurochemistry in Conjunction with the 35th Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, Cairns, QLD Australia, 23-27 August 2015. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/jnc.13188
Gobius, I., Morcom, L., Suarez, R., Bunt, J., Sherr, E. and Richards, L. (2015). Astroglial-mediated remodeling of the interhemispheric midline is exclusive to eutherian mammals and underlies the formation of the corpus callosum. 12th European Meeting on Glial Cell Function in Health and Disease, Bilbao, Spain, 15-18 July 2015. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/glia.22870
Thesis
Gobius, Ilan (2012). The role of Fgf signalling in telencephalic midline development and astrogliogenesis. PhD Thesis, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland.