List of Publications

Colozza, G., Jordens, I., Sosa, EA., Ha, J., Sam Wu, SH., Tavernini, K., Català-Bordes, A., Farnhammer, F., Urbán, N., Maurice, M., Koo, BK. (2025). WNK kinase regulates plasma membrane levels of the WNT inhibitor RNF43. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.10.08.681128.  

Gabarró-Solanas, R., Urbán, N. (2023). It takes two to untangle: Combined stimulation of adult neurogenesis reverts AD symptoms. Cell Stem Cell. 30(4):333-334. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2023.03.012.        

Gabarró-Solanas, R., Davaatseren, A., Kleifeld, J., Kepčija, T., Köcher, T., Giralt, A., Crespo-Enríquez, I., Urbán, N. (2023). Adult neural stem cells and neurogenesis are resilient to intermittent fasting. EMBO Rep. :e57268. doi: 10.15252/embr.202357268. Epub 2023 Nov 21.  

Urbán, N. (2022). Could a Different View of Quiescence Help Us Understand How Neurogenesis Is Regulated? Front Neurosci. 16:878875. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.878875. eCollection 2022.            

Zepeda, A., Encinas-Pérez, JM., Urbán, N. (2022). Editorial: Neurogenesis and Gliogenesis as Potential Contributors to Neurorepair After Brain Damage. Front Neurosci. 16:852729. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.852729. eCollection 2022.          

Austin, SHL., Gabarró-Solanas, R., Rigo, P., Paun, O., Harris, L.,  Guillemot, F., Urbán, N. (2021). Wnt/β-catenin signalling is dispensable for adult neural stem cell homeostasis and activation. Development. 148(20). doi: 10.1242/dev.199629. Epub 2021 Oct 19.

Urbán, N., Cheung, TH. (2021). Stem cell quiescence: the challenging path to activation.Development. 148(3). doi: 10.1242/dev.165084

Harris, L., Rigo, P., Stiehl, T., Gaber, ZB., Austin, SHL., Masdeu, MDM., Edwards, A., Urbán, N., Marciniak-Czochra, A., Guillemot, F. (2021). Coordinated changes in cellular behavior ensure the lifelong maintenance of the hippocampal stem cell population. Cell Stem Cell. 28(5):863-876.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2021.01.003. Epub 2021 Feb 12.            

Tchieu, J., Urbán, N., Soragni, A., Kawaguchi, K., Blanchard, JW., Li, L. (2020). Introductions to the Community: Early-Career Researchers in the Time of COVID-19.Cell Stem Cell. 27(4):508-510. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2020.09.015.       

Urbán, N., Blomfield, IM., Guillemot, F. (2019). Quiescence of Adult Mammalian Neural Stem Cells: A Highly Regulated Rest. Neuron. 104(5):834-848. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.09.026.         

Blomfield, IM., Rocamonde, B., Masdeu, MDM., Mulugeta, E., Vaga, S., van den Berg, DL., Huillard, E., Guillemot, F., Urbán, N. (2019). Id4 promotes the elimination of the pro-activation factor Ascl1 to maintain quiescence of adult hippocampal stem cells. Elife. 8. doi: 10.7554/eLife.48561.            

van den Berg, DLC., Azzarelli, R., Oishi, K., Martynoga, B., Urbán, N., Dekkers, DHW., Demmers, JA., Guillemot, F. (2017). Nipbl Interacts with Zfp609 and the Integrator Complex to Regulate Cortical Neuron Migration. Neuron. 93(2):348-361. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.11.047. Epub 2016 Dec 29.   

Urbán, N., van den Berg, DL., Forget, A., Andersen, J., Demmers, JA., Hunt, C., Ayrault, O., Guillemot, F. (2016). Return to quiescence of mouse neural stem cells by degradation of a proactivation protein. Science. 353(6296):292-5. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf4802.

Katz, S., Cussigh, D., Urbán, N., Blomfield, I., Guillemot, F., Bally-Cuif, L., Coolen, M. (2016). A Nuclear Role for miR-9 and Argonaute Proteins in Balancing Quiescent and Activated Neural Stem Cell States. Cell Rep. 17(5):1383-1398. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.09.088.  

Urbán, N., Guillemot, F. (2014). Neurogenesis in the embryonic and adult brain: same regulators, different roles. Front Cell Neurosci. 8:396. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00396.   

Andersen, J., Urbán, N., Achimastou, A., Ito, A., Simic, M., Ullom, K., Martynoga, B., Lebel, M., Göritz, C., Frisén, J., Nakafuku, M., Guillemot, F. (2014). A transcriptional mechanism integrating inputs from extracellular signals to activate hippocampal stem cells. Neuron. 83(5):1085-97. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.004.    

Webb, AE., Pollina, EA., Vierbuchen, T., Urbán, N., Ucar, D., Leeman, DS., Martynoga, B., Sewak, M., Rando, TA., Guillemot, F., Wernig, M., Brunet, A. (2013). FOXO3 shares common targets with ASCL1 genome-wide and inhibits ASCL1-dependent neurogenesis. Cell Rep. 4(3):477-91. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.06.035. Epub 2013 Jul 25.     

Martynoga, B., Mateo, JL., Zhou, B., Andersen, J., Achimastou, A., Urbán, N., van den Berg, D., Georgopoulou, D., Hadjur, S., Wittbrodt, J., Ettwiller, L., Piper, M., Gronostajski, RM., Guillemot, F. (2013). Epigenomic enhancer annotation reveals a key role for NFIX in neural stem cell quiescence. Genes Dev. 27(16):1769-86. doi: 10.1101/gad.216804.113.  

Martín-Ibáñez, R., Crespo, E., Esgleas, M., Urbán, N., Wang, B., Waclaw, R., Georgopoulos, K., Martínez, S., Campbell, K., Vicario-Abejón, C., Alberch, J., Chan, S., Kastner, P., Rubenstein, JL., Canals, JM. (2012). Helios transcription factor expression depends on Gsx2 and Dlx1&2 function in developing striatal matrix neurons. Stem Cells Dev. 21(12):2239-51. doi: 10.1089/scd.2011.0607. Epub 2012 Jan 26.    

Martín-Ibáñez, R., Crespo, E., Urbán, N., Sergent-Tanguy, S., Herranz, C., Jaumot, M., Valiente, M., Long, JE., Pineda, JR., Andreu, C., Rubenstein, JL., Marín, O., Georgopoulos, K., Mengod, G., Fariñas, I., Bachs, O., Alberch, J., Canals, JM. (2010). Ikaros-1 couples cell cycle arrest of late striatal precursors with neurogenesis of enkephalinergic neurons. J Comp Neurol. 518(3):329-51. doi: 10.1002/cne.22215.    

Urbán, N., Martín-Ibáñez, R., Herranz, C., Esgleas, M., Crespo, E., Pardo, M., Crespo-Enríquez, I., Méndez-Gómez, HR., Waclaw, R., Chatzi, C., Alvarez, S., Alvarez, R., Duester, G., Campbell, K., de Lera, AR., Vicario-Abejón, C., Martinez, S., Alberch, J., Canals, JM. (2010). Nolz1 promotes striatal neurogenesis through the regulation of retinoic acid signaling. Neural Dev. 5:21. doi: 10.1186/1749-8104-5-21.       

Giralt, A., Friedman, HC., Caneda-Ferrón, B., Urbán, N., Moreno, E., Rubio, E., Blanco, J.,Perterson, A., Canals, JM., Alberch, J. (2010). BDNF regulation under GFAP promoter provides engineered astrocytes as a new approach for long-term protection in Huntington's disease.Gene Ther. 17(10):1294-308 . doi: 10.1038/gt.2010.71. Epub 2010 May 13.     

Martín-Ibáñez, R., Urbán, N., Sergent-Tanguy, S., Pineda, JR., Garrido-Clua, N., Alberch, J., Canals, JM. (2007). Interplay of leukemia inhibitory factor and retinoic acid on neural differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells.J Neurosci Res. 85(12):2686-701 . doi: 10.1002/jnr.21228.            

Pineda, JR., Rubio, N., Akerud, P, Urbán, N., Badimon, L., Arenas, E., Albrech, J., Blanco, J., Canals, JM. (2007). Neuroprotection by GDNF-secreting stem cells in a Huntington's disease model: optical neuroimage tracking of brain-grafted cells.Gene Ther. 14(2):118-28. doi: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302847. Epub 2006 Aug 31.