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Selected References:​

• Huang Y, Mavinkurve A, Sabikunnahar, Stevens B & Lemke G
  Microglia deploy TAM receptors to kill motor neurons in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  Nature Communications (2026)
   

• Mastro K, Stanwicks L, Schoenbeck E, Melain A, Johnson M, Sabatini B & Stevens B.
  Reward predictability shapes decision making states and exploitative control in marmosets
  bioRxiv (2026)
   

• Jereb S, D’Alessandro, LR, Morshed N, Chen M, Sartore R, Han Z, McKinney JE, Brauer PP, Harvey JW, Demers M, Cuffe D, Rakosi-Schmidt R, Leite L, Huang Y, Zheng Q, Lin C, Chan KY, Song BJ, Farzan MR, Arlotta, P, Sheng M, Bennett ML, Johnson MB, Stevens B & Deverman BE.
  Comparative analysis of microglia-targeted AAVs reveals capsid choice drives efficiency in vitro but has limited impact in vivo.
  bioRxiv (2026)
   

• Morshed N, Demers M, Gonzales-Ramos A, Jäntti H, Doman J, D’Souza S, Li L, Granger AJ, Johnson MB & Stevens B.
  iAstrocytes model cytokine influences on complement expression and neuronal network synchronization.
  bioRxiv (2026)
   

• Barr HJ, Caldwell SK, Colville-Reimertz JM, Depp C, Walker AJ, Marsh SE, Gupte AS, Hingerl M, Patel J, Park S, Ferraro S, Lipton J & Stevens B.
  The circadian clock regulates scavenging of fluid-borne substrates by brain border-associated macrophages.
  bioRxiv (2025)
   

• ​Barr HJ, Depp C, Hingerl M, Nguyen T, Colville-Reimertz JM, Connolly E, Patel J, Doman J, Marsh SE & Stevens B.
  Conserved phenotype and function of human brain border-associated macrophages in iPSC-derived models.
  bioRxiv (2025)
   

• Walker AJ, Fisher TM, Caldwell SK, Gupte AS, Colville-Reimertz JM, Sabikunnahar B, Marsh SE, Soysa Y, Gazestani V, Walker AC, Huang Y, Mavinkurve AV, Barr HJ, Lanser TB, Murphy S, Bowling S, Dissing-Olesen L, Camargo FD & Stevens B.
  Early-life stromal niches orchestrate B lymphopoiesis at the brain’s borders.
  bioRxiv (2025)
   

• Ward EL, Benowitz L, Brunner TM, Bu G, Cayouette M, Canto-Soler V, Dá Mesquita S, Di Polo A, DiAntonio A, Duan X, Goldberg JL, He Z, Hu Y, Liddelow SA, La Torre A, Margeta M, Quintana F, Shekhar K, Stevens B, Temple S, Venkatesh H, Welsbie D & Flanagan JG.
  Modeling neurodegeneration in the retina and strategies for developing pan-neurodegenerative therapies.
  Molecular Neurodegeneration (2025)
   

• Dolan MJ, Rakosi-Schmidt R, Garcia E, Lin Y, Nadaf NM, Dixon J, Guo S, Morshed N, Depp C, Doman J, Xia J, Jäntti H, Stevens B & Macosko EZ.
  Spatiotemporal Analysis of Remyelination Reveals a Concerted Interferon-Responsive Glial State That Coordinates Immune Infiltration.
  bioRxiv (2025)
   

• Mastro K, Lee WC, Wang W, Stevens B & Sabatini BL.
  Delayed developmental maturation of frontal cortical circuits impacts decision-making.
  bioRxiv (2025)
   

• Scott-Hewitt N, Mahoney M, Huang Y, Korte N, Soysa TY, Wilton DK, Knorr E, Mastro K, Chang A, Zhang A, Melville D, Schenone M, Hartigan C & Stevens B.
  Microglial-derived C1q integrates into neuronal ribonucleoprotein complexes and impacts protein homeostasis in the aging brain.
  Cell (2024)
   

• Baum ML, Wilton DK, Fox RG, Carey A, Hsu YHH, Hu R, Jäntti HJ, Fahey JB, Muthukumar AK, Salla N, Crotty W, Scott-Hewitt N, Bien E, Sabatini DA, Lanser TB, Frouin A, Gergits F, Håvik B, Gialehi C, Nacu E, Lage K, Blom AM, Eggan K, McCarroll SA, Johnson MB & Stevens B.
  CSMD1 regulates brain complement activity and circuit development.
  Brain, Behavior and Immunity (2024)
   

• Wilton DK, Mastro K, Heller MD, Gergits FW, Willing CR, Fahey JB, Frouin A, Daggett A, Gu X, Kim YA, Faull RLM, Jayadev S, Yednock T, Yang XW & Stevens B.
  Microglia and complement mediate early corticostriatal synapse loss and cognitive dysfunction in Huntington’s disease.
  Nature Medicine (2023)
   

• Dissing-Olesen L, Walker AJ, Feng Q, Barr HJ, Walker AC, Xie L, Wilton DK, Das I, Benowitz LI & Stevens B.
  FEAST: A flow cytometry-based toolkit for interrogating microglial engulfment of synaptic and myelin proteins.
  Nature Communications (2023)
   

• Gazestani V, Kamath T, Nadaf NM, Dougalis A, Burris SJ, Rooney B, Junkkari A, Vanderburg C, Pelkonen A, Gomez-Budia M, Välimäki NN, Rauramaa T, Therrien M, Koivisto AM, Tegtmeyer M, Herukka SK, Abdulraouf A, Marsh SE, Hiltunen M, Nehme R, Malm T, Stevens B, Leinonen V & Macosko EZ.
  Early Alzheimer’s disease pathology in human cortex involves transient cell states.
  Cell (2023)
   

• Rueda-Carrasco J, Sokolova D, Lee SE, Childs T, Jurčáková N, Crowley G, De Schepper S, Ge JZ, Lachica JI, Toomey CE, Freeman OJ, Hardy J, Barnes SJ, Lashley T, Stevens B, Chang S & Hong S.
  Microglia-synapse engulfment via PtdSer-TREM2 ameliorates neuronal hyperactivity in Alzheimer's disease models.
  EMBO (2023)
   

• Dolan MJ, Therrien M, Jereb S, Kamath T, Gazestani V, Atkeston T, Marsh SE, Goeva A, Lojek NM, Murphy S, White CM, Joung J, Liu B, Limone F, Eggan K, Hacohen N, Bernstein BE, Glass CK, Leinonen V, Blurton-Jones M, Zhang F, Epstein CB, Macosko EZ & Stevens B.
  Exposure of iPSC-derived human microglia to brain substrates enables the generation and manipulation of diverse transcriptional states in vitro.
  Nature Immunology (2023)
   

• Scott-Hewitt N, Huang Y & Stevens B.
  Convergent mechanisms of microglia-mediated synaptic dysfunction contribute to diverse neuropathological conditions.
  The New York Academy of Sciences (2023)
   

• Pinho-Ribiero FA, Deng L, Neel DV, Erdogan O, Basu H, Yang D, Choi S, Walker AJ, Carneiro-Nascimento S, He K, Wu G, Stevens B, Doran KS, Levy D & Chiu IM.
  Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitate brain invasion.
  Nature (2023)
   

• Rapino F, Natoli T, Limone F, O'Connor E, Blank J, Tegtmeyer M, Chen W, Norabuena E, Narula J, Hazelbaker D, Angelini G, Barrett L, O'Neil A, Beattie UK, Thanos JM, de Rivera H, Sheridan SD, Perlis RH, McCarroll SA, Stevens B, Subramanian A, Nehme R & Rubin LL.
  Small-molecule screen reveals pathways that regulate C4 secretion in stem cell-derived astrocytes.
  Stem Cell Reports (2023)
   

• Gazestani V, Kamath T, Nadaf NM, Burris SJ, Rooney B, Junkkari A, Vanderburg C, Rauramaa T, Therrien M, Tegtmeyer M, Herukka SK, Abdulraouf A, Marsh S, Malm T, Hiltunen M, Nehme R, Stevens B, Leinonen V & Macosko EZ.
  Early Alzheimer's disease pathology in human cortex is associated with a transient phase of distinct cell states.
  Cell (2023)
   

• Wieder N, Fried JC, Kim C, Sidhom EH, Brown MR, Marshall JL, Arevalo C, Dvela-Levitt M, Kost-Alimova M, Sieber J, Gabriel KR, Pacheco J, Clish C, Abbasi HS, Singh S, Rutter JC, Therrien M, Yoon H, Lai ZW, Baublis A, Subramanian R, Devkota R, Small J, Sreekanth V, Han M, Lim D, Carpenter AE, Flannick J, Finucane H, Haigis MC, Claussnitzer M, Sheu E, Stevens B, Wagner BK, Choudhary A, Shaw JL, Pablo JL & Greka A.
  FALCON systematically interrogates free fatty acid biology and identifies a novel mediator of lipotoxicity.
  Cell Metabolism (2023)
   

• Paolicelli RC, Sierra A, Stevens B, Tremblay ME, Aguzzi A, Ajami B, Amit I, Audinat E, Bechmann I, Bennett M, Bennett F, Bessis A, Biber K, Bilbo S, Blurton-Jones M, Boddeke E, Brites D, Brône B, Brown GC, Butovsky O, Carson MJ, Castellano B, Colonna M, Cowley SA, Cunningham C, Davalos D, De Jager PL, de Strooper B, Denes A, Eggen BJL, Eyo U, Galea E, Garel S, Ginhoux F, Glass CK, Gokce O, Gomez-Nicola D, González B, Gordon S, Graeber MB, Greenhalgh AD, Gressens P, Greter M, Gutmann DH, Haass C, Heneka MT, Heppner FL, Hong S, Hume DA, Jung S, Kettenmann H, Kipnis J, Koyama R, Lemke G, Lynch M, Majewska A, Malcangio M, Malm T, Mancuso R, Masuda T, Matteoli M, McColl BW, Miron VE, Molofsky AV, Monje M, Mracsko E, Nadjar A, Neher JJ, Neniskyte U, Neumann H, Noda M, Peng B, Peri F, Perry VH, Popovich PG, Pridans C, Priller J, Prinz M, Ragozzino D, Ransohoff RM, Salter MW, Schaefer A, Schafer DP, Schwartz M, Simons M, Smith CJ, Streit WJ, Tay TL, Tsai LH, Verkhratsky A, von Bernhardi R, Wake H, Wittamer V, Wolf SA, Wu LJ & Wyss-Coray T.
  Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads.
  Neuron. (2022)
   

• Marsh SE, Walker AJ, Kamath T, Dissing-Olesen L, Hammond TR, de Soysa TY, Young AMH, Murphy S, Abdulraouf A, Nadaf N, Dufort C, Walker AC, Lucca LE, Kozareva V, Vanderburg C, Hong S, Bulstrode H, Hutchinson PJ, Gaffney DJ, Hafler DA, Franklin RJM, Macosko EZ & Stevens B.
  Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain.
  Nature Neuroscience (2022)
   

• Qureshi YH, Berman DE, Marsh SE, Klein RL, Patel VM, Simoes S, Kannan S, Petsko GA, Stevens B & Small SA.
  The neuronal retromer can regulate both neuronal and microglial phenotypes of Alzheimer's disease.
  Cell Report (2022)
   

• Stevens B & Johnson MB.
  The complement cascade repurposed in the brain.
  Nature Reviews Immunology (2021)
   

• Peterson SL, Li Y, Sun CJ, Wong KA, Leung KS, de Lima S, Hanovice NJ, Yuki K, Stevens B & Benowitz LI.
  Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Regeneration Requires Complement and Myeloid Cell Activity within the Optic Nerve.
  Journal of Neuroscience (2021)
   

• Favuzzi E, Huang S, Saldi GA, Binan L, Ibrahim LA, Fernández-Otero M, Cao Y, Zeine A, Sefah A, Zheng K, Xu Q, Khlestova E, Farhi SL, Bonneau R, Datta SR, Stevens B & Fishell G.
  GABA-receptive microglia selectively sculpt developing inhibitory circuits.
  Cell (2021)
   

• Young AMH, Kumasaka N, Calvert F, Hammond TR, Knights A, Panousis N, Park JS, Schwartzentruber J, Liu J, Kundu K, Segel M, Murphy NA, McMurran CE, Bulstrode H, Correia J, Budohoski KP, Joannides A, Guilfoyle MR, Trivedi R, Kirollos R, Morris R, Garnett MR, Timofeev I, Jalloh I, Holland K, Mannion R, Mair R, Watts C, Price SJ, Kirkpatrick PJ, Santarius T, Mountjoy E, Ghoussaini M, Soranzo N, Bayraktar OA, Stevens B, Hutchinson PJ, Franklin RJM & Gaffney DJ.
  A map of transcriptional heterogeneity and regulatory variation in human microglia.
  Nature Genetics (2021)
   

• Mifflin L, Hu Z, Dufort C, Hession CC, Walker AJ, Niu K, Zhu H, Liu N, Liu JS, Levin JZ, Stevens B, Yuan J & Zou C.
  A RIPK1-regulated inflammatory microglial state in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  PNAS (2021)
   

• Yilmaz M, Yalcin E, Presumey J, Aw E, Ma M, Whelan CW, Stevens B, McCarroll SA & Carroll MC.
  Overexpression of schizophrenia susceptibility factor human complement C4A promotes excessive synaptic loss and behavioral changes in mice.
  Nature Neuroscience (2021)
   

• Pedersen H, Jensen RK, Jensen JMB, Fox R, Pedersen DV, Olesen HG, Hansen AG, Christiansen D, Mazarakis SMM, Lojek N, Hansen P, Gadeberg TAF, Zarantonello A, Laursen NS, Mollnes TE, Johnson MB, Stevens B, Thiel S & Andersen GR.
  A Complement C3-Specific Nanobody for Modulation of the Alternative Cascade Identifies the C-Terminal Domain of C3b as Functional in C5 Convertase Activity.
  Journal of Immunology (2020)
   

• Cheadle L, Rivera SA, Phelps JS, Ennis KA, Stevens B, Burkly LC, Lee WA & Greenberg ME.
  Sensory Experience Engages Microglia to Shape Neural Connectivity through a Non-Phagocytic Mechanism.
  Neuron (2020)
   

• Liddelow SA, Marsh SE & Stevens B.
  Microglia and Astrocytes in Disease: Dynamic Duo or Partners in Crime?
  Trends of Immunology (2020)
   

• Zarantonello A, Presumey J, Simoni L, Yalcin E, Fox R, Hansen A, Olesen HG, Thiel S, Johnson MB, Stevens B, Laursen NS, Carroll MC & Andersen GR.
  An Ultrahigh-Affinity Complement C4b-Specific Nanobody Inhibits In Vivo Assembly of the Classical Pathway Proconvertase.
  Journal of Immunology (2020) 
   

• Wilton DK & Stevens B.
  The contribution of glial cells to Huntington's disease pathogenesis.
  Neurobiology of Disease (2020)
   

• Li T, Chiou B, Gilman CK, Luo R, Koshi T, Yu D, Oak HC, Giera S, Johnson-Venkatesh E, Muthukumar AK, Stevens B, Umemori H & Piao X.
  A splicing isoform of GPR56 mediates microglial synaptic refinement via phosphatidylserine binding.
  EMBO (2020)
   

• Scott-Hewitt N, Perrucci F, Morini R, Ergeni M, Mahoney M, Witkowska A, Carey A, Faggiani E, Schuetz L, Mason S, Tamborini M, Bizzotto M, Passoni L, Filipello F, Jahn R, Stevens B & Matteoli M.
  Local externalization of phosphatidylserine mediates developmental synaptic pruning by microglia.
  EMBO (2020)
   

• Welsh CA, Stephany CÉ, Sapp RW & Stevens B.
  Ocular Dominance Plasticity in Binocular Primary Visual Cortex Does Not Require C1q.
  Journal of Neuroscience (2020)
   

• Wallace J, Lord J, Dissing-Olesen L, Stevens B & Murthy V.
  Microglial depletion disrupts normal functional development of adult-born neurons in the olfactory bulb.
  eLife (2020)
   

• Wilton DK, Dissing-Olesen L & Stevens B.
  Neuron-Glia Signaling in Synapse Elimination.
  Annual Review of Neuroscience (2019)
   

• Hammond TR, Marsh SE & Stevens B.
  Immune Signaling in Neurodegeneration.
  Immunity (2019)
   

• Hammond TR, Dufort C, Dissing-Olesen L, Giera S, Young A, Wysoker A, Walker AJ, Gergits F, Segel M, Nemesh J, Saunders A, Macosko E, Franklin RJM, Piao X, McCarroll S & Stevens B.
  Single-Cell RNA Sequencing of Microglia throughout the Mouse Lifespan and in the Injured Brain Reveals Complex Cell-State Changes.
  Immunity (2019)
   

• Lehrman EK, Wilton DK, Litvina EY, Welsh CA, Chang ST, Frouin A, Walker AJ, Heller MD, Umemori H, Chen C & Stevens B.
  CD47 Protects Synapses from Excess Microglia-Mediated Pruning during Development.
  Neuron (2018)
   

• Hammond T.R., Robinton D. & Stevens B.
  Microglia and the Brain: Complementary Partners in Development and Disease. 
  Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (2018)
   

• Lim RG, Salazar LL, Wilton DK, King AR, Stocksdale JT, Sharifabad D, Lau AL, Stevens B, Reidling JC, Winokur ST, Casale MS, Thompson LM, Pardo M, Garcia Diaz-Barriga AG, Straccia M, Sanders P, Alberch J, Canals JM, Kaye JA, Dunlap M, Jo L, May H, Mount E, Anderson-Bergman C, Haston K, Finkbeiner S, Kedaigle AJ, Gipson TA, Yildirim F, Ng CW, Milani P, Housman DE, Fraenkel E, Allen ND, Kemp PJ, Atwal RS, Biagioli M, Gusella JF, MacDonald ME, Akimov SS, Arbez N, Stewart J, Ross CA, Mattis VB, Tom CM, Ornelas L, Sahabian A, Lenaeus L, Mandefro B, Sareen D & Svendsen CN.
  Developmental alterations in Huntington’s neural cells and pharmacological rescue in cells and mice.
  Nature Neuroscience (2017)
   

• Hong S, Wilton DK, Stevens B & Richardson DS.
  Structured Illumination Microscopy for the Investigation of Synaptic Structure and Function.
  Methods in Molecular Biology (2017)
   

• Loh KH, Stawski PS, Draycott AS, Udeshi ND, Lehrman EK, Wilton DK, Svinkina T, Deerinck TJ, Ellisman MH, Stevens B, Carr SA & Ting AY.
  Proteomic Analysis of Unbounded Cellular Compartments: Synaptic Clefts.
  Cell (2016)
   

• Schafer DP, Heller CT, Gunner G, Heller M, Gordon C, Hammond T, Wolf Y, Jung S & Stevens B.
  Microglia contribute to circuit defects in Mecp2 null mice independent of microglia-specific loss of Mecp2 expression.
  Elife (2016)
   

• Hong S & Stevens B.
  Microglia: Phagocytosing to Clear, Sculpt, and Eliminate.
  Developmental Cell (2016)
   

• Vasek MJ, Garber C, Dorsey D, Durrant DM, Bollman B, Soung A, Yu J, Perez-Torres C, Frouin A, Wilton DK, Funk K, DeMasters BK, Jiang X, Bowen JR, Mennerick S, Robinson JK, Garbow JR, Tyler KL, Suthar MS, Schmidt RE, Stevens B & Klein RS.
  A complement-microglial axis drives synapse loss during virus-induced memory impairment.
  Nature (2016)
   

• Hong S, Beja-Glasser VF, Nfonoyim BM, Frouin A, Li S, Ramakrishnan S, Merry KM, Shi Q, Rosenthal A, Barres BA, Lemere CA, Selkoe DJ & Stevens B.
  Complement and microglia mediate early synapse loss in Alzheimer mouse models.
  Science (2016)
   

• Sekar A, Bialas AR, de Rivera H, Davis A, Hammond TR, Kamitaki N, Tooley K, Presumey J, Baum M, Van Doren V, Genovese G, Rose SA, Handsaker RE; Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Daly MJ, Carroll MC, Stevens B & McCarroll SA.
  Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4.
  Nature (2016)
   

• Chung WS, Welsh CA, Barres BA & Stevens B.
  Do glia drive synaptic and cognitive impairment in disease?
  Nature Neuroscience (2015)
   

• Wu Y, Dissing-Olesen L, MacVicar BA & Stevens B.
  Microglia: Dynamic Mediators of Synapse Development and Plasticity.
  Trends in Immunology (2015)
   

• Dissing-Olesen L, Hong S & Stevens B.
  New Brain Lymphatic Vessels Drain Old Concepts.
  EBioMedicine (2015)
   

• Shi Q, Colodner KJ, Matousek SB, Merry K, Hong S, Kenison JE, Frost JL, Le KX, Li S, Dodart JC, Caldarone BJ, Stevens B & Lemere CA.
  Complement C3-Deficient Mice Fail to Display Age-Related Hippocampal Decline.
  Journal of Neuroscience (2015)
   

• Schafer DP & Stevens B.
  Microglia Function in Central Nervous System Development and Plasticity.
  Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology (2015)
   

• Lehrman EK & Stevens B.
  Shedding light on glioma growth.
  Cell (2015)
   

• Schafer DP & Stevens B.
  Brains, Blood, and Guts: MeCP2 Regulates Microglia, Monocytes, and Peripheral Macrophages.
  Immunity (2015)
   

• Giera S, Deng Y, Luo R, Ackerman SD, Mogha A, Monk KR, Ying Y, Jeong SJ, Makinodan M, Bialas AR, Chang BS, Stevens B, Corfas G & Piao X.
  The adhesion G protein-coupled receptor GPR56 is a cell-autonomous regulator of oligodendrocyte development.
  Nature Communications (2015)
   

• Risher WC, Patel S, Kim IH, Uezu A, Bhagat S, Wilton DK, Pilaz LJ, Singh Alvarado J, Calhan OY, Silver DL, Stevens B, Calakos N, Soderling SH & Eroglu C.
  Astrocytes refine cortical connectivity at dendritic spines.
  Elife (2014)
   

• Bilimoria PM & Stevens B.
  Microglia function during brain development: New insights from animal models.
  Brain Research (2014)
   

• Schafer DP, Lehrman EK, Heller CT & Stevens B.
  An engulfment assay: a protocol to assess interactions between CNS phagocytes and neurons.
  Journal of Visual Experiments (2014)
   

• Wu LJ, Stevens B, Duan S & MacVicar BA.
  Microglia in neuronal circuits.
  Neural Plasticity (2013)
   

• Schafer DP, Lehrman EK, Kautzman AG, Koyama R, Mardinly AR, Greenberg ME, Barres BA & Stevens B.
  Microglia Sculpt Postnatal Neural Circuits in an Activity and Complement Dependent Manner.
  Neuron (2012)
   

• Stephan, AH, Barres BA & Stevens, B.
  The complement system: an unexpected role in synaptic pruning during development and disease.
  Annual Review of Neuroscience (2012)
   

• Schafer DP, Lehrman E & Stevens B.
  The “Quad-partite” Synapse: Microglia-Synapse Interactions in the Developing and Mature CNS.
  Glia (2012)
   

• Ransohoff RM & Stevens B.
  How Many Cell Types Does It Take to Wire a Brain?
  Science (2011)
   

• Tremblay M, Stevens B, Sierra A, Wake H, Bessis A & Nimmerjahn A.
  The Role of Microglia in the Healthy Brain.
  Journal of Neuroscience (2011)
   

• Blank M, Feust PG, Stevens B, Nouri, N, Kirkby L, Warrier D, Barres BA, Feller MB, Huberman AD, Burgess RW & Garner, CC.
  The Down Syndrome Critical Region Regulates Retinogeniculate Refinement.
  Journal of Neuroscience (2011)
   

• Håvik B, Le Hellard S, Rietschel M, Lybæk H, Djurovic S, Mattheisen M, Mühleisen TW, Degenhardt F, Priebe L, Maier W, Breuer, Schulze TG, Agartz I, Melle I, Hansen T, Bramham CR, Nöthen MM, Stevens B, Werge T,. Andreassen OA, Cichon S & Steen VM.
  The complement control-related genes CSMD1 and CSMD2 associate to schizophrenia.
  Biological Psychiatry (2011)
   

• Howell GR, Macalinao DG,. Sousa GL, Soto I, Kneeland SJ, Barbay J, King BL, Marchant JK, Hibbs M , Stevens B, Barres BA , Clark AF, Libby RT & John SWM.
  Molecular clustering identified complement and endothelin induction as early events in a mouse glaucoma.
  The Journal of Clinical Investigation (2011)
   

• Ji X, Chu Y, Parada I, Stevens B, Barres BA & Prince C.
  Enhanced synaptic connectivity and epilepsy in C1q knockout mice.
  PNAS (2010)
   

• Rosen AM & Stevens B.
  The role of the classical complement cascade in synapse loss during development and glaucoma.
  Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (2010)
   

• Chen, Y, Stevens B, Chang J, Milbrandt J, Bares BA & Hell JW.
  NS21: re-defined and modified supplement B27 for neuronal cultures.
  Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2008)
   

• Stevens B, Allen NJ, Christopherson KS, Vazquez LE, Nouri N, Howell GR, Micheva KD, Huberman AD, Stafford B, Sher A, Litke, AM, Lambris, JD, Smith SJ, John, SWM & Barres, BA.
  The classical complement cascade mediates developmental CNS synapse elimination.
  Cell (2007)
   

• Ishabashi T, Dakin KA, Stevens B, Lee PR, Kozlov SV, Stewart CL & Fields RD.
  Astrocytes promote myelination in response to electrical impulses.
  Neuron (2006)
   

• Stevens B, Ishabashi T, Chen, JF & Fields RD.
  Adenosine: an activity-dependent axonal signal regulating MAP kinase and proliferation in developing Schwann cells.
  Neuron Glia Biology (2004)
   

• Stevens B.
  Glia: much more than the neuron’s side-kick.
  Current Biology (2003)
   

• Stevens B, Porta S, Haak LL, Gallo, V, & Fields RD.
  Adenosine: a neuron-glial transmitter promoting myelination in the CNS in response to action potentials.
  Neuron (2002)
   

• Fields RD & Stevens B.
  New insights into neuron-glia communication.
  Science (2002)
   

• Stevens B & Fields RD.
  Response of Schwann cells to action potentials in development.
  Science (2000)