Professor Stefan Thor
Professor in Developmental Biology
School of Biomedical Sciences
+61 7 336 52684
Researcher biography
BSc in Biology (1988) Umea University, Sweden
PhD in Molecular Biology (1994), Umea University, Sweden. Supervisor: Thomas Edlund
Postdoc, Molecular Neurobiology (1994-1999) Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA. Mentor: John B. Thomas
Assistant Professor (1999-2004), Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Professor of Developmental Biology (2004-2019), Linkoping University, Sweden
Professor of Developmental Biology (2019-), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2013-)
Book Chapters
Bahrampour, Shahrzad and Thor, Stefan (2020). The five faces of notch signalling during Drosophila melanogaster embryonic CNS development. Notch signaling in embryology and cancer: notch signaling in embryology. (pp. 39-58) edited by Jörg Reichrath and Sandra Reichrath. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-34436-8_3
Yaghmaeian Salmani, Behzad and Thor, Stefan (2020). Genetic mechanisms controlling anterior expansion of the central nervous system. Gradients and tissue patterning. (pp. 333-361) edited by Stephen Small and James Briscoe. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2019.11.005
Thor, S and Stratmann, J (2017). From stem cell to unique neuron: combinatorial codes, feedforward loops and target-derived signals – an outlook from the Drosophila apterous neurons. Reference module in neuroscience and biobehavioral psychology. (pp. 1-11) Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.02415-9
Thor, Stefan and Allan, Douglas W. (2016). Advances in understanding the generation and specification of unique neuronal sub-types from Drosophila neuropeptidergic neurons. Organogenetic gene networks: genetic control of organ formation. (pp. 57-93) edited by James Castelli-Gair Hombría and Paola Bovolenta. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-42767-6_3
Benito-Sipos, J., Baumgardt, M. and Thor, S. (2013). Development of the Drosophila embryonic ventral nerve cord: from neuroectoderm to unique neurons and glia. Patterning and cell type specification in the developing CNS and PNS. (pp. 627-644) edited by John L.R. Rubenstein and Pasko Rakic. San Diego, CA, United States: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397265-1.00073-3
Thor, S. (2010). Drosophila apterous neurons: From stem cell to unique neuron. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. (pp. 671-675) Elsevier Ltd. doi: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.01034-2
Thor, S. (2009). Cell specification in the nervous system: an outlook from the Drosophila peptidergic FMRFamide Tv neuron.. Encyclopedia of neuroscience. (pp. 671-675) Oxford, United Kingdom: Academic Press.
Journal Articles
Mitchell, Benjamin, Mu, Erica, Currey, Laura, Whitehead, Darryl, Walters, Shaun, Thor, Stefan, Kasherman, Maria and Piper, Michael (2024). A protocol for high-resolution episcopic microscopy and 3D volumetric analyses of the adult mouse brain. Neuroscience Letters, 824 137675, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2024.137675
Mitchell, Benjamin, Thor, Stefan and Piper, Michael (2023). Cellular and molecular functions of SETD2 in the central nervous system. Journal of Cell Science, 136 (21) jcs261406, 1-11. doi: 10.1242/jcs.261406
Balderson, Brad, Piper, Michael, Thor, Stefan and Boden, Mikael (2023). Cytocipher determines significantly different populations of cells in single cell RNA-seq data. Bioinformatics, 39 (7) btad435. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad435
Rubio-Ferrera, Irene, Clarembaux-Badell, Luis, Baladrón-de-Juan, Pablo, Berrocal-Rubio, Miguel Ángel, Thor, Stefan, Cobeta, Ignacio Monedero and Benito-Sipos, Jonathan (2023). Specification of the Drosophila Orcokinin A neurons by combinatorial coding. Cell and Tissue Research, 391 (2), 269-286. doi: 10.1007/s00441-022-03721-x
Clarembaux-Badell, Luis, Baladrón-de-Juan, Pablo, Gabilondo, Hugo, Rubio-Ferrera, Irene, Millán, Irene, Estella, Carlos, Valverde-Ortega, Félix S., Cobeta, Ignacio Monedero, Thor, Stefan and Benito-Sipos, Jonathan (2022). Dachshund acts with Abdominal-B to trigger programmed cell death in the Drosophila central nervous system at the frontiers of Abd-B expression. Developmental Neurobiology, 82 (6), 495-504. doi: 10.1002/dneu.22894
Harkins, Danyon, Harvey, Tracey J., Atterton, Cooper, Miller, Ingrid, Currey, Laura, Oishi, Sabrina, Kasherman, Maria, Davila, Raul Ayala, Harris, Lucy, Green, Kathryn, Piper, Hannah, Parton, Robert G., Thor, Stefan, Cooper, Helen M. and Piper, Michael (2022). Hydrocephalus in Nfix−/− mice is underpinned by changes in ependymal cell physiology. Cells, 11 (15) 2377, 2377. doi: 10.3390/cells11152377
Rubio-Ferrera, Irene, Baladrón-De-Juan, Pablo, Clarembaux-Badell, Luis, Truchado-Garcia, Marta, Jordán-Álvarez, Sheila, Thor, Stefan, Benito-Sipos, Jonathan and Cobeta, Ignacio Monedero (2022). Selective role of the DNA helicase Mcm5 in BMP retrograde signaling during Drosophila neuronal differentiation. PLoS Genetics, 18 (6) e1010255, 1-17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010255
Yaghmaeian Salmani, Behzad, Balderson, Brad, Bauer, Susanne, Ekman, Helen, Starkenberg, Annika, Perlmann, Thomas, Piper, Michael, Bodén, Mikael and Thor, Stefan (2022). Selective requirement for polycomb repressor complex 2 in the generation of specific hypothalamic neuronal subtypes. Development, 149 (5) dev200076. doi: 10.1242/dev.200076
Mora, Ariane, Rakar, Jonathan, Cobeta, Ignacio Monedero, Salmani, Behzad Yaghmaeian, Starkenberg, Annika, Thor, Stefan and Bodén, Mikael (2022). Variational autoencoding of gene landscapes during mouse CNS development uncovers layered roles of Polycomb Repressor Complex 2. Nucleic Acids Research, 50 (3), 1280-1296. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac006
Currey, Laura, Thor, Stefan and Piper, Michael (2021). TEAD family transcription factors in development and disease. Development, 148 (12) dev196675. doi: 10.1242/dev.196675
Sandberg, Alexander, Ling, Helen, Gearing, Marla, Dombroski, Beth, Cantwell, Laura, R'Bibo, Lea, Levey, Allan, Schellenberg, Gerard D., Hardy, John, Wood, Nicholas, Fernius, Josefin, Nyström, Sofie, Svensson, Samuel, Thor, Stefan, Hammarström, Per, Revesz, Tamas and Mok, Kin Y. (2020). Fibrillation and molecular characteristics are coherent with clinical and pathological features of 4-repeat tauopathy caused by MAPT variant G273R. Neurobiology of Disease, 146 105079, 105079. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2020.105079
Arefin, Badrul, Parvin, Farjana, Bahrampour, Shahrzad, Stadler, Caroline Bivik and Thor, Stefan (2019). Drosophila neuroblast selection is gated by Notch, Snail, SoxB, and EMT gene interplay. Cell Reports, 29 (11), 3636-3651.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.11.038
Jonson, Maria, Nyström, Sofie, Sandberg, Alexander, Carlback, Marcus, Michno, Wojciech, Hanrieder, Jörg, Starkenberg, Annika, Peter, K., Nilsson, R., Thor, Stefan and Hammarström, Per (2019). Amyloid fibril polymorphism and cell-specific toxicity in vivo. Amyloid, 26 (sup1), 136-137. doi: 10.1080/13506129.2019.1582488
Bivik Stadler, Caroline, Arefin, Badrul, Ekman, Helen and Thor, Stefan (2019). PIP degron-stabilized Dacapo/p21Cip1 and mutations in ago act in an anti- versus pro-proliferative manner, yet both trigger an increase in Cyclin E levels. Development, 146 (13) dev175927, dev175927. doi: 10.1242/dev.175927
Curt, Jesús Rodriguez, Salmani, Behzad Yaghmaeian and Thor, Stefan (2019). Anterior CNS expansion driven by brain transcription factors. eLife, 8 e45274, e45274. doi: 10.7554/elife.45274
Stratmann, Johannes, Ekman, Helen and Thor, Stefan (2019). A branching gene regulatory network dictating different aspects of a neuronal cell identity. Development, 146 (6) dev174300, dev174300. doi: 10.1242/dev.174300
Bahrampour, Shahrzad, Jonsson, Carolin and Thor, Stefan (2019). Brain expansion promoted by polycomb-mediated anterior enhancement of a neural stem cell proliferation program. PLoS biology, 17 (2) e3000163, e3000163. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000163
Monedero Cobeta, Ignacio, Stadler, Caroline Bivik, Li, Jin, Yu, Peng, Thor, Stefan and Benito-Sipos, Jonathan (2018). Specification of Drosophila neuropeptidergic neurons by the splicing component brr2. PLoS Genetics, 14 (8) e1007496, e1007496. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007496
Jonson, Maria, Nystrom, Sofie, Sandberg, Alexander, Carlback, Marcus, Michno, Wojciech, Hanrieder, Jorg, Starkenberg, Annika, Nilsson, K. Peter R., Thor, Stefan and Hammarstrom, Per (2018). Aggregated A beta 1-42 is selectively toxic for neurons, whereas glial cells produce mature fibrils with low toxicity in Drosophila. Cell Chemical Biology, 25 (5), 595-610.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2018.03.006
Salmani, Behzad Yaghmaeian, Cobeta, Ignacio Monedero, Rakar, Jonathan, Bauer, Susanne, Curt, Jesus Rodriguez, Starkenberg, Annika and Thor, Stefan (2018). Evolutionarily conserved anterior expansion of the central nervous system promoted by a common PcG-Hox program. Development, 145 (7) dev160747, dev160747. doi: 10.1242/dev.160747
Bahrampour, Shahrzad, Gunnar, Erika, Jonsson, Carolin, Ekman, Helen and Thor, Stefan (2017). Neural lineage progression controlled by a temporal proliferation program. Developmental Cell, 43 (3), 332-348.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.10.004
Fernius, Josefin, Starkenberg, Annika and Thor, Stefan (2017). Bar-coding neurodegeneration: identifying subcellular effects of human neurodegenerative disease proteins using Drosophila leg neurons. Disease Models and Mechanisms, 10 (8), 1027-1038. doi: 10.1242/dmm.029637
Fernius, Josefin, Starkenberg, Annika, Pokrzywa, Malgorzata and Thor, Stefan (2017). Human TTBK1, TTBK2 and MARK1 kinase toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster is exacerbated by co-expression of human Tau. Biology Open, 6 (7), 1013-1023. doi: 10.1242/bio.022749
Thor, Stefan (2017). Nervous system development: temporal patterning of large neural lineages. Current Biology, 27 (10), R392-R394. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.070
Cobeta, Ignacio Monedero, Salmani, Behzad Yaghmaeian and Thor, Stefan (2017). Anterior-posterior gradient in neural stem and daughter cell proliferation governed by spatial and temporal Hox control. Current Biology, 27 (8), 1161-1172. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.023
Stratmann, Johannes and Thor, Stefan (2017). Neuronal cell fate specification by the molecular convergence of different spatio-temporal cues on a common initiator terminal selector gene. PLoS Genetics, 13 (4) e1006729, e1006729. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006729
Stratmann, Johannes, Gabilondo, Hugo, Benito-Sipos, Jonathan and Thor, Stefan (2016). Neuronal cell fate diversification controlled by sub-temporal action of Kruppel. Elife, 5 e19311. doi: 10.7554/eLife.19311
Bahrampour, Shahrzad and Thor, Stefan (2016). Ctr9, a key component of the Paf1 complex, affects proliferation and terminal differentiation in the developing Drosophila nervous system. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 6 (10), 3229-3239. doi: 10.1534/g3.116.034231
Gabilondo, Hugo, Stratmann, Johannes, Rubio-Ferrera, Irene, Millan-Crespo, Irene, Contero-Garcia, Patricia, Bahrampour, Shahrzad, Thor, Stefan and Benito-Sipos, Jonathan (2016). Neuronal cell fate specification by the convergence of different spatiotemporal cues on a common terminal selector cascade. PLoS Biology, 14 (5) e1002450, e1002450. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002450
Bivik, Caroline, MacDonald, Ryan B., Gunnar, Erika, Mazouni, Khalil, Schweisguth, Francois and Thor, Stefan (2016). Control of neural daughter cell proliferation by multi-level notch/Su(H)/E(spl)-HLH signaling. Plos Genetics, 12 (4) e1005984, e1005984. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005984
Gunnar, Erika, Bivik, Caroline, Starkenberg, Annika and Thor, Stefan (2016). Sequoia controls the type I>0 daughter proliferation switch in the developing Drosophila nervous systems. Journal of Cell Science, 143 (20), 3774-3784. doi: 10.1242/dev.139998
Allan, Douglas W. and Thor, Stefan (2015). Transcriptional selectors, masters, and combinatorial codes: regulatory principles of neural subtype specification. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology, 4 (5), 505-528. doi: 10.1002/wdev.191
Bivik, Caroline, Bahrampour, Shahrzad, Ulvklo, Carina, Nilsson, Patrik, Angel, Anna, Fransson, Fredrik, Lundin, Erika, Renhorn, Jakob and Thor, Stefan (2015). Novel genes involved in controlling specification of Drosophila FMRFamide neuropeptide cells. Genetics, 200 (4), 1229-1244. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.178483
Jonson, Maria, Pokrzywa, Malgorzata, Starkenberg, Annika, Hammarstrom, Per and Thor, Stefan (2015). Systematic A beta analysis in Drosophila reveals high toxicity for the 1-42, 3-42 and 11-42 peptides, and emphasizes N- and C-terminal residues. Plos One, 10 (7) 0133272, e0133272. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133272
Baumgardt, Magnus, Karlsson, Daniel, Salmani, Behzad Y., Bivik, Caroline, MacDonald, Ryan B., Gunnar, Erika and Thor, Stefan (2014). Global programmed switch in neural daughter cell proliferation mode triggered by a temporal gene cascade. Developmental Cell, 30 (2), 192-208. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.06.021
Thor, Stefan (2013). Neuroscience: stem cells in multiple time zones. Nature, 498 (7455), 441-443. doi: 10.1038/nature12261
Losada-Perez, Maria, Gabilondo, Hugo, Molina, Isabel, Turiegano, Enrique, Torroja, Laura, Thor, Stefan and Benito-Sipos, Jonathan (2013). Klumpfuss controls FMRFamide expression by enabling BMP signaling within the NB5-6 lineage. Development, 140 (10), 2181-2189. doi: 10.1242/dev.089748
Ulvklo, Carina, MacDonald, Ryan, Bivik, Caroline, Baumgardt, Magnus, Karlsson, Daniel and Thor, Stefan (2012). Control of neuronal cell fate and number by integration of distinct daughter cell proliferation modes with temporal progression. Development, 139 (4), 678-689. doi: 10.1242/dev.074500
Caesar, Ina, Jonson, Maria, Nilsson, K. Peter R., Thor, Stefan and Hammarstrom, Per (2012). Curcumin promotes a-beta fibrillation and reduces neurotoxicity in transgenic Drosophila. Plos One, 7 (2) e31424, e31424. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031424
Benito-Sipos, Jonathan, Ulvklo, Carina, Gabilondo, Hugo, Baumgardt, Magnus, Angel, Anna, Torroja, Laura and Thor, Stefan (2011). Seven up acts as a temporal factor during two different stages of neuroblast 5-6 development. Development, 138 (24), 5311-5320. doi: 10.1242/dev.070946
Merabet, Samir, Litim-Mecheri, Isma, Karlsson, Daniel, Dixit, Richa, Saadaoui, Mehdi, Monier, Bruno, Brun, Christine, Thor, Stefan, Vijayraghavan, K., Perrin, Laurent, Pradel, Jacques and Graba, Yacine (2011). Insights into hox protein function from a large scale combinatorial analysis of protein domains. PLoS Genetics, 7 (10) e1002302, e1002302. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002302
Suska, Anke, Miguel-Aliaga, Irene and Thor, Stefan (2011). Segment-specific generation of Drosophila Capability neuropeptide neurons by multi-faceted Hox cues. Developmental Biology, 353 (1), 72-80. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.02.015
Benito-Sipos, Jonathan, Estacio-Gomez, Alicia, Moris-Sanz, Marta, Baumgardt, Magnus, Thor, Stefan and Diaz-Benjumea, Fernando J. (2010). A genetic cascade involving klumpfuss, nab and castor specifies the abdominal leucokinergic neurons in the Drosophila CNS. Development, 137 (19), 3327-3336. doi: 10.1242/dev.052233
Karlsson, Daniel, Baumgardt, Magnus and Thor, Stefan (2010). Segment-specific neuronal subtype specification by the integration of anteroposterior and temporal cues. Plos Biology, 8 (5) ARTN e1000368, e1000368. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000368
Berg, Ina, Nilsson, K. Peter R., Thor, Stefan and Hammarstrom, Per (2010). Efficient imaging of amyloid deposits in Drosophila models of human amyloidoses. Nature Protocols, 5 (5), 935-944. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2010.41
Baumgardt, Magnus, Karlsson, Daniel, Terriente, Javier, Diaz-Benjumea, Fernando J. and Thor, Stefan (2009). Neuronal subtype specification within a lineage by opposing temporal feed-forward loops. Cell, 139 (5), 969-982. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.10.032
Miguel-Aliaga, Irene and Thor, Stefan (2009). Programmed cell death in the nervous system - a programmed cell fate?. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 19 (2), 127-133. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2009.04.002
Berg, Ina, Thor, Stefan and Hammarstrom, Per (2009). Modeling familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (Transthyretin V30M) in Drosophila melanogaster. Neurodegenerative Diseases, 6 (3), 127-138. doi: 10.1159/000213761
Thor, Stefan (2008). Neuroscience: light moulds plastic brains. Nature, 456 (7219), 177-178. doi: 10.1038/456177a
Miguel-Aliaga, Irene, Thor, Stefan and Gould, Alex P. (2008). Postmitotic specification of Drosophila insulinergic neurons from pioneer neurons. PLoS Biology, 6 (3) e58, 538-551. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060058
Baumgardt, Magnus, Miguel-Aliaga, Irene, Karlsson, Daniel, Ekman, Helen and Thor, Stefan (2007). Specification of neuronal identities by feedforward combinatorial coding. PLoS Biology, 5 (2), 295-308. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050037
Garces, Alain, Bogdanik, Laurent, Thor, Stefan and Carroll, Patrick (2006). Expression of Drosophila BarH1-H2 homeoproteins in developing dopaminergic cells and segmental nerve a (SNa) motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 24 (1), 37-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04887.x
Garces, Alain and Thor, Stefan (2006). Specification of Drosophila aCC motoneuron identity by a genetic cascade involving even-skipped, grain and zfh1. Development, 133 (8), 1445-1455. doi: 10.1242/dev.02321
Layden, Michael J., Odden, Joanne P., Schmid, Aloisia, Garces, Alain, Thor, Stefan and Doe, Chris Q. (2006). Zfh1, a somatic motor neuron transcription factor, regulates axon exit from the CNS. Developmental Biology, 291 (2), 253-263. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.12.009
Landgraf, Matthias and Thor, Stefan (2006). Development of Drosophila motoneurons: Specification and morphology. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 17 (1), 3-11. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2005.11.007
Landgraf, Matthias and Thor, Stefan (2006). Development and structure of motoneurons. International Review of Neurobiology, 75, 33-53. doi: 10.1016/S0074-7742(06)75002-4
Allan, Douglas W., Park, Dongkook, St Pierre, Susan E., Taghert, Paul H. and Thor, Stefan (2005). Regulators acting in combinatorial codes also act independently in single differentiating neurons. Neuron, 45 (5), 689-700. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.01.026
Miguel-Aliaga, Irene and Thor, Stefan (2004). Segment-specific prevention of pioneer neuron apoptosis by cellautonomous, postmitotic Hox gene activity. Development, 131 (24), 6093-6105. doi: 10.1242/dev.01521
Miguel-Aliaga, Irene, Allan, Douglas W. and Thor, Stefan (2004). Independent roles of the dachshund and eyes absent genes in BMP signaling, axon pathfinding and neuronal specification. Development, 131 (23), 5837-5848. doi: 10.1242/dev.01447
Certel, Sarah J. and Thor, Stefan (2004). Specification of Drosophila motoneuron identity by the combinatorial action of POU and LIM-HD factors. Development, 131 (21), 5429-5439. doi: 10.1242/dev.01418
Allan, Douglas W. and Thor, Stefan (2003). Together at last: bHLH and LIM-HD regulators cooperate to specify motor neurons. Neuron, 38 (5), 675-677. doi: 10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00329-5
Allan, Douglas W., St Pierre, Susan E., Miguel-Aliaga, Irene and Thor, Stefan (2003). Specification of neuropeptide cell identity by the integration of retrograde BMP signaling and a combinatorial transcription factor code. Cell, 113 (1), 73-86. doi: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00204-6
Skeath, James B. and Thor, Stefan (2003). Genetic control of Drosophila nerve cord development. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 13 (1), 8-15. doi: 10.1016/S0959-4388(03)00007-2
Thor, Stefan and Thomas, John B. (2002). Motor neuron specification in worms, flies and mice: conserved and 'lost' mechanisms. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 12 (5), 558-564. doi: 10.1016/S0959-437X(02)00340-4
St Pierre, Susan E., Galindo, Maximo I., Couso, Juan P. and Thor, Stefan (2002). Control of Drosophila imaginal disc development by rotund and roughened eye: differentially expressed transcripts of the same gene encoding functionally distinct zinc finger proteins. Development, 129 (5), 1273-81. doi: 10.1242/dev.129.5.1273
Herzig, Martin C. , Thor, Stefan, Thomas, John B., Reichert, Heinrich and Hirth, Frank (2001). Expression and function of the LIM homeodomain protein Apterous during embryonic brain development of Drosophila. Development Genes and Evolution, 211 (11), 545-554. doi: 10.1007/s00427-001-0195-y
van Meyel, D.J., O'Keefe, D.D., Thor, S., Jurata, L.W., Gill, G.N. and Thomas, J.B. (2000). Chip is an essential cofactor for Apterous in the regulation of axon guidance in Drosophila. Development, 127 (9), 1823-1831.
van Meyel, Donald J., O'Keefe, David D., Jurata, Linda W., Thor, Stefan, Gill, Gordon N. and Thomas, John B. (1999). Chip and apterous physically interact to form a functional complex during Drosophila development. Molecular Cell, 4 (2), 259-265. doi: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80373-1
Thor, Stefan, Andersson, Siv G. E. , Tomlinson, Andrew and Thomas, John B. (1999). A LIM-homeodomain combinatorial code for motor-neuron pathway selection. Nature, 397 (6714), 76-80. doi: 10.1038/16275
Benveniste, R.J., Thor, S., Thomas, J.B. and Taghert, P.H. (1998). Cell type-specific regulation of the Drosophila FMRF-NH2 neuropeptide gene by Apterous, a LIM homeodomain transcription factor. Development, 125 (23), 4757-4765.
O'Keefe, D.D., Thor, S and Thomas, J.B. (1998). Function and specificity of LIM domains in Drosophila nervous system and wing development. Development, 125 (19), 3915-3923.
Thor, S and Thomas, JB (1997). The Drosophila islet gene governs axon pathfinding and neurotransmitter identity. Neuron, 18 (3), 397-409. doi: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81241-6
Appel, B., Korzh, V., Glasgow, E., Thor, S., Edlund, T., Dawid, I. B. and Eisen, J. S. (1995). Motoneuron fate specification revealed by patterned LIM homeobox gene expression in embryonic zebrafish. Development, 121 (12), 4117-4125.
Thor, Stefan (1995). The genetics of brain development: Conserved programs in flies and mice. Neuron, 15 (5), 975-977. doi: 10.1016/0896-6273(95)90084-5
Lund, Kaare , Petersen, Jacob S., Jensen, Jan , Blume, Niels , Edlund, Thomas , Thor, Stefan and Madsen, Ole D. (1995). Islet expression of Rhombotin and Isl-1 suggests cell type specific exposure of LIM-domain epitopes. Endocrine, 3 (6), 399-408. doi: 10.1007/BF02935644
Lundgren, S. E., Callahan, C. A., Thor, S. and Thomas, A. B. (1995). Control of neuronal pathway selection by the Drosophila LIM homeodomain gene apterous. Development, 121 (6), 1769-1773.
Korzh, V. , Edlund, T. and Thor, S. (1993). Zebrafish primary neurons initiate expression of the LIM homeodomain
protein Isl-1 at the end of gastrulation. Development, 118 (2), 417-425.
Ericson, J., Thor, S., Edlund, T., Jessell, T. M. and Yamada, T. (1992). Early stages of motor neuron differentiation revealed by expression of homeobox gene Islet-1. Science, 256 (5063), 1555-1560. doi: 10.1126/science.1350865
Thor, Stefan, Ericson, Johan, Brännström, Thomas and Edlund, Thomas (1991). The homeodomain LIM protein Isl-1 is expressed in subsets of neurons and endocrine cells in the adult rat. Neuron, 7 (6), 881-889. doi: 10.1016/0896-6273(91)90334-V
Ohlsson, Helena, Thor, Stefan and Edlund, Thomas (1991). Novel Insulin Promoter- and Enhancer-Binding Proteins That Discriminate between Pancreatic Alpha and Beta Cells. Molecular Endocrinology, 5 (7), 897-904. doi: 10.1210/mend-5-7-897
Karlsson, Olof, Thor, Stefan, Norberg, Torbjörn, Ohlsson, Helena and Edlund, Thomas (1990). Insulin gene enhancer binding protein Isl-1 is a member of a novel class of proteins containing both a homeo-and a Cys–His domain. Nature, 344 (6269), 879-882. doi: 10.1038/344879a0
Conference Paper
Ohlsson, H., Karlsson, O., Norberg, T., Thor, S. and Edlund, T. (1989). Cis- and transacting elements regulating insulin gene transcription. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V..