Publications

2026 

• Martineau, Sage, Juan C. Valdez-Lopez, Samantha Zarnick, and Jeremy N. Kay. “Microglia and Myeloid Cell Populations of the Developing Mouse Retina.” Glia 74, no. 2 (February 2026): e70115. https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.70115. 

• Paisley, Caitlin E., Kristina Sakers, Leykashree Nagendren, Xi Chen, Francesca Mazzoni, Silvia C. Finnemann, Cagla Eroglu, and Jeremy N. Kay. “Phosphatidylserine exposure by developing astrocytes initiates microglia-mediated developmental cell death.,” January 21, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.20.700660. 

 2025 

• Kay, Jeremy N., Juan C. Valdez-Lopez, Ekta M. Dembla, and Adam M. Miltner. “Development of Retinal Astroglia.” Annu Rev Vis Sci 11, no. 1 (September 2025): 73–98. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-121423-013153. 

• Juros, Devin, Robert Louis Hastings, Ariane Pendragon, Jeremy Kay, and Gregorio Valdez. “Loss of MEGF10 Decreases the Number of Perisynaptic Schwann Cells and Innervation of Neuromuscular Junctions in Aging Mice.” J Peripher Nerv Syst 30, no. 1 (March 2025): e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/jns.70014. 

2024 

• Hadyniak, Sarah E., and Jeremy N. Kay. “Neuroscience: The dynamic development of dendrites.” Curr Biol 34, no. 18 (September 23, 2024): R854–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.076. 

• Kozlowski, Christopher, Sarah E. Hadyniak, and Jeremy N. Kay. “Retinal neurons establish mosaic patterning by excluding homotypic somata from their dendritic territories.” Cell Rep 43, no. 8 (August 27, 2024): 114615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114615. 

• Bright, Cora L., Howard M. Bomze, Mantu Bhaumik, Jeremy N. Kay, Romain Cartoni, and Sidney M. Gospe. “Generation of an Armcx1 Conditional Knockout Mouse.” Genesis 62, no. 4 (August 2024): e23615. https://doi.org/10.1002/dvg.23615. 

• Juros, Devin, Mary Flordelys Avila, Robert Louis Hastings, Ariane Pendragon, Liam Wilson, Jeremy Kay, and Gregorio Valdez. “Cellular and molecular alterations to muscles and neuromuscular synapses in a mouse model of MEGF10-related myopathy.” Skelet Muscle 14, no. 1 (May 17, 2024): 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-024-00342-6. 

2023 

• Prigge, Cameron L., Mayur Dembla, Arsha Sharma, Malak El-Quessny, Christopher Kozlowski, Caitlin E. Paisley, Adam M. Miltner, Johnson, TM; Della Santina, L; Feller, MB; Kay, JN. “Rejection of inappropriate synaptic partners in mouse retina mediated by transcellular FLRT2-UNC5 signaling.” Dev Cell 58, no. 20 (October 23, 2023): 2080-2096.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2023.07.011. 

2021 

• Wang, Yuchen, Yan Cao, Cassandra L. Hays, Thibaut Laboute, Thomas A. Ray, Debbie Guerrero-Given, Abhimanyu S. Ahuja, Patil, D; Rivero, O; Kamasawa, N; Kay, JN; Thoreson, WB; Martemyanov, KA “Adhesion GPCR Latrophilin 3 regulates synaptic function of cone photoreceptors in a trans-synaptic manner.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 118, no. 45 (November 9, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2106694118. 

• Paisley, Caitlin E., and Jeremy N. Kay. “Seeing stars: Development and function of retinal astrocytes.” Dev Biol 478 (October 2021): 144–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.07.007. 

• Perelli, Robin M., Matthew L. O’Sullivan, Samantha Zarnick, and Jeremy N. Kay. “Environmental oxygen regulates astrocyte proliferation to guide angiogenesis during retinal development.” Development 148, no. 9 (May 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.199418. 

2020 

• Ray TA, Cochran K, Kozlowski C, Wang J, Alexander G, Cady MA, Spencer WJ, Ruzycki PA, Clark BS, Laeremans A, He MX, Wang X, Park E, Hao Y, Iannaccone A, Hu G, Fedrigo O, Skiba NP, Arshavsky VY, Kay JN “Comprehensive identification of mRNA isoforms reveals the diversity of neural cell-surface molecules with roles in retinal development and disease.” Nat Commun 11, no. 1 (July 3, 2020): 3328. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17009-7. 

• Luo L, Ambrozkiewicz MC, Benseler F, Chen C, Dumontier E, Falkner S, Furlanis E, Gomez AM, Hoshina N, Huang WH, Hutchison MA, Itoh-Maruoka Y, Lavery LA, Li W, Maruo T, Motohashi J, Pai EL, Pelkey KA, Pereira A, Philips T, Sinclair JL, Stogsdill JA, Traunmüller L, Wang J, Wortel J, You W, Abumaria N, Beier KT, Brose N, Burgess HA, Cepko CL, Cloutier JF, Eroglu C, Goebbels S, Kaeser PS, Kay JN, Lu W, Luo L, Mandai K, McBain CJ, Nave KA, Prado MAM, Prado VF, Rothstein J, Rubenstein JLR, Saher G, Sakimura K, Sanes JR, Scheiffele P, Takai Y, Umemori H, Verhage M, Yuzaki M, Zoghbi HY, Kawabe H, Craig AM.   “Optimizing Nervous System-Specific Gene Targeting with Cre Driver Lines: Prevalence of Germline Recombination and Influencing Factors.” Neuron 106, no. 1 (April 8, 2020): 37-65.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.008. 

• Peng, Yi-Rong, Rebecca E. James, Wenjun Yan, Jeremy N. Kay, Alex L. Kolodkin, and Joshua R. Sanes. “Binary Fate Choice between Closely Related Interneuronal Types Is Determined by a Fezf1-Dependent Postmitotic Transcriptional Switch.” Neuron 105, no. 3 (February 5, 2020): 464-474.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.11.002. 

2019 

• Puñal, VM; Paisley, CE; Brecha, FS; Lee, MA; Perelli, RM; Wang, J; O’Koren, EG; Ackley, CR; Saban, DR; Reese, BE; Kay, JN. “Large-scale death of retinal astrocytes during normal development is non-apoptotic and implemented by microglia.” PLoS Biol 17, no. 10 (October 2019): e3000492. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000492. 

• O’Koren EG, Yu C, Klingeborn M, Wong AYW, Prigge CL, Mathew R, Kalnitsky J, Msallam RA, Silvin A, Kay JN, Bowes Rickman C, Arshavsky VY, Ginhoux F, Merad M, Saban DR. “Microglial Function Is Distinct in Different Anatomical Locations during Retinal Homeostasis and Degeneration.” Immunity 50, no. 3 (March 19, 2019): 723-737.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2019.02.007. 

• Ray, Thomas A., Kelly J. Cochran, and Jeremy N. Kay. “The Enigma of CRB1 and CRB1 Retinopathies.” Adv Exp Med Biol 1185 (2019): 251–55. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27378-1_41

2018 

• Prigge, Cameron L., and Jeremy N. Kay. “Dendrite morphogenesis from birth to adulthood.” Curr Opin Neurobiol 53 (December 2018): 139–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2018.07.007. 

• Ray, Thomas A., Suva Roy, Christopher Kozlowski, Jingjing Wang, Jon Cafaro, Samuel W. Hulbert, Christopher V. Wright, Greg D. Field, and Jeremy N. Kay. “Formation of retinal direction-selective circuitry initiated by starburst amacrine cell homotypic contact.” Elife 7 (April 3, 2018). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34241. 

2017 

• O’Sullivan, Matthew L., Vanessa M. Puñal, Patrick C. Kerstein, Joseph A. Brzezinski, Tom Glaser, Kevin M. Wright, and Jeremy N. Kay. “Astrocytes follow ganglion cell axons to establish an angiogenic template during retinal development.” Glia 65, no. 10 (October 2017): 1697–1716. https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.23189.
• Wang, Jingjing, Matthew L. O’Sullivan, Dibyendu Mukherjee, Vanessa M. Puñal, Sina Farsiu, and Jeremy N. Kay. “Anatomy and spatial organization of Müller glia in mouse retina.” J Comp Neurol 525, no. 8 (June 1, 2017): 1759–77. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.24153. 

2016 

• Kay, Jeremy N. “Radial migration: Retinal neurons hold on for the ride.” J Cell Biol 215, no. 2 (October 24, 2016): 147–49. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201609135. 
• Redmond, SA; Mei, F; Eshed-Eisenbach, Y; Osso, LA; Leshkowitz, D; Shen, Y-AA; Kay, JN; Aurrand-Lions, M; Lyons, DA; Peles, E; Chan, JR. “Somatodendritic Expression of JAM2 Inhibits Oligodendrocyte Myelination.” Neuron 91, no. 4 (August 17, 2016): 824–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2016.07.021. 

2015 

• Visser, Jasper J., Yolanda Cheng, Steven C. Perry, Andrew Benjamin Chastain, Bayan Parsa, Shatha S. Masri, Thomas A. Ray, Jeremy N. Kay, and Woj M. Wojtowicz. “An extracellular biochemical screen reveals that FLRTs and Unc5s mediate neuronal subtype recognition in the retina.” Elife 4 (December 2, 2015): e08149. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08149. 

• Kay, Jeremy N., and Megan Stogsdill. “Starburst amacrine cells orchestrate assembly of retinal direction-selective circuitry.” In INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, Vol. 56. ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC, 2015. 

• Ray, Thomas A., and Jeremy N. Kay. “Following directions from the retina to the brain.” Neuron, May 20, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.05.017. 

• Lefebvre, Julie L., Joshua R. Sanes, and Jeremy N. Kay. “Development of dendritic form and function.” Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 31 (2015): 741–77. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-100913-013020. 

2014 

• Whitney, Irene E., Patrick W. Keeley, Ace J. St John, Amanda G. Kautzman, Jeremy N. Kay, and Benjamin E. Reese. “Sox2 regulates cholinergic amacrine cell positioning and dendritic stratification in the retina.” J Neurosci 34, no. 30 (July 23, 2014): 10109–21. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0415-14.2014. 

2013 

• Kay, Jeremy N., and Joshua R. Sanes. “Development of Retinal Arbors and Synapses.” In NEW VISUAL NEUROSCIENCES, 1291–1304, 2014. 

• Ford, Kevin J., David A. Arroyo, Jeremy N. Kay, Eric E. Lloyd, Robert M. Bryan, Joshua R. Sanes, and Marla B. Feller. “A role for TREK1 in generating the slow afterhyperpolarization in developing starburst amacrine cells.” J Neurophysiol 109, no. 9 (May 2013): 2250–59. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.01085.2012. 

Jeremy’s Previous Work (select publications): 

• Kay, Jeremy N., Monica W. Chu, and Joshua R. Sanes. “MEGF10 and MEGF11 mediate homotypic interactions required for mosaic spacing of retinal neurons.” Nature 483, no. 7390 (March 11, 2012): 465–69. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10877. 

• Kay, Jeremy N., P Emanuela Voinescu, Monica W. Chu, and Joshua R. Sanes. “Neurod6 expression defines new retinal amacrine cell subtypes and regulates their fate.” Nat Neurosci 14, no. 8 (July 10, 2011): 965–72. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2859. 

• Kay, Jeremy N., Irina De la Huerta, In-Jung Kim, Yifeng Zhang, Masahito Yamagata, Monica W. Chu, Markus Meister, and Joshua R. Sanes. “Retinal ganglion cells with distinct directional preferences differ in molecular identity, structure, and central projections.” J Neurosci 31, no. 21 (May 25, 2011): 7753–62. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0907-11.2011. 

• Kay, Jeremy N.., Brian A. Link, and Herwig Baier. “Staggered cell-intrinsic timing of ath5 expression underlies the wave of ganglion cell neurogenesis in the zebrafish retina.” Development 132, no. 11 (June 2005): 2573–85. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.01831. 

• Kay, J. N., K. C. Finger-Baier, T. Roeser, W. Staub, and H. Baier. “Retinal ganglion cell genesis requires lakritz, a Zebrafish atonal Homolog.” Neuron 30, no. 3 (June 2001): 725–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00312-9. 

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