Papers
I’m a scientist and group leader working at the intersection of genomics, computational biology, and target discovery.
You can find my CV on LinkedIn and a complete list of publications on Google Scholar.
Highlighted publications from the last years
2026
The perineurium integrates leptin with its sympathetic outflow to protect against obesity
Gitalee Sarker, Emma Haberman, Anandhakumar Chandran, Thomas Monfeuga, Cyrielle Maroteau, Sofia Lundh, David S Oliveira, Andrea Raimondi, Karin Ziegler, Tiago Gomes, Tiago N Cordeiro, Karishma Parekh, Emilia Schmid, Paola Fernández-Sanmartín, Alina Griebel, Noelia Martinez-Sanchez, Bernardo A Arús, Samson W Cheung, Yitao Zhu, Michal Shaked, Sarah C L Knowles, Stefan Hanns Engelhardt, Matteo Iannacone, Philipp E Scherer, Miguel López, Enrique M Toledo, Ana Domingos
Nature Metabolism (2026)
Human-derived cardiac-neural microtissues reveal catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is also a disease of the sympathetic neuron
Ni Li, Chenchen Zhang, Mengying Xu, YoonYoung Choi, Davi Sidarta-Oliveira, Ruirui Dong, Xinyu Hu, Enrique M Toledo, Cesar A Prada-Medina, Finbar Argus, Kun Liu, Mingyu Li, Linna Zhou, Hagan Bayley, Corey Smith, Chris Denning, Ana I Domingos, Guoliang Hao, Dan Li, David J Paterson
The Journal of Physiology (2026)
Midbrain dopaminergic neurons arise from two molecularly distinct radial glia-like progenitors
Emilía Sif Ásgrímsdóttir, Luca Fusar Bassini, Ting Sun, Clàudia Puigsasllosas Pastor, Pia Rivetti di Val Cervo, Daniel Gyllborg, Kawai Lee, Christopher L Grigsby, Baptiste Jude, Carmen Abaurre, Saiful Islam, Peter Lönnerberg, Carlos Villaescusa, Carmen Saltó, Roger A Barker, Sten Linnarsson, Goncalo Castelo-Branco, Gioele La Manno, Enrique M Toledo, Ernest Arenas
Nature Neuroscience (2026)
Functionally Mature Bioengineered Human Skeletal Muscle Tissues Capture Essential Aspects of Glucose Metabolism
Carlos Henriquez-Olguin, Martina Kubec Højfeldt, Christopher Thomas Andrew Lewis, Jesper B. Birk, Tianfang Wang, Zelin Li, Pia Jensen, Pauline Blomquist, Bo Falck Hansen, Roberto Meneses-Valdes, Enrique Toledo, Jeb Hogan, Zhe Wang, Charis-Patricia Segeritz, Jørgen Frank Pind Wojtaszewski, Thomas Elbenhardt Jensen, Anna Blois, Christian Pehmøller, Jonas Roland Knudsen
bioRxiv (2026)
2024
Midbrain Dopaminergic Neuron Development is Regulated by Two Molecularly Distinct Subtypes of Radial Glia Cells
Emilía Sif Ásgrímsdóttir, Luca Fusar Bassini, Ting Sun, Clàudia Puigsasllosas Pastor, Pia Rivetti di Val Cervo, Daniel Gyllborg, Kawai Lee, Christopher L Grigsby, Baptiste Jude, Carmen Abaurre, Saiful Islam, Peter Lönnerberg, Carlos Villaescusa, Carmen Saltó, Roger A Barker, Sten Linnarsson, Goncalo Castelo-Branco, Gioele La Manno, Enrique M Toledo, Ernest Arenas
bioRxiv (2024) Now published in Nature Neuroscience
The perineurium integrates leptin with its sympathetic outflow to protect against obesity
Gitalee Sarker, Emma Haberman, Anandhakumar Chandran, Thomas Monfeuga, Cyrielle Maroteau, Sofia Lundh, David S Oliveira, Andrea Raimondi, Karin Ziegler, Tiago Gomes, Tiago N Cordeiro, Karishma Parekh, Emilia Schmid, Paola Fernández-Sanmartín, Alina Griebel, Noelia Martinez-Sanchez, Bernardo A Arús, Samson W Cheung, Yitao Zhu, Michal Shaked, Sarah C L Knowles, Stefan Hanns Engelhardt, Matteo Iannacone, Philipp E Scherer, Miguel López, Enrique M Toledo, Ana Domingos
bioRxiv (2024) Now published in Nature Metabolism
2023
Hepatocyte mARC1 promotes fatty liver disease
Lara C Lewis, Lingyan Chen, L Shahul Hameed, Robert R Kitchen, Cyrielle Maroteau, Shilpa R Nagarajan, Jenny Norlin, Charlotte E Daly, Iwona Szczerbinska, Sara Toftegaard Hjuler, Rahul Patel, Eilidh J Livingstone, Tom N Durrant, Elisabeth Wondimu, Soumik BasuRay, Anandhakumar Chandran, Wan-Hung Lee, Sile Hu, Barak Gilboa, Megan E Grandi, Enrique M Toledo, Abdullah H A Erikat, Leanne Hodson, William G Haynes, Natalie W Pursell, Ken Coppieters, Jan Fleckner, Joanna M M Howson, Birgitte Andersen, Maxwell A Ruby
JHEP Reports 5(5) (2023)
2022
TCF7L2 plays a complex role in human adipose progenitor biology, which might contribute to genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes
Manu Verma, Nellie Y Loh, Rugivan Sabaratnam, Senthil K Vasan, Andrea D van Dam, Marijana Todorčević, Matthew J Neville, Enrique Toledo, Fredrik Karpe, Constantinos Christodoulides
Metabolism 133 (2022)
2020
Srebf1 controls midbrain dopaminergic neurogenesis
Enrique M Toledo, Shanzheng Yang, Daniel Gyllborg, Kim E van Wijk, Indranil Sinha, Manuel Varas-Godoy, Christopher L Grigsby, Peter Lönnerberg, Saiful Islam, Knut R Steffensen, Sten Linnarsson, Ernest Arenas
Cell Reports 31(5) (2020)
2018
A Zeb2-miR-200c loop controls midbrain dopaminergic neuron neurogenesis and migration
Shanzheng Yang, Enrique M Toledo, Pedro Rosmaninho, Changgeng Peng, Per Uhlén, Diogo S Castro, Ernest Arenas
Communications Biology 1(1) (2018)
2017
Induction of functional dopamine neurons from human astrocytes in vitro and mouse astrocytes in a Parkinson’s disease model
Pia Rivetti di Val Cervo, Roman A Romanov, Giada Spigolon, Débora Masini, Elisa Martín-Montañez, Enrique M Toledo, Gioele La Manno, Michael Feyder, Christian Pifl, Yi-Han Ng, Sara Padrell Sánchez, Sten Linnarsson, Marius Wernig, Tibor Harkany, Gilberto Fisone, Ernest Arenas
Nature Biotechnology 35(5) (2017)
Mapping genes for calcium signaling and their associated human genetic disorders
Matthias Hörtenhuber, Enrique M Toledo, Erik Smedler, Ernest Arenas, Seth Malmersjö, Lauri Louhivuori, Per Uhlén
Bioinformatics 33(16) (2017)
Niche-derived laminin-511 promotes midbrain dopaminergic neuron survival and differentiation through YAP
Dawei Zhang, Shanzheng Yang, Enrique M Toledo, Daniel Gyllborg, Carmen Saltó, J Carlos Villaescusa, Ernest Arenas
Science Signaling 10(493) (2017)
2016
A PBX1 transcriptional network controls dopaminergic neuron development and is impaired in Parkinson’s disease
J Carlos Villaescusa, Bingsi Li, Enrique M Toledo, Pia Rivetti di Val Cervo, Shanzheng Yang, Simon R W Stott, Karol Kaiser, Saiful Islam, Daniel Gyllborg, Rocio Laguna-Goya, Michael Landreh, Peter Lönnerberg, Anna Falk, Tomas Bergman, Roger A Barker, Sten Linnarsson, Licia Selleri, Ernest Arenas
The EMBO Journal 35(18) (2016)
Molecular diversity of midbrain development in mouse, human, and stem cells
Gioele La Manno, Daniel Gyllborg, Simone Codeluppi, Kaneyasu Nishimura, Carmen Saltó, Amit Zeisel, Lars E Borm, Simon R W Stott, Enrique M Toledo, J Carlos Villaescusa, Peter Lönnerberg, Jesper Ryge, Roger A Barker, Ernest Arenas, Sten Linnarsson
Cell 167(2) (2016)
2015
Anti-ribosomal P protein autoantibodies from patients with neuropsychiatric lupus impair memory in mice
Marcela Bravo-Zehnder, Enrique M Toledo, Fabián Segovia-Miranda, Felipe G Serrano, María J Benito, Claudia Metz, Claudio Retamal, Alejandra Álvarez, Loreto Massardo, Nibaldo C Inestrosa, Alfonso González
Arthritis & Rheumatology 67(1) (2015)