ZFIN Person: Blanco, Bernardo

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-030306-5

Blanco, Bernardo

Email:	berde@uoneuro.uoregon.edu
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Affiliation:	Westerfield Lab
Address:	Institute of Neuroscience 1254 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1254 USA
Country:	United States
Phone:	(541) 346-4596
Fax:	(541) 346-4548
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Blanco-Sánchez, B., Clément, A., Stednitz, S.J., Kyle, J., Peirce, J.L., McFadden, M., Wegner, J., Phillips, J.B., Macnamara, E., Huang, Y., Adams, D.R., Toro, C., Gahl, W.A., Malicdan, M.C.V., Tifft, C.J., Zink, E.M., Bloodsworth, K.J., Stratton, K.G., Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Koeller, D.M., Metz, T.O., Washbourne, P., Westerfield, M. (2020) yippee like 3 (ypel3) is a novel gene required for myelinating and perineurial glia development. PLoS Genetics. 16:e1008841

Blanco-Sánchez, B., Clément, A., Fierro, J., Stednitz, S., Phillips, J.B., Wegner, J., Panlilio, J.M., Peirce, J.L., Washbourne, P., Westerfield, M. (2018) Grxcr1 Promotes Hair Bundle Development by Destabilizing the Physical Interaction between Harmonin and Sans Usher Syndrome Proteins. Cell Reports. 25:1281-1291.e4

Ferreira, C.R., Xia, Z.J., Clément, A., Parry, D.A., Davids, M., Taylan, F., Sharma, P., Turgeon, C.T., Blanco-Sánchez, B., Ng, B.G., Logan, C.V., Wolfe, L.A., Solomon, B.D., Cho, M.T., Douglas, G., Carvalho, D.R., Bratke, H., Haug, M.G., Phillips, J.B., Wegner, J., Tiemeyer, M., Aoki, K., Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Scottish Genome Partnership, Nordgren, A., Hammarsjö, A., Duker, A.L., Rohena, L., Hove, H.B., Ek, J., Adams, D., Tifft, C.J., Onyekweli, T., Weixel, T., Macnamara, E., Radtke, K., Powis, Z., Earl, D., Gabriel, M., Russi, A.H.S., Brick, L., Kozenko, M., Tham, E., Raymond, K.M., Phillips, J.A., Tiller, G.E., Wilson, W.G., Hamid, R., Malicdan, M.C.V., Nishimura, G., Grigelioniene, G., Jackson, A., Westerfield, M., Bober, M.B., Gahl, W.A., Freeze, H.H. (2018) A Recurrent De Novo Heterozygous COG4 Substitution Leads to Saul-Wilson Syndrome, Disrupted Vesicular Trafficking, and Altered Proteoglycan Glycosylation. American journal of human genetics. 103:553-567

Clément, A., Blanco-Sánchez, B., Peirce, J.L., Westerfield, M. (2018) Cog4 is required for protrusion and extension of the epithelium in the developing semicircular canals. Mechanisms of Development. 155:1-7

Blanco-Sánchez, B., Clément, A., Phillips, J.B., Westerfield, M. (2017) Zebrafish models of human eye and inner ear diseases. Methods in cell biology. 138:415-467

Li, T., Fan, J., Blanco-Sánchez, B., Giagtzoglou, N., Lin, G., Yamamoto, S., Jaiswal, M., Chen, K., Zhang, J., Wei, W., Lewis, M.T., Groves, A.K., Westerfield, M., Jia, J., Bellen, H.J. (2016) Ubr3, a Novel Modulator of Hh Signaling Affects the Degradation of Costal-2 and Kif7 through Poly-ubiquitination. PLoS Genetics. 12:e1006054

Blanco-Sánchez, B., Clément, A., Fierro, J., Washbourne, P., Westerfield, M. (2014) Complexes of Usher proteins preassemble at the endoplasmic reticulum and are required for trafficking and ER homeostasis. Disease models & mechanisms. 7:547-59

Phillips, J.B., Blanco-Sanchez, B., Lentz, J.J., Tallafuss, A., Khanobdee, K., Sampath, S., Jacobs, Z.G., Han, P.F., Mishra, M., Williams, D.S., Keats, B.J., Washbourne, P., and Westerfield, M. (2011) Harmonin (Ush1c) is required in zebrafish Muller glial cells for photoreceptor synaptic development and function. Disease models & mechanisms. 4(6):786-800

Delaurier, A., Eames, B.F., Blanco-Sánchez, B., Peng, G., He, X., Swartz, M.E., Ullmann, B., Westerfield, M., and Kimmel, C.B. (2010) Zebrafish sp7:EGFP: A transgenic for studying otic vesicle formation, skeletogenesis, and bone regeneration. Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000). 48(8):505-511

Ebermann, I., Phillips, J.B., Liebau, M.C., Koenekoop, R.K., Schermer, B., Lopez, I., Schäfer, E., Roux, A.F., Dafinger, C., Bernd, A., Zrenner, E., Claustres, M., Blanco, B., Nürnberg, G., Nürnberg, P., Ruland, R., Westerfield, M., Benzing, T., and Bolz, H.J. (2010) PDZD7 is a modifier of retinal disease and a contributor to digenic Usher syndrome. J. Clin. Invest.. 120(6):1812-1823

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