Research
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ZIRC
ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-970217-6
Varga, Zoltan M.
Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC)
5274 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
97403-5274
USA
Phone: (541)346-6099 Email: zoltan@zebrafish.org
FAX: (541)346-6151 URL:
Biography and Research Interests:

Publications:
Carmichael, C., Westerfield, M., and Varga, Z.M. (2009) Cryopreservation and in vitro fertilization at the zebrafish international resource center. Methods Mol. Biol.. 546:45-65
Hagedorn, M., Ricker, J., McCarthy, M., Meyers, S.A., Tiersch, T.R., Varga, Z.M., and Kleinhans, F.W. (2009) Biophysics of zebrafish (Danio rerio) sperm. Cryobiology. 58(1):12-19
Lawrence, C., Sanders, G.E., Varga, Z.M., Baumann, D.P., Freeman, A., Baur, B., and Francis, M. (2009) Regulatory Compliance and the Zebrafish. Zebrafish. 6(4):453-456
Ramsay, J.M., Feist, G.W., Varga, Z.M., Westerfield, M., Kent, M.L., and Schreck, C.B. (2009) Whole-body cortisol response of zebrafish to acute net handling stress. Aquaculture. 297(1-4):157-162
Toro, S., Wegner, J., Muller, M., Westerfield, M., and Varga, Z.M. (2009) Identification of differentially expressed genes in the zebrafish hypothalamic-pituitary axis. Gene Expr. Patterns. 9(4):200-208
Viktorin, G., Chiuchitu, C., Rissler, M., Varga, Z.M., and Westerfield, M. (2009) Emx3 is required for the differentiation of dorsal telencephalic neurons. Dev. Dyn.. 238(8):1984-1998
Dutta, S., Dietrich, J.E., Westerfield, M., and Varga, Z.M. (2008) Notch signaling regulates endocrine cell specification in the zebrafish anterior pituitary. Dev. Biol.. 319(2):248-257
Toro, S., and Varga, Z.M. (2007) Equivalent progenitor cells in the zebrafish anterior preplacodal field give rise to adenohypophysis, lens, and olfactory placodes. Semin. Cell Dev. Biol.. 18(4):534-542
Yang, H., Carmichael, C., Varga, Z.M., and Tiersch, T.R. (2007) Development of a simplified and standardized protocol with potential for high-throughput for sperm cryopreservation in zebrafish Danio rerio. Theriogenology. 68(2):128-136
Ramsay, J.M., Feist, G.W., Varga, Z.M., Westerfield, M., Kent, M.L., and Schreck, C.B. (2006) Whole-body cortisol is an indicator of crowding stress in adult zebrafish, Danio rerio. Aquaculture. 258(1-4):565-574
Seth, A., Culverwell, J., Walkowicz, M., Toro, S., Rick, J.M., Neuhauss, S.C., Varga, Z.M., and Karlstrom, R.O. (2006) belladonna/(lhx2) is required for neural patterning and midline axon guidance in the zebrafish forebrain. Development. 133(4):725-735
Dutta, S., Dietrich, J.E., Aspock, G., Burdine, R.D., Schier, A., Westerfield, M., and Varga, Z.M. (2005) pitx3 defines an equivalence domain for lens and anterior pituitary placode. Development. 132(7):1579-1590
Herzog, W., Sonntag, C., Von Der Hardt, S., Roehl, H.H., Varga, Z.M., and Hammerschmidt, M. (2004) Fgf3 signaling from the ventral diencephalon is required for early specification and subsequent survival of the zebrafish adenohypophysis. Development. 131(15):3681-3692
Rohr, K.B., Barth, K.A., Varga, Z.M., and Wilson, S.W. (2001) The nodal pathway acts upstream of hedgehog signaling to specify ventral telencephalic identity. Neuron. 29(2):341-351
Varga, Z.M., Amores, A., Lewis, K.E., Yan, Y.-L., Postlethwait, J.H., Eisen, J.S., and Westerfield, M. (2001) Zebrafish smoothened functions in ventral neural tube specification and axon tract formation. Development. 128(18):3497-3509
De Martino, S., Yan, Y.-L., Jowett, T., Postlethwait, J.H., Varga, Z.M., Ashworth, A., and Austin, C.A. (2000) Expression of sox11 gene duplicates in zebrafish suggests the reciprocal loss of ancestral gene expression patterns in development. Dev. Dyn.. 217(3):279-292
Varga, Z.M., Wegner, J., and Westerfield, M. (1999) Anterior movement of ventral diencephalic precursors separates the primordial eye field in the neural plate and requires cyclops. Development. 126:5533-5546

Non-Zebrafish Publications:

Hirose Y, Varga ZM, Kondoh H, Furutani-Seiki M. Single cell lineage and regionalization of cell populations during Medaka neurulation. Development. 2004 Jun;131(11):2553-63.
PMID: 15148299


Z. M. Varga, C. E. Bandtlow, the late S. D. Erulkar, M. E. Schwab and J. G. Nicholls. (1995) The critical period for repair of CNS of neonatal opossum (Monodelphis domestica) in culture: correlation with development of glial cells, myelin and growth inhibitory molecules. Eur. J.Neurosci. 7, 2119 - 2129
PMID: 8542069

Z. M. Varga, M. E. Schwab and J. G. Nicholls. (1995) Suppression of regeneration after lesions of immature mammalian spinal cord in culture by myelin associated neurite growth inhibitory proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 10959 - 10963
PMID: 7479918

Z. M. Varga, J. Fernandez, S. Blackshaw, K. J. Muller, W. B. Adams and J. G. Nicholls. (1996) Neurite outgrowth through lesions of neonatal opossum spinal cord in culture. J. Comp. Neurol. 366, 600 – 612
PMID: 8833112