ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-981030-18
Abbas, Leila
Email: l.abbas@shef.ac.uk
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Affiliation:
Address: MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics Department of Biomedical Science University of Sheffield Sheffield, S10 2TN United Kingdom
Country: United Kingdom
Phone: 44-207-848-6548
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
***no longer involved in zebrafish research***

The role of the Rho GTPases during zebrafish development.


PUBLICATIONS
Diamantopoulou, E., Baxendale, S., de la Vega de León, A., Asad, A., Holdsworth, C.J., Abbas, L., Gillet, V.J., Wiggin, G.R., Whitfield, T.T. (2019) Identification of compounds that rescue otic and myelination defects in the zebrafish adgrg6 (gpr126) mutant. eLIFE. 8:
Geng, F.S., Abbas, L., Baxendale, S., Holdsworth, C.J., Swanson, A.G., Slanchev, K., Hammerschmidt, M., Topczewski, J., and Whitfield, T.T. (2013) Semicircular canal morphogenesis in the zebrafish inner ear requires the function of gpr126 (lauscher), an adhesion class G protein-coupled receptor gene. Development (Cambridge, England). 40(21):4362-4374
Abbas, L., Hajihashemi, S., Stead, L.F., Cooper, G.J., Ware, T.L., Munsey, T.S., Whitfield, T.T., and White, S.J. (2011) Functional and developmental expression of a zebrafish Kir1.1 (ROMK) potassium channel homologue Kcnj1. The Journal of physiology. 589(Pt 6):1489-503
Abbas, L., and Whitfield, T.T. (2009) Nkcc1 (Slc12a2) is required for the regulation of endolymph volume in the otic vesicle and swim bladder volume in the zebrafish larva. Development (Cambridge, England). 136(16):2837-2848
Dutton, K., Abbas, L., Spencer, J., Brannon, C., Mowbray, C., Nikaido, M., Kelsh, R.N., and Whitfield, T.T. (2009) A zebrafish model for Waardenburg syndrome type IV reveals diverse roles for Sox10 in the otic vesicle. Disease models & mechanisms. 2(1-2):68-83
Marlow, F., Zwartkruis, F., Malicki, J., Neuhauss, S.C.F., Abbas, L., Weaver, M., Driever, W., and Solnica-Krezel, L. (1998) Functional interactions of genes mediating convergent extension, knypek and trilobite, during the partitioning of the eye primordium in zebrafish. Developmental Biology. 203:382-399

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS