George Mountoufaris, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor School Graduate School Department Physiology | Neuroscience Graduate Programs Biological Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cell and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Development and Disease, Molecular Biophysics, Neuroscience Publications Featured Publications The neural computation of affective internal states in the hypothalamus: A dynamical systems perspective. Nair A, Vinograd A, Liu M, Mountoufaris G, Linderman S, Anderson DJ, Neuron 2025 Dec 113 23 3887-3907 A line attractor encoding a persistent internal state requires neuropeptide signaling. Mountoufaris G, Nair A, Yang B, Kim DW, Vinograd A, Kim S, Linderman SW, Anderson DJ, Cell 2024 Oct 187 21 5998-6015.e18 Writing, Reading, and Translating the Clustered Protocadherin Cell Surface Recognition Code for Neural Circuit Assembly. Mountoufaris G, Canzio D, Nwakeze CL, Chen WV, Maniatis T, Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 2018 Oct 34 471-493 Multicluster Pcdh diversity is required for mouse olfactory neural circuit assembly. Mountoufaris G, Chen WV, Hirabayashi Y, O'Keeffe S, Chevee M, Nwakeze CL, Polleux F, Maniatis T, Science 2017 Apr 356 6336 411-414 Pcdhαc2 is required for axonal tiling and assembly of serotonergic circuitries in mice. Chen WV, Nwakeze CL, Denny CA, O'Keeffe S, Rieger MA, Mountoufaris G, Kirner A, Dougherty JD, Hen R, Wu Q, Maniatis T, Science 2017 Apr 356 6336 406-411 Embryonic stem cell-based mapping of developmental transcriptional programs. Mazzoni EO, Mahony S, Iacovino M, Morrison CA, Mountoufaris G, Closser M, Whyte WA, Young RA, Kyba M, Gifford DK, Wichterle H, Nat Methods 2011 Nov 8 12 1056-8 An epigenetic signature for monoallelic olfactory receptor expression. Magklara A, Yen A, Colquitt BM, Clowney EJ, Allen W, Markenscoff-Papadimitriou E, Evans ZA, Kheradpour P, Mountoufaris G, Carey C, Barnea G, Kellis M, Lomvardas S, Cell 2011 May 145 4 555-70 Results 1-7 of 7 1
