Kirill Zaslavsky – Graduate Student, 2012-2017

Kirill Zaslavsky completed his HB.Sc. in Neuroscience. In the Ellis lab, he was interested in dissecting the molecular and neurophysiological causes of autism spectrum disorders. In particular, how alterations in SHANKs, abundant postsynaptic proteins, affect neural function.

Next position: MD/PhD student at the University of Toronto

Selected Publications

Zaslavsky K. ⁺, W.-B. Zhang⁺, F, McCready, D.C. Rodrigues, E. Deneault, C. Loo, M. Zhao, P.J. Ross, J. El Hajjar, A. Romm, T. Thompson, A. Piekna, W. Wei, Z. Wang, S. Khattak, M. Mufteev, P. Pasceri, S.W. Scherer, M.W. Salter* and J. Ellis*. 2019. SHANK2 mutations associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder cause hyperconnectivity of human neurons. ⁺Co-first authors, *co-corresponding authors. Nature Neuroscience 22:556-564.

Rodrigues DC, Kim DS, Yang G, Zaslavsky K, Ha KC, Mok RS, Ross PJ, Zhao M, Piekna A, Wei W, Blencowe BJ, Morris Q, Ellis J (2016). MECP2 is Post-transcriptionally Regulated during Human Neurodevelopment by Combinatorial Action of RNA-Binding Proteins and miRNAs. Cell Rep. 17(3): 720-734.

Khattak S, Brimble E, Zhang W, Zaslavsky K, Strong E, Ross PJ, Hendry J, Mital S, Salter MW, Osborne LR, Ellis J (2015). Human induced pluripotent stem cell derived neurons as a model for Williams-Beuren syndrome. Mol Brain. 8(1):77.

Kim DS, Ross PJ, Zaslavsky K, Ellis J (2014). Optimizing neuronal differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells to model ASD. Front Cell Neurosci. 8:109.