Michael Courtney

- Senior Research Fellow,
Turku Bioscience Centre (Independent units)

miccou@utu.fi

+358 29 450 3739

+358 50 464 9827

Tykistökatu 6

Turku

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8693-3933

Areas of expertise

protein interactions; cell signalling; cell imaging; optical assays; single-cell methods; optogenetics; protein engineering; neuroscience; reporter design; AAV; assay development; drug discovery; compound screening; high-throughput methods; high-content analysis; lab automation

Publications

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The nNOS-p38MAPK Pathway Is Mediated by NOS1AP during Neuronal Death (2013)
- Journal of Neuroscience
Li L, Ginet V, Liu X, Vergun O, Tuittila M, Mathieu M, Bonny C, Puyal J, Truttmann AC, Courtney MJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Calpains Are Downstream Effectors of bax-Dependent Excitotoxic Apoptosis (2012)
- Journal of Neuroscience
D'Orsi B, Bonner H, Tuffy LP, Dussmann H, Woods I, Courtney MJ, Ward MW, Prehn JHM
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Phosphorylation of MARCKSL1 Determines Actin Stability and Migration in Neurons and in Cancer Cells (2012)
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
Bjorkblom B, Padzik A, Mohammad H, Westerlund N, Komulainen E, Hollos P, Parviainen L, Papageorgiou AC, Iljin K, Kallioniemi O, Kallajoki M, Courtney MJ, Magard M, James P, Coffey ET
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Hippocampal long-term depression is enhanced, depotentiation is inhibited and long-term potentiation is unaffected by the application of a selective c-Jun N-terminal kinase inhibitor to freely behaving rats (2011)
- European Journal of Neuroscience
Yang HH, Courtney MJ, Martinsson P, Manahan-Vaughan D
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Phosphorylation of SCG10/stathmin-2 determines multipolar stage exit and neuronal migration rate (2011)
- Nature Neuroscience
Westerlund N, Zdrojewska J, Padzik A, Komulainen E, Björkblom B, Rannikko E, Tararuk T, Garcia-Frigola C, Sandholm J, Nguyen L, Kallunki T, Courtney MJ, Coffey ET
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Concurrent protective and destructive signaling of JNK2 in neuroblastoma cells (2009)
- Cellular Signalling
Waetzig V, Wacker U, Haeusgen W, Bjorkblom B, Courtney MJ, Coffey ET, Herdegen T
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
All JNKs can kill, but nuclear localization is critical for neuronal death (2008)
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
Bjorkblom B, Vainio JC, Hongisto V, Herdegen T, Courtney MJ, Coffey ET
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Real time analysis of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand/cycloheximide-induced caspase activities during apoptosis initiation (2008)
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
Hellwig CT, Kohler BF, Lehtivarjo AK, Dussmann H, Courtney MJ, Prehn JHM, Rehm M
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Superior cervical ganglion-10 protein as a molecular effector of c-Jun N-terminal kinase 1: implications for the therapeutic targeting of Jun N-terminal kinase in nerve regeneration (2008)
- Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets
Westerlund N, Zdrojewska J, Courtney MJ, Coffey ET
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Rho mediates calcium-dependent activation of p38 alpha and subsequent excitotoxic cell death (2007)
- Nature Neuroscience
Semenova MM, Maki-Hokkonen AMJ, Cao J, Komarovski V, Forsberg KM, Koistinaho M, Coffey ET, Courtney MJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)