Gabriel Forn Cuní
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. G. Forn Cuní
- Telephone
- 071 5274916
- g.forn-cuni@biology.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5976-4759
Postdoc
- Faculty of Science
- IBL
- Animal Sciences
- Zhao G., Zeng Y., Cheng W., Karkampouna S., Papadopoulou P., Hu B., Zang S., Wezenberg E.J.M., Forn Cuni G., Lopes Bastos B.M., Kruithof de Julio M., Kros A. & Snaar B.E. (2025), Peptide-modified lipid nanoparticles boost the antitumor efficacy of RNA therapeutics, ACS Nano 19(14): 13685-13704.
- Yin J., Forn Cuní G., Surendran A.M., Lopes Bastos B.M., Pouliopoulou N., Jager M.J., Le Dévédec S.E., Chen Q. & Snaar B.E. (2024), Lactate secreted by glycolytic conjunctival melanoma cells attracts and polarizes macrophages to drive angiogenesis in zebrafish xenografts, Angiogenesis 27: 703-717.
- Zhang L., Zhao G., Dalrymple T., Husiev Y., Bronkhorst H., Fom-Cuni G., Lopes-Bastos B.M., Snaar-Jagalska B.E. & Bonnet S.A: (2024), Cyclic ruthenium-peptide prodrugs penetrate the blood–brain barrier and attack glioblastoma upon light activation in orthotopic zebrafish tumor models, ACS Central Science 10(12): 2294-2311.
- Kloosterman D.J., Erbani J., Boon M., Farber M., Handgraaf S.M., Ando-Kuri M., Sanchez-Lopez E., Fontein B., Mertz M., Nieuwland M., Liu N.Q., Forn-Cuni G., Wel N.N. van der, Grootemaat A.E., Reinalda L., Kasteren S.I. van, Wit E. de, Ruffell B., Snaar-Jagalska E., Petrecca K., Brandsma D., Kros A., Giera M. & Akkari L. (2024), Macrophage-mediated myelin recycling fuels brain cancer malignancy, Cell 187(19): p5336-5356.e30.
- Antunes S.S., Forn Cuní G., Remeiro N.C., Spaink H.P., Verbeek F.J. & Muzitano M.F. (2024), Embryonic and larval zebrafish models for the discovery of new bioactive compounds against tuberculosis, Drug Discovery Today 29(11): 104163.
- Zhao G., Forn Cuní G., Scheers M., Lindenberg P.P., Yin J., Loosen Q. van, Passarini L., Chen L. & Snaar-Jagalska B.E. (2024), Simultaneous targeting of AMPK and mTOR is a novel therapeutic strategy against prostate cancer, Cancer Letters 587: 216657.
- Hu W., Koch B.E.V., Lamers G.E.M., Forn-Cuní G. & Spaink H.P. (2023), Specificity of the innate immune responses to different classes of non-tuberculous mycobacteria, Frontiers in Immunology 13: 1075473.
- Forn Cuni G., Welvaarts L., Stel F.M., Hondel C.A.M.J.J. van den, Arentshorst M., Ram A.F.J. & Meijer A.H. (2023), Stimulating the autophagic-lysosomal axis enhances host defense against fungal infection in a zebrafish model of invasive Aspergillosis, Autophagy 1986(1): 324-337.
- Boland R., Heemskerk M.T., Forn-Cuní G., Korbee C.J., Walburg K.V., Esselink J.J., Carvalho dos Santos C., Waal A.M. de, Hoeven D.C.M. van der, Sar E. van der, Ries A.S. de, Xie J., Spaink H.P., Vaart M. van der, Haks M.C., Meijer A.H. & Ottenhoff T.H.M. (2023), Repurposing tamoxifen as potential host-directed therapeutic for tuberculosis, mBio 14(1): e03024.
- Hu W., Liu L., Forn-Cuní G., Ding Y., Alia A. & Spaink H.P. (2023), Transcriptomic and metabolomic studies reveal that toll-like receptor 2 has a role in glucose-related metabolism in unchallenged zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio), Biology 12(2): 323.
- Gazzi T., Brennecke B., Atz K., Korn C., Sykes D., Forn-Cuni G., Pfaff P., Sarott R.C., Westphal M.V., Mostinski Y., Mach L., Wasinska-Kalwa M., Weise M., Hoare B.L., Miljuš T., Mexi M., Roth N., Koers E.J., Guba W., Alker A., Rufer A.C., Kusznir E.A., Huber S., Raposo C., Zirwes E.A., Osterwald A., Pavlovic A., Moes S., Beck J., Nettekoven M., Benito-Cuesta I., Grande T., Drawnel F., Widmer G., Holzer D., Wel T. van der, Mandhair H., Honer M., Fingerle J., Scheffel J., Broichhagen J., Gawrisch K., Romero J., Hillard C.J., Varga Z.V., Stelt M. van der, Pacher P., Gertsch J., Ullmer C., McCormick P.J., Oddi S., Spaink H.P., Maccarrone M., Veprintsev D.B., Carreira E.M., Grether U. & Nazaré M. (2022), Detection of cannabinoid receptor type 2 in native cells and zebrafish with a highly potent, cell-permeable fluorescent probe, Chemical Science 13(19): 5539-5545.
- Groenewoud A., Forn-Cuní G., Engel B. & Snaar-Jagalska B.E. (2022), XePhIR: the zebrafish xenograft phenotype interactive repository, Database 2022: baac028.
- Saxena S., Spaink H.P. & Forn-Cuni G. (2021), Drug resistance in nontuberculous mycobacteria: mechanisms and models, Biology 10(2): 96.
- Ding Y., Haks M.C., Forn Cuní G., He J., Nowik N., Harms A.C., Hankemeier T., Eeza M.N.H., Matysik J., Alia A. & Spaink H.P. (2021), Metabolomic and transcriptomic profiling of adult mice and larval zebrafish leptin mutants reveal a common pattern of changes in metabolites and signaling pathways, Cell & Bioscience 11(1): 126.
- Keizer E.M., Valdes I.D., Forn-Cuni G., Klijn E., Meijer A.H., Hillman F., Wosten H.A.B. & Cock H. de (2021), Variation of virulence of five Aspergillus fumigatus isolates in four different infection models, PLoS ONE 16(7): e0252948.
- Keizer E.M., Valdes I.D., Forn-Cuni G., Klijn E., Meijer A.H., Hillmann F., Wösten H.A.B. & Cock H. de (2021), Correction: Variation of virulence of five Aspergillus fumigatus isolates in four different infection models, PLoS ONE 16(9): e0252948.
- Leeuwe T.M. van, Arentshorst M., Forn-Cuní G., Geoffrion N., Tsang A., Delvigne F., Meijer A.H., Ram A.F.J. & Punt P.J. (2020), Deletion of the Aspergillus niger pro-protein processing protease gene kexB results in a pH-dependent morphological transition during submerged cultivations and increases cell wall chitin content , Microorganisms 8(12): 1918.
- Leeuwe T.M. van, Wattjes J., Niehues A., Forn-Cuní G., Geoffrion N., Mélida H., Arentshorst M., Molina A.,Tsang A., Meijer A.H., Moerschbacher B.M., Punt P.J. & Ram A.F.J. (2020), A seven-membered cell wall related transglycosylase gene family in Aspergillus niger is relevant for cell wall integrity in cell wall mutants with reduced α-glucan or galactomannan, Cell Surface 6: 100039.
- Zhang R., Varela Alvarez M., Forn-Cuní G., Torraca V., Vaart M. van der & Meijer A.H. (2020), Deficiency in the autophagy modulator Dram1 exacerbates pyroptotic cell death of Mycobacteria-infected macrophages, Cell Death and Disease 11(4): 277.
- Zhang R., Varela Alvarez M., Vallentgoed W., Forn-Cuní G., Vaart M. van der & Meijer A.H. (2019), The selective autophagy receptors Optineurin and p62 are both required for zebrafish host resistance to mycobacterial infection, PLoS Pathogens 15(2): e1007329.
- Forn-Cuní G., Meijer A.H. & Varela Alvarez M. (2019), Zebrafish in Inflammasome Research, Cells 8(8): 901.