KEY RESOURCES TABLE
| REAGENT or RESOURCE | SOURCE | IDENTIFIER | 
|---|---|---|
| Antibodies | ||
| CaM Kinase II alpha (6G9) | Novusbio | # NB100–1983; RRID:AB_10001339 | 
| LMX1A | Novusbio | # NBP1–81303; RRID:AB_11008396 | 
| SYNAPSIN | Synaptic System | # 106 001; RRID:AB_887805 | 
| HOMER | Synaptic System | # 160 003; RRID:AB_887730 | 
| EGFR | Abcam | # Ab231; RRID:AB_2293306 | 
| FGFR1 phosphoY654 | Abcam | # Ab59194; RRID:AB_941585 | 
| TBR1 | Abcam | # Ab31940; RRID:AB_2200219 | 
| REELIN | Abcam | # Ab18570; RRID:AB_444539 | 
| CYCLIN D1 | Abcam | # Ab10540; RRID:AB_297280 | 
| FGFR2 | Abcam | # Ab10648; RRID:AB_297369 | 
| BMPR1A | Abcam | # Ab38560; RRID:AB_722713 | 
| HES1 | Cell Signaling Technology | # 11988; RRID:AB_2728766 | 
| p-SMAD1/5 | Cell Signaling Technology | # 9516; RRID:AB_491015 | 
| CYCLIN D1 | Cell Signaling Technology | # 2926; RRID:AB_2070400 | 
| pERK1/2 | Cell Signaling Technology | # 4370; RRID:AB_2315112 | 
| FGFR1 | Cell Signaling Technology | # 9740; RRID:AB_11178519 | 
| PAX6 | BioLegend | # PRB-278P; RRID:AB_291612 | 
| NESTIN | R&D Systems | # MAB1259; RRID:AB_2251304 | 
| OTX2 | R&D Systems | # AF1979; RRID:AB_2157172 | 
| PDGFR alpha | R&D Systems | # AF1062; # AF307; RRID:AB_2236897; RRID:AB_354459 | 
| SOX2 | R&D Systems | # AF2018; # MAB2018; RRID:AB_355110; RRID:AB_358009 | 
| SOX21 | R&D Systems | # AF3538; RRID:AB_2195947 | 
| TuJ1 | R&D Systems | # MAB1195; RRID:AB_357520 | 
| EGFR | R&D Systems | # AF1280; RRID:AB_354717 | 
| O4 | R&D Systems | # MAB 1326;RRID:AB_357617 | 
| GFAP | DAKO | # Z 0334; RRID:AB_10013382 | 
| HES5 | Santa Cruz Biotechnology | # sc-13859; RRID:AB_2233041 | 
| CUX1 | Santa Cruz Biotechnology | # sc-13024; RRID:AB_2261231 | 
| TLE4 | Santa Cruz Biotechnology | # sc-9125; RRID:AB_793141 | 
| FGFR3 | Santa Cruz Biotechnology | # sc-9007; RRID:AB_640487 | 
| LHX2 | Santa Cruz Biotechnology | # sc-19344; RRID:AB_2135660 | 
| FOXP2 | Millipore | # ABE73; RRID:AB_11214319 | 
| TBR1 | Millipore | # AB2261; RRID:AB_10615497 | 
| REELIN | Millipore | # MAB5366; RRID:AB_2285132 | 
| FOXG1 | Takara/Clontech | # M227; RRID:AB_2827749 | 
| GAD65/67 | Kindly gifted by Dr. Christian Geis, Hans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Germany | (Hansen et al., 2013) | 
| TBR2 | Millipore | # AB15894; RRID:AB_10615604 | 
| PAX6 | Millipore | # AB2237; RRID:AB_1587367 | 
| Alexa 488, 568, 647 conjugated antibodies | Life Technologies | N/A | 
| Secondary antibodies donkey anti- (species) 488, 543, 647 | Jackson DyLight | N/A | 
| Bacterial and Virus Strains | ||
| AAV5-CMV-eGFP | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Viral Vector Core | Lot # RVC0041; titer:2.62E+13 vg/ml | 
| AAV6-CMV-eGFP | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Viral Vector Core | Lot # RVC0065; titer: 1.98E+12vg/ml | 
| Biological Samples | ||
| Rhesus macaque monkey embryonic brain cells | Primate breeding colony at Yale | N/A | 
| C57BL/6 mouse embryonic neural stem cells | Charles River | N/A | 
| Sprague-Dawley rat embryonic astrocytes | Charles River | N/A | 
| Chemicals, Peptides, and Recombinant Proteins | ||
| Poly-L-ornithine (PLO) | Sigma | # P3655 | 
| Fibronectin (FN) | R&D Systems | # 1030FN | 
| DMEM/F12 medium | Mediatech | # 16–405-CV | 
| Insulin | Sigma | # I6634 | 
| Apotransferrin | Sigma | # T2036 | 
| Progesterone | Sigma | # P8783 | 
| Putrescine | Sigma | # P5780 | 
| Sodium Selenite | Sigma | # S5261 | 
| bFGF | R&D Systems | # 4114-TC | 
| NeuroBasal medium | Life Technology | # 12348–017 | 
| Glutamax | Life Technology | # 35050061 | 
| B27 | Life Technology | # 17504–044 | 
| BDNF | R&D Systems | # 248-BD | 
| NT-3 | R&D Systems | # 267-N3 | 
| LDN193189 | Stemgent | # 04–0074 | 
| BMP4 | R&D System | # 5020-BP-010/CF | 
| mTeSR1 | Stem Cell Technology | # 05850 | 
| ROCK inhibitor | Sigma-Aldrich | # Y0503 | 
| Matrigel | BD | # 354277 | 
| Aggrewell medium | Stem Cell Technology | # 05893 | 
| SB431542 | Sigma-Aldrich | # S4317 | 
| XAV939 | Stemgent | # 04–0046 | 
| FBS | Life Technologies | # 16000–044 | 
| Poly-D-lysine | Sigma-Aldrich | # P6407 | 
| DMEM | Life Technologies | # 11960069 | 
| Laminin | Life Technologies | # 23017–015 | 
| Papain | BrainBits | PAP | 
| Critical Commercial Assays | ||
| microRNA booster kit | Stemgent | # 00–0073 | 
| StemFect RNA transfection reagent kit | Stemgent | # 00–0069 | 
| Alexa Fluor antibody labeling kit (488, 568, 647) | Life Technologies | # A20181; # A20184; # A20186 | 
| RNeasy Mini Kit | QIAGEN | # 74106 | 
| 10X Genomics Single Cell 3“ RNA-Seq V2 | 10X Genomics | N/A | 
| Deposited Data | ||
| mouse RNaseq: in vitro E11.5 mouse cortical NSCs across neural differentiation Series GSE144158 | This paper | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE144158 | 
| human RNaseq #1: H9 hESC-derived NSCs serially passaged Series GSE144156 | This paper | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE144156 | 
| human RNaseq #2: 6 hiPSC lines [2063–1,−2; 2053–2,−6; 2075–1,−3] across neural differentiation Series GSE144157 | This paper | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE144157 | 
| single-cell RNA-sequencing of E77 and E78 Rhesus macaque Visual cortex (V1) Series GSE144508 | This paper | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE144508 | 
| Developing human DLPF cortex RNaseq dataset | (Jaffe et al., 2018) | http://eqtl.brainseq.org/phase1/ | 
| Laser micro-dissected macaque developing cortex microarray data | (Bakken et al., 2016) | http://www.blueprintnhpatlas.org/static/download | 
| Human developing cortex single cell RNAseq data | (Nowakowski et al., 2017) | https://cells.ucsc.edu/?ds=cortex-dev | 
| Fetal human cortex gene expression microarray data | (Miller et al., 2014) | http://www.brainspan.org/static/download.html | 
| Cortecon | (van de Leemput et al., 2014) | http://cortecon.neuralsci.org/ | 
| Differentiating cortical neurons derived from hiPSCs | (Ziller et al., 2015) | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE62193 (supplemental file “GSE62193_ AllSamples_ geneExpression.fpkm_tracking.gz”) | 
| Experimental Models: Cell Lines | ||
| H9 human pluripotent stem cell line | LIBD | N/A | 
| human induced pluripotent stem cell lines | LIBD | N/A | 
| Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains | ||
| C57BL/6 mouse embryos | Charles River | N/A | 
| Rhesus macaque monkey embryos | Primate breeding colony at Yale | N/A | 
| Software and Algorithms | ||
| Columbus server | Perkin Elmer | N/A | 
| Spotfire | TIBCO | N/A | 
| pClamp10 software | Molecular Devices | N/A | 
| Clampfit software | Molecular Devices | N/A | 
| GraphPad Prism | GraphPad Software | N/A | 
| BioCell | SIMI Reality Motion Systems | (Ravin et al., 2008) | 
| Neurolucida software | MBF Bioscience | N/A | 
| GWCoGAPS | (Fertig et al., 2014; Stein-O’Brien et al., 2017) | In the R statistical language: if (!requireNamespace(“BiocManager,” quietly = TRUE)) install. packages (“BiocManager”) BiocManager:: install(“CoGAPS”) browseVignettes (“CoGAPS”) | 
| ProjectR | (Sharma et al., 2020; Stein-O’Brien et al., 2019) | In the R statistical language: if (!requireNamespace(“BiocManager,” quietly = TRUE)) install.packages (“BiocManager”) BiocManager:: install(“projectR”) browseVignettes (“projectR”) |