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2015-2016 Student Publications

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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Epidemiology & Human Genetics

Gerontology

Molecular Medicine

Molecular Microbiology & Immunology

Neuroscience

Physical Rehabilitation Science

Toxicology

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Samusi Adediran

Zhang, Y., Lapidus, R. G., Liu, P., Choi, E. Y., Adediran, S., Hussain, A., … Dan, H. C. (2016). Targeting IκB kinase β/NF-κB signaling in human prostate cancer by a novel IκB kinase β inhibitor CmpdA. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 15(7), 1504–1514. http://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-15-0999

Joshua Brown

Brown, J. D., Summers, M. F., & Johnson, B. A. (2015). Prediction of hydrogen and carbon chemical shifts from RNA using database mining and support vector regression. Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 63(1), 39–52. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-015-9961-4

Courtney Chandler

Renzi, F., Zähringer, U., Chandler, C. E., Ernst, R. K., Cornelis, G. R., & Ittig, S. J. (2016). Modification of the 1-Phosphate group during biosynthesis of Capnocytophaga canimorsus Lipid A. Infection and Immunity, 84(2), 550–561. http://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.01006-15

Christy Gaines

Mercredi, P. Y., Bucca, N., Loeliger, B., Gaines, C. R., Mehta, M., Bhargava, P., … Summers, M. F. (2016). Structural and molecular determinants of membrane binding by the HIV-1 Matrix protein. Journal of Molecular Biology, 428(8), 1637–1655. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2016.03.005\

Tedbury, P. R., Mercredi, P. Y., Gaines, C. R., Summers, M. F., & Freed, E. O. (2015). Elucidating the mechanism by which compensatory mutations rescue an HIV-1 Matrix mutant defective for gag membrane targeting and envelope glycoprotein incorporation. Journal of Molecular Biology, 427(6 Pt B), 1413–1427. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2015.01.018

Daniel Grun

Adhikary, G., Grun, D., Balasubramanian, S., Kerr, C., Huang, J. M., & Eckert, R. L. (2015). Survival of skin cancer stem cells requires the Ezh2 polycomb group protein. Carcinogenesis, 36(7), 800–810. http://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/bgv064

Eckert, R. L., Fisher, M. L., Grun, D., Adhikary, G., Xu, W., & Kerr, C. (2015). Transglutaminase is a tumor cell and cancer stem cell survival factor. Molecular Carcinogenesis, 54(10), 947–958. http://doi.org/10.1002/mc.22375

Fisher, M. L., Adhikary, G., Grun, D., Kaetzel, D. M., & Eckert, R. L. (2016). The Ezh2 polycomb group protein drives an aggressive phenotype in melanoma cancer stem cells and is a target of diet derived Sulforaphane. Molecular Carcinogenesis, 55(12), 2024–2036. http://doi.org/10.1002/mc.22448

Grun, D., Adhikary, G., & Eckert, R. L. (2016). VEGF-A acts via neuropilin-1 to enhance epidermal cancer stem cell survival and formation of aggressive and highly vascularized tumors. Oncogene, 35(33), 4379-4387. doi:10.1038/onc.2015.507

Stephen Pratt

Hernández-Ochoa, E. O., Pratt, S. J. P., Lovering, R. M., & Schneider, M. F. (2015). Critical role of intracellular RyR1 calcium release channels in skeletal muscle function and disease. Frontiers in Physiology, 6, 420. http://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2015.00420

Hernández-Ochoa, E. O., Pratt, S. J. P., Garcia-Pelagio, K. P., Schneider, M. F., & Lovering, R. M. (2015). Disruption of action potential and calcium signaling properties in malformed myofibers from dystrophin-deficient mice. Physiological Reports, 3(4), e12366. http://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.12366

Mázala, D. A. G., Pratt, S. J. P., Chen, D., Molkentin, J. D., Lovering, R. M., & Chin, E. R. (2015). SERCA1 overexpression minimizes skeletal muscle damage in dystrophic mouse models. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, 308(9), C699–C709. http://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00341.2014

Pratt, S. J. P., Valencia, A. P., Le, G. K., Shah, S. B., & Lovering, R. M. (2015). Pre- and postsynaptic changes in the neuromuscular junction in dystrophic mice. Frontiers in Physiology, 6, 252. http://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2015.00252

Pratt, S. J. P., Shah, S. B., Ward, C. W., Kerr, J. P., Stains, J. P., & Lovering, R. M. (2015). Recovery of altered neuromuscular junction morphology and muscle function in mdx mice after injury. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 72, 153–164. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-014-1663-7

Talaie, T., Pratt, S. J. P., Vanegas, C., Xu, S., Henn, R. F., Yarowsky, P., & Lovering, R. M. (2015). Site-specific targeting of platelet-rich plasma via superparamagnetic nanoparticles. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 3(1), 2325967114566185. http://doi.org/10.1177/2325967114566185

Valencia, A. P., Iyer, S. R., Pratt, S. J. P., Gilotra, M. N., & Lovering, R. M. (2016). A method to test contractility of the supraspinatus muscle in mouse, rat, and rabbit. Journal of Applied Physiology, 120(3), 310–317. http://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00788.2015

Xu, S., Shi, D., Pratt, S. J. P., Zhu, W., Marshall, A., & Lovering, R. M. (2015). Abnormalities in brain structure and biochemistry associated with mdx mice measured by in vivo MRI and high resolution localized 1H MRS. Neuromuscular Disorders: NMD, 25(10), 764–772. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmd.2015.07.003

Sarah Russell

Kyoung, M., Russell, S. J., Kohnhorst, C. L., Esemoto, N. N., & An, S. (2015). Dynamic architecture of the purinosome involved in human De Novo purine biosynthesis. Biochemistry, 54(3), 870-880. doi:10.1021/bi501480d

Wimmer, R. J., Russell, S. J., & Schneider, M. F. (2015). Green Tea component EGCG, Insulin and IGF-1 promote nuclear efflux of atrophy associated transcription factor Foxo1 in skeletal muscle fibers. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, 26(12), 1559–1567. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnutbio.2015.07.023

Sausan Jaber Taha

Jaber, S., & Polster, B. M. (2015). Idebenone and neuroprotection: Antioxidant, pro-oxidant, or electron carrier? Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes, 47(0), 111–118. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10863-014-9571-y

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Epidemiology & Human Genetics

Danielle Abraham

Berges, I. M., Amr, S., Abraham, D. S., Cannon, D. L., & Ostir, G. V. (2015). Associations between depressive symptoms and 30-day hospital readmission among older adults. Journal of Depression & Anxiety, 4(2), 185. http://doi.org/10.4172/2167-1044.1000185

Sonia Agrawal

Anton, B. P., Mongodin, E. F., Agrawal, S., Fomenkov, A., Byrd, D. R., Roberts, R. J., & Raleigh, E. A. (2015). Complete genome sequence of ER2796, a DNA Methyltransferase-deficient strain of Escherichia coli K-12. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0127446. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127446

Bessen, D. E., McShan, W. M., Nguyen, S. V., Shetty, A., Agrawal, S., & Tettelin, H. (2015). Molecular epidemiology and genomics of Group A Streptococcus. Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases, 33, 393–418. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2014.10.011

Chancey, S. T., Agrawal, S., Schroeder, M. R., Farley, M. M., Tettelin, H., & Stephens, D. S. (2015). Composite mobile genetic elements disseminating macrolide resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 26. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00026

Andrea Buchwald

Buchwald, A. G., Walldorf, J. A., Cohee, L. M., Coalson, J. E., Chimbiya, N., Bauleni, A., … Laufer, M. K. (2016). Bed net use among school-aged children after a universal bed net campaign in Malawi. Malaria Journal, 15, 127. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1178-9

Tapia, M. D., Sow, S. O., Tamboura, B., Tégueté, I., Pasetti, M. F., Kodio, M., … Levine, M. M. (2016). Maternal immunisation with trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine for prevention of influenza in infants in Mali: a prospective, active-controlled, observer-blind, randomised phase 4 trial. The Lancet. Infectious Diseases, 16(9), 1026–1035. http://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30054-8

Ilynn Bulatao

Giesbrandt, K. J., Bulatao, I. G., Keaveny, A. P., Nguyen, J. H., Paz-Fumagalli, R., & Taner, C. B. (2015). Radiologic characterization of ischemic cholangiopathy in donation-after-cardiac-death liver transplants and correlation with clinical outcomes. AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology, 205(5), 976–984. http://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.14.13383

Shana Burrowes

Burrowes, S., Sours, C., Meeker, T., Greenspan, J., Gullapalli, R., & Seminowicz, D. (2016). (339) Cerebral grey matter changes associated with posttraumatic headache in mild traumatic brain injury patients: a longitudinal MRI study. The Journal of Pain, 17(4S), S60. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2016.01.246

Stine, O. C., Burrowes, S., David, S., Johnson, J. K., & Roghmann, M. (2016). Transmission clusters of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in long-Term care facilities based on whole-genome sequencing. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 37(06), 685-691. doi:10.1017/ice.2016.41

Benjamin Emmanuel

Charurat, M., Emmanuel, B., Akolo, C., Keshinro, B., Nowak, R., Kennedy, S., … Blattner, W. (2015). Uptake of treatment as prevention for HIV and continuum of care among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in Nigeria. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999), 68(Suppl 2), S114–S123. http://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000000439

Kattakuzhy, S., Wilson, E., Sidharthan, S., Sims, Z., McLaughlin, M., Price, A., … Kottilil, S. (2016). Moderate sustained virologic response rates with 6-week combination directly acting anti–Hepatitis C virus therapy in patients with advanced liver disease. Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 62(4), 440–447. http://doi.org/10.1093/cid/civ897

Kohli, A., Kattakuzhy, S., Sidharthan, S., Nelson, A., Mclaughlin, M., Seamon, C., . . . Kottilil, S. (2015). Four-week direct-acting antiviral regimens in noncirrhotic patients with Hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection. Annals of Internal Medicine, 163(12), 899-907. doi:10.7326/m15-0642

Anthony Herrera

Bruns, B. R., Tesoriero, R. B., Narayan, M., Oʼmeara, L., Lauerman, M. H., Eaton, B., . . . Diaz, J. J. (2016). Acute care surgery and emergency general surgery: Addition by subtraction. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 81(1), 131-136. doi:10.1097/ta.0000000000001016

Mazzeffi, M., Lund, L., Wallace, K., Herrera, A.V., Tanaka, K., Odonkor, P.,…Fiskum, G. (2016). Effect of cardiopulmonary bypass on platelet mitochondrial respiration and correlation with aggregation and bleeding: a pilot study. Perfusion, 31(6), 508-515. doi:10.1177/0267659116634830.

Peng, Z., Pati, S., Fontaine, M. J., Hall, K., Herrera, A. V., & Kozar, R. A. (2016). Lack of species-specific difference in pulmonary function when using mouse versus human plasma in a mouse model of hemorrhagic shock. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 81. doi:10.1097/ta.0000000000001221

Elizabeth Humphries

Li, L. L., Liu, N., Humphries, E. M., Yu, J. M., Li, S., Lindsay, B. R., … Duan, Z. J. (2016). Aetiology of diarrhoeal disease and evaluation of viral–bacterial coinfection in children under 5 years old in China: a matched case–control study. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 22(4), 381.e9–381.e16. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2015.12.018

Miriam Ismail

Graham, S.E., Zhang, L., Ali, I., Cho, Y.K., Ismail, M.D., Carlson, H.A., & Foxman, B. (2016). Prevalence of CTX-M extended-spectrum beta-lactamases and sequence type 131 in Korean blood, urine, and rectal Escherichia coli isolates. Infection, Genetics, and Evolution, 41, 292-295. doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2016.04.020.

Ismail, M. D., Luo, T., Mcnamara, S., Lansing, B., Koo, E., Mody, L., & Foxman, B. (2016). Long-term carriage of ciprofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli isolates in high-risk nursing home residents. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 37(04), 440-447. doi:10.1017/ice.2015.326

Sarah Jackson

Harris, A. D., Jackson, S. S., Robinson, G., Pineles, L., Leekha, S., Thom, K. A., … Johnson, J. K. (2016). Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization in the ICU: Prevalence, risk factors and clinical outcomes. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 37(5), 544–548. http://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2015.346

Jackson, S. S., & Chen, W. H. (2015). Evidence for CVD 103-HgR as an effective single-dose oral cholera vaccine. Future Microbiology, 10(8), 1271-1281. doi:10.2217/fmb.15.51

Jackson, S. S., George, D. M., Loffredo, C. A., & Amr, S. (2016). Nonoccupational exposure to agricultural work and risk of urinary bladder cancer among Egyptian women. Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 72(3), 166-172. doi:10.1080/19338244.2016.1169155

Thomas Jaworek

Hufnagel, R.B., Arno, G., Hein, N.D., Hersheson, J., Prasad, M., Anderson, Y.,…Ahmed, Z.M. (2015). Neuropathy target esterase impairments cause Oliver-McFarlane and Laurence-Moon syndromes. Journal of Medical Genetics, 52(2), 85-94. doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2014-102856.

Nyaradzo Longinaker

Martin, C. E., Longinaker, N., Mark, K., Chisolm, M. S., & Terplan, M. (2015). Recent trends in treatment admissions for marijuana use during pregnancy. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 9(2), 99-104. doi:10.1097/adm.0000000000000095

Martin, C. E., Longinaker, N., & Terplan, M. (2015). Recent trends in treatment admissions for prescription opioid abuse during pregnancy. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 48(1), 37–42. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2014.07.007

Terplan, M., Longinaker, N., & Appel, L. (2015). Women-centered drug treatment services and need in the United States, 2002–2009. American Journal of Public Health, 105(11), e50–e54. http://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302821

Terplan, M., Ramanadhan, S., Locke, A., Longinaker, N., & Lui, S. (2015). Psychosocial interventions for pregnant women in outpatient illicit drug treatment programs compared to other interventions. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (4), CD006037. Advance online publication. http://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006037.pub3

Lindsay Morningstar-Wright

Booth, J. S., Salerno-Goncalves, R., Blanchard, T. G., Patil, S. A., Kader, H. A., Safta, A. M., … Sztein, M. B. (2015). Mucosal-associated invariant T cells in the human gastric mucosa and blood: Role in Helicobacter pylori infection. Frontiers in Immunology, 6, 466. http://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2015.00466

Lindsay Morton

Bushman, M., Morton, L., Duah, N., Quashie, N., Abuaku, B., Koram, K. A., … Udhayakumar, V. (2016). Within-host competition and drug resistance in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1826), 20153038. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.3038

Hott, A., Casandra, D., Sparks, K. N., Morton, L. C., Castanares, G.-G., Rutter, A., & Kyle, D. E. (2015). Artemisinin-resistant plasmodium falciparum parasites exhibit altered patterns of development in infected erythrocytes. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 59(6), 3156–3167. http://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00197-15

Morton, L. C., Huber, C., Chang, M. A., Okoth, S. A., Udhayakumar, V., Griffing, S., . . . Townes, D. (2016). Plasmodium falciparum drug-resistant haplotypes and population structure in post-earthquake Haiti, 2010. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 95(4), 811-816. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.16-0214

Plucinski, M. M., Morton, L., Bushman, M., Dimbu, P. R., & Udhayakumar, V. (2015). Robust algorithm for systematic classification of malaria late treatment failures as recrudescence or reinfection using microsatellite genotyping. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 59(10), 6096–6100. http://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00072-15

Plucinski, M. M., Talundzic, E., Morton, L., Dimbu, P. R., Macaia, A. P., Fortes, F., … Udhayakumar, V. (2015). Efficacy of Artemether-Lumefantrine and Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in children in Zaire and Uíge Provinces, Angola. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 59(1), 437–443. http://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.04181-14

Salihu, H.M., Das, R., Morton, L., Huang, H., Paothong, A., Wilson, R.E., …Marty, P.J. (2016). Racial differences in DNA-Methylation of CpG sites within preterm-promoting genes and gene variants. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 20(8), 1680-1687. doi:10.1007/s10995-016-1967-3.

Talundzic, E., Okoth, S. A., Congpuong, K., Plucinski, M. M., Morton, L., Goldman, I. F., … Udhayakumar, V. (2015). Selection and spread of Artemisinin-Resistant alleles in Thailand prior to the global Artemisinin Resistance Containment Campaign. PLoS Pathogens, 11(4), e1004789. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004789

Talundzic, E., Okoth, S. A., Congpuong, K., Plucinski, M. M., Morton, L., Goldman, I. F., … Udhayakumar, V. (2015). Correction: Selection and spread of Artemisinin-Resistant alleles in Thailand Prior to the global Artemisinin Resistance Containment Campaign. PLoS Pathogens, 11(4), e1004862. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004862

Anne-Michelle Noone

Kohler, B. A., Sherman, R. L., Howlader, N., Jemal, A., Ryerson, A. B., Henry, K. A., … Penberthy, L. (2015). Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2011, featuring incidence of breast cancer subtypes by race/ethnicity, poverty, and state. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 107(6), djv048. http://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djv048

Amol Shetty

Bessen, D. E., McShan, W. M., Nguyen, S. V., Shetty, A., Agrawal, S., & Tettelin, H. (2015). Molecular epidemiology and genomics of Group A Streptococcus. Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases, 33, 393–418. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2014.10.011

Bruno, V. M., Shetty, A. C., Yano, J., Fidel, P. L., Noverr, M. C., & Peters, B. M. (2015). Transcriptomic analysis of Vulvovaginal Candidiasis identifies a role for the NLRP3 Inflammasome. mBio, 6(2), e00182–15. http://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00182-15

Castillo, J. C., Creasy, T., Kumari, P., Shetty, A., Shokal, U., Tallon, L. J., & Eleftherianos, I. (2015). Drosophila anti-nematode and antibacterial immune regulators revealed by RNA-Seq. BMC Genomics, 16(1), 519. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1690-2

Chibucos, M. C., Soliman, S., Gebremariam, T., Lee, H., Daugherty, S., Orvis, J., … Bruno, V. M. (2016). An integrated genomic and transcriptomic survey of mucormycosis-causing fungi. Nature Communications, 7, 12218. http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12218

Dumler, J. S., Sinclair, S. H., Pappas-Brown, V., & Shetty, A. C. (2016). Genome-wide Anaplasma phagocytophilum AnkA-DNA interactions are enriched in intergenic regions and gene promoters and correlate with infection-induced differential gene expression. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 6, 97. http://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00097

Gao, L., Ma, J., Mannoor, K., Guarnera, M. A., Shetty, A., Zhan, M., . . . Jiang, F. (2014). Genome-wide small nucleolar RNA expression analysis of lung cancer by next-generation deep sequencing. International Journal of Cancer, 136(6), E623-629. doi:10.1002/ijc.29169

Hazen, T. H., Daugherty, S. C., Shetty, A., Mahurkar, A. A., White, O., Kaper, J. B., & Rasko, D. A. (2015). RNA-Seq analysis of isolate- and growth phase-specific differences in the global transcriptomes of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli prototype isolates. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 569. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00569

Kessler, M. D., Yerges-Armstrong, L., Taub, M. A., Shetty, A. C., Maloney, K., Jeng, L. J. B., … O’Connor, T. D. (2016). Challenges and disparities in the application of personalized genomic medicine to populations with African ancestry. Nature Communications, 7, 12521. http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12521

Liu, Y., Shetty, A. C., Schwartz, J. A., Bradford, L. L., Xu, W., Phan, Q. T., … Bruno, V. M. (2015). New signaling pathways govern the host response to C. albicans infection in various niches. Genome Research, 25(5), 679–689. http://doi.org/10.1101/gr.187427.114

Mei, Y., Wang, Y., Kumari, P., Shetty, A. C., Clark, D., Gable, T., … Mao, L. (2015). A piRNA-like small RNA interacts with and modulates p-ERM proteins in human somatic cells. Nature Communications, 6, 7316. http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8316

Nugent, B. M., Wright, C. L., Shetty, A. C., Hodes, G. E., Lenz, K. M., Mahurkar, A., … McCarthy, M. M. (2015). Brain feminization requires active repression of masculinization via DNA methylation. Nature Neuroscience, 18(5), 690–697. http://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3988

Reho, J. J., Shetty, A., Dippold, R. P., Mahurkar, A., & Fisher, S. A. (2015). Unique gene program of rat small resistance mesenteric arteries as revealed by deep RNA sequencing. Physiological Reports, 3(7), e12450. http://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.12450

Emily Stucke

Ben Baruch-Morgenstern, N., Mingler, M.K., Stucke, E., Besse, J.A., Wen, T., Reichman, H., Munitz, A., & Rotherberg, M.E. (2016). Paired Ig-like receptor B inhibits IL-13-driven eosinophil accumulation and activation in the esophagus. The Journal of Immunology, 197(3), 707-714. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1501873.

Davis, B. P., Stucke, E. M., Khorki, M. E., Litosh, V. A., Rymer, J. K., Rochman, M., … Rothenberg, M. E. (2016). Eosinophilic esophagitis–linked calpain 14 is an IL-13–induced protease that mediates esophageal epithelial barrier impairment. JCI Insight, 1(4), e86355. http://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.86355

Morris, D. W., Stucke, E. M., Martin, L. J., Abonia, J. P., Mukkada, V. A., Putnam, P. E., . . . Fulkerson, P. C. (2016). Eosinophil progenitor levels are increased in patients with active pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 138(3), 915-918.e5. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2016.03.027

Rochman, M., Kartashov, A. V., Caldwell, J. M., Collins, M. H., Stucke, E. M., Kc, K., … Rothenberg, M. E. (2015). Neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor 1 is a direct transcriptional and epigenetic target of IL-13 involved in allergic inflammation. Mucosal Immunology, 8(4), 785–798. http://doi.org/10.1038/mi.2014.109

Stucke, E. M., Clarridge, K. E., Collins, M. H., Henderson, C. J., Martin, L. J., & Rothenberg, M. E. (2015). The value of an additional review for eosinophil quantification in esophageal Biopsies. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 61(1), 65–68. http://doi.org/10.1097/MPG.0000000000000740

Doris Yimgang

Fantry, L. E., Nowak, R. G., Fisher, L. H., Cullen, N. R., Yimgang, D. P., Stafford, K. A., . . . Charurat, M. E. (2016). Colonoscopy findings in HIV-infected men and women from an urban U.S. cohort compared with non-HIV-infected men and women. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 32(9), 860-867. doi:10.1089/aid.2015.0322

Yimgang, D. P., Albury, R. A., & Leppert, M. L. (2017). Do parental concerns predict developmental and behavioral diagnoses in a developmental clinic? Clinical Pediatrics, 56(3), 263-267. doi:10.1177/0009922816648289

Yimgang, D. P., Brizola, E., & Shapiro, J. R. (2016). Health outcomes of neonates with osteogenesis imperfecta: a cross-sectional study. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 29(23), 3889-3893. doi:10.3109/14767058.2016.1151870

Yimgang, D.P., & Shaprio, J.R. (2016). Pregnancy outcomes in women with osteogenesis imperfecta. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 29(14), 2358-2362. doi:10.3109/14767058.2015.1085965.

Haichen Zhang

Wan, Q., Dingerdissen, H., Fan, Y., Gulzar, N., Pan, Y., Wu, T.-J., … Mazumder, R. (2015). BioXpress: An integrated RNA-seq-derived gene expression database for pan-cancer analysis. Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, 2015, bav019. http://doi.org/10.1093/database/bav019

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Molecular Medicine

Dianaly Au

Lillis, A. P., Muratoglu, S. C., Au, D. T., Migliorini, M., Lee, M.-J., Fried, S. K., … Strickland, D. K. (2015). LDL Receptor-Related Protein-1 (LRP1) regulates cholesterol accumulation in macrophages. PLoS ONE, 10(6), e0128903. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128903

Haikel Bogale

Sun, Y., Verma, S. C., Bogale, H., & Miyashiro, T. (2015). NagC represses N-acetyl-glucosamine utilization genes in Vibrio fischeri within the light organ of Euprymna scolopes. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 741. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00741

Atum Buo

Buo, A. M., Williams, M. S., Kerr, J. P., & Stains, J. P. (2016). A cost-effective method to enhance adenoviral transduction of primary murine osteoblasts and bone marrow stromal cells. Bone Research, 4, 16021–. http://doi.org/10.1038/boneres.2016.21

Gupta, A., Anderson, H., Buo, A. M., Moorer, M. C., Ren, M., & Stains, J. P. (2016). Communication of cAMP by connexin43 gap junctions regulates osteoblast signaling and gene expression. Cellular Signalling, 28(8), 1048-1057. doi:10.1016/j.cellsig.2016.04.014

Moorer, M.C., Buo, A.M., Garcia-Pelagio, K.P., Stains, J.P., & Bloch, R.J. (2016). Deficiency of the intermediate filament synemin reduces bone mass in vivo. American Journal of Physiology, 311(6), C839-C845. Doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00218.2016

Nelson Chuang

Scott, E. C., Gardner, E. J., Masood, A., Chuang, N. T., Vertino, P. M., & Devine, S. E. (2016). A hot L1 retrotransposon evades somatic repression and initiates human colorectal cancer. Genome Research, 26(6), 745–755. http://doi.org/10.1101/gr.201814.115

Gregory Conway

Driesbaugh, K. H., Buzza, M. S., Martin, E. W., Conway, G. D., Kao, J. P. Y., & Antalis, T. M. (2015). Proteolytic activation of the Protease-activated Receptor (PAR)-2 by the Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored Serine Protease Testisin. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290(6), 3529–3541. http://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M114.628560

William Fondrie

Clark, D. J., Fondrie, W. E., Liao, Z., Hanson, P. I., Fulton, A., Mao, L., & Yang, A. J. (2015). Redefining the breast cancer Exosome proteome by tandem mass tag quantitative proteomics and multivariate cluster analysis. Analytical Chemistry, 87(20), 10462-10469. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02586

Clark, D. J., Fondrie, W. E., Yang, A., & Mao, L. (2016). Triple SILAC quantitative proteomic analysis reveals differential abundance of cell signaling proteins between normal and lung cancer-derived exosomes. Journal of Proteomics, 133, 161-169. doi:10.1016/j.jprot.2015.12.023

Marie Hanscom

He, X., Lakkaraju, S. K., Hanscom, M., Zhao, Z., Wu, J., Stoica, B., … Xue, F. (2015). Acyl-2-aminobenzimidazoles: A novel class of neuroprotective agents targeting mGluR5. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 23(9), 2211–2220. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2015.02.054

Lakkaraju, S. K., Mbatia, H., Hanscom, M., Zhao, Z., Wu, J., Stoica, B., … Xue, F. (2015). Cyclopropyl-containing positive allosteric modulators of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 25(11), 2275–2279. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.04.042

Skovira, J. W., Wu, J., Matyas, J. J., Kumar, A., Hanscom, M., Kabadi, S. V., … Faden, A. I. (2016). Cell cycle inhibition reduces inflammatory responses, neuronal loss, and cognitive deficits induced by hypobaria exposure following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 13, 299. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-016-0769-2

Waddell, J., Hanscom, M., Edwards, N. S., McKenna, M. C., & McCarthy, M. M. (2016). Sex differences in cell genesis, hippocampal volume and behavioral outcomes in a rat model of neonatal HI. Experimental Neurology, 275(0 2), 285–295. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2015.09.003

Timothy Hostelley

Hostelley, T. L., Lodh, S., & Zaghloul, N. A. (2016). Whole organism transcriptome analysis of zebrafish models of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome and Alström Syndrome provides mechanistic insight into shared and divergent phenotypes. BMC Genomics, 17, 318. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2679-1

Lodh, S., Hostelley, T. L., Leitch, C. C., O’Hare, E. A., & Zaghloul, N. A. (2016). Differential effects on β-cell mass by disruption of Bardet–Biedl syndrome or Alstrom syndrome genes. Human Molecular Genetics, 25(1), 57–68. http://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddv447

Michael Kessler

Kessler, M. D., Yerges-Armstrong, L., Taub, M. A., Shetty, A. C., Maloney, K., Jeng, L. J. B., … O’Connor, T. D. (2016). Challenges and disparities in the application of personalized genomic medicine to populations with African ancestry. Nature Communications, 7, 12521. http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12521

Katherine Kight

McCarthy, M. M., Pickett, L. A., VanRyzin, J. W., & Kight, K. E. (2015). Surprising origins of sex differences in the brain. Hormones and Behavior, 76, 3–10. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.04.013

Jeffrey Kleinberger

Chen, H., Kleinberger, J. W., Takane, K. K., Salim, F., Fiaschi-Taesch, N., Pappas, K., … Stewart, A. F. (2015). Augmented Stat5 signaling bypasses multiple impediments to Lactogen-mediated proliferation in human β-Cells. Diabetes, 64(11), 3784–3797. http://doi.org/10.2337/db15-0083

Kleinberger, J. W., Maloney, K. A., & Pollin, T. I. (2016). The genetic architecture of diabetes in pregnancy: Implications for clinical practice. American Journal of Perinatology, 33(13), 1319–1326. http://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1592078

Kleinberger, J. W., & Pollin, T. I. (2015). Personalized medicine in diabetes mellitus: current opportunities and future prospects. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1346(1), 45–56. http://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12757

Eric Legenzov

Burks, S. R., Legenzov, E. A., Martin, E. W., Li, C., Lu, W., & Kao, J. P. Y. (2015). Co-Encapsulating the Fusogenic Peptide INF7 and molecular imaging probes in liposomes increases intracellular signal and probe retention. PLoS ONE, 10(3), e0120982. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120982

Legenzov, E. A., Dirda, N. D. A., Hagen, B. M., & Kao, J. P. Y. (2015). Synthesis and characterization of 8-O-Carboxymethylpyranine (CM-Pyranine) as a bright, violet-emitting, fluid-phase fluorescent marker in cell biology. PLoS ONE, 10(7), e0133518. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133518

Lena McLaughlin

Muzi, M., Peterson, L. M., O’Sullivan, J. N., Fink, J. R., Rajendran, J. G., McLaughlin, L. J., … Krohn, K. A. (2015). [F-18]-Fluoromisonidazole quantification of hypoxia in human cancer patients using image-derived blood surrogate tissue reference regions. Journal of Nuclear Medicine: Official Publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 56(8), 1223–1228. http://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.115.158717

Megan Moorer

Gupta, A., Anderson, H., Buo, A. M., Moorer, M. C., Ren, M., & Stains, J. P. (2016). Communication of cAMP by connexin43 gap junctions regulates osteoblast signaling and gene expression. Cellular Signalling, 28(8), 1048-1057. doi:10.1016/j.cellsig.2016.04.014

Moorer, M.C., Buo, A.M., Garcia-Pelagio, K.P., Stains, J.P., & Bloch, R.J. (2016). Deficiency of the intermediate filament synemin reduces bone mass in vivo. American Journal of Physiology, 311(6), C839-C845. Doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00218.2016

Nisha Pawar

Robert, C., Nagaria, P. K., Pawar, N., Adewuyi, A., Gojo, I., Meyers, D. J., … Rassool, F. V. (2016). Histone deacetylase inhibitors decrease NHEJ both by acetylation of repair factors and trapping of PARP1 at DNA double-strand breaks in chromatin. Leukemia Research, 45, 14–23. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.leukres.2016.03.007

Jimena Perez-Bermudez

Cheng, H., Fertig, E. J., Ozawa, H., Hatakeyama, H., Howard, J. D., Perez, J., … Chung, C. H. (2015). Decreased SMAD4 expression is associated with induction of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and cetuximab resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Biology & Therapy, 16(8), 1252–1258. http://doi.org/10.1080/15384047.2015.1056418

Perez, J. G., Tran, N. L., Rosenblum, M. G., Schneider, C. S., Connolly, N. P., Kim, A. J., … Winkles, J. A. (2016). The TWEAK receptor Fn14 is a potential cell surface portal for targeted delivery of glioblastoma therapeutics. Oncogene, 35(17), 2145–2155. http://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2015.310

Schneider, C. S., Perez, J. G., Cheng, E., Zhang, C., Mastorakos, P., Hanes, J., … Kim, A. J. (2015). Minimizing the non-specific binding of nanoparticles to the brain enables active targeting of Fn14-positive glioblastoma cells. Biomaterials, 42, 42–51. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.11.054

Raymond Peroutka

Mazan-Mamczarz, K., Peroutka, R. J., Steinhardt, J. J., Gidoni, M., Zhang, Y., Lehrmann, E., … Gartenhaus, R. B. (2015). Distinct inhibitory effects on mTOR signaling by ethanol and INK128 in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Cell Communication and Signaling : CCS, 13, 15. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12964-015-0091-0

Emma Scott

Scott, E. C., Gardner, E. J., Masood, A., Chuang, N. T., Vertino, P. M., & Devine, S. E. (2016). A hot L1 retrotransposon evades somatic repression and initiates human colorectal cancer. Genome Research, 26(6), 745–755. http://doi.org/10.1101/gr.201814.115

Zalak Shah

Mullegama, S. V., Pugliesi, L., Burns, B., Shah, Z., Tahir, R., Gu, Y., … Elsea, S. H. (2015). MBD5 haploinsufficiency is associated with sleep disturbance and disrupts circadian pathways common to Smith–Magenis and fragile X syndromes. European Journal of Human Genetics, 23(6), 781–789. http://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2014.200

Camilo Vanegas

Hernández-Ochoa, E. O., & Vanegas, C. (2015). Diabetic myopathy and mechanisms of disease. Biochemistry & Pharmacology : Open Access, 4(5), e179. http://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0501.1000e179

Hernández-Ochoa, E. O., Vanegas, C., Iyer, S. R., Lovering, R. M., & Schneider, M. F. (2015). Alternating bipolar field stimulation identifies muscle fibers with defective excitability but maintained local Ca2+ signals and contraction. Skeletal Muscle, 6, 6. http://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-016-0076-8

Talaie, T., Pratt, S. J. P., Vanegas, C., Xu, S., Henn, R. F., Yarowsky, P., & Lovering, R. M. (2015). Site-specific targeting of platelet-rich plasma via superparamagnetic nanoparticles. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 3(1), 2325967114566185. http://doi.org/10.1177/2325967114566185

Tonya Watkins

Eghrari, A. O., Gibas, C., Watkins, T., Vahedi, S., Lee, R., Houle, E., … Zhang, S. X. (2015). First human case of fungal keratitis caused by a putatively novel species of Lophotrichus. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 53(9), 3063–3067. http://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00471-15

Andrew Wescott

Wescott, A. P., Jafri, M. S., Lederer, W. J., & Williams, G. S. B. (2016). Ryanodine receptor sensitivity governs the stability and synchrony of local calcium release during cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 92, 82–92. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjmcc.2016.01.024

Benjamin Wolfson

Duru, N., Gernapudi, R., Zhang, Y., Yao, Y., Lo, P.-K., Wolfson, B., & Zhou, Q. (2015). NRF2/miR-140 signaling confers radioprotection to human lung fibroblasts. Cancer Letters, 369(1), 184–191. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2015.08.011

Eades, G., Wolfson, B., Zhang, Y., Li, Q., Yao, Y., & Zhou, Q. (2015). lincRNA-RoR and miR-145 regulate invasion in triple-negative breast cancer via targeting ARF6. Molecular Cancer Research: MCR, 13(2), 330–338. http://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-14-0251

Gernapudi, R., Wolfson, B., Zhang, Y., Yao, Y., Yang, P., Asahara, H., & Zhou, Q. (2016). MicroRNA 140 promotes expression of long noncoding RNA NEAT1 in adipogenesis. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 36(1), 30–38. http://doi.org/10.1128/MCB.00702-15

Gernapudi, R., Yao, Y., Zhang, Y., Wolfson, B., Roy, S., Duru, N., … Zhou, Q. (2015). Targeting exosomes from preadipocytes inhibits preadipocyte to cancer stem cell signaling in early-stage breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 150(3), 685–695. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-015-3326-2

Lo, P.-K., Wolfson, B., Zhou, X., Duru, N., Gernapudi, R., & Zhou, Q. (2016). Noncoding RNAs in breast cancer. Briefings in Functional Genomics, 15(3), 200–221. http://doi.org/10.1093/bfgp/elv055

Wolfson, B., Eades, G., & Zhou, Q. (2015). Adipocyte activation of cancer stem cell signaling in breast cancer. World Journal of Biological Chemistry, 6(2), 39–47. http://doi.org/10.4331/wjbc.v6.i2.39

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Molecular Microbiology & Immunology

Jeremy Ardanuy

Prindeze, N. J., Hoffman, H. A., Ardanuy, J. G., Zhang, J., Carney, B. C., Moffatt, L. T., & Shupp, J. W. (2016). Active dynamic thermography is a sensitive method for distinguishing burn wound conversion. Journal of Burn Care & Research, 37(6), E559-E568. doi:10.1097/bcr.0000000000000296

Kevin Chen

Yu, H., Chen, K., Wu, J., Yang, Z., Shi, L., Barlow, L. L., … Feng, H. (2015). Identification of toxemia in patients with Clostridium difficile infection. PLoS ONE, 10(4), e0124235. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124235

Matthew Chung

Giovannelli, D., Chung, M., Staley, J., Vetriani, C., Starovoytov, V., & Bris, N. L. (2016). Sulfurovum riftiae sp. nov., a mesophilic, thiosulfate-oxidizing, nitrate-reducing chemolithoautotrophic epsilonproteobacterium isolated from the tube of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete Riftia pachyptila. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 66(7), 2697-2701. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001106

Steven Dudics

Meka, R. R., Venkatesha, S. H., Dudics, S., Acharya, B., & Moudgil, K. D. (2015). IL-27-induced modulation of autoimmunity and its therapeutic potential. Autoimmunity Reviews, 14(12), 1131–1141. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.autrev.2015.08.001

Venkatesha, S. H., Dudics, S., Acharya, B., & Moudgil, K. D. (2015). Cytokine-modulating strategies and newer cytokine targets for arthritis therapy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 16(1), 887–906. http://doi.org/10.3390/ijms16010887

Venkatesha, S., Dudics, S., Weingartner, E., So, E., Pedra, J., & Moudgil, K. (2015). Altered Th17/Treg balance and dysregulated IL-1β response influence susceptibility/resistance to experimental autoimmune arthritis. International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology, 28(3), 318-328. doi:10.1177/0394632015595757

Kelsey Gregg

Chin, C.-Y., Gregg, K. A., Napier, B. A., Ernst, R. K., & Weiss, D. S. (2015). A PmrB-regulated deacetylase required for Lipid A modification and polymyxin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 59(12), 7911–7914. http://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00515-15

Mark Guillotte

Rennoll-Bankert, K. E., Rahman, M. S., Gillespie, J. J., Guillotte, M. L., Kaur, S. J., Lehman, S. S., … Azad, A. F. (2015). Which way in? The RalF Arf-GEF orchestrates Rickettsia host cell invasion. PLoS Pathogens, 11(8), e1005115. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005115

Molly Hritzo

Brinkman, C. C., Iwami, D., Hritzo, M. K., Xiong, Y., Ahmad, S., Simon, T., . . . Bromberg, J. S. (2016). Treg engage lymphotoxin beta receptor for afferent lymphatic transendothelial migration. Nature Communications, 7, 12021. doi:10.1038/ncomms12021

Eric Kong

Khan, S. A., Kong, E. F., Meiller, T. F., & Jabra-Rizk, M. A. (2015). Periodontal diseases: Bug induced, host promoted. PLoS Pathogens, 11(7), e1004952. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004952

Kong, E. F., Kucharíková, S., Van Dijck, P., Peters, B. M., Shirtliff, M. E., & Jabra-Rizk, M. A. (2015). Clinical implications of oral candidiasis: Host tissue damage and disseminated bacterial disease. Infection and Immunity, 83(2), 604–613. http://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.02843-14

Kong, E. F., Tsui, C., Boyce, H., Ibrahim, A., Hoag, S. W., Karlsson, A. J., … Jabra-Rizk, M. A. (2016). Development and In Vivo evaluation of a novel Histatin-5 Bioadhesive Hydrogel formulation against oral candidiasis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 60(2), 881–889. http://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.02624-15

Tsui, C., Kong, E.F., & Jabra-Rizk, M. (2016). Pathogenesis of Candida albicans biofilm. Pathogens and Disease, 74(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/femspd/ftw018

Jackline Joy Lasola

Falade-Nwulia, O., Irvin, R., McAdams-Mahmoud, A., Mehta, S. H., Niculescu, A., Lasola, J., … Thomas, D. (2016). Senior center-based Hepatitis C screening in Baltimore. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 3(1), ofv217. http://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv217

Falade-Nwulia, O., Mehta, S. H., Lasola, J., Latkin, C., Niculescu, A., O’Connor, C., … Thomas, D. L. (2016). Public health clinic based Hepatitis C testing and linkage to care in Baltimore. Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 23(5), 366–374. http://doi.org/10.1111/jvh.12507

Stephanie Lehman

Gillespie, J. J., Phan, I. Q. H., Scheib, H., Subramanian, S., Edwards, T. E., Lehman, S. S., … Pulliainen, A. T. (2015). Structural insight into how bacteria prevent interference between multiple divergent type IV secretion systems. mBio, 6(6), e01867–15. http://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01867-15

Rennoll-Bankert, K. E., Rahman, M. S., Gillespie, J. J., Guillotte, M. L., Kaur, S. J., Lehman, S. S., … Azad, A. F. (2015). Which way in? The RalF Arf-GEF orchestrates Rickettsia host cell invasion. PLoS Pathogens, 11(8), e1005115. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005115

Erin McClure

Pavlov, V. I., Tan, Y. S., McClure, E. E., La Bonte, L. R., Zou, C., Gorsuch, W. B., & Stahl, G. L. (2015). Human mannose-binding lectin inhibitor prevents myocardial injury and arterial thrombogenesis in a novel animal model. The American Journal of Pathology, 185(2), 347–355. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2014.10.015

Ulrich, N., Rosenberger, A., Brislawn, C., Wright, J., Kessler, C., Toole, D., … Lamendella, R. (2016). Restructuring of the aquatic bacterial community by hydric dynamics associated with Superstorm Sandy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(12), 3525–3536. http://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00520-16

Edward So

Chen, S., So, E. C., Strome, S. E., & Zhang, X. (2015). Impact of detachment methods on M2 macrophage phenotype and function. Journal of Immunological Methods, 426, 56-61. doi:10.1016/j.jim.2015.08.001

Zhang, X., Olsen, H. S., Chen, S., So, E., Zhou, H., Burch, E., . . . Strome, S. E. (2015). Anti-CD20 antibody with multimerized Fc domains: A novel strategy to deplete B cells and augment treatment of autoimmune disease. The Journal of Immunology, 196(3), 1165-1176. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1501755

Elizabeth Weingartner

Venkatesha, S., Dudics, S., Weingartner, E., So, E., Pedra, J., & Moudgil, K. (2015). Altered Th17/Treg balance and dysregulated IL-1β response influence susceptibility/resistance to experimental autoimmune arthritis. International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology, 28(3), 318-328. doi:10.1177/0394632015595757

Neuroscience

Jamila Asgar

Asgar, J., Zhang, Y., Saloman, J. L., Wang, S., Chung, M.-K., & Ro, J. Y. (2015). The role of TRPA1 in muscle pain and mechanical hypersensitivity under inflammatory conditions in rats. Neuroscience, 310, 206–215. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.09.042

Chung, M.-K., Asgar, J., Lee, J., Shim, M. S., Dumler, C., & Ro, J. Y. (2015). The role of TRPM2 in hydrogen peroxide-induced expression of inflammatory cytokine and chemokine in rat trigeminal ganglia. Neuroscience, 297, 160–169. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.03.067

Lee, K. S., Zhang, Y., Asgar, J., Auh, Q.S., Chung, M.K., & Ro, J. Y. (2016). Androgonen eceptor transcriptionally regulates μ-opioid receptor expression in rat trigeminal ganglia. Neuroscience, 331, 52–61. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.06.023

Kara Cover

Maeng, L. Y., Cover, K. K., Landau, A. J., Milad, M. R., & Lebron-Milad, K. (2015). Protocol for studying extinction of conditioned fear in naturally cycling female rats. Journal of Visualized Experiments: JoVE, (96), 10.3791/52202. Advance online publication. http://doi.org/10.3791/52202

John Joseph

Chung, M.-K., Lee, J., Joseph, J., Saloman, J., & Ro, J. Y. (2015). Peripheral Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor activation leads to muscle mechanical hyperalgesia through TRPV1 phosphorylation in the rat. The Journal of Pain: Official Journal of the American Pain Society, 16(1), 67–76. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2014.10.008

Wang, S., Joseph, J., Diatchenko, L., Ro, J. Y., & Chung, M. (2016). Agonist-dependence of functional properties for common nonsynonymous variants of human transient receptor potential vanilloid 1. Pain, 157(7), 1515-1524. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000556

Wang, S., Joseph, J., Ro, J. Y., & Chung, M.-K. (2015). Modality-specific mechanisms of PKC-induced hypersensitivity of TRPV1: S800 is a polymodal sensitization site. Pain, 156(5), 931–941. http://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000134

Nina Klimova

Katorcha, E., Klimova, N., Makarava, N., Savtchenko, R., Pan, X., Annunziata, I., … Baskakov, I. V. (2015). Loss of cellular sialidases does not affect the sialylation status of the prion protein but increases the amounts of its proteolytic fragment C1. PLoS ONE, 10(11), e0143218. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143218

Klimova, N., Makarava, N., & Baskakov, I. V. (2015). The diversity and relationship of prion protein self-replicating states. Virus Research, 207, 113–119. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2014.10.002

Elise Ma

Rhee, S. H., Ma, E. L., Lee, Y., Taché, Y., Pothoulakis, C., & Im, E. (2015). Corticotropin releasing hormone and Urocortin 3 stimulate vascular endothelial growth factor expression through the cAMP/CREB pathway. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290(43), 26194–26203. http://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M115.678979

Sarah Metzbower

De Arce, K. P., Schrod, N., Metzbower, S. W. R., Allgeyer, E., Kong, G. K.-W., Tang, A., … Biederer, T. (2015). Topographic mapping of the synaptic cleft into adhesive nanodomains. Neuron, 88(6), 1165–1172. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.11.011

Tang, A.-H., Chen, H., Li, T. P., Metzbower, S. R., MacGillavry, H. D., & Blanpied, T. A. (2016). A transsynaptic nanocolumn aligns neurotransmitter release to receptors. Nature, 536(7615), 210–214. http://doi.org/10.1038/nature19058

Mary Patton

Patton, M. H., Roberts, B. M., Lovinger, D. M., & Mathur, B. N. (2016). Ethanol disinhibits dorsolateral striatal medium spiny neurons through activation of a presynaptic delta opioid receptor. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41(7), 1831–1840. http://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2015.353

Lindsay Pickett

McCarthy, M. M., Pickett, L. A., VanRyzin, J. W., & Kight, K. E. (2015). Surprising origins of sex differences in the brain. Hormones and Behavior, 76, 3–10. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.04.013

Nisha Pulimood

Singh, S. K., Stogsdill, J. A., Pulimood, N. S., Dingsdale, H., Kim, Y. H., Pilaz, L.J., … Eroglu, C. (2016). Astrocytes assemble thalamocortical synapses by bridging Nrx1α and NL1 via Hevin. Cell, 164(0), 183–196. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.034

Lace Riggs

Iñiguez, S. D., Riggs, L. M., Nieto, S. J., Wright, K. N., Zamora, N. N., Cruz, B., … Mazei-Robison, M. S. (2015). Fluoxetine exposure during adolescence increases preference for cocaine in adulthood. Scientific Reports, 5, 15009. http://doi.org/10.1038/srep15009

Kelson Shilling-Scrivo

Jennings, J. H., Ung, R. L., Resendez, S. L., Stamatakis, A. M., Taylor, J. G., Huang, J., … Stuber, G. D. (2015). Visualizing hypothalamic network dynamics for appetitive and consummatory behaviors. Cell, 160(3), 516–527. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.12.026

Jesse Stokum

Iqbal, S., Hayman, E. G., Hong, C., Stokum, J. A., Kurland, D. B., Gerzanich, V., & Simard, J. M. (2016). Inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS-2) in subarachnoid hemorrhage: Regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic implications. Brain Circulation, 2(1), 8–19.

Kurland, D. B., Khaladj-Ghom, A., Stokum, J. A., Carusillo, B., Karimy, J. K., Gerzanich, V., … Simard, J. M. (2015). Complications associated with decompressive craniectomy: A systematic review. Neurocritical Care, 23(2), 292–304. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-015-0144-7

Stokum, J. A., Gerzanich, V., & Simard, J. M. (2016). Molecular pathophysiology of cerebral edema. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 36(3), 513–538. http://doi.org/10.1177/0271678X15617172

Stokum, J. A., Kurland, D. B., Gerzanich, V., & Simard, J. M. (2015). Mechanisms of astrocyte-mediated cerebral edema. Neurochemical Research, 40(2), 317–328. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11064-014-1374-3

Stokum, J. A., Mehta, R. I., Ivanova, S., Yu, E., Gerzanich, V., & Simard, J. M. (2015). Heterogeneity of aquaporin-4 localization and expression after focal cerebral ischemia underlies differences in white versus grey matter swelling. Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 3, 61. http://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-015-0239-6

Stokum, J. A., Sours, C., Zhuo, J., Kane, R., Shanmuganathan, K., & Gullapalli, R. P. (2014). A longitudinal evaluation of diffusion kurtosis imaging in patients with mild traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 29(1), 47-57. doi:10.3109/02699052.2014.947628

Paige Studlack

Roelofs, B. A., Ge, S. X., Studlack, P. E., & Polster, B. M. (2015). Low micromolar concentrations of the superoxide probe MitoSOX uncouple neural mitochondria and inhibit complex IV. Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 86, 250–258. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2015.05.032

Smitha Vaman

Guan, Z., Kuhn, J. A., Wang, X., Colquitt, B., Solorzano, C., Vaman, S., … Basbaum, A. I. (2016). Injured sensory neuron-derived CSF1 induces microglia proliferation and DAP12-dependent pain. Nature Neuroscience, 19(1), 94–101. http://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4189

Jonathan Van Ryzin

McCarthy, M. M., Pickett, L. A., VanRyzin, J. W., & Kight, K. E. (2015). Surprising origins of sex differences in the brain. Hormones and Behavior, 76, 3–10. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.04.013

Perez-Pouchoulen, M., VanRyzin, J. W., & McCarthy, M. M. (2015). Morphological and phagocytic profile of microglia in the developing rat cerebellum,, . eNeuro, 2(4), ENEURO.0036–15.2015. http://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0036-15.2015

Michael White

White, M. G., Cody, P. A., Bubser, M., Wang, H.-D., Deutch, A. Y., & Mathur, B. N. (2017). Cortical hierarchy governs rat claustrocortical circuit organization. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 525(6), 1347–1362. http://doi.org/10.1002/cne.23970

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Physical Rehabilitation Science

Brian Johnson

Laney, J., Westlake, K., Ma, S., Woytowicz, E., Calhoun, V. D., & Adalı, T. (2015). Capturing subject variability in fMRI data: A graph-theoretical analysis of GICA vs. Iva. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 247, 32–40. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.03.019

Westlake, K. P., & Johnson, B. P. (2016). Commentary on “Facilitation of the Lesioned Motor Cortex During Tonic Contraction of the Unaffected Limb Corresponds to Motor Status After Stroke”. Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy, 40(1), 22-23. doi:10.1097/npt.0000000000000118

Westlake, K. P., Johnson, B. P., Creath, R. A., Neff, R. M., & Rogers, M. W. (2016). Influence of non-spatial working memory demands on reach-grasp responses to loss of balance: Effects of age and fall risk. Gait & Posture, 45, 51–55. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2016.01.007

Ozell Sanders

Sanders, O. P., Savin, D. N., Creath, R. A., & Rogers, M. W. (2015). Protective balance and startle responses to sudden freefall in standing humans. Neuroscience Letters, 586, 8–12. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2014.11.034

Elizabeth Woytowicz

Laney, J., Westlake, K., Ma, S., Woytowicz, E., Calhoun, V. D., & Adalı, T. (2015). Capturing subject variability in fMRI data: A graph-theoretical analysis of GICA vs. Iva. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 247, 32–40. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.03.019

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Toxicology

Rupa Guha

Khatri, R., Shah, P., Guha, R., Rassool, F. V., Tomkinson, A. E., Brodie, A., & Jaiswal, A. K. (2015). Aromatase inhibitor-mediated down regulation of INrf2 (Keap1) leads to increased Nrf2 and resistance in breast cancer. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 14(7), 1728–1737. http://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-14-0672

Kendra Seckinger

Markwardt, M. L., Seckinger, K. M., & Rizzo, M. A. (2016). Regulation of glucokinase by intracellular calcium levels in pancreatic β Cells. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291(6), 3000–3009. http://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M115.692160

Spencer Todd

Alkondon, M., Pereira, E. F., Todd, S. W., Randall, W. R., Lane, M. V., & Albuquerque, E. X. (2015). Functional G-protein-coupled receptor 35 is expressed by neurons in the CA1 field of the hippocampus. Biochemical Pharmacology, 93(4), 506-518. doi:10.1016/j.bcp.2014.12.009

Mullins, R. J., Xu, S., Pereira, E. F. R., Pescrille, J. D., Todd, S. W., Mamczarz, J., … Gullapalli, R. P. (2015). Prenatal exposure of guinea pigs to the organophosphorus pesticide chlorpyrifos disrupts the structural and functional integrity of the brain. Neurotoxicology, 48, 9–20. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2015.02.002


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