Graduate Program in Life Sciences (GPILS)

2020 Publications

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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Epidemiology & Human Genetics

Gerontology

Molecular Medicine

Molecular Microbiology & Immunology

Neuroscience

Physical Rehabilitation Science

 

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Rex Gonzales

Tan J, Wang X, Hwang BJ, Gonzales R, Konen O, Lan L, Lu AL. An ordered assembly of MYH glycosylase, SIRT6 protein deacetylase, and Rad9-Rad1-Hus1 checkpoint clamp at oxidatively damaged telomeres. Aging (Albany NY). 2020 Sep 29;12(18):17761-17785. doi: 10.18632/aging.103934.

Nivedita Hegdekar

Sarkar C, Jones JW, Hegdekar N, Thayer JA, Kumar A, Faden AI, Kane MA, Lipinski MM. PLA2G4A/cPLA2-mediated lysosomal membrane damage leads to inhibition of autophagy and neurodegeneration after brain trauma. Autophagy. 2020 Mar;16(3):466-485. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2019.1628538.

Thayer JA, Awad O, Hegdekar N, Sarkar C, Tesfay H, Burt C, Zeng X, Feldman RA, Lipinski MM. The PARK10 gene USP24 is a negative regulator of autophagy and ULK1 protein stability. Autophagy. 2020 Jan;16(1):140-153. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2019.1598754.

Yi Li

Yu L, Li Y, Grisé A, Wang H. CGI-58: Versatile Regulator of Intracellular Lipid Droplet Homeostasis. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2020;1276:197-222. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-6082-8_13.

McKayla Mickle

Xu S, Fan L, Jeon HY, Zhang F, Cui X, Mickle MB, Peng G, Hussain A, Fazli L, Gleave ME, Dong X, Qi J. p300-Mediated Acetylation of Histone Demethylase JMJD1A Prevents Its Degradation by Ubiquitin Ligase STUB1 and Enhances Its Activity in Prostate Cancer. Cancer Res. 2020 Aug 1;80(15):3074-3087. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-20-0233.

Kandasamy S, Adhikary G, Rorke EA, Friedberg JS, Mickle MB, Alexander HR, Eckert RL. The YAP1 Signaling Inhibitors, Verteporfin and CA3, Suppress the Mesothelioma Cancer Stem Cell Phenotype. Mol Cancer Res. 2020 Mar;18(3):343-351. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0914.

Julia Rutherford

McLaughlin LJ, Stojanovic L, Kogan AA, Rutherford JL, Choi EY, Yen RC, Xia L, Zou Y, Lapidus RG, Baylin SB, Topper MJ, Rassool FV. Pharmacologic induction of innate immune signaling directly drives homologous recombination deficiency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jul 28;117(30):17785-17795. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003499117.

Suruchi Shrestha

Shrestha S, Adhikary G, Xu W, Kandasamy S, Eckert RL. ACTL6A suppresses p21Cip1 expression to enhance the epidermal squamous cell carcinoma phenotype. Oncogene. 2020 Sep;39(36):5855-5866. doi: 10.1038/s41388-020-1371-8.

Karndeep Singh

Boyd PS, Brown JB, Brown JD, Catazaro J, Chaudry I, Ding P, Dong X, Marchant J, O'Hern CT, Singh K, Swanson C, Summers MF, Yasin S. NMR Studies of Retroviral Genome Packaging. Viruses. 2020 Sep 30;12(10):1115. doi: 10.3390/v12101115.

Brown JD, Kharytonchyk S, Chaudry I, Iyer AS, Carter H, Becker G, Desai Y, Glang L, Choi SH, Singh K, Lopresti MW, Orellana M, Rodriguez T, Oboh U, Hijji J, Ghinger FG, Stewart K, Francis D, Edwards B, Chen P, Case DA, Telesnitsky A, Summers MF. Structural basis for transcriptional start site control of HIV-1 RNA fate. Science. 2020 Apr 24;368(6489):413-417. doi: 10.1126/science.aaz7959.

Saif Yasin

Boyd PS, Brown JB, Brown JD, Catazaro J, Chaudry I, Ding P, Dong X, Marchant J, O'Hern CT, Singh K, Swanson C, Summers MF, Yasin S. NMR Studies of Retroviral Genome Packaging. Viruses. 2020 Sep 30;12(10):1115. doi: 10.3390/v12101115.

Brianna Young

Easterhoff D, Pollara J, Luo K, Tolbert WD, Young B, Mielke D, Jha S, O'Connell RJ, Vasan S, Kim J, Michael NL, Excler JL, Robb ML, Rerks-Ngarm S, Kaewkungwal J, Pitisuttithum P, Nitayaphan S, Sinangil F, Tartaglia J, Phogat S, Kepler TB, Alam SM, Wiehe K, Saunders KO, Montefiori DC, Tomaras GD, Moody MA, Pazgier M, Haynes BF, Ferrari G. Boosting with AIDSVAX B/E Enhances Env Constant Region 1 and 2 Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity Breadth and Potency. J Virol. 2020 Jan 31;94(4):e01120-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01120-19.

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Epidemiology & Human Genetics

Matthew Adams

Ouattara A, Niangaly A, Adams M, Coulibaly D, Kone AK, Traore K, Laurens MB, Tolo Y, Kouriba B, Diallo DA, Doumbo OK, Plowe CV, Djimdé A, Thera MA, Laufer MK, Takala-Harrison S, Silva JC. Epitope-based sieve analysis of Plasmodium falciparum sequences from a FMP2.1/AS02A vaccine trial is consistent with differential vaccine efficacy against immunologically relevant AMA1 variants. Vaccine. 2020 Jul 31;38(35):5700-5706. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.06.035.

‌Shah Z, Adams M, Moser KA, Shrestha B, Stucke EM, Laufer MK, Serre D, Silva JC, Takala-Harrison S. Optimization of parasite DNA enrichment approaches to generate whole genome sequencing data for Plasmodium falciparum from low parasitaemia samples. Malar J. 2020 Mar 30;19(1):135. doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03195-8.

Bailey JA, Berry AA, Travassos MA, Ouattara A, Boudova S, Dotsey EY, Pike A, Jacob CG, Adams M, Tan JC, Bannen RM, Patel JJ, Pablo J, Nakajima R, Jasinskas A, Dutta S, Takala-Harrison S, Lyke KE, Laurens MB, Niangaly A, Coulibaly D, Kouriba B, Doumbo OK, Thera MA, Felgner PL, Plowe CV. Microarray analyses reveal strain-specific antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 variants following natural infection and vaccination. Sci Rep. 2020 Mar 3;10(1):3952. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60551-z.

Moser KA, Drábek EF, Dwivedi A, Stucke EM, Crabtree J, Dara A, Shah Z, Adams M, Li T, Rodrigues PT, Koren S, Phillippy AM, Munro JB, Ouattara A, Sparklin BC, Dunning Hotopp JC, Lyke KE, Sadzewicz L, Tallon LJ, Spring MD, Jongsakul K, Lon C, Saunders DL, Ferreira MU, Nyunt MM, Laufer MK, Travassos MA, Sauerwein RW, Takala-Harrison S, Fraser CM, Sim BKL, Hoffman SL, Plowe CV, Silva JC. Strains used in whole organism Plasmodium falciparum vaccine trials differ in genome structure, sequence, and immunogenic potential. Genome Med. 2020 Jan 8;12(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s13073-019-0708-9.

Olusegun Adeyemi

Adeyemi OA, Itanyi IU, Ozigbu CE, Stadnick N, Tsuyuki K, Olayiwola O, Ogidi AG, Eze C, Aarons GA, Onoka CA, Ezeanolue EE. Sero-prevalence and determinants of Hepatitis B among a cohort of HIV-infected women of reproductive age in Nigeria. PLoS One. 2020 Sep 17;15(9):e0236456. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236456.

David Annis

Pratt SJP, Lee RM, Chang KT, Hernández-Ochoa EO, Annis DA, Ory EC, Thompson KN, Bailey PC, Mathias TJ, Ju JA, Vitolo MI, Schneider MF, Stains JP, Ward CW, Martin SS. Mechanoactivation of NOX2-generated ROS elicits persistent TRPM8 Ca2+ signals that are inhibited by oncogenic KRas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Oct 20;117(42):26008-26019. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2009495117.

Florence Bada

Oga-Omenka C, Bada F, Agbaje A, Dakum P, Menzies D, Zarowsky C. Ease and equity of access to free DR-TB services in Nigeria- a qualitative analysis of policies, structures and processes. Int J Equity Health. 2020 Dec 10;19(1):221. doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01342-w.

Bada FO, Blok N, Okpokoro E, Dutt S, Akolo C, Dakum P, Abimiku A. Cost comparison of nine-month treatment regimens with 20-month standardized care for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant/multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Nigeria. PLoS One. 2020 Dec 1;15(12):e0241065. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241065.

Sarah Brown

France MT, Ma B, Gajer P, Brown S, Humphrys MS, Holm JB, Waetjen LE, Brotman RM, Ravel J. VALENCIA: a nearest centroid classification method for vaginal microbial communities based on composition. Microbiome. 2020 Nov 23;8(1):166. doi: 10.1186/s40168-020-00934-6.

Ilynn Bulatao

Bulatao I, Pinnow E, Day B, Cherkaoui S, Kalaria M, Brajovic S, Dal Pan G. Postmarketing Safety-Related Regulatory Actions for New Therapeutic Biologics Approved in the United States 2002-2014: Similarities and Differences With New Molecular Entities. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2020 Dec;108(6):1243-1253. doi: 10.1002/cpt.1948.

Kimberly Claeys

Claeys KC, Heil EL, Hitchcock S, Johnson JK, Leekha S. Management of Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infections in the Era of Rapid Diagnostic Testing: Impact With and Without Antibiotic Stewardship. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 12;7(10):ofaa427. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa427.

Lynch CS, Appleby-Sigler A, Bork JT, Davé R, Agnes K, Sanikop M, Heath D, Clark AF, Claeys K, Zhan M, Morgan DJ. Effect of urine reflex culturing on rates of cultures and infections in acute and long-term care. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2020 Jun 29;9(1):96. doi: 10.1186/s13756-020-00762-1.

Vega AD, Jimenez A, Rosello G, Claeys KC, Martinez OV, De Pascale B, Perez-Cardona A, Abbo L. Implementing carbapenem-resistance testing algorithms for Enterobacteriales and Pseudomonas aeruginosa: diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship with timely infection prevention. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2020 Aug;97(4):115069. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2020.115069.

Bork JT, Claeys KC, Heil EL, Banoub M, Leekha S, Sorkin JD, Kleinberg M. A Propensity Score Matched Study of the Positive Impact of Infectious Diseases Consultation on Antimicrobial Appropriateness in Hospitalized Patients with Antimicrobial Stewardship Oversight. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2020 Jul 22;64(8):e00307-20. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00307-20.

Alosaimy S, Molina KC, Claeys KC, Andrade J, Truong J, King MA, Pullinger BM, Huang G, Morrisette T, Lagnf AM, Davis SL, Rybak MJ. Early Experience With Eravacycline for Complicated Infections. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 2;7(5):ofaa071. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa071.

Vega AD, Heil EL, Blackman AL, Banoub M, Kristie Johnson J, Leekha S, Claeys KC. Evaluation of Addition of Intravenous Metronidazole to Oral Vancomycin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with Non-Fulminant Severe Clostridioides difficile Infection. Pharmacotherapy. 2020 May;40(5):398-407. doi: 10.1002/phar.2393.

Smith JR, Rybak JM, Claeys KC. Imipenem-Cilastatin-Relebactam: A Novel β-Lactam-β-Lactamase Inhibitor Combination for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections. Pharmacotherapy. 2020 Apr;40(4):343-356. doi: 10.1002/phar.2378.

Masich AM, Kalaria SN, Gonzales JP, Heil EL, Tata AL, Claeys KC, Patel D, Gopalakrishnan M. Vancomycin Pharmacokinetics in Obese Patients with Sepsis or Septic Shock. Pharmacotherapy. 2020 Mar;40(3):211-220. doi: 10.1002/phar.2367.

Noval M, Banoub M, Claeys KC, Heil E. The Battle Is on: New Beta-Lactams for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Organisms. Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2020 Jan 13;22(1):1. doi: 10.1007/s11908-020-0710-9.

Fornaro R, Heil E, Claeys K, Sheikh F, Naqvi F, Chou J, Oketch E, Mansour D, Zarowitz B, Brandt N. Identifying and Bridging the Gaps in Antimicrobial Stewardship in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care. J Gerontol Nurs. 2020 Jan 1;46(1):8-13. doi: 10.3928/00989134-20191211-01.

Patricia Erickson

Barry KH, Mohanty K, Erickson PA, Wang D, Shi J, Rose G, Cellini A, Clark K, Ambulos N Jr, Yin J, Yan L, Poulin M, Meyer A, Zhang Y, Bentzen SM, Burke A, Hussain A, Berndt SI. MYC DNA Methylation in Prostate Tumor Tissue Is Associated with Gleason Score. Genes (Basel). 2020 Dec 24;12(1):12. doi: 10.3390/genes12010012.

Roy Film

Film RJ. Chasing the Dragon: Driving the Paradigm Shift to Move Beyond Opioids. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2020 Dec;50(12):661-663. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2020.0611.

Kathleen Gwilliam

Hertzano R, Gwilliam K, Rose K, Milon B, Matern MS. Cell Type-Specific Expression Analysis of the Inner Ear: A Technical Report. Laryngoscope. 2020 Jun 24. doi: 10.1002/lary.28765.

Shisi He

He S, Ryan KA, Streeten EA, McArdle PF, Daue M, Trubiano D, Rohrer Y, Donnelly P, Drolet M, Newcomer S, Shaub S, Weitzel N, Shuldiner AR, Pollin TI, Mitchell BD. Prevalence, control, and treatment of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol in the Amish. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2020 Aug;8(1):e000912. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2019-000912.

Elizabeth Humphries

Kalra G, Milon B, Casella AM, Herb BR, Humphries E, Song Y, Rose KP, Hertzano R, Ament SA. Biological insights from multi-omic analysis of 31 genomic risk loci for adult hearing difficulty. PLoS Genet. 2020 Sep 28;16(9):e1009025. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009025.

Muddassar Iqbal

Vasta GR, Feng C, Tasumi S, Abernathy K, Bianchet MA, Wilson IBH, Paschinger K, Wang LX, Iqbal M, Ghosh A, Amin MN, Smith B, Brown S, Vista A. Biochemical Characterization of Oyster and Clam Galectins: Selective Recognition of Carbohydrate Ligands on Host Hemocytes and Perkinsus Parasites. Front Chem. 2020 Feb 25;8:98. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00098.

Kareshma Mohanty

Barry KH, Mohanty K, Erickson PA, Wang D, Shi J, Rose G, Cellini A, Clark K, Ambulos N Jr, Yin J, Yan L, Poulin M, Meyer A, Zhang Y, Bentzen SM, Burke A, Hussain A, Berndt SI. MYC DNA Methylation in Prostate Tumor Tissue Is Associated with Gleason Score. Genes (Basel). 2020 Dec 24;12(1):12. doi: 10.3390/genes12010012.

Thomas Jaworek

Jaworek T, Ryan KA, Gaynor BJ, McArdle PF, Stine OC, OConnor TD, Lopez H, Aparicio HJ, Gao Y, Lin X, Groves ML, Flaherty ML, Liu S, Yang Q, Wilson J, Seshadri S, Kittner SJ, Mitchell BD, Xu H, Cole JW. Exome Array Analysis of Early-Onset Ischemic Stroke. Stroke. 2020 Nov;51(11):3356-3360. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.031357.

 

Gulam Muhammed Kibria Al Kibria

Hashan MR, Ghozy S, El-Qushayri AE, Pial RH, Hossain MA, Al Kibria GM. Association of dengue disease severity and blood group: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Rev Med Virol. 2021 Jan;31(1):1-9. doi: 10.1002/rmv.2147.

Das Gupta R, Talukder A, Haider SS, Al Kibria GM. Determinants of hypertension in Nepal using odds ratios and prevalence ratios: an analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2016. J Biosoc Sci. 2020 Jul 2:1-9. doi: 10.1017/S0021932020000346.

Abariga SA, Al Kibria GM, Albrecht JS. Impact of the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines on Prevalence of Hypertension in Ghana. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Jun;102(6):1425-1431. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0272.

Nemirovsky A, Huang H, Al Kibria GM, Naslund M, Siddiqui MM. Surgery associated with increased survival compared to radiation in clinically localized Gleason 9-10 prostate cancer: a SEER analysis. World J Urol. 2021 Feb;39(2):415-423. doi: 10.1007/s00345-020-03215-x. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

Kibria GMA, Hashan MR, Hossain MM, Zaman SB, Stennett CA. Clustering of hypertension, diabetes and overweight/obesity according to socioeconomic status among Bangladeshi adults. J Biosoc Sci. 2021 Mar;53(2):157-166. doi: 10.1017/S0021932020000085. Epub 2020 Mar 9.

Hashan MR, Das Gupta R, Day B, Al Kibria GM. Differences in prevalence and associated factors of underweight and overweight/obesity according to rural-urban residence strata among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: evidence from a cross-sectional national survey. BMJ Open. 2020 Feb 4;10(2):e034321. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034321.

Abariga SA, Khachan H, Al Kibria GM. Prevalence and Determinants of Hypertension in India Based on the 2017 ACC/AHA Guideline: Evidence from the India National Family Health Survey. Am J Hypertens. 2020 Mar 13;33(3):252-260. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpz181.

Kibria GMA, Crispen R. Prevalence and trends of chronic kidney disease and its risk factors among US adults: An analysis of NHANES 2003-18. Prev Med Rep. 2020 Sep 1;20:101193. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101193.

Swasey KK, Gupta RD, Nayeem J, Kibria GMA. Determinants of diabetes in Bangladesh using two approaches: an analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2011. J Biosoc Sci. 2020 Jul;52(4):585-595. doi: 10.1017/S002193201900066X.

Tracy JK, Adetunji F, Al Kibria GM, Swanberg JE. Cancer-work management: Hourly and salaried wage women's experiences managing the cancer-work interface following new breast cancer diagnosis. PLoS One. 2020 Nov 5;15(11):e0241795. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241795.

Kibria GMA, Crispen R. Prevalence and trends of chronic kidney disease and its risk factors among US adults: An analysis of NHANES 2003-18. Prev Med Rep. 2020 Sep 1;20:101193. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.

Douglas Loesch

Kessler MD, Loesch DP, Perry JA, Heard-Costa NL, Taliun D, Cade BE, Wang H, Daya M, Ziniti J, Datta S, Celedón JC, Soto-Quiros ME, Avila L, Weiss ST, Barnes K, Redline SS, Vasan RS, Johnson AD, Mathias RA, Hernandez R, Wilson JG, Nickerson DA, Abecasis G, Browning SR, Zöllner S, O'Connell JR, Mitchell BD; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium; TOPMed Population Genetics Working Group, O'Connor TD. De novo mutations across 1,465 diverse genomes reveal mutational insights and reductions in the Amish founder population. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Feb 4;117(5):2560-2569. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1902766117.

Megan Lynch

Streeten EA, See VY, Jeng LBJ, Maloney KA, Lynch M, Glazer AM, Yang T, Roden D, Pollin TI, Daue M, Ryan KA, Van Hout C, Gosalia N, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Economides A, Perry JA, O'Connell J, Beitelshees A, Palmer K, Mitchell BD, Shuldiner AR; Regeneron Genetics Center*. KCNQ1 and Long QT Syndrome in 1/45 Amish: The Road From Identification to Implementation of Culturally Appropriate Precision Medicine. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2020 Dec;13(6):e003133. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.120.003133.

Gita Nadimpalli

Blanco N, Robinson GL, Heil EL, Perlmutter R, Wilson LE, Brown CH, Heavner MS, Nadimpalli G, Lemkin D, Morgan DJ, Leekha S. Impact of a C. difficile infection (CDI) reduction bundle and its components on CDI diagnosis and prevention. Am J Infect Control. 2021 Mar;49(3):319-326. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.10.020.

Nadimpalli G, O'Hara LM, Pineles L, Lebherz K, Johnson JK, Calfee DP, Miller LG, Morgan DJ, Harris AD. Patient to healthcare personnel transmission of MRSA in the non-intensive care unit setting. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 May;41(5):601-603. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.10.

Richard Smith

Leus IV, Adamiak J, Trinh AN, Smith RD, Smith L, Richardson S, Ernst RK, Zgurskaya HI. Inactivation of AdeABC and AdeIJK efflux pumps elicits specific nonoverlapping transcriptional and phenotypic responses in Acinetobacter baumannii. Mol Microbiol. 2020 Dec;114(6):1049-1065. doi: 10.1111/mmi.14594.

 

Christina Stennett

Mark KS, Tenorio B, Stennett CA, Ghanem KG, Brotman RM. Bacterial vaginosis diagnosis and treatment in postmenopausal women: a survey of clinician practices. Menopause. 2020 Jun;27(6):679-683. doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000001515.

Kibria GMA, Hashan MR, Hossain MM, Zaman SB, Stennett CA. Clustering of hypertension, diabetes and overweight/obesity according to socioeconomic status among Bangladeshi adults. J Biosoc Sci. 2021 Mar;53(2):157-166. doi: 10.1017/S0021932020000085.

Stennett CA, O'Hara NN, Sprague S, Petrisor B, Jeray KJ, Leekha S, Yimgang DP, Joshi M, O'Toole RV, Bhandari M, Slobogean GP; FLOW Investigators. Effect of Extended Prophylactic Antibiotic Duration in the Treatment of Open Fracture Wounds Differs by Level of Contamination. J Orthop Trauma. 2020 Mar;34(3):113-120. doi: 10.1097/BOT.0000000000001715.

Dorgan JF, Jung S, Dallal CM, Zhan M, Stennett CA, Zhang Y, Eckert RL, Snetselaar LG, Van Horn L. Alcohol consumption and serum metabolite concentrations in young women. Cancer Causes Control. 2020 Feb;31(2):113-126. doi: 10.1007/s10552-019-01256-1.

Stennett CA, Dyer TV, He X, Robinson CK, Ravel J, Ghanem KG, Brotman RM. A cross-sectional pilot study of birth mode and vaginal microbiota in reproductive-age women. PLoS One. 2020 Apr 1;15(4):e0228574. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228574.

Merchenthaler I, Stennett CA, Haughey B, Puche A, Urbanski HF. Establishment of a non-human primate model for menopausal hot flushes. EC Gynaecol. 2020 Jan;9(1):https://www.ecronicon.com/ecgy/pdf/establishment-of-a-non-human-primate-model-for-menopausal-hot-flushes.pdf.

Merchenthaler I, Lane M, Stennett C, Zhan M, Nguyen V, Prokai-Tatrai K, Prokai L. Brain-Selective Estrogen Therapy Prevents Androgen Deprivation-Associated Hot Flushes in a Rat Model. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2020 Jun 10;13(6):119. doi: 10.3390/ph13060119.

 

William Still

Still WL, Tapia MD, Tennant SM, Sylla M, Touré A, Badji H, Keita AM, Sow SO, Levine MM, Kotloff KL. Surveillance for Invasive Salmonella Disease in Bamako, Mali, From 2002 to 2018. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Jul 29;71(Supplement_2):S130-S140. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa482.

Lora Stojanovic

McLaughlin LJ, Stojanovic L, Kogan AA, Rutherford JL, Choi EY, Yen RC, Xia L, Zou Y, Lapidus RG, Baylin SB, Topper MJ, Rassool FV. Pharmacologic induction of innate immune signaling directly drives homologous recombination deficiency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jul 28;117(30):17785-17795. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003499117.

Emily Stucke

Moser KA, Drábek EF, Dwivedi A, Stucke EM, Crabtree J, Dara A, Shah Z, Adams M, Li T, Rodrigues PT, Koren S, Phillippy AM, Munro JB, Ouattara A, Sparklin BC, Dunning Hotopp JC, Lyke KE, Sadzewicz L, Tallon LJ, Spring MD, Jongsakul K, Lon C, Saunders DL, Ferreira MU, Nyunt MM, Laufer MK, Travassos MA, Sauerwein RW, Takala-Harrison S, Fraser CM, Sim BKL, Hoffman SL, Plowe CV, Silva JC. Strains used in whole organism Plasmodium falciparum vaccine trials differ in genome structure, sequence, and immunogenic potential. Genome Med. 2020 Jan 8;12(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s13073-019-0708-9.

Kim JJ, Johnson JK, Stucke EM, Sorkin JD, Zhao L, Lydecker A, Mody L, Roghmann MC. Burden of perianal Staphylococcus aureus colonization in nursing home residents increases transmission to healthcare worker gowns and gloves. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Dec;41(12):1396-1401. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.336.

Shah Z, Adams M, Moser KA, Shrestha B, Stucke EM, Laufer MK, Serre D, Silva JC, Takala-Harrison S. Optimization of parasite DNA enrichment approaches to generate whole genome sequencing data for Plasmodium falciparum from low parasitaemia samples. Malar J. 2020 Mar 30;19(1):135. doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03195-8.

Jimmy Vareta

Vareta J, Buchwald AG, Barrall A, Cohee LM, Walldorf JA, Coalson JE, Seydel K, Sixpence A, Mathanga DP, Taylor TE, Laufer MK. Submicroscopic malaria infection is not associated with fever in cross-sectional studies in Malawi. Malar J. 2020 Jun 29;19(1):233. doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03296-4.

Haichen Zhang

Wan X, Perry J, Zhang H, Jin F, Ryan KA, Van Hout C, Reid J, Overton J, Baras A, Han Z, Streeten E, Li Y, Mitchell BD, Shuldiner AR, Fu M; Regeneron Genetics Center. Heterozygosity for a Pathogenic Variant in SLC12A3 That Causes Autosomal Recessive Gitelman Syndrome Is Associated with Lower Serum Potassium. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 Mar;32(3):756-765. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2020071030. Epub 2021 Feb 4.

Zhang H, Colclough K, Gloyn AL, Pollin TI. Monogenic diabetes: a gateway to precision medicine in diabetes. J Clin Invest. 2021 Feb 1;131(3):e142244. doi: 10.1172/JCI142244.

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Gerontology

Rashmita Bajracharya

Shrestha R, Rawal L, Bajracharya R, Ghimire A. Predictors of cardiac self-efficacy among patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease in tertiary hospitals in Nepal. J Public Health Res. 2020 Dec 23;9(4):1787. doi: 10.4081/jphr.2020.1787.

Shalini Sahoo

Sahoo S, Millar RJ, Yamashita T, Cummins PA. Problem-solving in technology-rich environments and cancer screening in later life. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2020 Sep;29(5):474-480. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000570.

Millar RJ, Sahoo S, Yamashita T, Cummins PA. Literacy skills, language use, and online health information seeking among Hispanic adults in the United States. Patient Educ Couns. 2020 Aug;103(8):1595-1600. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2020.02.030.

Millar RJ, Sahoo S, Yamashita T, Cummins P. Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments and Self-Rated Health Among Adults in the U.S.: An Analysis of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. J Appl Gerontol. 2020 Aug;39(8):889-897. doi: 10.1177/0733464819829663.

Gretchen Tucker

Kusmaul N, Tucker GG. Person-Centered Care in Nursing Homes: Many Stakeholders, Many Perspectives. J Gerontol Nurs. 2020 May 1;46(5):9-13. doi: 10.3928/00989134-20200327-01.

Nicole Viviano

Resnick B, Kolanowski A, Van Haitsma K, Galik E, Boltz M, Ellis J, Behrens L, Eshraghi K, Viviano N, Madrigal C. Reliability and Validity of the Knowledge of Person-Centered Behavioral Approaches for BPSD Test. J Nurs Meas. 2020 Dec 1;28(3):472-488. doi: 10.1891/JNM-D-19-00016.

Resnick B, Kolanowski A, Van Haitsma K, Galik E, Boltz M, Zhu S, Ellis J, Behrens L, Eshraghi K, Viviano N, Jao YL. Reliability and Validity Testing of the Assessment of the Environment for Person-Centered Management of BPSD and Assessment of Policies for Person-Centered Management of BPSD Measures. J Aging Environ. 2020;34(3):310-331.

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Molecular Medicine

Alexa Blanchard

Moseman EA, Blanchard AC, Nayak D, McGavern DB. T cell engagement of cross-presenting microglia protects the brain from a nasal virus infection. Sci Immunol. 2020 Jun 5;5(48):eabb1817. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abb1817.

Bhat SA, Henry RJ, Blanchard AC, Stoica BA, Loane DJ, Faden AI. Enhanced Akt/GSK-3β/CREB signaling mediates the anti-inflammatory actions of mGluR5 positive allosteric modulators in microglia and following traumatic brain injury in male mice. J Neurochem. 2021 Jan;156(2):225-248. doi: 10.1111/jnc.14954.

Haikel Bogale

Bogale HN, Pascini TV, Kanatani S, Sá JM, Wellems TE, Sinnis P, Vega-Rodríguez J, Serre D. Transcriptional heterogeneity and tightly regulated changes in gene expression during Plasmodium berghei sporozoite development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Mar 9;118(10):e2023438118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2023438118.

Bogale HN, Cannon MV, Keita K, Camara D, Barry Y, Keita M, Coulibaly D, Kone AK, Doumbo OK, Thera MA, Plowe CV, Travassos M, Irish S, Serre D. Relative contributions of various endogenous and exogenous factors to the mosquito microbiota. Parasit Vectors. 2020 Dec 10;13(1):619. doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-04491-7.

Robert Brown

Portney BA, Arad M, Gupta A, Brown RA, Khatri R, Lin PN, Hebert AM, Angster KH, Silipino LE, Meltzer WA, Taylor RJ, Zalzman M. ZSCAN4 facilitates chromatin remodeling and promotes the cancer stem cell phenotype. Oncogene. 2020 Jun;39(26):4970-4982. doi: 10.1038/s41388-020-1333-1.

Xu F, Zhou H, Wu M, Zhang H, Zhang Y, Zhao Q, Brown R, Gong DW, Miao L. Fc-Elabela fusion protein attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced kidney injury in mice. Biosci Rep. 2020 Sep 30;40(9):BSR20192397. doi: 10.1042/BSR20192397.

Alex Casella

Kalra G, Milon B, Casella AM, Herb BR, Humphries E, Song Y, Rose KP, Hertzano R, Ament SA. Biological insights from multi-omic analysis of 31 genomic risk loci for adult hearing difficulty. PLoS Genet. 2020 Sep 28;16(9):e1009025. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009025.

Funk CC, Casella AM, Jung S, Richards MA, Rodriguez A, Shannon P, Donovan-Maiye R, Heavner B, Chard K, Xiao Y, Glusman G, Ertekin-Taner N, Golde TE, Toga A, Hood L, Van Horn JD, Kesselman C, Foster I, Madduri R, Price ND, Ament SA. Atlas of Transcription Factor Binding Sites from ENCODE DNase Hypersensitivity Data across 27 Tissue Types. Cell Rep. 2020 Aug 18;32(7):108029. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108029.

Casella A, Long C, Zhou J, Lai M, O'Lear L, Caplan I, Levine MA, Roizen JD. Differential Frequency of CYP2R1 Variants Across Populations Reveals Pathway Selection for Vitamin D Homeostasis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 May 1;105(5):1302–15. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa056.

Katarina Chang

Pratt SJP, Lee RM, Chang KT, Hernández-Ochoa EO, Annis DA, Ory EC, Thompson KN, Bailey PC, Mathias TJ, Ju JA, Vitolo MI, Schneider MF, Stains JP, Ward CW, Martin SS. Mechanoactivation of NOX2-generated ROS elicits persistent TRPM8 Ca2+ signals that are inhibited by oncogenic KRas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Oct 20;117(42):26008-26019. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2009495117.

Mathias TJ, Chang KT, Martin SS, Vitolo MI. Gauging the Impact of Cancer Treatment Modalities on Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs). Cancers (Basel). 2020 Mar 21;12(3):743. doi: 10.3390/cancers12030743.

Nelson Chuang

Ebert P, Audano PA, Zhu Q, Rodriguez-Martin B, Porubsky D, Bonder MJ, Sulovari A, Ebler J, Zhou W, Serra Mari R, Yilmaz F, Zhao X, Hsieh P, Lee J, Kumar S, Lin J, Rausch T, Chen Y, Ren J, Santamarina M, Höps W, Ashraf H, Chuang NT, Yang X, Munson KM, Lewis AP, Fairley S, Tallon LJ, Clarke WE, Basile AO, Byrska-Bishop M, Corvelo A, Evani US, Lu TY, Chaisson MJP, Chen J, Li C, Brand H, Wenger AM, Ghareghani M, Harvey WT, Raeder B, Hasenfeld P, Regier AA, Abel HJ, Hall IM, Flicek P, Stegle O, Gerstein MB, Tubio JMC, Mu Z, Li YI, Shi X, Hastie AR, Ye K, Chong Z, Sanders AD, Zody MC, Talkowski ME, Mills RE, Devine SE, Lee C, Korbel JO, Marschall T, Eichler EE. Haplotype-resolved diverse human genomes and integrated analysis of structural variation. Science. 2021 Feb 25:eabf7117. doi: 10.1126/science.abf7117.

Chuang NT, Agarwal A, Kim R. Successful Hemostasis With Endoscopic Suturing of Recurrent Duodenal Ulcer Bleeding After Failed Initial Endoscopic Therapy and Embolization. ACG Case Rep J. 2020 Feb 20;7(2):e00275. doi: 10.14309/crj.0000000000000275.

Shanta O, Noor A; Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium (HGSVC), Sebat J. The effects of common structural variants on 3D chromatin structure. BMC Genomics. 2020 Jan 30;21(1):95. doi: 10.1186/s12864-020-6516-1.

Nicholas Ciavattone

Ciavattone NG, Wu L, O'Neill R, Qiu J, Davila E, Cao X. MyD88 Costimulation in Donor CD8+ T Cells Enhances the Graft-versus-Tumor Effect in Murine Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. J Immunol. 2021 Feb 15;206(4):892-903. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2000479.

Geng D, Ciavattone N, Lasola JJ, Shrestha R, Sanchez A, Guo J, Vlk A, Younis R, Wang L, Brown AJ, Zhang Y, Velasco-Gonzalez C, Tan AC, Davila E. Induction of IRAK-M in melanoma induces caspase-3 dependent apoptosis by reducing TRAF6 and calpastatin levels. Commun Biol. 2020 Jun 12;3(1):306. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-1033-y.

Andrew Coleman

Grogan A, Coleman A, Joca H, Granzier H, Russel MW, Ward CW, Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos A. Deletion of obscurin immunoglobulin domains Ig58/59 leads to age-dependent cardiac remodeling and arrhythmia. Basic Res Cardiol. 2020 Sep 10;115(6):60. doi: 10.1007/s00395-020-00818-8.

Joca HC, Coleman AK, Ward CW, Williams GSB. Quantitative tests reveal that microtubules tune the healthy heart but underlie arrhythmias in pathology. J Physiol. 2020 Apr;598(7):1327-1338. doi: 10.1113/JP277083.

‌Adonis D'Mello

D'Mello A, Riegler AN, Martínez E, Beno SM, Ricketts TD, Foxman EF, Orihuela CJ, Tettelin H. An in vivo atlas of host-pathogen transcriptomes during Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization and disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Dec 29;117(52):33507-33518. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2010428117.

Abanoub Gad

Gad AA, Balenga N. The Emerging Role of Adhesion GPCRs in Cancer. ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci. 2020 Jan 13;3(1):29-42. doi: 10.1021/acsptsci.9b00093.

Sonia Garcia

Garcia SA, Tian H, Imamura-Kawasawa Y, Fisher A, Cellini A, Codd C, Herzenberg JE, Abzug JM, Ng V, Iwamoto M, Enomoto-Iwamoto M. Understanding the Action of RARγ Agonists on Human Osteochondroma Explants. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Apr 13;21(8):2686. doi: 10.3390/ijms21082686.

Shield WP 3rd, Cellini A, Tian H, Wilson K, Dan Y, Abzug JM, Garcia S, Moritani N, Alferiev I, Chorny M, Takigawa M, Ng VY, Iwamoto M, Enomoto-Iwamoto M. Selective Agonists of Nuclear Retinoic Acid Receptor Gamma Inhibit Growth of HCS-2/8 Chondrosarcoma Cells. J Orthop Res. 2020 May;38(5):1045-1051. doi: 10.1002/jor.24555.

‌Kevin Herold

Durens M, Nestor J, Williams M, Herold K, Niescier RF, Lunden JW, Phillips AW, Lin YC, Dykxhoorn DM, Nestor MW. High-throughput screening of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived brain organoids. J Neurosci Methods. 2020 Apr 1;335:108627. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2020.108627.

Lunden JW, Durens M, Nestor J, Niescier RF, Herold K, Brandenburg C, Lin YC, Blatt GJ, Nestor MW. Development of a 3-D Organoid System Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Model Idiopathic Autism. Adv Neurobiol. 2020;25:259-297. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45493-7_10.

Nicole Higgins

Wu JJ, Cai A, Greenslade JE, Higgins NR, Fan C, Le NTT, Tatman M, Whiteley AM, Prado MA, Dieriks BV, Curtis MA, Shaw CE, Siddique T, Faull RLM, Scotter EL, Finley D, Monteiro MJ. ALS/FTD mutations in UBQLN2 impede autophagy by reducing autophagosome acidification through loss of function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jun 30;117(26):15230-15241. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1917371117.

Tierra Johnson

Peroutka RJ, Buzza MS, Mukhopadhyay S, Johnson TA, Driesbaugh KH, Antalis TM. Testisin/Prss21 deficiency causes increased vascular permeability and a hemorrhagic phenotype during luteal angiogenesis. PLoS One. 2020 Jun 8;15(6):e0234407. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234407.

‌Gurmannat Kalra

Kalra G, Milon B, Casella AM, Herb BR, Humphries E, Song Y, Rose KP, Hertzano R, Ament SA. Biological insights from multi-omic analysis of 31 genomic risk loci for adult hearing difficulty. PLoS Genet. 2020 Sep 28;16(9):e1009025. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009025.

Pranjali Kanvinde

Kanvinde PP, Malla AP, Connolly NP, Szulzewsky F, Anastasiadis P, Ames HM, Kim AJ, Winkles JA, Holland EC, Woodworth GF. Leveraging the replication-competent avian-like sarcoma virus/tumor virus receptor-A system for modeling human gliomas. Glia. 2021 Feb 27. doi: 10.1002/glia.23984.

Aksinija Kogan

McLaughlin LJ, Stojanovic L, Kogan AA, Rutherford JL, Choi EY, Yen RC, Xia L, Zou Y, Lapidus RG, Baylin SB, Topper MJ, Rassool FV. Pharmacologic induction of innate immune signaling directly drives homologous recombination deficiency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jul 28;117(30):17785-17795. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003499117.

Jenna Leser

Williams KM, Leser JM, Gould NR, Joca HC, Lyons JS, Khairallah RJ, Ward CW, Stains JP. TRPV4 calcium influx controls sclerostin protein loss independent of purinergic calcium oscillations. Bone. 2020 Jul;136:115356. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2020.115356.

Kanwal Mahmood

Mahmood K, Emadi A. 1-C Metabolism-Serine, Glycine, Folates-In Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2021 Feb 26;14(3):190. doi: 10.3390/ph14030190.

Oleg Makaravich

Makarevich O, Sabirzhanov B, Aubrecht TG, Glaser EP, Polster BM, Henry RJ, Faden AI, Stoica BA. Mithramycin selectively attenuates DNA-damage-induced neuronal cell death. Cell Death Dis. 2020 Jul 27;11(7):587. doi: 10.1038/s41419-020-02774-6.

Sabirzhanov B, Makarevich O, Barrett JP, Jackson IL, Glaser EP, Faden AI, Stoica BA. Irradiation-Induced Upregulation of miR-711 Inhibits DNA Repair and Promotes Neurodegeneration Pathways. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Jul 23;21(15):5239. doi: 10.3390/ijms21155239.

Sabirzhanov B, Makarevich O, Barrett J, Jackson IL, Faden AI, Stoica BA. Down-Regulation of miR-23a-3p Mediates Irradiation-Induced Neuronal Apoptosis. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 May 24;21(10):3695. doi: 10.3390/ijms21103695.

Trevor Mathias

Yu JE, Ju JA, Musacchio N, Mathias TJ, Vitolo MI. Long Noncoding RNA DANCR Activates Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling through MiR-216a Inhibition in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Biomolecules. 2020 Dec 8;10(12):1646. doi: 10.3390/biom10121646.

Pratt SJP, Lee RM, Chang KT, Hernández-Ochoa EO, Annis DA, Ory EC, Thompson KN, Bailey PC, Mathias TJ, Ju JA, Vitolo MI, Schneider MF, Stains JP, Ward CW, Martin SS. Mechanoactivation of NOX2-generated ROS elicits persistent TRPM8 Ca2+ signals that are inhibited by oncogenic KRas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Oct 20;117(42):26008-26019. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2009495117.

Ju JA, Lee CJ, Thompson KN, Ory EC, Lee RM, Mathias TJ, Pratt SJP, Vitolo MI, Jewell CM, Martin SS. Partial thermal imidization of polyelectrolyte multilayer cell tethering surfaces (TetherChip) enables efficient cell capture and microtentacle fixation for circulating tumor cell analysis. Lab Chip. 2020 Aug 21;20(16):2872-2888. doi: 10.1039/d0lc00207k.

Mathias TJ, Chang KT, Martin SS, Vitolo MI. Gauging the Impact of Cancer Treatment Modalities on Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs). Cancers (Basel). 2020 Mar 21;12(3):743. doi: 10.3390/cancers12030743.

Nowak RG, Schumaker LM, Ambulos NP, Ndembi N, Dauda W, Nnaji CH, Mitchell A, Mathias TJ, Jibrin P, Darragh TM, Olaomi O, Crowell TA, Baral SD, Charurat ME, Bentzen SM, Palefsky JM, Cullen KJ; TRUST/RV368 Study Group. Multiple HPV infections among men who have sex with men engaged in anal cancer screening in Abuja, Nigeria. Papillomavirus Res. 2020 Dec;10:100200. doi: 10.1016/j.pvr.2020.100200.

John Mattick

Lebov JF, Mattick J, Libro S, Sparklin BC, Chung M, Bromley RE, Nadendla S, Zhao X, Ott S, Sadzewicz L, Tallon LJ, Michalski ML, Foster JM, Dunning Hotopp JC. Complete Genome Sequence of wBp, the Wolbachia Endosymbiont of Brugia pahangi FR3. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jul 2;9(27):e00480-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00480-20.

Mattick J, Libro S, Sparklin BC, Chung M, Bromley RE, Nadendla S, Zhao X, Ott S, Sadzewicz L, Tallon LJ, Michalski ML, Foster JM, Dunning Hotopp JC. Nearly Complete Genome Sequence of Brugia pahangi FR3. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jul 2;9(27):e00479-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00479-20.

Tracey A, Foster JM, Paulini M, Grote A, Mattick J, Tsai YC, Chung M, Cotton JA, Clark TA, Geber A, Holroyd N, Korlach J, Libro S, Lustigman S, Michalski ML, Rogers MB, Twaddle A, Dunning Hotopp JC, Berriman M, Ghedin E. Nearly Complete Genome Sequence of Brugia malayi Strain FR3. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jun 11;9(24):e00154-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00154-20

Foster JM, Grote A, Mattick J, Tracey A, Tsai YC, Chung M, Cotton JA, Clark TA, Geber A, Holroyd N, Korlach J, Li Y, Libro S, Lustigman S, Michalski ML, Paulini M, Rogers MB, Teigen L, Twaddle A, Welch L, Berriman M, Dunning Hotopp JC, Ghedin E. Sex chromosome evolution in parasitic nematodes of humans. Nat Commun. 2020 Apr 23;11(1):1964. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15654-6.

Shetty AC, Mattick J, Chung M, McCracken C, Mahurkar A, Filler SG, Fraser CM, Rasko DA, Bruno VM, Dunning Hotopp JC. Cost effective, experimentally robust differential-expression analysis for human/mammalian, pathogen and dual-species transcriptomics. Microb Genom. 2020 Jan;6(1):e000320. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000320.

Paige McKeon

Girven KS, Aroni S, Navarrete J, Marino RAM, McKeon PN, Cheer JF, Sparta DR. Glutamatergic input from the insula to the ventral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis controls reward-related behavior. Addict Biol. 2020 Aug 20:e12961. doi: 10.1111/adb.12961.

Makenzy Mull

Stecky RC, Quick CR, Fleming TL, Mull ML, Vinson VK, Whitley MS, Dover EN, Meigs TE. Divergent C-terminal motifs in Gα12 and Gα13 provide distinct mechanisms of effector binding and SRF activation. Cell Signal. 2020 Aug;72:109653. doi: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2020.109653.

Nicholas Palmateer

Palmateer NC, Tretina K, Orvis J, Ifeonu OO, Crabtree J, Drabék E, Pelle R, Awino E, Gotia HT, Munro JB, Tallon L, Morrison WI, Daubenberger CA, Nene V, Knowles DP, Bishop RP, Silva JC. Capture-based enrichment of Theileria parva DNA enables full genome assembly of first buffalo-derived strain and reveals exceptional intra-specific genetic diversity. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Oct 29;14(10):e0008781. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008781.

Raymond Peroutka

Peroutka RJ, Buzza MS, Mukhopadhyay S, Johnson TA, Driesbaugh KH, Antalis TM. Testisin/Prss21 deficiency causes increased vascular permeability and a hemorrhagic phenotype during luteal angiogenesis. PLoS One. 2020 Jun 8;15(6):e0234407. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234407.

Amber Plante

Harvey JRM, Plante AE, Meredith AL. Ion Channels Controlling Circadian Rhythms in Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Excitability. Physiol Rev. 2020 Oct 1;100(4):1415-1454. doi: 10.1152/physrev.00027.2019.

‌Kevin Rose

Kalra G, Milon B, Casella AM, Herb BR, Humphries E, Song Y, Rose KP, Hertzano R, Ament SA. Biological insights from multi-omic analysis of 31 genomic risk loci for adult hearing difficulty. PLoS Genet. 2020 Sep 28;16(9):e1009025. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009025.

Brooks PM, Rose KP, MacRae ML, Rangoussis KM, Gurjar M, Hertzano R, Coate TM. Pou3f4-expressing otic mesenchyme cells promote spiral ganglion neuron survival in the postnatal mouse cochlea. J Comp Neurol. 2020 Aug;528(12):1967-1985. doi: 10.1002/cne.24867.

‌Bosung Shim

Ritzel RM, He J, Li Y, Cao T, Khan N, Shim B, Sabirzhanov B, Aubrecht T, Stoica BA, Faden AI, Wu LJ, Wu J. Proton extrusion during oxidative burst in microglia exacerbates pathological acidosis following traumatic brain injury. Glia. 2021 Mar;69(3):746-764. doi: 10.1002/glia.23926.

Diane Terry

Terry DM, Devine SE. Aberrantly High Levels of Somatic LINE-1 Expression and Retrotransposition in Human Neurological Disorders. Front Genet. 2020 Jan 8;10:1244. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01244.

Sagarina Thapa

Heda GD, Shrestha L, Thapa S, Ghimire S, Raut D. Optimization of western blotting for the detection of proteins of different molecular weight. Biotechniques. 2020 Jun;68(6):318-324. doi: 10.2144/btn-2019-0124.

Nicolas Verhoeven

Davis PR, Miller SG, Verhoeven NA, Morgan JS, Tulis DA, Witczak CA, Brault JJ. Increased AMP deaminase activity decreases ATP content and slows protein degradation in cultured skeletal muscle. Metabolism. 2020 Jul;108:154257. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2020.154257.

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Molecular Microbiology & Immunology

Jessica Allen

Allen JC, Toapanta FR, Chen W, Tennant SM. Understanding immunosenescence and its impact on vaccination of older adults. Vaccine. 2020 Dec 14;38(52):8264-8272. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.11.002.

Lillian Butler

O'Neal AJ, Butler LR, Rolandelli A, Gilk SD, Pedra JH. Lipid hijacking: a unifying theme in vector-borne diseases. Elife. 2020 Oct 29;9:e61675. doi: 10.7554/eLife.61675.

Samaddar S, Marnin L, Butler LR, Pedra JHF. Immunometabolism in Arthropod Vectors: Redefining Interspecies Relationships. Trends Parasitol. 2020 Oct;36(10):807-815. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2020.07.010.

Corbin Goerlich

Goerlich CE, DiChiacchio L, Zhang T, Singh AK, Lewis B, Tatarov I, Hershfeld A, Sentz F, Ayares D, Corcoran P, Horvath K, Mohiuddin MM. Heterotopic Porcine Cardiac Xenotransplantation in the Intra-Abdominal Position in a Non-Human Primate Model. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 1;10(1):10709. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66430-x.

Robert Haupt

Tian JH, Patel N, Haupt R, Zhou H, Weston S, Hammond H, Logue J, Portnoff AD, Norton J, Guebre-Xabier M, Zhou B, Jacobson K, Maciejewski S, Khatoon R, Wisniewska M, Moffitt W, Kluepfel-Stahl S, Ekechukwu B, Papin J, Boddapati S, Jason Wong C, Piedra PA, Frieman MB, Massare MJ, Fries L, Bengtsson KL, Stertman L, Ellingsworth L, Glenn G, Smith G. SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein vaccine candidate NVX-CoV2373 immunogenicity in baboons and protection in mice. Nat Commun. 2021 Jan 14;12(1):372. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20653-8.

Keech C, Albert G, Cho I, Robertson A, Reed P, Neal S, Plested JS, Zhu M, Cloney-Clark S, Zhou H, Smith G, Patel N, Frieman MB, Haupt RE, Logue J, McGrath M, Weston S, Piedra PA, Desai C, Callahan K, Lewis M, Price-Abbott P, Formica N, Shinde V, Fries L, Lickliter JD, Griffin P, Wilkinson B, Glenn GM. Phase 1-2 Trial of a SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant Spike Protein Nanoparticle Vaccine. N Engl J Med. 2020 Dec 10;383(24):2320-2332. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2026920.

Weston S, Coleman CM, Haupt R, Logue J, Matthews K, Li Y, Reyes HM, Weiss SR, Frieman MB. Broad Anti-coronavirus Activity of Food and Drug Administration-Approved Drugs against SARS-CoV-2 In Vitro and SARS-CoV In Vivo. J Virol. 2020 Oct 14;94(21):e01218-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01218-20.

Hansen J, Baum A, Pascal KE, Russo V, Giordano S, Wloga E, Fulton BO, Yan Y, Koon K, Patel K, Chung KM, Hermann A, Ullman E, Cruz J, Rafique A, Huang T, Fairhurst J, Libertiny C, Malbec M, Lee WY, Welsh R, Farr G, Pennington S, Deshpande D, Cheng J, Watty A, Bouffard P, Babb R, Levenkova N, Chen C, Zhang B, Romero Hernandez A, Saotome K, Zhou Y, Franklin M, Sivapalasingam S, Lye DC, Weston S, Logue J, Haupt R, Frieman M, Chen G, Olson W, Murphy AJ, Stahl N, Yancopoulos GD, Kyratsous CA. Studies in humanized mice and convalescent humans yield a SARS-CoV-2 antibody cocktail. Science. 2020 Aug 21;369(6506):1010-1014. doi: 10.1126/science.abd0827.

Elizabeth Hill

Waddell J, Hill E, Tang S, Jiang L, Xu S, Mooney SM. Choline Plus Working Memory Training Improves Prenatal Alcohol-Induced Deficits in Cognitive Flexibility and Functional Connectivity in Adulthood in Rats. Nutrients. 2020 Nov 14;12(11):3513. doi: 10.3390/nu12113513.

Casey Hofstaedter

Benitez AJ, Tanes C, Mattei L, Hofstaedter CE, Kim DK, Gross J, Ruffner MA, Albenberg L, Spergel J, Bittinger K, Muir AB. Effect of topical swallowed steroids on the bacterial and fungal esophageal microbiota in eosinophilic esophagitis. Allergy. 2020 Sep 29. doi: 10.1111/all.14602.

Bushman FD, Conrad M, Ren Y, Zhao C, Gu C, Petucci C, Kim MS, Abbas A, Downes KJ, Devas N, Mattei LM, Breton J, Kelsen J, Marakos S, Galgano A, Kachelries K, Erlichman J, Hart JL, Moraskie M, Kim D, Zhang H, Hofstaedter CE, Wu GD, Lewis JD, Zackular JP, Li H, Bittinger K, Baldassano R. Multi-omic Analysis of the Interaction between Clostridioides difficile Infection and Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Cell Host Microbe. 2020 Sep 9;28(3):422-433.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.07.020.

Adrienne Kambouris

Ngaage LM, Wasicek PJ, Puthumana J, Kambouris AR, Tannouri S, Rada EM, Kligman MD, Rasko YM. A Cross-sectional Analysis of Insurance Coverage of Extremity Contouring After Massive Weight Loss. Ann Plast Surg. 2020 Mar;84(3):253-256. doi: 10.1097/SAP.0000000000002150.

Jackline Joy Lasola

Chakraborty A, Lasola JJM, Truong N, Pearson RM. Serum-Independent Nonviral Gene Delivery to Innate and Adaptive Immune Cells Using Immunoplexes. ACS Appl Bio Mater. 2020 Sep 21;3(9):6263-6272. doi: 10.1021/acsabm.0c00761.

Lasola JJM, Kamdem H, McDaniel MW, Pearson RM. Biomaterial-Driven Immunomodulation: Cell Biology-Based Strategies to Mitigate Severe Inflammation and Sepsis. Front Immunol. 2020 Aug 4;11:1726. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.01726.

Geng D, Ciavattone N, Lasola JJ, Shrestha R, Sanchez A, Guo J, Vlk A, Younis R, Wang L, Brown AJ, Zhang Y, Velasco-Gonzalez C, Tan AC, Davila E. Induction of IRAK-M in melanoma induces caspase-3 dependent apoptosis by reducing TRAF6 and calpastatin levels. Commun Biol. 2020 Jun 12;3(1):306. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-1033-y.

James Logue

Saadat S, Tehrani ZR, Logue J, Newman M, Frieman MB, Harris AD, Sajadi MM. Binding and Neutralization Antibody Titers After a Single Vaccine Dose in Health Care Workers Previously Infected With SARS-CoV-2. JAMA. 2021 Mar 1:e213341. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.3341.

Tian JH, Patel N, Haupt R, Zhou H, Weston S, Hammond H, Logue J, Portnoff AD, Norton J, Guebre-Xabier M, Zhou B, Jacobson K, Maciejewski S, Khatoon R, Wisniewska M, Moffitt W, Kluepfel-Stahl S, Ekechukwu B, Papin J, Boddapati S, Jason Wong C, Piedra PA, Frieman MB, Massare MJ, Fries L, Bengtsson KL, Stertman L, Ellingsworth L, Glenn G, Smith G. SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein vaccine candidate NVX-CoV2373 immunogenicity in baboons and protection in mice. Nat Commun. 2021 Jan 14;12(1):372. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20653-8.

Weston S, Baracco L, Keller C, Matthews K, McGrath ME, Logue J, Liang J, Dyall J, Holbrook MR, Hensley LE, Jahrling PB, Yu W, MacKerell AD Jr, Frieman MB. The SKI complex is a broad-spectrum, host-directed antiviral drug target for coronaviruses, influenza, and filoviruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Dec 1;117(48):30687-30698. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2012939117.

Kotliar D, Lin AE, Logue J, Hughes TK, Khoury NM, Raju SS, Wadsworth MH 2nd, Chen H, Kurtz JR, Dighero-Kemp B, Bjornson ZB, Mukherjee N, Sellers BA, Tran N, Bauer MR, Adams GC, Adams R, Rinn JL, Melé M, Schaffner SF, Nolan GP, Barnes KG, Hensley LE, McIlwain DR, Shalek AK, Sabeti PC, Bennett RS. Single-Cell Profiling of Ebola Virus Disease In Vivo Reveals Viral and Host Dynamics. Cell. 2020 Nov 25;183(5):1383-1401.e19. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.002.

Matz H, Munir D, Logue J, Dooley H. The immunoglobulins of cartilaginous fishes. Dev Comp Immunol. 2021 Feb;115:103873. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2020.103873.

Keech C, Albert G, Cho I, Robertson A, Reed P, Neal S, Plested JS, Zhu M, Cloney-Clark S, Zhou H, Smith G, Patel N, Frieman MB, Haupt RE, Logue J, McGrath M, Weston S, Piedra PA, Desai C, Callahan K, Lewis M, Price-Abbott P, Formica N, Shinde V, Fries L, Lickliter JD, Griffin P, Wilkinson B, Glenn GM. Phase 1-2 Trial of a SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant Spike Protein Nanoparticle Vaccine. N Engl J Med. 2020 Dec 10;383(24):2320-2332. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2026920.

Weston S, Coleman CM, Haupt R, Logue J, Matthews K, Li Y, Reyes HM, Weiss SR, Frieman MB. Broad Anti-coronavirus Activity of Food and Drug Administration-Approved Drugs against SARS-CoV-2 In Vitro and SARS-CoV In Vivo. J Virol. 2020 Oct 14;94(21):e01218-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01218-20.

Puhl AC, Fritch EJ, Lane TR, Tse LV, Yount BL, Sacramento CQ, Tavella TA, Costa FTM, Weston S, Logue J, Frieman M, Premkumar L, Pearce KH, Hurst BL, Andrade CH, Levi JA, Johnson NJ, Kisthardt SC, Scholle F, Souza TML, Moorman NJ, Baric RS, Madrid P, Ekins S. Repurposing the Ebola and Marburg Virus Inhibitors Tilorone, Quinacrine and Pyronaridine: In vitro Activity Against SARS-CoV-2 and Potential Mechanisms. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2020 Dec 2:2020.12.01.407361. doi: 10.1101/2020.12.01.407361.

Hansen J, Baum A, Pascal KE, Russo V, Giordano S, Wloga E, Fulton BO, Yan Y, Koon K, Patel K, Chung KM, Hermann A, Ullman E, Cruz J, Rafique A, Huang T, Fairhurst J, Libertiny C, Malbec M, Lee WY, Welsh R, Farr G, Pennington S, Deshpande D, Cheng J, Watty A, Bouffard P, Babb R, Levenkova N, Chen C, Zhang B, Romero Hernandez A, Saotome K, Zhou Y, Franklin M, Sivapalasingam S, Lye DC, Weston S, Logue J, Haupt R, Frieman M, Chen G, Olson W, Murphy AJ, Stahl N, Yancopoulos GD, Kyratsous CA. Studies in humanized mice and convalescent humans yield a SARS-CoV-2 antibody cocktail. Science. 2020 Aug 21;369(6506):1010-1014. doi: 10.1126/science.abd0827.

Hanover Matz

Eve O, Matz H, Dooley H. Proof of long-term immunological memory in cartilaginous fishes. Dev Comp Immunol. 2020 Jul;108:103674. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2020.103674.

Liron Marnin

Hayes BM, Radkov AD, Yarza F, Flores S, Kim J, Zhao Z, Lexa KW, Marnin L, Biboy J, Bowcut V, Vollmer W, Pedra JHF, Chou S. Ticks Resist Skin Commensals with Immune Factor of Bacterial Origin. Cell. 2020 Dec 10;183(6):1562-1571.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.042.

Samaddar S, Marnin L, Butler LR, Pedra JHF. Immunometabolism in Arthropod Vectors: Redefining Interspecies Relationships. Trends Parasitol. 2020 Oct;36(10):807-815. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2020.07.010

Marisa McGrath

Weston S, Baracco L, Keller C, Matthews K, McGrath ME, Logue J, Liang J, Dyall J, Holbrook MR, Hensley LE, Jahrling PB, Yu W, MacKerell AD Jr, Frieman MB. The SKI complex is a broad-spectrum, host-directed antiviral drug target for coronaviruses, influenza, and filoviruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Dec 1;117(48):30687-30698. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2012939117.

Keech C, Albert G, Cho I, Robertson A, Reed P, Neal S, Plested JS, Zhu M, Cloney-Clark S, Zhou H, Smith G, Patel N, Frieman MB, Haupt RE, Logue J, McGrath M, Weston S, Piedra PA, Desai C, Callahan K, Lewis M, Price-Abbott P, Formica N, Shinde V, Fries L, Lickliter JD, Griffin P, Wilkinson B, Glenn GM. Phase 1-2 Trial of a SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant Spike Protein Nanoparticle Vaccine. N Engl J Med. 2020 Dec 10;383(24):2320-2332. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2026920.

Miller K, McGrath ME, Hu Z, Ariannejad S, Weston S, Frieman M, Jackson WT. Coronavirus interactions with the cellular autophagy machinery. Autophagy. 2020 Dec;16(12):2131-2139. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2020.1817280.

Anya O'Neal

O'Neal AJ, Butler LR, Rolandelli A, Gilk SD, Pedra JH. Lipid hijacking: a unifying theme in vector-borne diseases. Elife. 2020 Oct 29;9:e61675. doi: 10.7554/eLife.61675.

Riley Risteen

Risteen RG, Hazen TH, Michalski JM, Poly F, Tennant SM, Rasko DA. Examination of 189 Campylobacter Species Isolates from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jul 23;9(30):e00646-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00646-20.

Michael Sikorski

Sikorski MJ, Hazen TH, Vyas G, Michalski JM, Rasko DA. Genome Sequences of Four Shigella boydii Strains Representative of the Major S. boydii Clades. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Oct 8;9(41):e00881-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00881-20.

Sikorski MJ, Desai SN, Tupua S, Thomsen RE, Han J, Rambocus S, Nimarota-Brown S, Punimata L, Tusitala S, Sialeipata M, Hoffman SA, Tracy JK, Higginson EE, Tennant SM, Gauld JS, Klein DJ, Ballard SA, Robins-Browne RM, Dougan G, Nilles EJ, Howden BP, Crump JA, Naseri TK, Levine MM. Tenacious Endemic Typhoid Fever in Samoa. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Jul 29;71(Supplement_2):S120-S126. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa314.

Sikorski MJ, Levine MM. Reviving the "Moore Swab": a Classic Environmental Surveillance Tool Involving Filtration of Flowing Surface Water and Sewage Water To Recover Typhoidal Salmonella Bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2020 Jun 17;86(13):e00060-20. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00060-20.

Emily Smith

Ranganathan S, Smith EM, Foulke-Abel JD, Barry EM. Research in a time of enteroids and organoids: how the human gut model has transformed the study of enteric bacterial pathogens. Gut Microbes. 2020 Nov 9;12(1):1795492. doi: 10.1080/19490976.2020.1795389.

Alexandra Soare

Soare AY, Freeman TL, Min AK, Malik HS, Osota EO, Swartz TH. P2RX7 at the Host-Pathogen Interface of Infectious Diseases. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2021 Jan 13;85(1):e00055-20. doi: 10.1128/MMBR.00055-20.

Soare AY, Watkins TN, Bruno VM. Understanding Mucormycoses in the Age of "omics". Front Genet. 2020 Jun 30;11:699. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00699.

Soare AY, Malik HS, Durham ND, Freeman TL, Alvarez R, Patel F, Satija N, Upadhyay C, Hioe CE, Chen BK, Swartz TH. P2X1 Selective Antagonists Block HIV-1 Infection through Inhibition of Envelope Conformation-Dependent Fusion. J Virol. 2020 Feb 28;94(6):e01622-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01622-19.

Alexandra Vlk

Geng D, Ciavattone N, Lasola JJ, Shrestha R, Sanchez A, Guo J, Vlk A, Younis R, Wang L, Brown AJ, Zhang Y, Velasco-Gonzalez C, Tan AC, Davila E. Induction of IRAK-M in melanoma induces caspase-3 dependent apoptosis by reducing TRAF6 and calpastatin levels. Commun Biol. 2020 Jun 12;3(1):306. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-1033-y.

Richard K, Perkins DJ, Harberts EM, Song Y, Gopalakrishnan A, Shirey KA, Lai W, Vlk A, Mahurkar A, Nallar S, Hawkins LD, Ernst RK, Vogel SN. Dissociation of TRIF bias and adjuvanticity. Vaccine. 2020 Jun 2;38(27):4298-4308. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.04.042.

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Neuroscience

Samuel Bacharach

Keefer SE, Bacharach SZ, Kochli DE, Chabot JM, Calu DJ. Effects of Limited and Extended Pavlovian Training on Devaluation Sensitivity of Sign- and Goal-Tracking Rats. Front Behav Neurosci. 2020 Feb 4;14:3. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00003.

Anthony Cole

‌Morrison KE, Cole AB, Kane PJ, Meadows VE, Thompson SM, Bale TL. Pubertal adversity alters chromatin dynamics and stress circuitry in the pregnant brain. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020 Jul;45(8):1263-1271. doi: 10.1038/s41386-020-0634-y.

Antonio Figueiredo

Fox ME, Figueiredo A, Menken MS, Lobo MK. Dendritic spine density is increased on nucleus accumbens D2 neurons after chronic social defeat. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 24;10(1):12393. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69339-7.

‌Andrew Furman

Seminowicz DA, Bilska K, Chowdhury NS, Skippen P, Millard SK, Chiang AKI, Chen S, Furman AJ, Schabrun SM. A novel cortical biomarker signature for predicting pain sensitivity: protocol for the PREDICT longitudinal analytical validation study. Pain Rep. 2020 Jul 27;5(4):e833. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000833.

Seminowicz DA, Burrowes SAB, Kearson A, Zhang J, Krimmel SR, Samawi L, Furman AJ, Keaser ML, Gould NF, Magyari T, White L, Goloubeva O, Goyal M, Peterlin BL, Haythornthwaite JA. Enhanced mindfulness-based stress reduction in episodic migraine: a randomized clinical trial with magnetic resonance imaging outcomes. Pain. 2020 Aug;161(8):1837-1846. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001860.

Furman AJ, Prokhorenko M, Keaser ML, Zhang J, Chen S, Mazaheri A, Seminowicz DA. Sensorimotor Peak Alpha Frequency Is a Reliable Biomarker of Prolonged Pain Sensitivity. Cereb Cortex. 2020 Nov 3;30(12):6069-6082. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa124.

Utsav Gyawali

Kochli DE, Keefer SE, Gyawali U, Calu DJ. Basolateral Amygdala to Nucleus Accumbens Communication Differentially Mediates Devaluation Sensitivity of Sign- and Goal-Tracking Rats. Front Behav Neurosci. 2020 Nov 25;14:593645. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.593645.

Gyawali U, Martin DA, Sulima A, Rice KC, Calu DJ. Role of BNST CRFR1 Receptors in Incubation of Fentanyl Seeking. Front Behav Neurosci. 2020 Aug 28;14:153. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00153.

Engeln M, Mitra S, Chandra R, Gyawali U, Fox ME, Dietz DM, Lobo MK. Sex-Specific Role for Egr3 in Nucleus Accumbens D2-Medium Spiny Neurons Following Long-Term Abstinence From Cocaine Self-administration. Biol Psychiatry. 2020 Jun 1;87(11):992-1000. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.10.019.

‌Niaz Khan

Ritzel RM, Li Y, He J, Khan N, Doran SJ, Faden AI, Wu J. Sustained neuronal and microglial alterations are associated with diverse neurobehavioral dysfunction long after experimental brain injury. Neurobiol Dis. 2020 Mar;136:104713. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2019.104713.

Li Y, Ritzel RM, Khan N, Cao T, He J, Lei Z, Matyas JJ, Sabirzhanov B, Liu S, Li H, Stoica BA, Loane DJ, Faden AI, Wu J. Delayed microglial depletion after spinal cord injury reduces chronic inflammation and neurodegeneration in the brain and improves neurological recovery in male mice. Theranostics. 2020 Sep 14;10(25):11376-11403. doi: 10.7150/thno.49199.

‌Samuel Krimmel

Seminowicz DA, Burrowes SAB, Kearson A, Zhang J, Krimmel SR, Samawi L, Furman AJ, Keaser ML, Gould NF, Magyari T, White L, Goloubeva O, Goyal M, Peterlin BL, Haythornthwaite JA. Enhanced mindfulness-based stress reduction in episodic migraine: a randomized clinical trial with magnetic resonance imaging outcomes. Pain. 2020 Aug;161(8):1837-1846. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001860.

Barrett FS, Krimmel SR, Griffiths RR, Seminowicz DA, Mathur BN. Psilocybin acutely alters the functional connectivity of the claustrum with brain networks that support perception, memory, and attention. Neuroimage. 2020 Sep;218:116980. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116980.

Guo C, Xu H, Niu X, Krimmel S, Liu J, Gao L, Zhang M, Wang Y. Abnormal brain white matter in patients with hemifacial spasm: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Neuroradiology. 2020 Mar;62(3):369-375. doi: 10.1007/s00234-019-02318-6.

Krimmel SR, Zanos P, Georgiou P, Colloca L, Gould TD. Classical conditioning of antidepressant placebo effects in mice. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2020 Jan;237(1):93-102. doi: 10.1007/s00213-019-05347-4.

Maxwell Madden

White MG, Mu C, Qadir H, Madden MB, Zeng H, Mathur BN. The Mouse Claustrum Is Required for Optimal Behavioral Performance Under High Cognitive Demand. Biol Psychiatry. 2020 Nov 1;88(9):719-726. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.03.020.

Ashley Marquardt

VanRyzin JW, Marquardt AE, McCarthy MM. Assessing Rough-and-tumble Play Behavior in Juvenile Rats. Bio Protoc. 2020 Jan 5;10(1):e3481. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3481.

VanRyzin JW, Marquardt AE, McCarthy MM. Developmental origins of sex differences in the neural circuitry of play. Int J Play. 2020;9(1):58-75. doi: 10.1080/21594937.2020.1723370.

VanRyzin JW, Marquardt AE, Pickett LA, McCarthy MM. Microglia and sexual differentiation of the developing brain: A focus on extrinsic factors. Glia. 2020 Jun;68(6):1100-1113. doi: 10.1002/glia.23740.

Miriam Menken

Fox ME, Figueiredo A, Menken MS, Lobo MK. Dendritic spine density is increased on nucleus accumbens D2 neurons after chronic social defeat. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 24;10(1):12393. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69339-7.

Fox ME, Chandra R, Menken MS, Larkin EJ, Nam H, Engeln M, Francis TC, Lobo MK. Dendritic remodeling of D1 neurons by RhoA/Rho-kinase mediates depression-like behavior. Mol Psychiatry. 2020 May;25(5):1022-1034. doi: 10.1038/s41380-018-0211-5.

Mitchell Moyer

Keledjian K, Tsymbalyuk O, Semick S, Moyer M, Negoita S, Kim K, Ivanova S, Gerzanich V, Simard JM. The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) agonist, rosiglitazone, ameliorates neurofunctional and neuroinflammatory abnormalities in a rat model of Gulf War Illness. PLoS One. 2020 Nov 13;15(11):e0242427. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242427.

Lindsay Pickett

VanRyzin JW, Marquardt AE, Pickett LA, McCarthy MM. Microglia and sexual differentiation of the developing brain: A focus on extrinsic factors. Glia. 2020 Jun;68(6):1100-1113. doi: 10.1002/glia.23740.

Molly Pruitt

Lustberg D, Tillage RP, Bai Y, Pruitt M, Liles LC, Weinshenker D. Noradrenergic circuits in the forebrain control affective responses to novelty. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2020 Nov;237(11):3337-3355. doi: 10.1007/s00213-020-05615-8.

Lustberg D, Iannitelli AF, Tillage RP, Pruitt M, Liles LC, Weinshenker D. Central norepinephrine transmission is required for stress-induced repetitive behavior in two rodent models of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2020 Jul;237(7):1973-1987. doi: 10.1007/s00213-020-05512-0.

Houman Qadir

White MG, Mu C, Qadir H, Madden MB, Zeng H, Mathur BN. The Mouse Claustrum Is Required for Optimal Behavioral Performance Under High Cognitive Demand. Biol Psychiatry. 2020 Nov 1;88(9):719-726. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.03.020.

Austin Ramsey

Held RG, Liu C, Ma K, Ramsey AM, Tarr TB, De Nola G, Wang SSH, Wang J, van den Maagdenberg AMJM, Schneider T, Sun J, Blanpied TA, Kaeser PS. Synapse and Active Zone Assembly in the Absence of Presynaptic Ca2+ Channels and Ca2+ Entry. Neuron. 2020 Aug 19;107(4):667-683.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.05.032.

Lace Riggs

Riggs LM, Aracava Y, Zanos P, Fischell J, Albuquerque EX, Pereira EFR, Thompson SM, Gould TD. (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine rapidly potentiates hippocampal glutamatergic transmission through a synapse-specific presynaptic mechanism. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020 Jan;45(2):426-436. doi: 10.1038/s41386-019-0443-3.

Colin Robertson

Hariharan A, Weir N, Robertson C, He L, Betsholtz C, Longden TA. The Ion Channel and GPCR Toolkit of Brain Capillary Pericytes. Front Cell Neurosci. 2020 Dec 18;14:601324. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2020.601324.

Meghann Ryan

Kochunov P, Zavaliangos-Petropulu A, Jahanshad N, Thompson PM, Ryan MC, Chiappelli J, Chen S, Du X, Hatch K, Adhikari B, Sampath H, Hare S, Kvarta M, Goldwaser E, Yang F, Olvera RL, Fox PT, Curran JE, Blangero J, Glahn DC, Tan Y, Hong LE. A White Matter Connection of Schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease. Schizophr Bull. 2021 Jan 23;47(1):197-206. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa078.

‌Olivia Uddin

Vasavda C, Uddin O, Lee MS. The JCI Scholar experience strengthens physician-scientist training. J Clin Invest. 2021 Mar 15;131(6):e148012. doi: 10.1172/JCI148012.

Uddin O, Jenne C, Fox ME, Arakawa K, Keller A, Cramer N. Divergent profiles of fentanyl withdrawal and associated pain in mice and rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2021 Jan;200:173077. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2020.173077.

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Physical Rehabilitation Science

Ruth Akinlosutu

Alissa N, Akinlosotu RY, Shipper AG, Wheeler LA, Westlake KP. A systematic review of upper extremity responses during reactive balance perturbations in aging. Gait Posture. 2020 Oct;82:138-146. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2020.08.134.

Akinlosotu RY, Alissa N, Sorkin JD, Wittenberg GF, Westlake KP. Age-Related Differences in Arm and Trunk Responses to First and Repeated Exposure to Laterally Induced Imbalances. Brain Sci. 2020 Aug 20;10(9):574. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10090574.

Nesreen Alissa

Alissa N, Akinlosotu RY, Shipper AG, Wheeler LA, Westlake KP. A systematic review of upper extremity responses during reactive balance perturbations in aging. Gait Posture. 2020 Oct;82:138-146. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2020.08.134.

Akinlosotu RY, Alissa N, Sorkin JD, Wittenberg GF, Westlake KP. Age-Related Differences in Arm and Trunk Responses to First and Repeated Exposure to Laterally Induced Imbalances. Brain Sci. 2020 Aug 20;10(9):574. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10090574.

Myers JS, Alissa N, Mitchell M, Dai J, He J, Moon S, O'Dea A, Klemp J, Kurylo M, Akinwuntan A, Devos H. Pilot Feasibility Study Examining Pupillary Response During Driving Simulation as a Measure of Cognitive Load in Breast Cancer Survivors. Oncol Nurs Forum. 2020 Mar 1;47(2):203-212. doi: 10.1188/20.ONF.203-212.

Kathleen Dondero

Serra MC, Dondero KR, Larkins D, Burns A, Addison O. Healthy Lifestyle and Cognition: Interaction between Diet and Physical Activity. Curr Nutr Rep. 2020 Jun;9(2):64-74. doi: 10.1007/s13668-020-00306-4.

Derrick Larkins

Serra MC, Dondero KR, Larkins D, Burns A, Addison O. Healthy Lifestyle and Cognition: Interaction between Diet and Physical Activity. Curr Nutr Rep. 2020 Jun;9(2):64-74. doi: 10.1007/s13668-020-00306-4.

Kelly Rock

Nelson CM, Marchese V, Rock K, Henshaw RM, Addison O. Alterations in Muscle Architecture: A Review of the Relevance to Individuals After Limb Salvage Surgery for Bone Sarcoma. Front Pediatr. 2020 Jun 16;8:292. doi: 10.3389/fped.2020.00292.

Tanner L, Keppner K, Lesmeister D, Lyons K, Rock K, Sparrow J. Cancer Rehabilitation in the Pediatric and Adolescent/Young Adult Population. Semin Oncol Nurs. 2020 Feb;36(1):150984. doi: 10.1016/j.soncn.2019.150984.

 

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