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Student Publications

  • Cruz, L. S., Robinson, M., Stevenson, D., Amador, I. C., Valenica, S., Jordan, G. J., Navarrete, C., House, C. D.; Chemotherapy enriches for pro-inflammatory macrophage phenotypes that support cancer stem-like cells and disease progression in ovarian cancer. (2024). Cancer Research Communications.

  • Nesbit K, Hargadon C, Renaudin G, Lee Y, Darin E, Hamdoun A, Schrankel C. (2024). Characterization of cellular and molecular immune components of the painted white sea urchin Lytechinus pictus in response to bacterial infection. Immunology and Cell Biology.

  • Farrell, M. V.; Airkin, M. Y.; Ali, T. N.; Altoblani, Z. S.; Bowman, C. R.; Diaz, A. A. B.; Faurot, P. F.; Frausto, J. E.; Haji, S. F.; Hamad, B. A.; Lively, J. B.; Luistro, D. C. C.; Macias, Y.; Mathew, S.; McKinley, K. M.; Nasirimoseloo, S.; Tran, B. P.; Trinh, A. N.; Shikuma, N. J. Draft Genome Sequence of Exiguobacterium Sp. Strain MMG028 Isolated from a Salt Marsh. Microbiology Resource Announcements 2024, 0 (0), e00116-23.

  • Filipowska, J., Cisneros, Z., Leon-Rivera, N., Wang, P., Kang, R., Lu, G., Yuan, Y. C., Bhattacharya, S., Dhawan, S., Garcia-Ocaña, A., Kondegowda, N. G., & Vasavada, R. C.(2024). LGR4 is essential for maintaining β-cell homeostasis through suppression of RANK. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.05.10.593645.

  • Robinson, E. et al. (2024) ‘pJoseph2: a family of plasmids as positive controls for bacterial protein expression, transfections, and western blots‘, Biotechniques, 76(7), pp. 299-309. doi: 10.1080/07366205.2024.2343609

  • Holmberg, R., Robinson, M., Gilbert, S. F., Lujano-Olazaba, O., Waters, J. A., Kogan, E., Velasquez, C. L. R., Stevenson, D., Cruz, L. S., Alexander, L. J., Lara, J., Mu, E. M., Camillo, J. R., Bitler, B. G., Huxford, T., & House, C. D.; TWEAK-Fn14-RelB Signaling Cascade Promotes Stem Cell-like Features that Contribute to Post-Chemotherapy Ovarian Cancer Relapse. (2023). Molecular cancer research: MCR, 21(2), 170-186

  • Alker, A. T.; Farrell, M. V.; Demko, A. M.; Purdy, T. N.; Adak, S.; Moore, B. S.; Sneed, J. M.; Paul, V. J.; Shikuma, N. J. Linking Bacterial Tetrabromopyrrole Biosynthesis to Coral Metamorphosis. ISME Commun 2023, 3 (1), 98.

  • Alker, A. T.; Farrell, M. V.; Aspiras, A. E.; Dunbar, T. L.; Fedoriouk, A.; Jones, J. E.; Mikhail, S. R.; Salcedo, G. Y.; Moore, B. S.; Shikuma, N. J. A Modular Plasmid Toolkit Applied in Marine Bacteria Reveals Functional Insights during Bacteria-Stimulated Metamorphosis. mBio 2023, 0 (0), e01502-23.

  • Kondegowda, N. G., Filipowska, J., Do, J. S., Leon-Rivera, N., Li, R., Hampton, R., Ogyaadu, S., Levister, C., Penninger, J. M., Reijonen, H., Levy, C. J., & Vasavada, R. C. (2023). RANKL/RANK is required for cytokine-induced beta cell death; osteoprotegerin, a RANKL inhibitor, reverses rodent type 1 diabetes. Science advances, 9(44), eadf5238.

  • Bernareggi, D., Xie, Q., Prager, B. C., Yun, J., Cruz, L. S., Pham, T. V., Kim, W., Lee, X., Coffey, M., Zalfa, C., Azmoon, P., Zhu, H., Tamayo, P., Rich, J. N., & Kaufman, D. S.; CHMP2A regulates tumor sensitivity to natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxicity. (2022). Nature communications, 13(1), 1899.

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