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Caitlyn Chapman
Garrudo FFF, Mikael PE, Rodrigues CAV, Udangawa RW, Paradiso P,
Chapman CA
, Hoffman P, Colaço R, Cabral JMS, Morgado J, Linhardt RJ, Ferreira FC. Polyaniline-polycaprolactone fibers for neural applications: Electroconductivity enhanced by pseudo-doping. Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl. 2021 Jan;120:111680. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2020.111680. Epub: 2020 Nov 4
Bhattacharya S, Roy I, Tice A,
Chapman C
, Udangawa R, Chakrapani V, Plawsky JL, Linhardt RJ. High-Capacitance Electrospun Fibers for Supercapacitor Applications. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2020 Apr 29;12(17):19369-19376. doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b21696. Epub: 2020 Apr 20.
Fabliha Chowdhury
Wu L, Li X, Lin Q,
Chowdhury F
, Mazumder MH, Du W. (2020). FANCD2 and HES1suppress inflammation-induced PPAR? to prevent haematopoietic stem cell exhaustion. Br J Haematol. doi: 10.1111/bjh.17230. PMID: 33222180.
Lin, Q., Wu, L., Ma, Z.,
Chowdhury, F. A.
, Mazumder, H. H., & Du, W. (2020). Persistent DNA damage-induced NLRP12 improves hematopoietic stem cell function. JCI Insight, 5(10). https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.133365. PMID: 32434992.
Wu, L., Lin, Q., Ma, Z.,
Chowdhury, F. A
., Mazumder, M. H. H., & Du, W. (2020). Mesenchymal PGD2 activates an ILC2-Treg axis to promote proliferation of normal and malignant HSPCs. Leukemia. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-020-0843-8. PMID: 32366935
Ma, Z., Xu, J., Wu, L., Wang, J., Lin, Q., Chowdhury, F. A., Du, W. (2020). Hes1 deficiency causes hematopoietic stem cell exhaustion. Stem Cells. https://doi.org/10.1002/stem.3169. PMID: 32129527
Lisa Hong
Lin CC, Mabe NW, Lin YT, Yang WH, Tang X,
Hong L
, Sun T, Force J, Marks JR, Yao TP, Alvarez JV, Chi JT. RIPK3 upregulation confers robust proliferation and collateral cystine-dependence on breast cancer recurrence. Cell Death Differ. 2020 Jul;27(7):2234-2247. doi: 10.1038/s41418-020-0499-y. Epub 2020 Jan 27. PMID: 31988496
Nicole Kaminski
Hoang SM,
Kaminski N
, Bhargava R, Barroso-González J, Lynskey ML, García-Expósito L, Roncaioli JL, Wondisford AR, Wallace CT, Watkins SC, James DI, Waddell ID, Ogilvie D, Smith KM, da Veiga Leprevost F, Mellacharevu D, Nesvizhskii AI, Li J, Ray-Gallet D, Sobol RW, Almouzni G, O'Sullivan RJ. Regulation of ALT-associated homology-directed repair by polyADP-ribosylation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2020 Dec;27(12):1152-1164. doi: 10.1038/s41594-020-0512-7. Epub 2020 Oct 12. PMID: 33046907 PMCID: PMC7809635
Michelle Lynskey
Hoang SM, Kaminski N, Bhargava R, Barroso-González J,
Lynskey ML
, García-Expósito L, Roncaioli JL, Wondisford AR, Wallace CT, Watkins SC, James DI, Waddell ID, Ogilvie D, Smith KM, da Veiga Leprevost F, Mellacharevu D, Nesvizhskii AI, Li J, Ray-Gallet D, Sobol RW, Almouzni G, O'Sullivan RJ. Regulation of ALT-associated homology-directed repair by polyADP-ribosylation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2020 Dec;27(12):1152-1164. doi: 10.1038/s41594-020-0512-7. Epub 2020 Oct 12. PMID: 33046907 PMCID: PMC7809635
Bellina Mushala
Thapa, D., Manning, J.R.,
Mushala, B.
, Stoner, M.W., Zhang, M. & Scott, I. (2020). Increased fatty acid oxidation enzyme activity in the hearts of mice fed a high fat diet does not correlate with improved cardiac contractile function. Current Research in Physiology. 3. 44-49
Sonja Plasil
Plasil SL
, Seth A, Homanics GE. CRISPR Turbo Accelerated KnockOut (CRISPy TAKO) for Rapid in vivo Screening of Gene Function. Front Genome Ed. 2020 Oct;2:598522. doi: 10.3389/fgeed.2020.598522. Epub 2020 Oct 21. PMID: 33604589 PMCID: PMC7889042
Baratta AM, Rathod RS,
Plasil SL
, Seth A, Homanics GE. Exposure to drugs of abuse induce effects that persist across generations. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2021;156:217-277. doi: 10.1016/bs.irn.2020.08.003. Epub 2020 Sep 30. PMID: 33461664 PMCID:
PMC8167819
Rathod RS, Ferguson C, Seth A, Baratta AM,
Plasil SL
, Homanics GE. Effects of Paternal Preconception Vapor Alcohol Exposure Paradigms on Behavioral Responses in Offspring. Brain Sci. 2020 Sep 22;10(9):658. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10090658. PMID: 32971974 PMCID: PMC7564629
Sripriya Raja
Kumar N*, Raja S*, Van Houten B. The involvement of nucleotide excision repair proteins in the removal of oxidative DNA damage [published online ahead of print, 2020 Oct 3]. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020;gkaa777. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa777
Hayley Rein
Jiang, Z., Lai, Y., Beaver, J., Tsegay, P., Zhao, M., Horton, J., Zamora,M.,
Rein, H.
, Mirales, F., Shaver, M., Hutcheson, J., Agoulnik I., Wilson, S. and Liu, Y. 2020. Oxidative DNA Damage Modulates DNA Methylation Pattern in Human Breast Cancer 1 (BRCA1) Gene via the Crosstalk between DNA Polymerase β and a de novo DNA Methyltransferase. Cells. 9(1):225
Anne Wondisford
Hoang SM, Kaminski N, Bhargava R, Barroso-González J, Lynskey ML, García-Expósito L, Roncaioli
JL,
Wondisford AR
, Wallace CT, Watkins SC, James DI, Waddell ID, Ogilvie D, Smith KM, da Veiga
Leprevost F, Mellacharevu D, Nesvizhskii AI, Li J, Ray-Gallet D, Sobol RW, Almouzni G, O'Sullivan RJ.
Regulation of ALT-associated homology-directed repair by polyADP-ribosylation. Nat Struct Mol Biol.
2020 Oct 12. doi: 10.1038/s41594-020-0512-7. PMID: 33046907 PMCID: PMC7809635