Students & Alumni
Recent Publications
Zachary Capriotti
Mentor: Dr. Zachary Klase (Department of Pharmacology & Physiology)
Capriotti Z, Klase Z
J Neurovirol. 2024 Dec;30(5-6):451-476. doi: 10.1007/s13365-024-01239-2. Epub 2024 Dec 28. PMID: 39733092
Jason DaCunza
Mentor: Dr. Seena Ajit (Department of Pharmacology & Physiology)
DaCunza JT, Wickman JR, Ajit SK
Pain Rep. 2024 Oct 23;9(6):e1198. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000001198. eCollection 2024 Dec. PMID: 39450410
Skandha Ramakrishnan
Mentor: Dr. Liang Qiang (Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy)
Ramakrishnan S, Mohan N, Dong Z, Liu M, Qiang L
Mov Disord. 2024 Nov 29. doi: 10.1002/mds.30072. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39614608
Kareen Pestana
Mentor: Dr. Eugenia Lo (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Pestana K, Ford A, Rama R, Abagero B, Kepple D, Tomida J, Popovici J, Yewhalaw D, Lo E
J Infect Dis. 2024 Oct 16;230(4):1004-1012. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae388. PMID: 39102894
Rachel Berman
Mentor: Dr. Michael Nonnemacher (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Berman RE, Dampier W, Nonnemacher MR, Wigdahl B
Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2024 May 1;19(3):150-156. doi: 10.1097/COH.0000000000000846. Epub 2024 Mar 1. PMID: 38547339
Dorothy Benton
Mentor: (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Benton D, Yee Chow H, Karchugina S, Chernoff J
PLoS One. 2024 Jul 31;19(7):e0305121. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305121. eCollection 2024. PMID: 39083549
Benton D, Chernoff J
Sci Signal. 2023 Dec 19;16(816):eadk9171. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.adk9171. Epub 2023 Dec 19.PMID: 38113334
Benton D, Chernoff J
Cell Chem Biol. 2023 Jul 20;30(7):699-701. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2023.06.023. PMID: 37478825
Benton D, Chernoff J
Cancer Discov. Feb 2020;10(2):182-184
Allison Yankey
Mentor: Dr. Srinivas Somarowthu (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Yankey A, Oh M, Lee BL, Desai TK, Somarowthu S
Sci Rep. 2024 Aug 21;14(1):19384. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-69792-8. PMID: 39169000
Yankey A, Clark SC, Owens MC, Somarowthu S
Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2372:93-110. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1697-0_10. PMID: 34417746
Jasmine Peake
Mentor: Dr. Eishi Noguchi (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Peake JD, Horne KI, Noguchi C, Gilligan JP, Noguchi E
Cell Cycle. 2023 Sep;22(18):2088-2096. doi: 10.1080/15384101.2023.2261740. Epub 2023 Nov 23.PMID: 37749911
Peake JD, Noguchi E
Hum Genet. 2022 May 21. doi: 10.1007/s00439-022-02462-9. PMID: 35596788
Peake JD, Noguchi C, Lin B, Theriault A, O'Connor M, Sheth S, Tanaka K, Nakagawa H, Noguchi E
Mol Oncol. 2021 Jul 30. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.13072. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34328261
Emily Esquea
Esquea EM, Young RG, Reginato MJ
Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2024 Feb;35(2):88-90. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2023.12.002. Epub 2023 Dec 13.PMID: 38097465
Esquea EM, Ciraku L, Young RG, Merzy J, Talarico AN, Ahmed NN, Karuppiah M, Ramesh A, Chatoff A, Crispim CV, Rashad AA, Cocklin S, Snyder NW, Beld J, Simone NL, Reginato MJ, Dick A
Front Pharmacol. 2024 May 16;15:1394685. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1394685. eCollection 2024.PMID: 38818373
Alexa Cannon
Mentor: (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Cannon AC, Budagyan K, Uribe-Alvarez C, Kurimchak AM, Araiza-Olivera D, Cai KQ, Peri S, Zhou Y, Duncan JS, Chernoff J
Oncogene. 2024 Mar;43(10):729-743. doi: 10.1038/s41388-024-02947-z. Epub 2024 Jan 19.PMID: 38243078
Budagyan K, Cannon AC, Chernoff J
Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2797:351-362. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3822-4_25.PMID: 38570472
Cannon AC, Uribe-Alvarez C, Chernoff J
Trends Cancer. Jun 2020;6(6):478-488
John Chojnowski
Mentor: Todd Strochlic (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Chojnowski JE, Li R, Tsang T, Alfaran FH, Dick A, Cocklin S, Brady DC, Strochlic TI
Front Mol Biosci. 2022 Jun 9;9:878652. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.878652. eCollection 2022.PMID: 35755824
Theodore Gurrola
Gurrola TE, Effah SN, Sariyer IK, Dampier W, Nonnemacher MR, Wigdahl B
Front Microbiol. 2024 May 15;15:1393974. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1393974. eCollection 2024.PMID: 38812680
Rachel Berman
Berman RE, Dampier W, Nonnemacher MR, Wigdahl B
Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2024 May 1;19(3):150-156. doi: 10.1097/COH.0000000000000846. Epub 2024 Mar 1.PMID: 38547339
Beka Abagero
Abagero BR, Rama R, Obeid A, Tolosa T, Lukas B, Teka T, Tesfaye D, Lo E, Yewhalaw D
Malar J. 2024 Jun 20;23(1):194. doi: 10.1186/s12936-024-04875-5.PMID: 38902674
Shabnam Pirestani
Pirestani S, Golemis EA
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2022 Dec 1;323(6):F613-F615. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00225.2022. Epub 2022 Sep 15.PMID: 36108051
Carly DeAntoneo
Mentor: Dr. Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
DeAntoneo C, Herbert A, Balachandran S
Curr Opin Immunol. 2023 Aug;83:102347. doi: 10.1016/j.coi.2023.102347. Epub 2023 Jun 3. PMID: 37276820
DeAntoneo C, Danthi P, Balachandran S
Cells. 2022 May 27;11(11):1757. doi: 10.3390/cells11111757. PMID: 35681452
Anna Lilly
Mentor: Dr. Erica Golemis (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Lilly AC, Astsaturov I, Golemis EA
Cell Mol Life Sci. 2023 Jul 15;80(8):206. doi: 10.1007/s00018-023-04855-z
Nicholas Duchemin
Mentor: Dr. Michael Bouchard (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Duchemin NJ, Loonawat R, Yeakle K, Rosenkranz A, Bouchard MJ
Virology. 2023 Jul 16;586:76-90. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2023.06.013. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37490813
Jill Lawrence
Mentor: Dr. Michael Nonnemacher (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Lawrence JM, Schardien K, Wigdahl B, Nonnemacher MR
Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2023 Mar 13;11(1):42. doi: 10.1186/s40478-023-01526-9
Teddy Nguyen
Mentor: Dr. Erica Golsmis (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Nguyen TT, Silva FN, Golemis EA
Cancer J. 2022 Sep-Oct 01;28(5):387-400. doi: 10.1097/PPO.0000000000000614
Mitchell Parker
Mentor: Dr. Roland Dunbrack (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Parker MI, Meyer JE, Golemis EA, Dunbrack RL
Cancer Res. 2022 Jul 5;82(13):2485-2498. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-0804
Cellular Signalling (2020)
Lindsay Steele
Mentor: Dr. Boris Polyak (Department of Surgery)
Steele LA, Spiller KL, Cohen S, Rom S, Polyak B
ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2022 Aug 8;8(8):3526-3541. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.2c00373. PMID: 35838679
Kristopher Raghavan
Mentor: (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Raghavan KS, Francescone R, Franco-Barraza J, Gardiner JC, Vendramini-Costa DB, Luong T, Pourmandi N, Andren A, Kurimchak A, Ogier C, Campbell PM, Duncan JS, Lyssiotis CA, Languino LR, Cukierman E
Cancer Res Commun. 2022 Sep;2(9):1017-1036. doi: 10.1158/2767-9764.crc-21-0147. PMID: 36310768
Tara Fortino
Mentor: Dr. Michael Lane (Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy)
Fortino TA, Randelman ML, Hall AA, Singh J, Bloom DC, Engel E, Hoh DJ, Hou S, Zholudeva LV, Lane MA
Exp Neurol. 2022 May;351:113990. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2022.113990. PMID: 35085573
Samuel Flashner
Mentor: Dr. Jane Clifford (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Flashner S, Swift M, Sowash A, Fahmy AN, Azizkhan-Clifford J
Chromosoma. 2022 Sep;131(3):175-191. doi: 10.1007/s00412-022-00778-z. PMID: 35916925
Nima Sarfaraz
Mentor: Dr. Michael Bouchard (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Sarfaraz N, Somarowthu S, Bouchard MJ
J Med Virol. 2022 Aug 9. doi: 10.1002/jmv.28058. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35946066
Lorela Ciraku
Mentor: Dr. Mauricio J. Reginato (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Ciraku L, Bacigalupa ZA, Ju J, Moeller RA, Le Minh G, Lee RH, Smith MD, Ferrer CM, Trefely S, Izzo LT, Doan MT, Gocal WA, D'Agostino L, Shi W, Jackson JG, Katsetos CD, Wellen KE, Snyder NW, Reginato MJ
Oncogene. 2022 Apr;41(14):2122-2136. doi: 10.1038/s41388-022-02237-6. PMID: 35190642
- “O-GlcNAcylation regulation of cellular signaling in cancer,” published in Cell Signalling (February 2022)
- “An Ex Vivo Brain Slice Model to Study and Target Breast Cancer Brain Metastatic Tumor Growth,” published in Journal of Visualized Experiments (September 2021)
Michelle Swift
Mentor: Dr. Jane Clifford (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Swift ML, Azizkhan-Clifford J
DNA Repair (Amst). 2022 Mar;111:103289. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2022.103289. Feb 1.PMID: 35124373
Swift ML, Beishline K, Azizkhan-Clifford J
DNA Repair (Amst). 2021 Sep;105:103171. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2021.103171. Epub 2021 Jul 7.PMID: 34252870
Swift ML, Sell C, Azizkhan-Clifford J
Geroscience. 2021 Sep 22. doi: 10.1007/s11357-021-00456-5. Online ahead of print.PMID: 34550526
Swift ML, Beishline K, Flashner S, Azizkhan-Clifford J
Cell Rep. 2021;34(11):108840. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108840
Konstantin Budagyan
Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Chernoff (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Budagyan K, Chernoff J
Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2262:323-334. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1190-6_20. PMID: 33977487
Timothy Nacarelli
Mentor: Dr. Christian Sell (Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine).
Nacarelli T, Azar A, Potnis M, Johannes G, Mell J, Johnson FB, Brown-Borg H, Noguchi E, Sell C
Mol Biol Cell. 2022 May 1;33(5):ar36. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E20-08-0523. PMID: 35196069
Alexandra Guffey, MS
Mentor: Dr. Patrick Loll (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
- “Regulation of Resistance in Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci: The VanRS Two-Component System,” published in Microorganism (September 2021)
Jennifer Alexander
Mentor: (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
- “Palladin isoforms 3 and 4 regulate cancer-associated fibroblast pro-tumor functions in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma,” published in Scientific Reports (February 2021)
- "," published in Matrix Biology (May 2020)
Margaret O’Connor
Mentor: Dr. Elias El Haddad (Department of Medicine)
O'Connor MH, Muir R, Chakhtoura M, Fang M, Moysi E, Moir S, Carey AJ, Terk A, Nichols CN, Metcalf T, Petrovas C, Cameron MJ, Tardif V, Haddad EK
Commun Biol. 2021 May 12;4(1):563. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02079-0. PMID: 33980982
Mihir Shetty
Mentor: Dr. Eishi Noguchi (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
- "," published in Aging Cell (February 2020)