Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Publications

Successful IMSD students publish one or more research articles upon graduation.

Arielys Mendoza, Simultaneous Acquisition of Mitochondrial Calcium Retention Capacity and Swelling to Measure Permeability Transition Sensitivity. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2497:129-140. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2309-1_9

Arielys Mendoza, Keeping the beat against time: Mitochondrial fitness in the aging heart. Front Aging 2022 Jul 26;3:951417. doi: 10.3389/fragi.2022.951417

Marcus Florez, Clonal hematopoiesis: Mutation-specific adaptation to environmental change. Cell Stem Cell 2022 Jun 2;29(6):882-904. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2022.05.006

Marcus Florez, Persistent ethnicity-associated disparity in anti-tumor effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors despite equal access. Cancer Res Commun 2022:10.1158/2767-9764. CRC-21-0143. doi: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-21-0143

Hailey Edwards, The evolution and structure/function of bHLH-PAS transcription factor family. Biochem Soc Trans 2022 Jun 30;50(3):1227-1243. doi: 10.1042/BST20211225

Navish Bosquez Huerta, Lunatic Fringe-GFP Marks Lamina-Specific Astrocytes That Regulate Sensory Processing. J Neurosci 2022 Jan 26;42(4):567-580. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1392-21.2021

Marlyd Mejia, Phage Resistance Accompanies Reduced Fitness of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in the Urinary Environment. mSphere 2022 Aug 31;7(4):e0034522. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00345-22

Marlyd Mejia, Human Milk Oligosaccharides Reduce Murine Group B Streptococcus Vaginal Colonization with Minimal Impact on the Vaginal Microbiota. mSphere 2022 Feb 23;7(1):e0088521. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00885-21

Alyssa Paparella, Racial disparities in prostate cancer: A complex interplay between socioeconomic inequities and genomics. Cancer Lett 2022 Apr 10;531:71-82. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2022.01.028

Gary Huang, The need for unbiased genetic screens to dissect aggression in Drosophila melanogaster. Front Behav Neurosci 2022 Aug 1;16:901453. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.901453

Gabriel Escobedo, Temporal and spatially controlled APP transgene expression using Cre-dependent alleles. Dis Model Mech 2022 May 1;15(5):dmm049330. doi: 10.1242/dmm.049330

Mara Cardenas, A Costimulatory CAR Improves TCR-based Cancer Immunotherapy. Cancer Immunol Res 2022 Apr 1;10(4):512-524. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066

Sergio Aguirre, Chemotherapy Coupled to Macrophage Inhibition Induces T-cell and B-cell Infiltration and Durable Regression in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Cancer Res 2022 Jun 15;82(12):2281-2297. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472

Faith Joseph, Histone variant-specific post-translational modifications. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2022 Mar 9;S1084-9521(22)00051-9. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2022.02.012

Andrea Ortiz, Myocardial Rev-erb-Mediated Diurnal Metabolic Rhythm and Obesity Paradox. Circulation 2022 Feb 8;145(6):448-464. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056076

Andrea Ortiz, Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase 2 regulates hepatic fuel metabolism. Mol Metab 2022 Aug;62:101513. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2022.101513

Jaime Reyes, Systematic Profiling of DNMT3A Variants Reveals Protein Instability Mediated by the DCAF8 E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Adaptor. Cancer Discov 2022 Jan;12(1):220-235. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-21-0560

Jaime Reyes, Perturbed hematopoiesis in individuals with germline DNMT3A overgrowth Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome. Haematologica 2022 Apr 1;107(4):887-898. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2021.278990

Jaime Reyes, Constitutive loss of DNMT3A causes morbid obesity through misregulation of adipogenesis. Elife 2022 May 30;11:e72359. doi: 10.7554/eLife.72359

Christian Valladolid Brown, Secretion of von Willebrand Factor and Suppression of ADAMTS-13 Activity by Markedly High Concentration of Ferritin. Clin. Aopl. Thromb Hemost. 2021 PMID: 33539188

Darius Devlin, Knockout of mouse receptor accessory protein 6 leads to sperm function and morphology defects. Biol Reprod. 2020. PMID: 32101290

Jessica Felix, Ube2i deletion in adipocytes causes lipoatrophy in mice. Molecular Metabolism. 2021 PMID: 33771728

Jessica Felix, Acetyl-CoA and Metabolite Fluxes Regulate White Adipose Tissue Expansion. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2021. PMID: 33712368

Grady Gastelum, Molecular mechanisms of pulmonary carcinogenesis by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): Implications for human lung cancer. Semin Cancer Biol. 2021 PMID: 34242741

Janet Bruno-Gaston, Prevalence of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Patients with McCune Albright Syndrome. 2021. PMID: 34118374

Sabrina Green, Targeting of Mammalian Glycans Enhances Phage Predation in the Gastrointestinal Tract. mBio 2021. PMID: 33563833

Leah Kafer, Calcium-Regulated Protein CarP Responds to Multiple Host Signals and Mediates Regulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence by Calcium. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2021. PMID: 33674436

Alisha Kardian, ZFTA-RELA Dictates Oncogenic Transcriptional Programs to Drive Aggressive Supratentorial Ependymoma. Cancer Discovery. 2021. PMID: 33741710

Andrew Lopez, Dynamic Imaging of Mouse Embryos and Cardiac Development in Static Culture. Methods Mol. Biol. 2021. PMID: 32754815

Marissa Minor, Hepatitis B Virus HBx Protein Mediates the Degradation of Host Restriction Factors through the Cullin 4 DDB1 E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Complex. Cells 2020. PMID: 32235678

Oscar Murillo, Dissecting the contribution of host genetics and the microbiome in complex behaviors. Cell 2021. PMID: 33705688

Larry Scott, Jr., From Neutrophil Calcium Sensor to Myocardial Remodeling-A Double-Edged Pathway Guided by the Inflammasome. Can J. Cardiol. 2020. PMID: 32173053

Doris Taylor, Identifying Oxacillinase-48 Carbapenemase Inhibitors Using DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries. ACS Infectious Disease. 2020. PMID: 32182432