Recent Faculty Publications

Saleem K, Xiao Z, Zhu B, Ren Y, Yan Z, Feng J. (2026) Elevated SGK1 increases Tau phosphorylation and microtubule instability in Alzheimer's patient-derived cortical neurons. Molecular psychiatry (Jan), 31(1): 332-342.
Solis LM, Melendez WL, Fuke SH, Paul S, Garza AB, Garcia R, Halfon MS, Girgis HZ. (2025) EnhancerMatcher: comparing cell-type-specific enhancer activity of DNA sequences using deep convolutional neural networks and explainable AI. NAR genomics and bioinformatics (Dec), 7(4): lqaf151.
Kern KA, DiBrog AM, Demieri E, Przybysz JT, Clark SD, Mietlicki-Baase EG. (2025) Central pramlintide administration potently suppresses operant responding for sucrose and locomotor activity in male rats. Physiology & behavior (Dec), 302: 115114.
Kedari KG, Smith Z, Cheli VT, Corral JG, Wang C, Paez PM. (2025) Astrocyte-specific deletion of ceruloplasmin exacerbates oxidative stress and demyelination in the spinal cord in a murine model of multiple sclerosis. Neurobiology of disease (Dec)107249.
Li L, Zhu B, Feng J. (2025) Identifying key regulators in neuronal transdifferentiation by gene regulatory network analysis. PNAS nexus (Dec), 4(12): pgaf365.
Santo BA, Jenkins TD, Shah JP, Balghonaim S, Scotti A, Patel TR, Levy EI, Siddiqui AH, Kolega J, Tutino VM. (2025) Impact of neutrophil extracellular traps on the mechanical, radiomic, and histological properties of in vitro stroke clots. Acta neurologica Belgica (Dec).
Kristen L Woodhouse, Jun-Xu Li. (2025) Individual differences in behavioral effects of xylazine and opioid-xylazine mixtures in male rats. Psychopharmacology (Dec) doi:10.1007/s00213-025-06988-4
Russo TA, Carlino-MacDonald U, Drayer ZJ, Davies CJ, Hutson A, Luo TL, Martin MJ, McGann PT, Lebreton F, Sanders A. (2025) Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae causing aortitis retains its capsule and mucoviscosity and remains genotypically and phenotypically stable over time. Scientific reports (Nov), 15(1): 39781.
Cheli VT, Paez PM. (2025) Voltage-Gated and Chemogenetic Modulation of Calcium Signaling in Oligodendrocyte Development and Synaptic Integration. Journal of neurochemistry (Oct), 169(10): e70259.
Shen Q, Wang H, Roco JA, Meng X, Bosticardo M, Hodges M, Battaglia M, Feng ZP, Talks BJ, Powell J, Shanmugiah VBM, Chu J, Rahman NM, Elsheikh A, Chakravarty P, Grenov A, Emmerich M, Delmonte OM, Freeman AF, Keller MD, Belaid B, Papa I, Lee JC, Cañete PF, Gonzalez-Figueroa P, Zhang Y, Xue HH, Turajlic S, Notarangelo LD, Haniffa M, Garrett-Sinha LA, Parry HM, Kanellakis NI, Vinuesa CG. (2025) TCF1 and LEF1 promote B-1a cell homeostasis and regulatory function. Nature (Oct), 646(8084): 442-451.
Segelhurst E, Bard JE, Gallo S, Huang V, Pohlman A, Yergeau DA, Surtees JA, Bradley IM, Ye Y. (2025) Recovering wastewater RNA for virome sequencing by systematically optimized tangential-flow ultrafiltration and Nanotrap microbiome particles. Applied and environmental microbiology (Oct), 91(10): e0077725.
Shen Q, Wang H, Roco JA, Meng X, Bosticardo M, Hodges M, Battaglia M, Feng ZP, Talks BJ, Powell J, Shanmugiah VBM, Chu J, Rahman NM, Elsheikh A, Chakravarty P, Grenov A, Emmerich M, Delmonte OM, Freeman AF, Keller MD, Belaid B, Papa I, Lee JC, Cañete PF, Gonzalez-Figueroa P, Zhang Y, Xue HH, Turajlic S, Notarangelo LD, Haniffa M, Garrett-Sinha LA, Parry HM, Kanellakis NI, Vinuesa CG. (2025) Publisher Correction: TCF1 and LEF1 promote B-1a cell homeostasis and regulatory function.
Cheli VT, Wartanian TP, Santiago González DA, Corral JG, Angeliu CG, Tumuluri SG, Wang C, Smith Z, Paez PM. (2025) Chemogenetic Activation of Oligodendrocytes Delays Postnatal Myelination by Promoting Progenitor Proliferation and Inhibiting Maturation. Glia (Oct).
Weaver MG, Popescu GK. (2025) Dynamic control of NMDA receptor Ca2+ permeability by endogenous and synthetic modulators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Oct), 122(42): e2511783122.
Abbott JA, Kim J, Liu B, Popescu GK, Gouaux E, Jalali-Yazdi F. (2025) Cryo-EM snapshots of NMDA receptor activation illuminate sequential rearrangements. Science advances (Sep), 11(39): eadx4647.
Garrett-Sinha LA, Sinha S. (2025) A unique p52 NF-?B-ETS1 interaction ushers in a new paradigm of germinal center responses. Nature immunology (Sep), 26(9): 1434-1435.
Brubaker LA, Long H, Pavlus A, Williams ME, Seibert DM, Williams AV, Halfon MS, Rebeiz M, Williams TM. (2025) Redundant and Singular Regulatory Elements Underlie the Rapidly Evolving Pigmentation of Drosophila. Molecular biology and evolution (Sep), 42(9).
Stathopoulos A, Wang JJ, Martin SF, Zhang SX. (2025) Transmembrane Protein 97 (TMEM97): Molecular Target and Treatment in Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). Biomolecules (Aug), 15(9)