Students & Alumni
Recent Publications
Jasmine Peake
Mentor: Dr. Eishi Noguchi (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
- “The p53 DNA damage response and Fanconi anemia DNA repair pathway protect against acetaldehyde-induced replication stress in esophageal keratinocytes”
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
- "Fanconi anemia: current insights regarding epidemiology, cancer, and DNA repair"
Peake JD, Noguchi E
Hum Genet. 2022 May 21. doi: 10.1007/s00439-022-02462-9. PMID: 35596788
- "FANCD2 limits acetaldehyde-induced genomic instability during DNA replication in esophageal keratinocytes"
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
- “Fructose promotes liver cancer via microbial acetate-induced O-GlcNAcylation”
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
- “Selective and brain-penetrant ACSS2 inhibitors target breast cancer brain metastatic cells”
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: Dr. Jonathan Chernoff (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
- “Unique vulnerability of RAC1-mutant melanoma to combined inhibition of CDK9 and immune checkpoints”
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
- “A Facile Method to Append a Bio-ID Tag to Endogenous Mutant Kras Alleles”
Budagyan K, Cannon AC, Chernoff J
Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2797:351-362. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3822-4_25.PMID: 38570472
- "RAC1 as a Therapeutic Target in Malignant Melanoma"
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)
Theodore Gurrola
- “Delivering CRISPR to the HIV-1 reservoirs”
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
Beka Abagero
Shabnam Pirestani
Carly DeAntoneo
Mentor: Dr. Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Anna Lilly
Mentor: Dr. Erica Golemis (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Nicholas Duchemin
Mentor: Dr. Michael Bouchard (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Teddy Nguyen
Mentor: Dr. Erica Golsmis (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Mitchell Parker
Mentor: Dr. Roland Dunbrack (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Lindsay Steele
Mentor: Dr. Boris Polyak (Department of Surgery)
Kristopher Raghavan
Mentor: Dr. Edna Cukierman (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
- "NetrinG1+ cancer-associated fibroblasts generate unique extracellular vesicles that support the survival of pancreatic cancer cells under nutritional stress"
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
Samuel Flashner
Mentor: Dr. Jane Clifford (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Nima Sarfaraz
Mentor: Dr. Michael Bouchard (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Lorela Ciraku
Mentor: Dr. Mauricio J. Reginato (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
- "O-GlcNAc transferase regulates glioblastoma acetate metabolism via regulation of CDK5-dependent ACSS2 phosphorylation"
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)
Konstantin Budagyan
Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Chernoff (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Timothy Nacarelli
Mentor: Dr. Christian Sell (Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine).
- "The methyltransferase enzymes KMT2D, SETD1B, and ASH1L are key mediators of both metabolic and epigenetic changes during cellular senescence"
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)
Margaret O’Connor
Mentor: Dr. Elias El Haddad (Department of Medicine)
- "A follicular regulatory Innate Lymphoid Cell population impairs interactions between germinal center Tfh and B cells"
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
Kritika Hanamshet
Mentor: Dr. Alexander Mazin
Katherine Innamorati
Mentor: Dr. Garth Ehrlich (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Mihir Shetty
Mentor: Dr. Eishi Noguchi (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)