Jill Lawrence
Mentor: Dr. Michael Nonnemacher (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)

• “Roles of neuropathology-associated reactive astrocytes: a systematic review”
  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)

• “Aurora Kinases as Therapeutic Targets in Head and Neck Cancer”
  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)

• “Delineating the RAS Conformational Landscape”
  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
• “Proliferative Signaling by ERBB Proteins and RAF/MEK/ERK Effectors in Polycystic Kidney Disease”
  Cellular Signalling (2020)

Jasmine Peake
Mentor: Dr. Eishi Noguchi (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

• "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

Lindsay Steele
Mentor: Dr. Boris Polyak (Department of Surgery)

• "Temporal Control over Macrophage Phenotype and the Host Response via Magnetically Actuated Scaffolds"
  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: 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

Tara Fortino
Mentor: Dr. Michael Lane (Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy)

• "Transneuronal tracing to map connectivity in injured and transplanted spinal networks"
  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

Carly DeAntoneo
Mentor: Dr. Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)

• "Reovirus Activated Cell Death Pathways"
  DeAntoneo C, Danthi P, Balachandran S
  Cells. 2022 May 27;11(11):1757. doi: 10.3390/cells11111757. PMID: 35681452

Samuel Flashner
Mentor: Dr. Jane Clifford (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

• "Transcription factor Sp1 regulates mitotic chromosome assembly and segregation"
  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)

• "The interplay of long noncoding RNAs and hepatitis B virus"
  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)

• "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)

• "DNA damage-induced sumoylation of Sp1 induces its interaction with RNF4 and degradation in S phase to remove 53BP1 from DSBs and permit HR"
  Swift ML, Azizkhan-Clifford J
  DNA Repair (Amst). 2022 Mar;111:103289. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2022.103289. Feb 1.PMID: 35124373
• "Sp1-dependent recruitment of the histone acetylase p300 to DSBs facilitates chromatin remodeling and recruitment of the NHEJ repair factor Ku70"
  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
• "DNA damage-induced degradation of Sp1 promotes cellular senescence"
  Swift ML, Sell C, Azizkhan-Clifford J
  Geroscience. 2021 Sep 22. doi: 10.1007/s11357-021-00456-5. Online ahead of print.PMID: 34550526
• "DSB repair pathway choice is regulated by recruitment of 53BP1 through cell cycle-dependent regulation of Sp1"
  Swift ML, Beishline K, Flashner S, Azizkhan-Clifford J
  Cell Rep. 2021;34(11):108840. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108840

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)

Jennifer Alexander
Mentor: Dr. Edna Cukierman (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)
• "Cancer Associated Fibroblast: Mediators of Tumorigenesis," published in Matrix Biology (May 2020)

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

• "The function of RAD52 N-terminal domain is essential for viability of BRCA-deficient cells"
  Hanamshet K, Mazin AV
  Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Dec 16;48(22):12778-12791. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1145. PMID: 33275133

Rebecca Holton
Mentor: Dr. Karen Berkowitz (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

• "CHTF18 ensures the quantity and quality of the ovarian reserve†"
  Holton RA, Harris AM, Mukerji B, Singh T, Dia F, Berkowitz KM
  Biol Reprod. Jun 2020;103(1):24-35

Alexa Cannon
Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Chernoff (Fox Chase Cancer Center)

• "RAC1 as a Therapeutic Target in Malignant Melanoma"
  Cannon AC, Uribe-Alvarez C, Chernoff J
  Trends Cancer. Jun 2020;6(6):478-488

Katherine Innamorati
Mentor: Dr. Garth Ehrlich (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)

• "The Bacterial Guide to Designing a Diversified Gene Portfolio"
  Innamorati KA, Earl JP, Aggarwal SD, Ehrlich GD, Hiller NL
  The Pangenome: Diversity, Dynamics and Evolution of Genomes. Tettelin H, Medini D, editors. Cham (CH): Springer; May 2020

Dorothy Benton
Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Chernoff (Fox Chase Cancer Center)

• "A New Rho(d) Map to Diffuse Gastric Cancer"
  Benton D, Chernoff J
  Cancer Discov. Feb 2020;10(2):182-184

Mihir Shetty
Mentor: Dr. Eishi Noguchi (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

• "Maf1-dependent Transcriptional Regulation of tRNAs Prevents Genomic Instability and Is Associated With Extended Lifespan," published in Aging Cell (February 2020)