New Publications
MSTPublications: June 2019
Jun. 25, 2019—p73 regulates epidermal wound healing and induced keratinocyte programming. Beeler JS, Marshall CB, Gonzalez-Ericsson PI, Shaver TM, Santos Guasch GL, Lea ST, Johnson KN, Jin H, Venters BJ, Sanders ME, Pietenpol JA. PLoS One. 2019 Jun 19;14(6):e0218458. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218458. eCollection 2019. p63 is a transcriptional regulator of ectodermal development that is required for basal cell...
MSTPublications: May 2019
May. 30, 2019—Autism-linked dopamine transporter mutation alters striatal dopamine neurotransmission and dopamine-dependent behaviors. DiCarlo GE, Aguilar JI, Matthies HJ, Harrison FE, Bundschuh KE, West A, Hashemi P, Herborg F, Rickhag M, Chen H, Gether U, Wallace MT, Galli A. J Clin Invest. 2019 May 16;130. pii: 127411. doi: 10.1172/JCI127411. The precise regulation of synaptic dopamine (DA) content...
MSTPublications: April 2019
Apr. 29, 2019—Respiratory Heterogeneity Shapes Biofilm Formation and Host Colonization in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Beebout CJ, Eberly AR, Werby SH, Reasoner SA, Brannon JR, De S, Fitzgerald MJ, Huggins MM, Clayton DB, Cegelski L, Hadjifrangiskou M. MBio. 2019 Apr 2;10(2). pii: e02400-18. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02400-18. Biofilms are multicellular bacterial communities encased in a self-secreted extracellular matrix comprised of...
MSTPublications: March 2019
Mar. 28, 2019—J-N Gallant’s recent first-author paper was featured here in the VUMC Reporter! Katherine Konvinse’s recent first-author paper was featured here in the VUMC Reporter! Applied Bioengineering in Tissue Reconstruction, Replacement, and Regeneration. Colazo JM, Evans BC, Farinas AF, Al-Kassis S, Duvall C, Thayer WP. Tissue Eng Part B Rev. 2019 Mar 21. doi:...
Training the Physician-Scientist: Views from Program Directors and Aspiring Young Investigators
Feb. 26, 2019—Read MSTP Director Christopher Williams, MD, PhD‘s Op-Ed published recently in JCI Insight. Training the physician-scientist: views from program directors and aspiring young investigators. Williams CS, Iness AN, Baron RM, Ajijola OA, Hu PJ, Vyas JM, Baiocchi R, Adami AJ, Lever JM, Klein PS, Demer L, Madaio M, Geraci M, Brass LF, Blanchard M, Salata...
Recent Op-Eds by Members of the MSTP
Feb. 26, 2019—Members of our program recently contributed to the following Op-Eds about Medical Education: Training the physician-scientist: views from program directors and aspiring young investigators by MSTP Director Christopher Williams, M.D., Ph.D. Getting Our Priorities Right: Social Determinants of Health in Medical Education by Michael Raddatz (G2) Student Perspectives on the “Step 1 Climate”...
MSTPublications: February 2019
Feb. 26, 2019—On-target resistance to the mutant-selective EGFR inhibitor osimertinib can develop in an allele specific manner dependent on the original EGFR activating mutation. Brown BP, Zhang YK, Westover D, Yan Y, Qiao H, Huang V, Du Z, Smith JA, Ross JS, Miller VA, Ali SM, Bazhenova L, Schrock AB, Meiler J, Lovly CM. Clin Cancer Res....
MSTPublications: January 2019
Jan. 21, 2019—Smarcal1 and Zranb3 protect replication forks from Myc-induced DNA replication stress. Puccetti MV, Adams CM, Kushinsky S, Eischen CM. Cancer Res. 2019 Jan 4. pii: canres.2705.2018. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2705. [Epub ahead of print] The cellular DNA replication stress response functions to stabilize DNA replication forks and inhibit genome instability and tumorigenesis induced by oncogenes. However, the...
MSTPublications: December 2018
Dec. 19, 2018—Bone Marrow–Derived Proangiogenic Cells Mediate Pulmonary Arteriole Stiffening via Serotonin 2B Receptor Dependent Mechanism Bloodworth NC, Clark CR, West JD, Snider C, Gaskill C, Shay S, Scott C, Bastarache J, Gladson S, Moore C, D’Amico R, Brittain EL, Tanjore H, Blackwell TS, Majka SM, Merryman WD. Circ Res. Originally published 2018 Oct 25;123:e51–e64. doi:10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.31339 Rationale:...
MSTPublications: November 2018
Nov. 27, 2018—Estrogen receptor-alpha (ESR1) polymorphism rs1999805 associates with asthma. Bloodworth MH*, Rusznak M*, Bastarache L, Wang J, Newcomb DC. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2018 Nov 15. pii: S1081-1206(18)31409-1. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2018.11.005. [Epub ahead of print] As adults, women have higher rates of asthma and allergic disease as well as increased asthma severity compared to men. Pre or...