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Publications and Awards
The Tufts Postdoctoral Office applauds the success of our scholars in the excellent achievement in research publications and awards.
If you have a recently published paper or one in press, have been awarded a grant or fellowship, please contact Dan Jay, Postdoctoral Officer, at daniel.jay@tufts.edu to share your accomplishments.
PUBLICATIONS
February 2012
Vaibhav Pai (Levin Lab)
Horseman, ND, & Pai, V.P. (2011). Mammary Gland Involution: Events, Regulation and Influences on Breast Diseases. In J. Carrasco & M. Mota (Eds.), Endothelium and Epithelium (247-284). Hauppauge, NY: NOVA Science publishers.
Pramod Singh (Sonkusale Lab)
Singh, PK, Korolove, KA, Afsar, MA, and Sonkusale, S (2011). Single and Dual Band 77/95/110 GHz Metamaterial Absorbers on Flexible Polyimide Substrate. Applied Physics Letters, 99(26):1-4.
January 2012
Paul Everill (Bachovchin Lab)
Everill, P; Sudmeier, JL; Bachovchin, WW (2012). Direct NMR Observation and pKa Determination of the Asp102 Side Chain in a Serine Protease. JACS. [E-pub ahead of print]
Laura Vandenberg (Levin Lab)
Vandenberg LN, Levin M (2011). Polarity proteins are required for left-right axis orientation and twin-twin instruction. Genesis.
[E-pub ahead of print].
Ravi Subramanian (Coffin Lab)
Subramanian RP, Wildschutte JH, Russo C, Coffin JM (2011). Identification, characterization, and comparative genomic distribution of the HERV-K (HML-2) group of human endogenous retroviruses. Retrovirology, 8:90.
Patricia Keller (Kuperwasser Lab)
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Keller PJ, Arendt LM, Skibinski A, Logvinenko T, Klebba I, Dong S, Smith AE, Prat A, Perou CM, Gilmore H, Schnitt S, Naber SP, Garlick JA and Kuperwasser C (2011). Defining the cellular precursors to human breast cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. [E-pub ahead of print]
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Proia TA, Keller PJ, Gupta PB, Klebba I, Jones AD, Sedic M, Gilmore H, Tung N, Naber SP, Schnitt S, Lander ES, and Kuperwasser C (2011). Genetic predisposition directs tumor phenotype by dictating progenitor cell fate. Cell Stem Cell, 8(2):149-163.
Keith Noto (Slonim Lab)
Noto K, Brodley CE, and Slonim D. FRaC: A Feature-Modeling Approach for Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Anomaly Detection. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. [Accepted for publication in an upcoming volume]
Junpeng Wang (S. Meydani Lab)
Wang J, Pae M, Simin M, Wu D (2012). Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate inhibits receptor expression of T cell growth cytokines and their downstream signaling. J Nutr. (In press)
November and December 2011
Raveendhara Bannuru (Tufts CTSI)
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Kalichman L, Bannuru RR, Severin M, Harvey W. Injection of Botulinum Toxin for Treatment of Chronic Lateral Epicondylitis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism 2011; 40(6): 532-8. [PMID: 20822798]
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Bannuru RR, Natov NS, Dasi UR, Schmid CH, McAlindon TE. Therapeutic Trajectory Following Intra-Articular Hyaluronic acid Injection in Knee Osteoarthritis: Meta-Analysis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2011; 19(6):611-9. [PMID: 21443958]
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Bannuru RR, Dvorak T, Obadan N, Yu WW, Patel K, Chung M, Ip S. Comparative Evaluation of Radiation Treatments for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: An Updated Systematic Review. Annals of Internal Medicine 2011; 155(3);171-8. [PMID: 21646550]
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Stefan MS, Bannuru RR, Lessard D, Gore JM, Lindenauer PK, Goldberg RJ. The Impact of COPD on Management and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalized with Acute Myocardial Infarction – A Ten Year Retrospective Observational Study. Chest 2011 (In Press).
Shaun Brinsmade (Abraham Sonenshein Lab)
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Brinsmade SR, Sonenshein AL. Dissecting complex metabolic integration provides direct genetic evidence for CodY activation by guanine nucleotides. J. Bacteriol. 2011 Oct;193(20):5637-48. PMC3187194 [Available on 2012/4/1].
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Brinsmade SR, Kleijn RJ, Sauer U, Sonenshein AL. Regulation of CodY activity through modulation of intracellular branched-chain amino acid pools. J. Bacteriol. 2010 Dec;192(24):6357-68. PMC3008522.
Trent Fowler (Roy Lab)
Fowler T, Sen R, Roy AL. Regulation of primary response genes. Mol Cell. 2011 Nov 4; 44(3):348-60.
Jared Hawkins (Thorley-Lawson Lab)
Hawkins J, Jones M, Plassmann P, Thorley-Lawson DA. (2011) Chemotaxis in Densely Populated Tissue Determines Germinal Center Anatomy and Cell Motility: A New Paradigm for the Development of Complex Tissues. PLoS ONE 6: e27650ss.
Vaibhav Pai (Levin Lab)
Vaibhav Pai, Sherry Aw, Tal Shomrat, Joan Lemire, and Michael Levin. Transmembrane Voltage Potential Controls Embryonic Eye Patterning in Xenopus laevis. Development. 2011 Dec 7. [Epub ahead of print]
(see commentary in Science and Forbes magazine).
Maria Van Rompay (Tucker lab)
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Van Rompay MI, Castaneda-Sceppa C, McKeown NM, Ordovás JM, Tucker KL. Prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among older Puerto Rican adults living in Massachusetts. J Immigr Minor Health. 2011 Oct;13(5):825-33.
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Van Rompay MI, McKeown NM, Castaneda-Sceppa C, Falcón LM, Ordovás JM, Tucker KL. Acculturation and sociocultural influences on dietary intake and health status among Puerto Rican adults in Massachusetts. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly Journal of the American Dietetic Association). 2012 Jan. [In press]
Laura Schaevitz (Berger-Sweeney lab)
Schaevitz L, Picker J, Rana J, Kolodny N, Shane B, Berger-Sweeney J, Coyle J (2011) Glutamate carboxypeptidase II and folate deficiencies result in reciprocal protection against cognitive and social deficits in mice: Implications for neurodevelopmental disorders. Dev Neurobiol. doi: 10.1002/dneu.21000
Laura Vandenberg (Levin lab)
Vandenberg, LN. Laterality defects are influenced by timing of treatments and animal model.Differentiation 2012 Jan; 83(1):26-37. Epub 2011 Oct 4.
Rohini Vishwanathan (Tang lab)
Book chapter – R. Vishwanathan and E. J. Johnson. Chapter 56: Eye Disease. Present Knowledge in Nutrition, 10th edition. Editors: John Erdman, Ph.D., Ian Macdonald, Ph.D., and Steven Zeisel, Ph.D. ILSI and John Wiley & Sons (in press).
Junpeng Wang (S. Meydani lab)
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Wang J, Ren Z, Xu Y, Xiao S, Nikbin Meydani S, Wu D. Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate Ameliorates Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis by Altering Balance among CD4(+) T-Cell Subsets. Am J Pathol. 2011 Nov 2. [Epub ahead of print]
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Wu D, Wang J, Pae M, Meydani SN. Green tea EGCG, T cells, and T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. Mol Aspects Med. 2011 Oct 14. [Epub ahead of print]
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Wu D, Wang J. The ability of green tea to alleviate autoimmune diseases: fact or fiction? Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2011 Nov;7(6):711-3.
Julia Wildschutte (Coffin lab)
Subramanian RP*, Wildschutte JH*, Russo C, Coffin J. 2011. Identification, characterization, and comparative genomic distribution of the HERV-K (HML-2) group of human endogenous retroviruses. Retrovirology 8;8:90.
*contributed equally
AWARDS
February 2012
Selena Ahmed (Orians Lab)
Ranked First Place for Strongest Teacher Rating and Course Evaluation in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University for Fall 2011 Semester for the "Eating and the Environment" Course.
Vaibhav Pai (Levin Lab)
Research was mentioned in several magazine articles:
Science Magazine, Forbes Magazine, ScienceNews Magazine, PhysOrg.com.
January 2012
Selena Ahmed (Orians Lab)
Research was mentioned in a news story titled “Tapping the Best Minds” in China’s Global Times, January 11, 2012.
Raveendhara Bannuru (Tufts CTSI)
Received a travel award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to attend the 17th Annual AHRQ National Research Services Award (NRSA) Trainees Research Conference in Seattle, WA.
Rohini Vishwanathan (Tang Lab)
Was one of the top five finalists in the PepsiCo Nutrition Research Competition (for graduates and post doctoral researchers worldwide to scientifically define ‘a serving of fruit and vegetable’), 2011.
November and December 2011
Kyle P. Quinn, PhD (Kaplan lab)
National Research Service Award Fellowship (F32), titled "Non-invasive optical biomarkers to quantify engineered bone tissue development" from NIH/NIAMS.
Laura Schaevitz (Berger-Sweeney lab)
Received a travel award to attend the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington D.C.
Lucia Speroni (Soto and Sonnenschein labs)
Art BeCAUSE – Seed the Scientist Award, 2011.
Rohini Vishwanathan (Tang lab)
Awarded the Howard Medal for the best poster, 1st Macular Carotenoids and AMD conference, Cambridge, UK, 2011.
Kendall Walker (Tesco lab)
Awarded a travel grant to attend this year’s National Neurotrauma Meeting and awarded the Anthony Marmarou Award at the conference.
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