Success Story

March 2, 2012 (updated March 16, 2012)

CBC Scholars Rock!

Congratulations to the following CBC Scholars for their 2012 publications: Sevim Yildiz Arslan (PI: Howard Lipton, UIC), Timothy Best (PI: Kenan Onel, UChicago), Rima Chaudhuri (PI: Michael Johnson, UIC), Matthew Curtis (PI: Brenda Russell, UIC), Weston Daniel (PI: Chad Mirkin, NU), Lou Dore, (PI: John Crispino), Jaclyn Shepard (PI: Lonnie Shea, NU), Nicolas Peláez Restrepo (PIs: Richard Carthew and Luis Amaral, NU), Bryan Singer (PI: Paul Vezina, UChicago) and Fei Sun (PI: Chuan He, UChicago).

Arslan SY, Son KN, Lipton HL. The anti-apoptotic Mcl-1 protein controls the type of cell death in Theiler’s virus-infected BHK-21 cells. J Virol. 2012 Feb;86(4):1922-9. (PubMed)

Curtis MW, Budyn E, Desai TA, Samarel AM, Russell B. Microdomain heterogeneity in 3D affects the mechanics of neonatal cardiac myocyte contraction. Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2012 Mar 11. [Epub ahead of print] (PubMed)

Cozen W, Li D, Best T, Van Den Berg DJ, Gourraud PA, Cortessis VK, Skol AD, Mack TM, Glaser SL, Weiss LM, Nathwani BN, Bhatia S, Schumacher FR, Edlund CK, Hwang AE, Slager SL, Fredericksen ZS, Strong LC, Habermann TM, Link BK, Cerhan JR, Robison LL, Conti DV, Onel K. A genome-wide meta-analysis of nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma identifies risk loci at 6p21.32. Blood. 2012 Jan 12;119(2):469-75. (PubMed)

Doçi CL, Mankame TP, Langerman A, Ostler KR, Kanteti R, Best T, Onel K, Godley LA, Salgia R, Lingen MW. Characterization of NOL7 Gene Point Mutations, Promoter Methylation, and Protein Expression in Cervical Cancer. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2012 Jan;31(1):15-24. (PubMed)

Lee H, Torres J, Truong L, Chaudhuri R, Mittal A, Johnson ME. Reducing agents affect inhibitory activities of compounds: Results from multiple drug targets. Anal Biochem. 2012 Jan 18. [Epub ahead of print] (PubMed)

Prigodich AE, Randeria PS, Briley WE, Kim NJ, Daniel WL, Giljohann DA, Mirkin CA. Multiplexed Nanoflares: mRNA Detection in Live Cells. Anal Chem. 2012 Feb 21;84(4):2062-6. (PubMed)

Doré LC, Chlon TM, Brown CD, White KP, Crispino JD. Chromatin occupancy analysis reveals genome-wide GATA factor switching during hematopoiesis. Blood. 2012 Mar 1. [Epub ahead of print] (Blood)

Peláez N, Carthew RW. Biological Robustness and the Role of MicroRNAs: A Network Perspective. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2012;99:237-55. (PubMed)

Shepard JA, Stevans AC, Holland S, Wang CE, Shikanov A, Shea LD. Hydrogel design for supporting neurite outgrowth and promoting gene delivery to maximize neurite extension. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2012 Mar;109(3):830-9. doi: 10.1002/bit.24355. (PubMed)

Singer BF, Scott-Railton J, Vezina P. Unpredictable saccharin reinforcement enhances locomotor responding to amphetamine. Behav Brain Res. 2012 Jan 1;226(1):340-4. (PubMed)

Sun F, Ji Q, Jones MB, Deng X, Liang H, Frank B, Telser J, Peterson SN, Bae T, He C. AirSR, a [2Fe-2S] Cluster-Containing Two-Component System, Mediates Global Oxygen Sensing and Redox Signaling in Staphylococcus aureus. J Am Chem Soc. 2012 Jan 11;134(1):305-14. (PubMed)

Deng X, Sun F, Ji Q, Liang H, Missiakas D, Lan L, He C. Expression of multidrug resistance efflux pump gene norA is iron-responsive in Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol. 2012 Apr;194(7):1753-62. (PubMed)