Faculty members regularly author or co-author publications in high-tiered journals and serve in editorial board positions. Here is a selection of representative Department faculty publications that have been highlighted in the news or otherwise garnered attention.
Seasonal human coronavirus antibodies are boosted upon SARS-CoV-2 infection but not associated with protection
Elizabeth M Anderson, Eileen C Goodwin, Anurag Verma, Claudia P Arevalo, Marcus J Bolton, Madison E Weirick, Sigrid Gouma, Christopher M McAllister, Shannon R Christensen, JoEllen Weaver, Phillip Hicks, Tomaz B Manzoni, Oluwatosin Oniyide, Holly Ramage, Divij Mathew, Amy E Baxter, Derek A Oldridge, Allison R Greenplate, Jennifer E Wu, Cécile Alanio, Kurt D'Andrea, Oliva Kuthuru, Jeanette Dougherty, Ajinkya Pattekar, Justin Kim, Nicholas Han, Sokratis A Apostolidis, Alex C Huang, Laura A Vella, E John Wherry, Nuala J Meyer, Sara Cherry, Paul Bates, Daniel J Rader, Scott E Hensley. Cell. Available online 9 February 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.010
ALC1 links chromatin accessibility to PARP inhibitor response in homologous recombination-deficient cells
Priyanka Verma, Yeqiao Zhou, Zhendong Cao, Peter V Deraska, Moniher Deb, Eri Arai, Weihua Li, Yue Shao, Laura Puentes, Yiwen Li, Sonali Patankar, Robert H Mach, Robert B Faryabi, Junwei Shi, Roger A Greenberg. Nat Cell Biol. 2021 Jan 18. doi: 10.1038/s41556-020-00624-3. Online ahead of print.
Inhibitory signaling sustains a distinct early memory CD8+ T cell precursor that is resistant to DNA damage
Jonathan B Johnnidis, Yuki Muroyama, Shin Foong Ngiow, Zeyu Chen, Sasikanth Manne, Zhangying Cai, Shufei Song, Jesse M Platt, Jason M Schenkel, Mohamed Abdel-Hakeem, Jean-Christophe Beltra, Allison R Greenplate, Mohammed-Alkhatim A Ali, Kito Nzingha, Josephine R Giles, Christelle Harly, John Attanasio, Kristen E Pauken, Bertram Bengsch, Michael A Paley, Vesselin T Tomov, Makoto Kurachi, Dario A A Vignali, Arlene H Sharpe, Steven L Reiner, Avinash Bhandoola, F Bradley Johnson, E John Wherry. Sci Immunol. 2021 Jan 15;6(55):eabe3702. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abe3702.
Real-world integration of genomic data into the electronic health record: the PennChart Genomics Initiative
Kelsey S Lau-Min, Stephanie Byers Asher, Jessica Chen, Susan M Domchek, Michael Feldman, Steven Joffe, Jeffrey Landgraf, Virginia Speare, Lisa A Varughese, Sony Tuteja, Christine VanZandbergen, Marylyn D Ritchie, Katherine L Nathanson. Genet Med. 2020 Dec 10. doi: 10.1038/s41436-020-01056-y. Online ahead of print.
Autosomal dominant VCP hypomorph mutation impairs disaggregation of PHF-tau
An integrated multi-omics approach identifies epigenetic alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease
Developing an interactive and illustrative laboratory management curriculum for cytopathology trainees
Marcos Lepe, Christopher Preciado, Sharon J Song, Zubair W Baloch. Diagn Cytopathol. 2020 Jul 22. doi: 10.1002/dc.24448. Online ahead of print.
Deep immune profiling of COVID-19 patients reveals distinct immunotypes with therapeutic implications
Mathew D, Giles JR, Baxter AE, Oldridge DA, Greenplate AR, Wu JE, Alanio C, Kuri-Cervantes L, Pampena MB, D'Andrea K, Manne S, Chen Z, Huang YJ, Reilly JP, Weisman AR, Ittner CAG, Kuthuru O, Dougherty J, Nzingha K, Han N, Kim J, Pattekar A, Goodwin EC, Anderson EM, Weirick ME, Gouma S, Arevalo CP, Bolton MJ, Chen F, Lacey SF, Ramage H, Cherry S, Hensley SE, Apostolidis SA, Huang AC, Vella LA; UPenn COVID Processing Unit, Betts MR, Meyer NJ, Wherry EJ. Science. 2020 Jul 15;eabc8511. doi: 10.1126/science.abc8511. Online ahead of print.
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Comprehensive mapping of immune perturbations associated with severe COVID-19
Leticia Kuri-Cervantes, M Betina Pampena, Wenzhao Meng, Aaron M Rosenfeld, Caroline A G Ittner, Ariel R Weisman, Roseline S Agyekum, Divij Mathew, Amy E Baxter, Laura A Vella, Oliva Kuthuru, Sokratis A Apostolidis, Luanne Bershaw, Jeanette Dougherty, Allison R Greenplate, Ajinkya Pattekar, Justin Kim, Nicholas Han, Sigrid Gouma, Madison E Weirick, Claudia P Arevalo, Marcus J Bolton, Eileen C Goodwin, Elizabeth M Anderson, Scott E Hensley, Tiffanie K Jones, Nilam S Mangalmurti, Eline T Luning Prak, E John Wherry, Nuala J Meyer, Michael R Betts. Sci Immunol. 2020 Jul 15;5(49):eabd7114. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abd7114.
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Whole exome and transcriptome analysis of UV-exposed epidermis and carcinoma in situ reveals early drivers of carcinogenesis
Qi Zheng, Brian C Capell, Vishwas Parekh, Conor O'Day, Cem Atillasoy, Hasan M Bashir, Christopher Yeh, Eun-Hee Shim, Stephen M Prouty, Tzvete Dentchev, Vivian Lee, Lily Wushanley, Yerin Kweon, Yoko Suzuki-Horiuchi, Warren Pear, Elizabeth A Grice, John T Seykora. J Invest Dermatol. 2020 Jul 8;S0022-202X(20)31736-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2020.05.116. Online ahead of print.
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Cytokine release syndrome in severe COVID-19
Moore JB, June, CH. Cytokine release syndrome in severe COVID-19. Science. 2020 May 1; 368:473. doi: 10.1126/science.abb8925.
c-Rel is a myeloid checkpoint for cancer immunotherapy
Li T, Li X, Zamani A, Wang W, Lee C, Li M, Luo G, Eiler E, Sun H, Ghosh S, Jin J, Murali R, Ruan Q, Shi W, Chen YH. Nat Cancer 1, 507–517(2020). doi: 10.1038/s43018-020-0061-3
Developmental Relationships of Four Exhausted CD8 + T Cell Subsets Reveals Underlying Transcriptional and Epigenetic Landscape Control Mechanisms
Beltra JC, Manne S, Abdel-Hakeem MS, Kurachi M, Giles JR, Chen Z, Casella V, Ngiow SF, Khan O, Huang YJ, Yan P, Nzingha K, Xu W, Amaravadi RK, Xu X, Karakousis GC, Mitchell TC, Schuchter LM, Huang AC, Wherry EJ. Immunity. 2020 May 19;52(5):825-841.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2020.04.014. Epub 2020 May 11.
Trib1 regulates T cell differentiation during chronic infection by restraining the effector program
Rome KS, Stein SJ, Kurachi M, Petrovic J, Schwartz GW, Mack EA, Uljon S, Wu WW, DeHart AG, McClory SE, Xu L, Gimotty PA, Blacklow SC, Faryabi RB, Wherry EJ, Jordan MS, Pear WS. J Exp Med. 2020 May 4;217(5):e20190888. doi: 10.1084/jem.20190888.
The Transcription Factor T-bet Resolves Memory B Cell Subsets with Distinct Tissue Distributions and Antibody Specificities in Mice and Humans
Johnson JL, Rosenthal RL, Knox JJ, Myles A, Naradikian MS, Madej J, Kostiv M, Rosenfeld AM, Meng W, Christensen SR, Hensley SE, Yewdell J, Canaday DH, Zhu J, McDermott AB, Dori Y, Itkin M, Wherry EJ, Pardi N, Weissman D, Naji A, Prak ETL, Betts MR, Cancro MP. Immunity. 2020 Apr 22. pii: S1074-7613(20)30133-3. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2020.03.020. [Epub ahead of print]
Complement as a target in COVID-19?
Risitano, AM, Mastellos, DC, Huber-Lang M, Yancopoulou D,Garlanda C, Lambris JD. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 2020 Apr 23; doi: 10.1038/ s41577-020-0320-7.
4-1BB costimulation promotes CAR T cell survival through noncanonical NF-κB signaling
Philipson BI, O'Connor RS, May MJ, June CH, Albelda SM, Milone MC. Sci Signal. 2020 Mar 31;13(625). pii: eaay8248. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.aay8248.
Tumor-Derived Retinoic Acid Regulates Intratumoral Monocyte Differentiation to Promote Immune Suppression
Devalaraja S, To TKJ, Folkert IW, Natesan R, Alam MZ, Li M, Tada Y, Budagyan K, Dang MT, Zhai L, Lobel GP, Ciotti GE, Eisinger-Mathason TSK, Asangani IA, Weber K, Simon MC, Haldar M. Cell. 2020 Mar 19;180(6):1098-1114.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.042. Epub 2020 Mar 12.
TooManyCells identifies and visualizes relationships of single-cell clades
Schwartz GW, Zhou Y, Petrovic J, Fasolino M, Xu L, Shaffer SM, Pear WS, Vahedi G, Faryabi RB. Nat Methods. 2020 Apr;17(4):405-413. doi: 10.1038/s41592-020-0748-5. Epub 2020 Mar 2.
mTORC1 coordinates an immediate unfolded protein response-related transcriptome in activated B cells preceding antibody secretion
Gaudette BT, Jones DD, Bortnick A, Argon Y, Allman D. Nat Commun. 2020 Feb 5;11(1):723. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-14032-1.
CRISPR-engineered T cells in patients with refractory cancer
Stadtmauer EA, Fraietta JA, Davis MM, Cohen AD, Weber KL, Lancaster E, Mangan PA, Kulikovskaya I, Gupta M, Chen F, Tian L, Gonzalez VE, Xu J, Jung I, Melenhorst JJ, Plesa G, Shea J, Matlawski T, Cervini A, Gaymon AL, Desjardins S, Lamontagne A, Salas-Mckee J, Fesnak A, Siegel DL, Levine BL, Jadlowsky JK, Young RM, Chew A, Hwang WT, Hexner EO, Carreno BM, Nobles CL, Bushman FD, Parker KR, Qi Y, Satpathy AT, Chang HY, Zhao Y, Lacey SF, June CH. Science 06 Feb 2020. doi: 10.1126/science.aba7365
Transmission of tauopathy strains is independent of their isoform composition
He Z, McBride JD, Xu H, Changolkar L, Kim SJ, Zhang B, Narasimhan S, Gibbons GS, Guo JL, Kozak M, Schellenberg GD, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VM. Nat Commun. 2020 Jan 7;11(1):7. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13787-x.
Clinical utility of plasma cell-free DNA in adult patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma - a pilot prospective study
Bagley S, Nabavizadeh SA, Mays J, Till JE, Ware J, Levy S, Sarchiapone W, Hussain J, Prior TJ, Guiry S, Christensen T, Yee SS, Nasrallah M, Morrissette JJD, Zev Binder Z, O'Rourke DM, Cucchiara AJ, Brem S, Arati S, Desai AS, EL Carpenter. Clin Cancer Res. Published online October 30, 2019. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-2533
Neoantigen Dissimilarity to the Self-Proteome Predicts Immunogenicity and Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade
Richman LP, Vonderheide RH, Rech AJ. Cell Syst. 2019 Oct 8. pii: S2405-4712(19)30307-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2019.08.009. [Epub ahead of print]
Nucleoside-modified mRNA encoding HSV-2 glycoproteins C, D, and E prevents clinical and subclinical genital herpes
Awasthi S, Hook LM, Pardi N, Wang F, Myles A, Cancro MP, Cohen GH, Weissman D, Friedman HM. Sci Immunol. 2019 Sep 20;4(39). pii: eaaw7083. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.aaw7083.
