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Georgina M. Aldridge   
    Grossman, A. W., Aldridge, G. M., Weiler, I. J., & Greenough, W. T. (2006, July 5). Local protein synthesis and spine morphogenesis: fragile X syndrome and beyond. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(27), 7151-7155.

Maritza Alvarado   
    Erickson, K. I., Colcombe, S. J., Wadhwa, R., Bherer, L., Peterson, M. S., Scalf, P. E., Kim, J., Alvarado, M., & Kramer, A. (2006, February 8). Training-induced functional activation changes in dual-task processing: An fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, available at http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/bhj137v1.

    Erickson, K. I., Colcombe, S. J., Wadhwa, R., Bherer, L., Peterson, M. S., Scalf, P. E., Kim, J., Alvarado, M., & Kramer, A. (2007, February). Training-induced plasticity in older adults: Effects of training on hemispheric asymmetry. Neurobiology of Aging, 28(2), 272-283.

    Pareto, D., Alvarado, M., Hanrahan, S. M., & Biegon, A. (2004). In vivo occupancy of female rat brain estrogen receptors by 17B-estradiol and tamoxifen. Neuroimage, 23, 1161-1167.

    Biegon, A., Alvarado, M., Budinger, T. F., Grossman, R., Hensley, K., West, M. S., Kotake, Y., Ono, M., & Floyd, R. A. (2002, August). Region-selective effects of neuroinflammation and antioxidant treatment on peripheral benzodiazepine receptors and NMDA receptors in the rat brain. Journal of Neurochemisty, 82(4), 924-934.

    Kozma, R., Alvarado, M., Rogers, L., Lau, B., & Freeman. W. J. (2001, June). Emergence of un-correlated common-mode oscillations in the sensory cortex. Neurocomputing, 38-40, 747-755.

    Alvarado, M. & Biegon, A. (2001). Novel flouorine-containing NMDA antagonists for brain imaging: In vitro evaluation. US Department of Energy Office of Science Journal of Undergraduate Research, 1, 1-5.

    Colcombe, S. J., Wadhwa, R., Erickson, K. I., Scalf, P. E., Kim, J. S., Alvarado, M., & Kramer, A. F. (2006). title. Manuscript submitted for publication.

    Scalf, P. E., Colcombe, S. J., McCarley, J. S., Erickson, K. I., Alvarado, M., Kim, J. S., Wadhwa, R. P., & Kramer, A. F. (2007, June). The neural correlates of an expanded functional field of view. Journals of Gerontology Series B, 62B(Special Issue 1), 32-44.

Luciana Amado   
    Amado, L. & Kuzminov, A. (2006, August 11). The replication intermediates in escherichia coli are not the product of DNA processing or uracil excision. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281(32), 22635-22646.

Thomas M. Anderson   
    Anderson, T. M., Burke, Martin, D. B., & Palacios, D. S. (2007). A post-pks oxidation of the amphotericin b skeleton predicted to be critical for channel formation is not required for potent antifungal activity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129(45), 13804-13805. (Thomas Anderson, Chemistry)

Robert D. Andres   
    Moore, S. A., Huang, N., Hinthong, O., Andres, R. D., Grammatopoulos, T. N., & Weyhenmeyer, J.A. (2004). Human angiotensin II type-2 receptor inhibition of insulin-mediated ERK-2 activity via a G-protein coupled signaling pathway. Molecular Brain Research, 124, 62-69.

    Moore, S. A., Patel, A. S., Huang, N., Lavin, B. C., Grammatopoulos, N., Andres, R. D., & Weyhenmeyer, J. A. (2002). Effects of mutations in the highly conserved DRY motif on binding affinity, expression, and G-protein recruitment of the human angiotensin II type-2 receptor. Molecular Brain Research, 109, 161-167.

    Grammatopoulos, T. N., Morris, K., Bachar, C., Moore, S., Andres, R., & Weyhenmeyer, J. A. (2004). Angiotensin II attenuates chemical hypoxia-induced caspase-3 activation in primary cortical neuronal cultures. Brain Research Bulletin, 62, 297-303.

    Schelman, W. R., Andres, R., Ferguson, P., Orr, B., Kang, E., & Weyhenmeyer, J. A. (2004). Angiotensin II attenuates NMDA receptor-mediated neuronal cell death and prevents the associated reduction in Bcl-2 expression. Molecular Brain Research, 128, 20-29.

    Schelman, W. R., Andres, R. D., Sipe, K. J., Kang, E., & Weyhenmeyer, J. A. (2004). Glutamate mediates cell death and increases the Bax to Bcl-2 ratiio in a differentiated neuronal cell line. Molecular Brain Research, 128, 160-169.

    Grammatopoulos, T. N., Johnson, V., Moore, S. A., Andres, R., & Weyhennmeyer, J. A. (2004). Angiotensin type 2 receptor neuroprotection against chemical hypoxia is dependent on the delayed rectifier K+ channel, Na+/Ca2+ exchanger and Na+/K+ ATPase in primary cortical cultures. Neuroscience Research, 50, 299-306.

Erik Antonsen   
    Keidar, M., Boyd, I. D., Antonsen, E. L., Gulczinski, F. S., III, & Spanjers, G. G. (2004, November/December). Propellant charring in pulsed plasma thrusters. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 20(6), 978-984.

    Keidar, M., Boyd, I. D., Antonsen, E. L., & Spanjers, G. G. (2004, November/December). Electromagnetic effects in the near-field plume exhaust of a micro-pulsed-plasma thruster. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 20(6), 961-969.

    Antonsen, E. L, & Spanjers, G. G. (2003). Progress in development of modeling capabilities for a micro-pulsed plasma thruster. Paper presented at 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Huntsville, AL.

    Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., Reed, G. A., & Spanjers, G. G. (2004, July). Effects of post-pulse surface temperature on micro-pulsed plasma thruster operation. Paper presented at 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

    Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., Spanjers, G. G., & Engeiman, S. F. (2002). Herriott cell augmentation of a quadrature heterodyne interferometer. Review of Scientific Instruments, 74(1), 88-93.

    Antonsen, E. L., Spanjers, G. G., Burton, R. L., & Spores, R. A. (2003, March). Time-resolved surface temperature measurement for pulsed ablative thrusters. Paper presented at the 28th International Electric Propulsion Conference, IEPC Paper 2003-292, Toulouse, France.

    Antonsen E. L., Spanjers, G. G., Burton, R. L., & Engelman, S. F. (2003, March). Herriott Cell interferometry for millimeter scale plasma measurements. Review of Scientific Instruments, 74(1), 1609-1612.

    Spanjers, G. G., Bromaghim, D. R., Lake, C. J., Dulligan, M., White, D., Schilling, J. H., Bushman, S. S., Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., Keidar, M., & Boyd, I. D. (2002, July). AFRL microPPT development for small spacecraft propulsion. Paper presented at 38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Paper No. 2002-3974, Indianapolis, IN.

    Spanjers, G. G., Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., Keidar, M., Boyd, I. D., & Bushman, S. S. (2002, May). Advanced diagnostics for millimeter scale micro pulsed plasma thrusters. Paper presented at 33rd AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, Maui, HI.

    Antonsen, E. L, Burton, R. L., Spanjers, G. G., & Spores, R. A. (2003, July). Microsecond timescale surface temperature measurements in micro-pulsed plasma thrusters. Paper presented at the 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Huntsville, AL.

    Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., & Spanjers, G. G. (2001). High resolution laser diagnostics in millimeter-scale micro pulsed plasma thrusters. Paper presented at 27th International Electric Propulsion Conference, IEPC Paper 2001-157, Pasadena, CA.

    King, D. M., Solomon, W. C., Carroll, D. L., Burton, R. L., Antonsen, E. L., Rysanek, F., & Frus, J. (2001). Development of a multiplexed coaxial pulsed plasma thruster. Paper presented at 27th International Electric Propulsion Conference, IEPC Paper 2001-150, Pasadena, CA.

    Keidar, M., Boyd, I.D., Gulczinski III, F.S., Antonsen, E.L., & Spanjers, G.G (2001). Analyses of teflonTM surface charring and near field plume of a micro-pulsed plasma thruster. Paper presented at 27th International Electric Propulsion Conference, IEPC Paper 2001-155, Pasadena, CA.

    Antonsen, E. L. (2001). Herriott cell interferometry for pulsed plasma density measurements. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    Burton, R. L., Rysanek, F., Antonsen, E. L., Wilson, M. J., & Bushman, S. S. (2000). Pulsed plasma thruster performance for microspacecraft propulsion. In M. Micci (Ed.), AIAA Progress Series, 187, Micropropulsion for Small Spacecraft, Chapter 13.

    Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., Engelman, S. F., & Spanjers, G. G. (2000, July). Herriott cell interferometer for unsteady density measurements in small scale length thruster plasmas. Paper presented at 36th Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Paper No. 2000-3431, Huntsville, AL.

    Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., & Rysanek, F. (1999, June). Energy measurements in a coaxial electromagnetic pulsed plasma thruster. Paper presented at 35th Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Paper No. 99-2292, Los Angeles, CA.

    Bushman, S. S., Burton, R. L., Antonsen, & E. L., Arc. (1998, July). Measurements and performance characteristics of a coaxial pulsed plasma thruster. Paper presented at 34th Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Paper No. 98-3660, Cleveland, OH.

    Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., Spanjers, G. G., & Engelman, S. F. (2003). Herriott cell interferometry for millimeter-scale plasma measurements. Review of Scientific Instruments, 74(3), 1609-1612.

    Qiu, H., Thompson, K. C., Srivastava, S. N., Antonsen, E. L., Alman, D. A., Jurczyk, B. E., & Ruzic, D. N. (2006, July/September). Optical exposure characterization and comparisons for discharge produced plasma Sn extreme ultraviolet system. Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems, 5(3), 033007-1-033007-11.

    Qiu, H., Alman, D. A., Thompson, K. C., Spencer, J. B., Antonsen, E. L., Jurczyk, B. E., & Ruzic, D. N. (2006, July/September). Characterization of collector optic material samples before and after exposure in laser produced plasma and discharge produced plasma extreme ultraviolet sources. Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems, 5(3), 033006-1-033006-11.

    Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., Reed, G. A., & Spanjers, G. G. (2006). Fast surface temperature measurement of teflon propellant-in-pulsed ablative discharges using HgCdTe photovoltaic cells. Review of Scientific Instruments, 77, 103107-103107-9.

    Keidar, M., Boyd, I. D., Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., & Spanjers, G. G. (2006, January/February). Optimization issues for a micropulsed plasma thruster. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 22(1), 48-55.

    Antonsen, E. L., Burton, R. L., Reed, G. A., & Spanjers, G. G. (2005, September/October). Effects of postpulse surface temperature on micropulsed plasma thruster operation. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 21(5), 877-883.

    Thompson, K. C., Antonsen, E. L., Hendricks, M. R., Jurczyk, B. E., Williams, M., & Ruzic, D. N. (2006). Experimental test chamber design for optics exposure testing and debris characterization of a xenon discharge produced plasma source for extreme ultraviolet lithography. Microelectronic Engineering, 83, 476-484.

    Antonsen, E. L., Thompson, K. C., Hendricks, M. R., Alman, D. A., Jurczyk, B. E., & Ruzic, D. N. (2006). Ion debris characterization from a z-pinch extreme ultraviolet light source. Journal of Applied Physics, 99, 063301-063308.

    Jaworski, M. A., Jurczyk, B. E., Antonsen, E. L., & Ruzic, D. N. (2006). Direct current magnetic insulation of an immersed RF antenna. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 15, 474-478.

    Antonsen, E. L., Papke, S. D., Qiu, H., Ruzic, D. N., Spencer, J. B., Srivastava, S. N., & Thompson, K. C. (2007). Lifetime measurements on collector optics from xe and sn extreme ultraviolet sources. Journal of Applied Physics, 102, 023301-1 – 023301-6. (Erik Antonsen, Aerospace Engineering)

Katherine O. Ayoade   
    Omueti, K. O., Beyer, M. J., Johnson, M. C., Lyle, E. A., & Tapping, R. I. (2005, August). Domain exchanges between human toll-like recptors 1 and 6 reveals a region required for lipopeptide discrimination. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280(44), 36616-36625.

Daniel Barnett   
    Frasor, J., Barnett, D. H., Danes, J. M., Hess, R., Parlow, A. F. & Katzenellenbogen, K. (2003). Reponse-specific and ligand dose-dependent modulation of estrogen receptor (ER) activity by ERB in the uterus. Endocrinology, 144(7), 3159-3166.

    Barnett, D. H., Huang, H-Y, Wu, X-R, Laciak, R., Shapiro, E., & Bushman, W. (2002). The human prostate expresses sonic hedgehog during fetal development. Journal of Urology, 168, 2206-2210.

    Lamm, M. L. G., Catbagan, W. S., Laciak, R. J., Barnett, D. H., Hebner, C. M., Gaffield, W., Walterhouse, D., Iannaccone, P., & Bushman, W. (2002). Sonic hedgehog activates mesenchymal Gli1 expression during prostate ductal bud formation. Developmental Biology, 249, 349-366.

    Lamm, M. L., Podlasek, C. A., Barnett, D. H., Lee, J., Clemens, J. Q., Hebner, C. M., & Bushman, W. (2001). Mesenchymal factor bone morphogenic protein 4 restricts dutal budding and branching morphogenesis in the developing prostate. Developmental Biology, 232(2), 301-314.

    Podlasek, C. A., Barnett, D. H., Clemens, J. Q., Bak, P. M., & Bushman, W. (1999, May). Prostate development requires sonic hedgehog espressed by the urogential sinus epithelium. Developmental Biology, 209(1), 28-39.



    Harrington, W. R., Sheng, S., Barnett, D. H., Petz, L. N., Katzenellenbogen, J. A. & Katzenellenbogen, B. S. (2003). Activities of estrogen receptor alpha- and beta-selective ligands at diverse estrogen responsive gene sites mediating transactivation or transpression. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 206, 13-22.

    Perrin, R. J., Payton, J. E., Barnett, D. H., Wraight, C. L., Woods, W. S., Ye, L., & George, J. M. (2003). Epitope mapping and specificity of the anti-a-synuclein monoclonal antibody Syn-1 in mouse brain and cultured cell lines. Neuroscience Letters, 359, 133-135.

    Stossi, F., Barnett, D. H., Frasor, J., Komm, B., Lyttle, C. R., & Katzenellenbogen, B. S. (2004). Transcriptional profiling of estrogen-regulated gene expression via estrogen receptor (ER) alpha or ER-beta in human osteosarcoma cells: Distinct and common target genes for these receptors. Endocrinology, 145(7), 3475-3486.

    Lipinski, R. J., Cook, C. H., Barnett, D. H., Gipp, J. J., Peterson, R. E. & Bushman, W. (2005). Sonic hedgehog signaling regulates the expression of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-6 during fetal prostate development. Developmental Dynamics, 233, 829-836.

Jerome A. Chambers   
    Ramanathan, M. P., Chambers, J. A., Pankhong, P., Chattergoon, M., Attatippaholkun, W., Dang, K., Shah, N., & Weiner, D. B. (2006). Host cell killing by the West Nile Virus NS2B-NS3 proteolytic complex: NS3 alone is sufficiento recruit caspase-8-based apoptotic pathway. Virology, 345, p. 56-72.

    Ramanathan, M. P., Curley III, E., Su, M., Chambers, J. A., & Weiner, D. B. (2002). Carboxyl terminus of hVIP/mov34 is critical for HIV-1-Vpr interaction and glucocorticoid-mediated signaling. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 227(49), 47854-47860.

    Ramanathan, M. P., Chambers, J. A., Taylor, J., Korber, B. T., Lee, M. D., Nalca, A., Dang, K., Pankhong, P., Attatippaholkun, W., & Weiner, D.B. (2005). Expression and evolutionary analysis of West Nile virus (Merion Strain). Journal of NeuroVirology, 11, 544-556.

Won-Tak Choi   
    Choi, W. T., Tian, S., Dong, C. Z., Kumar, S., Liu, D., Madani, N., An, J., Sodroski, J. G., & Huang, Z. (2005, December). Unique ligand binding sites on CXCR4 probed by a chemical biology approach: Implications for the design of selective human immunodeficiency virus type 1 inhibitors. Journal of Virology, 79(24), 15398-15404.

    Tian, S.*, Choi W. T.*, Liu, D., Pesavento, J., Wang, Y., An, J., Sodroski, J. G., & Huang, Z. (2005, October). Distinct functional sites for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and stromal cell-derived factor 1alpha on CXCR4 transmembrane helical domains. (*These authors contributed equally to this work.) Journal of Virology, 79(20), 12667-12673.

    Kumar, S.*, Choi, W. T.*, Dong, C. Z.*, Madani, N., Tian, S., Liu, D., Wang, Y., Pesavento, J., Wang, J., Fan, X., Yuan, J., Fritzsche, W. R., An, J., Sodroski, J. G., Richman, D. D., & Huang, Z. (2006, January). SMM-chemokines: A new class of unnatural synthetic molecules as chemical probes of chemokine receptor biology and leads for therapeutic development. (*These authors contributed equally to this work.) Chemistry & Biology, 13, 1-11.

    Dong, C. Z., Kumar, S., Choi, W.T., Madani, N., Tian, S., An, J., Sodroski, J. G., & Huang, Z. (2005, December). Different stereochemical requirements for CXCR4 binding and signaling functions as revealed by an anti-HIV, D-amino acid-containing SMM-chemokine ligand. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 48(25), 7923-7924.

    Choi, W. T., Kaul, M., Kumar, S., Wang, J., Dong, C. Z., An, J., Lipton, S. A., & Huang, Z. (2007, March 9). Neuronal apoptotoic signaling pathways probed and intervened by chemically engineered (SMM) chemokines. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282(10), 7154-7163.

    Choi, W. T., Kumaki, Y., An, J., Richman, D. D., Sodroski J. G., & Huang, Z. (2007). Basic and translational research of chemokine ligands and receptors and development of novel therapeutics. In Z. Huang (Ed.), Drug Discovery Research (pp. 300-335). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

    Wang, J., Kumar, S., Choi, W.T., Dong, C., & Huang, Z. (2006, May). Design and synthesis of novel chemokine analogs derived from vMIP-II. Protein & Peptide Letters, 13(5), 499-501.

Mai Dang   
    Dang, M. T., Yokoi, F., Yin, H. H., Lovinger, D. M., Wang, Y., & Li, Y. (2006, October 10). Disrupted motor learning and long-term synaptic plasticity in mice lacking NMDAR1 in the striatum. PNAS, 103(41), 15254-15259.

    Dang, M. & Li, Y. (2005). Generation of transgenic and gene-targeted mouse models of movement disorders. In M. LeDoux (Ed.), Animal Models of Movement Disorders (pp. 33-44). Burlington, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.

    Dang, M., Yokoi, F., McNaught, K., Jengelley, T., Jackson, T., Li, J. & Li, Y. (2005). Generation and characterization of Dyt1 GAG knock-in mouse as a model for early-onset dystonia. Experimental Neurology, 196, 452-463.

    Yokoi, F., Dang, M.T., Shinichi, M., & Yuqing. L. (2005). Exclusive paternal expression and novel alternatively spliced variants of e-sarcoglycan mRNA in mouse brain. FEBS Letters, 579, 4822-4828.

    Kokontis, J. M., Hsu, S., Chuu, C., Dang, M., Fukuchi, J., Hiipakka, R. A., & Liao, S. (2005). Role of Androgen Receptor in the progression of human prostate tumor cells to androgen independence and insensitivity. The Prostate, 65, 287-298.

Dylan Dodd   
    Dodd, D., Reese, J. G., Louer, C. R., Ballard, J. D., Spies, M. A., & Blanke, S. R. (2007). Functional comparison of the two bacillus anthracis glutamate racemases. Journal of Bacteriology, 189(14), 5265-5275.

    Cann, I. K. O., Dodd, D., Nair, S. K., Mackie, R.I., & Spies, M. A. (2007) Bacterial genome mining to advance enzymology for plant cell wall degration. The Proceedings of the VII International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores, 17-21. (Dylan Dodd, Microbiology)

Kristen A. Ehrenberger   
    Ehrenberger, K. A. (2006). Drake, Daniel. In W. F. Bynum & H. Bynum (Eds.), Dictionary of medical biography (Volume 2, C-G), pp. 432-434. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

    Ehrenberger, K. (2005). Looking into Der Mensch: the Deutsches hygiene-museum Dresden, the Transparent Man, and productive science museum memory. Paper presented at the Midwest Junto for the History of Science, Kirksville, Mo.

Asa Flanigan   
    Chen, A. B., Rickel, C. A., Flanigan, A., Hunt, G., & Moorhouse, K. G. (1996). Comparison of ampholytes used for slab gel and capillary isoelectric focusing of recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator glycoforms. Journal of Chromatography A, 744, 279-284.

    Flanigan, A., & Gardner, J., (2007). Interaction of the gifsey-1 xis protein with the gifsy-1 attp sequence. Journal of Bacteriology, 187(17), 6303-6311. (Asa Flanigan, Microbiology)

Lisa Fukui   
    Fukui, L., & Chen, Y. (2007). NvMap: Automated analysis of NMR chemical shift perturbation data. Bioinformatics, 23(3), 378-380.

Travis A. Gayles   
    Lim, U., Gayles, T., Katki, H. A., Stolzenberg-Solomon, R., Weinstein, S. J., Pietinen, P., et al. (2007). Serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer Research, 67(11), 5569-5574.

    Gayles, T., & Alston, R. J. (2004). Health care benefits and disability coverage offred by small businesses: Service precautions for rehabilitation agencies. Journal of Rehabilitation Administration, 28(2), 85-91.

Bruce Geryk   
    Vakulenko, S. B., Golemi, D., Geryk, B., Suvorov, M., Knox, J. R., Mobashery, S., & Lerner, S. A. (2002, June). Mutational replacement of Leu-293 in the class c enterobacter cloacae P99 b-lactamase confers increased MIC of cefepime. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 46(6), 1966-1970.

    Vakulenko, S. B., Geryk, B., Kotra, L. P., Mobashery, S., & Lerner, S. A. (1998, July). Selection and characterization of beta-lactam-beta-lactamase inactivator-resistant mutants following PCR mutagenesis of the TEM-1 beta-lactamase gene. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 42(7), 1542-1548.

Thomas A. Graham   
    Graham, T. A., & Sarikaya, M. (2000, November). Growth dynamics or red abalone shell: A biomimetic model. Materials Science and Engineering-C, 11, 145-153.

    Graham, T. A., Weaver, C., Mao, F., Kimelman, D., & Xu, W. (2000, December). Crystal structure of a beta-ratenin/Tcf complex. Cell, 103(6), 885-896.

    Graham, T. A., Ferkey, D. M., Mao, F., Kimelman, D., & Xu, W. (2001, December). Tcf4 can specifically recognize beta-catenin using alternative conformations. Nature Structural Biology, 8(12), 1048-1052.

    Graham, T. A., Clements, W. K., Kimelman, D., & Xu, W. (2002, September). The crystal structure of the beta-catenin/ICAT complex reveals the inhibitory mechanism of ICAT. Molecular Cell, 10(3), 563-571.

Christopher B. Guest   
    Guest, C. B., Gao, Y., O'Connor, J. C., & Freund, G. G. (2007). Obesity and immunity. In R. Ader (Ed.), Psychoneuroimmunology, (pp. 993-1011). New York: Elsevier.

    Guest, C.B., Deszo, E.L., Hartman, M.E., York, J.M., Kelley, K.W., Freund, G.G. (2008) Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase kinase a is expressed by monocytic cells and regulates the activation profile. PloS One

    Guest, C.B., Park, M.J., Johnson, D.R., Freund, G.G. (2008) The implication of proinflammatory cytokines in type 2 diabetes. Frontiers in Bioscience

    O'Connor, J. C., Sherry, C. L., Guest, C. B., & Freund, G. G. (2007). Type 2 diabetes impairs insulin receptor substrate-2-mediated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity in primary macrophages to induce a state of cytokine resistance to IL-4 in association with overexpression of suppressor of cytokine signaling-3. The Journal of Immunology, 178(11), 6886-6893.

    Guest, C. B., Hartman, M. E., O'Connor, J. C., Chakour, K. S., Sovari, A. A., & Freund, G. G. (2007, June). Phagocytosis of cholesteryl ester is amplified in diabetic mouse macrophages and is largely mediated by CD36 and SR-A. PLoS One, 6(e511), 1-7.

Rajarsi Gupta   
    Christopher O Olopade, MD, MPH, Edward Mensah, PhD, Rajarsi Gupta, PhD, Dezheng Huo, PhD, Daniel L Picchietti, MD, Enrico Gratton, PhD, Antonios Michalos, MD. Non-invasive Determination of Brain Tissue Oxygenation during Sleep in Obstructive Sleep apnea: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Approach. SLEEP in press 2007

    Christopher O Olopade, MD, MPH, Bharati Prasad, MD, Rajarsi Gupta, PhD, Dezheng Huo, PhD, Linda Laatsch, PhD, Enrico Gratton, PhD, Antonios Michalos, MD. Nasal CPAP does not improve Brain Tissue Oxygenation in Obstructive Sleep Apnea. SLEEP accepted 2007

    Wolf M, Wolf U, Choi JH, Gupta R, Safonova LP, Paunescu LA, Michalos A, Gratton E. “Detection of the fast neuronal signal on the motor cortex using functional frequency domain near infrared spectroscopy.” Adv Exp Med Biol. 2003;510:193-7. PMID: 12580427

    9. Martin Wolf, Ursula Wolf, Jee-Hyun Choi, Rajarsi Gupta, Larisa P Safonova, L Adelina Paunescu, Antonios Michalos, and Enrico Gratton. Detection of the fast neuronal signal on the motor cortex using functional frequency domain near infrared spectroscopy. In Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXIII: Oxygen Measurements in the 21st Century: Basic Techniques and Clinical Relevance (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol. 510). By DF Wilson, SM Evans, J Biaglow, and A Pastuszko (Editors). Springer, pp. 193-7, 2003. ISBN 0306473941

    Wurzburger, R. J., Gupta, R., Parnassa, A. P., Wexler, J. A., et al. (2003). Use of GC clamps in DHPLC mutation scanning. Clinical Medicine & Research, 1, pp-pp.

    Wolf, M., Wolf, U., Choi, J. H., Gupta, R., Safonova, L. P., Paunescu, L. A., Michalos, A. & Gratton, E. (2002). Functional frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy detects fast neuronal signal in the motor cortex. NeuroImage, 17, 1868-1875.

    Toronov, V., Walker, S., Gupta, R., Choi, J. H., Gratton, E., Hueber, D. & Webb, A. (2003). The roles of changes in deoxyhemoglobin concentration and regional cerebral blood volume in the fmri bold signal. NeuroImage, 19, 1521-1531.

    Choi, J. H., Wolf, M., Toronov, V., Wolf, U., Polzonetti, C., Hueber, D., Safonova, L. P., Gupta, R., Michalos, A., Mantulin, W. & Gratton, E. (2004, January/February). Noninvasive determination of the optical properties of adult brain: Near-infrared spectroscopy approach. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 9(1), 221-229.

    Safonova, L. P., Michalos, A., Wolf, U., Wolf, M., Hueber, D. M., Choi, J. H., Gupta, R., Polzonetti, C., Mantulin, W. W. & Gratton, E. (2004). Age-correlated changes in cerebral hemodynamics assessed by near-infrared spectroscopy. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 39, 207-225

    Blank RD, Baldini TH, Kaufman M, Bailey S, Gupta R, Yershov Y, Boskey AL, Coppersmith SN, Demant P, Paschalis EP. “Spectroscopically determined collagen Pyr/deH-DHLNL cross-link ratio andcrystallinity indices differ markedly in recombinant congenic mice with divergent calculated bone tissue strength.” Connect Tissue Res. 2003;44(3-4):134-42. PMID: 14504033

Adnan K. Husain   
    Husain, A. K. (2006). Spillage from the fountain of youth: The regulation of prospective anti-aging molecular and genetic therapies. Journal of Law, Technology, and Policy, 2006(1), 159-199.

Benjamin Jacobson   
    Banich, M., Milham, M., Webb, A., Wszalek, T., Cohen, N., Kramer, A., & Jacobson, B. (2001). Impact of aging on the neural networks underlying Stroop task performance as assessed fy fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26. Manuscript submitted for publication.

    Milham, M., Banich, M., Brown, C., Webb, A., Wszalek, T., Cohen, N., Kramer, A., & Jacobson, B. (2001). Dynamic properties of neural networks underlying Stroop tast performance as assessed by fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26. Manuscript submitted for publication.

    Banich, M. T., Milham, M. P., Jacobson, B. L., Webb, A., Wszalek, T., Cohen, N. J., & Karmer, A.F. (in press). Vision: from neurons to cognition. In C. Casanova & M. Ptito (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.

Christopher M. Johnson   
    Omueti, K. O., Beyer, M. J., Johnson, M. C., Lyle, E. A., & Tapping, R. I. (2005, August). Domain exchanges between human toll-like recptors 1 and 6 reveals a region required for lipopeptide discrimination. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280(44), 36616-36625.

David B. Khatami   
    Nam, Y., Chang, J., Khatami, D., Brewer, G. J., & Wheeler, B. C. (2004, June). Patterning to enhance activity of cultured neuronal networks. IEE Proc.-Nanobiotechnol., 151(3), 109-115.

Tristan F. Kraft   
    Kraft, T. F. B, Schmidt, B. M., Knight, C. T. G, Cuendet, M., Gills, J. J., Kang, Y. H., Pezzuto, J. M., Seigler, D. S., & Lila, M. A. (2005). Chemopreventive potential of wild blueberry fruits in multiple stages of carcinogenesis. Journal of Food Science, 70, 159-166.

    Yousef, G. G., Seigler, D. S., Grusak, M. A., Rogers, R. B., Knight, C. T. G., Kraft, T. F. B., Erdman, J. W. Jr., & Lila, M. A. (2004). Biosynthesis and characterization of 14C-enriched flavonoid fractions from plant cell suspension cultures. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 52, 1138-1145.

    Kraft, T. F. B, van Loon J. J. W. A., & Kiss, J. Z. (2000). Plastid position in Arabidopsis columella cells is similar in microgravity and on a random positioning machine. Planta, 211, 415-422.

    Burns Kraft, T.F., Dey M., Rogers R.B., Ribnicky, D.M., Gipp, D.M., Cefalu, W.T., Raskin, I., Lila, M.A. (2008) Phytochemical composition and metabolic performance-enhancing activity of dietary berries traditionally used by native north Americans. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 56, 654-660. (Tristan Kraft, Nutritional Sciences)

Shwayta Kukreti   
    Kukreti, S., Cerussi, A., Tromberg, B., & Gratton, E. (2007, March/April). Intrinsic tumor biomarkers revealed by novel double-differential spectroscopic analysis of near-infrared spectra. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 12(2), 020509-1-020509-3.

Michael Lasker   
    Lasker, M. V., & Nair, S. K. (2006). Intracellular TLR signaling: A structural perspective on human disease. Journal of Immunology, 177, 11-16.

    Lasker, M. V., Gajjar, M. M., & Nair, S. K. (2005). Cutting edge: Molecular structure of the IL-1R associated kinase-4 death domain and its implications for TLR signaling. Journal of Immunology, 175(7), 4175-4179.

    Lasker, M. V., Kuruvilla, S. M., Gajjar, M. M., Kapoor, A., & Nair, S. K. (2006, April). Metal ion-mediated reduc tion in surface entropy improves diffraction quality of crystals of the IRAK-4 death domain. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques, 17(2), 114-121.

    Besant, P. G., Lasker, M. V., Bui, C. D., Tan, E., Attwood, P. V., & Turck, C. W. (2004). Proteomics approach to identifying ATP-covalently modified proteins. Journal of Proteome Research, 3, 120-125.

    Besant, P. G., Lasker, M. V., Bui, C. D., & Turck, C. W. (2002). Inhibition of branched-chain a-keto acid dehydrogenase kinase and sln1 yeast histidine kinase by the antifungal antibiotic radicicol. Molecular Pharmacology, 62(2), 289-296.

    Lasker, M. V., Thai, P., Besant, P. G., Bui, C. D., Naidu, S., & Turck, C. W. (2002). Branched-chain -ketoacid dehydrogenase kinase: A mammalian enzyme with histidine kinase activity. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques, 13(4), 1-9.

    Nair, S., Yu, J. P., & Lasker, M. (2002). Studying molecular recognition by x-ray crystallography. Biotech Center News.

    Besant, P. G., Lasker, M. V., Bui, C. D., & Turck, C. W. (2000). Phosphohistidine analysis using reversed-phase think-layer chromatography. Analytical Biochemistry, 282, 149-53.

    Lasker, M. V., Bui, C. D., Besant, P. G., Sugawara, K., Thai, P., Medzihradszky, G., & Turck, C.W. (1999). Protein histidine phosphorylation: Increased stability of thiophosphohistidine. Protein Science, 8, 2177-2185.

Eric H. Lee   
    Lee, E. H., Gao, M., Pinotsis, N., Wilmanns, M., & Schulten, K. (2006, March). Mechanical strength of the titin Z1Z2-telethonin complex. Structure, 14, 497-509.

    Lim, B.B.C., Lee, E.H., Sotomayor, M., Schulten, K. (2008). Molecular basis of fibrin clot elasticity. Structure, 16, 1-11.

Andrew Leitz   
    Leitz, A. J., Bayburt, T. H., Barnakov, A. N., Springer, B. A., & Sligar, S. G. (2006, May). Functional reconstitution of B2-adrenergic receptors utilizing self-assembling Nanodisc technology. BioTechniques, 40, 601-612.

Brian Monroe   
    Rubakhin, S. S., Page, J. S., Monroe, B. R., & Sweedler, J. V. (2001). Analysis of cellular release using capillary electrophoresis and matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry. Electrophoresis, 22, 3752-3758.

Martin Neumann   
    Allain, J. P., Nieto, M., Coventry, M. D., Neumann, M. J., Vargas-Lopez, E., & Ruzic, D. N. (2002). FLIRE-flowing liquid surface retention experiment, design and testing. Fusion Engineering and Design, 61-62, 245-250.

    Stephens, J. M., Stout, J. D., Abraham, J., Neumann, M., Gole, J. L., et al. (2001, December). Measurement of low-level gain in a visible chemical laser amplifier. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 40(12), 2788-2801.

    Hayden, D. B., Juliano, D. R., Neumann, M. N., Allain, M. D., & Ruzic, D. N. (1999). Helicon plasma source for ionized physical vapor deposition. Surface and Coatings Technology, 120-121, 401-404.

    Lytle, W. M., Neumann, M. J., & Ruzic, D. N. (2006). Plasma-assisted cleaning by electrostatics (PACE). In M.J. Lercel (Ed.), Emerging Lithographic Technologies X. Proceedings of SPIE, 6151, 61511B-1-61511B-10.

    Jurczyk, B. E., Vargas-Lopez, E., Neumann, M. N., & Ruzic, D. N. (2005). Illinois debris-mitigation EUV applications laboratory. Microelectronic Engineering, 77, 103-109.

    Vargas Lopez, E., Jurczyk, B.E., Jaworski, M.A. Neumann, M.J., & Ruzic, D.N. (2005). Origins of debris and mitigation through a secondary RF plasma system for discharge produced EUV sources. Microelectronic Engineering, 77, 95-102.

    Vargas Lopez, E., Jurczyk, B.E., Jaworski, M.A., Neumann, M.J., & Ruzic, D.N. (2004). Origins of debris and mitigation through a secondary RF plasma system for discharge-produced EUV sources. Emerging Lithographic Technologies, VIII, 183-196.

    Jurczyk, B. E., Vargas Lopez, E., Neumann, M. J., & Ruzic, D. N. (2004). Illinois Debris-mitigation EUV Applications Laboratory (IDEAL). Emerging Lithographic Technologies, VIII, 695-701.

Freddy T. Nguyen   
    Luo, W., Nguyen, F. T., Zysk, A. M., Ralston, T. S., Brockenbrough, J., Marks, D. L., Oldenburg, A. L., & Boppart, S. A. (2005, October). Optical Biopsy of Lymph Node Morphology using Optical Coherence Tomography. Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, 4(5), 539-547. Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

    Butzatu, D. A., Nguyen, F. T., Reddy, S. N., & Darsey, J. A. (2004). Computational analysis of transition metal doped nanotubes and their application to molecular electronics. Journal of Computational Theoretical Nanoscience, 1, 99-105.

    Tunnel, J. W., Desjardins, A. E., Galindo, L., Georgakoudi, I., McGee, S. A., Mirkovic, J., Mueller, M. G., Nazemi, J., Nguyen, F. T., Wax, A., Zhang, Dasari, R. R., & Feld, M. S. (2003). Instumentation for multi-modal spectroscopic diagnosis of epithelial dysplasia. Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, 2(6), 505-514.

    Lewis, E. K., Haaland, W. C., Nguyen, F., Heller, D. A., Allen, M. J., MacGregor, R. R., Berger, C. S., Willingham, B., Burns, L. A., Scott, G. B., Kittrell, C., Johnson, B. R., Curl, R. F., & Metzker, M. (2005, April 12). Color-blind flourescence detection for four-color DNA sequencing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(15), 5346-5351.

    Nguyen, F.T. (2008). The birth of the American Physician Scientists Association - the next generation of Young Turks. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 118(4): 1237–1240.

    Freddy T. Nguyen, Elizabeth M. Dibbern, Eric J. Chaney, Amy L. Oldenburg, Kenneth S. Suslick, and Stephen A. Boppart. Magnetic protein microspheres as dynamic contrast agents for magnetomotive optical coherence tomography. Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 6867, 68670F (2008), DOI:10.1117/12.762428

    Freddy T. Nguyen, Adam M. Zysk, Jan G. Kotynek, Frank J. Bellafiore, Kendrith M. Rowland, Patricia A. Johnson, J. Eric Chaney, and Stephen A. Boppart. Portable real-time optical coherence tomography system for intraoperative imaging and staging of breast cancer. Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 6430, 64300H (2007), DOI:10.1117/12.701128

    Adam M. Zysk, Steven G. Adie, Julian J. Armstrong, Matthew S. Leigh, Alexandre Paduch, Freddy T. Nguyen, David D. Sampson, and Stephen A. Boppart. Needle-probe system for the measurement of tissue refractive index. Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 6430, 64300O (2007), DOI:10.1117/12.700955

    Zysk, A.M., Nguyen, F. T., Oldenburg, A. L., Marks, D. L., & Boppart, S.A. (2007). Optical coherence tomography: a review of clinical development from bench to bedside. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 12(5), 051403-1–051403-21



    Choi, J. H., Nguyen, F. T., Barone, P. W., Heller, D. A., Moll, A. E., Patel, D., Boppart, S. A. & Strano, M. S. (2007). Multimodal biomedical imaging with asymmetric single-walled carbon nanotube/iron oxide nanoparticlecomplexes. Nano Letters, 7(4), 861-867.

    Zyzk, A. M., Adie, S. G., Armstrong, J. J., Leigh, M. S., Paducah, A., Sampson, D. D., Nguyen, F. T., & Boppart, S. A. (2007, February 15). Needle-based refractive index measurement using low-coherence interferometry. Optics Letters, 32(4), 385-387.

Lan T. Nguyen   


Michael Okura   
    Okura, M., Fang, J., Salto, M. L., Singer, R. S., Docampo, R., & Moreno, S. N. J. (2005, April 22). A Lipid-modified phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (TcPI-PLC) is involved in differentiation of trypomastigotes to amastigotes of trypanosoma cruzi. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280(16), 16235-16243.

    Furuya, T., Okura, M., Ruiz, F. A., Scott, D. A., & Docampo, R. (2001). TcSCA complements yeast mutants defective in Ca2+ pumps and encodes a Ca2+-ATPase that localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum of trypanosoma cruzi. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276(35), 32437-32445.

Laura Pace   
    Tischkau, S. A., Mitchell, J. W., Pace, L. A., Barnes, J. W., Barnes, J. A., & Gillette, M. U. (2004). Protein kinase G type II is required for night-to-day progression of the mammalian circadian clock. Neuron, 43, 539-549.

Snehalkumar Patel   
    Bellini, M., Novikova, N., & Patel, S. B. (2007). Splicing-independent recruitment of spliceosomal small nuclear RNPs to nascent RNA polymerase II transcripts. The Journal of Cell Biology, 178(6), 937-949. (Snehal Patel, Biochemistry)

Michelle R. Rowland   
    Rosenblatt, K. A., Gao, D. L., Ray, R. M., Rowland, M. R., Nelson, Z. C., Wernli, K. J., Li, W., & Thomas, D. B. (2006, July 25). Induced abortions and the risk of all cancers combined and site-specific cancers in Shanghai. Cancer Causes Control, 17, 1275-1280.

John Selby   
    Selby, J. C., and Shannon, M. A. (2007, April). A method to fabricate mesoscopic freestanding polydimethylsiloxane membranes used to probe the rheology of an epithelial sheet. Manuscript submitted for publication.

    Selby, J. C., and Shannon, M. A. (2007, April). Finite load-deformation behavior of a living human epidermal keratinocyte sheet as measured in a composite diaphragm inflation experiment. Manuscript submitted for publication.

    Selby, J. C., & Shannon, M. A. (2007, April). An apparatus for measuring the finite load-deformation behavior of a sheet of epithelial cells cultured on a mesoscopic freestanding elastomer membrane. Manuscript submitted for publication.

    Prakash, S., Long, T. M., Selby, J. C., Moore, J. S., & Shannon, M. A. (2007). "Click" modification of silica surfaces and glass microfluidic channels. Analytical Chemistry, 79(4), 1661-1667.

    Yeom, J., Wu, Y., Selby, J. C., & Shannon, M. A. (2005, November). Maximum achievable aspect ratio in deep reactive ion etching of silicon due to aspect ratio dependent transport and the microloading effect. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 23(6), 2319-2329.

    Xu, K., Selby, J. C., Shannon, M. A., & Economy, J. (2004, June). Adhesion mechanisms in the solid-state bonding technique using submicrometer aromatic thermosetting colpolyester adhesive. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 92(6), 3843-3856.

    Alaca, B. E., Selby, J. C., Saif, M. T. A., & Sehitoglu, H. (2002, August). Biaxial testing of nano-scale films on compliant substrates: Fatigue and fracture. Review of Scientific Instruments, 73(8), 2963-2970.

    Selby, J. C., Shannon, M. A., Xu, K., & Economy, J. (2001, November). Sub-micrometer solid-state adhesive bonding with aromatic thermosetting copolyesters for the assembly of polyimide membranes in silicon-based devices. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 11(6), 672-685.

    Selby, J. C., Philpott, M. L., & Shannon, M. A. (2001, May). Fabrication of mesoscopic flexible, high pressure, microchannel heat exchangers (MHEx). Transactions of NAMRI/SME, 29, 469-476.

    Selby, J. C., & Shannon, M. A. (1998, June). Anodic sacrificial layer etch (ASLE) for large area and blind cavity release of metallic structures. Technical Digest of the 1998 Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, 252-255.

    Philpott, M. L., Beebe, D.J, Fischer, A., Flachsbart, B., Marshall, M., Miller, N. R., Selby, J. C., Shannon, M. A., & Wu, Y. (2000). Switchable electrostatic micro-valves with high hold-off pressure. Technical Digest of the 2000 Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, 226-229.

    Selby, J. C., Shannon, M. A., & Boppart, S.A. (2002, May). Design of a microfabricated cell straining device for investigating cellular response to finite mechanical strains. IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine & Biology, 174-179.

    Xi, C., Balberg, M., Selby, J., Boppart, S., & Raskin, L. (2002, May). Use of molecular beacons to study mixing and hybridization in microfluidic devices. IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine & Biology, 541-544.

    Engel, J., Chen, J., Liu, C., Flachsbart, B. R., Selby, J. C., & Shannon, M. A. (2002, December). Development of polyimide based flexible tactile sensing skin. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 736, 165-170.

    Selby, J. C., Boppart, S. A., & Shannon, M. A. (2003, June). Anchoring junctions and cytoskeletal networks in an epithelial sheet: Mechanical characterization using elastic microfabricated membranes. ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, 885-886.

    Selby, J. C., Boppart, S. A., & Shannon, M. A. (2003, July). Measurement of the mechanical properties of actin filament and keratin intermediate filament networks in a monolayer of cultured human epidermal keratinocytes. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 121(1), Abstract No. 0280.

    Selby, J. C., Boppart, S. A., & Shannon, M. A. (2005, May). Cytoskeletal networks in an epithelial sheet: Mechanical characterization using composite diaphragm inflation. IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Microtechnology in Medicine & Biology, 201-204.

Paul D. Simonson   
    Simonson, P., D'Amico, E., & Gratton, E. (2006). Modulation of an optical needle's reflectivity alters the average photon path through scattering media. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 11(1), 014023-1-014023-9.

Vitaly Stepensky   
    Liang, S., Wang, M., Tapping, R. I., Stepensky, V., Nawar, H. F., Triantafilou, M., Triantafilou, K., Connell, T. D., & Hajishengallis, G. (2007, March). Ganglioside GD1a is an essential coreceptor for toll-like receptor 2 signaling in response to the B subunit of type IIb enterotoxin. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282(10), 7532-7542.

    Stepensky, V., & Tapping, R. I. (2004, Summer). Advances in mammalian cloning: The science behind stem cells and somatic cell transfer. Carle Selected Papers, 47(1), 31-39.

    Kawakami, M., Kawakami, K., Stepensky, V. A., Maki, R. A., Robin, H., Muller, W., Husain, S. R., & Puri, R. K. (2002, November). Interleukin 4 receptor on human lung cancer: A molecular target for cytotoxin therapy. Clinical Cancer Research, 8, 3503-3511.

    Ang, L-H, Kim, J., Stepensky, V., & Hing, H. (2003). Dock and pak regulate olfactory axon pathfinding in drosophila. The Company of Biologists Ltd Development, 130, 1307-1316.

Matthew P. Thorpe   
    Thorpe, M., Mojtahedi, M.C., Chapman-Novakofski, K., McAuley, E., Evans, E.M. (2008) A positive association of lumbar spine bone mineral density with dietary protein is suppressed by a negative association with protein sulfur. The Journal of Nutrition 138, 80-85. (Matthew Thorpe, Nutritional Sciences)

Victor Wang   
    Roegge, C. S., Wand, V. C., Powers, B. E., Klintsova, A. Y., Villareal, S., Greenough, W. T., & Schantz, S. L. (2004). Motor impairment in rats exposed to PCBs and methylmercury during early development. Toxicological Sciences, 77(2), 315-324.

Claudia Winograd   
    Stetler, A., Winograd, C., Sayegh, J., Cheever, A., Patton, E., Zhang, X., Clarke, S., & Ceman, S. (2006). Identification and characterization of the Methyl arginines in the fragile X mental retardation protein Fmrp. Human Molecular Genetics, 15(1), 87-96.

John-Paul Yu   
    Li, B., Yu, J. P., Brunzelle, J. S., Moll, G. N., van der Donk, W. A., & Nair, S. K. (2006, March 10). Structure and mechanism of the lantibiotic cyclase involved in nisin biosynthesis. Science, 311, 1464-1467.

    Nair, S., Yu, J. P., & Lasker, M. (2002). Studying molecular recognition by x-ray crystallography. Biotech Center News.

Loren Zech   
    Lewis, K. C., Hochadel, J. F. & Zech, L. A., Jr. (2003). A systems modeling approach to the study of retinoid function: Implications for evaluation of retinoids in cancer chemoprevention and/or chemotherapy. In J. A. Novotny, M. H. Green & R. C. Boston (Eds.), Mathematical modeling in nutrition and the health sciences (pp. 301-316). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.


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