Publications by FOKUS students

The program only started in the winter semester 2012/2013. Currently (Jan 2021), of the 50 students who started into the program over the years, 26 have begun or already finished a doctoral project at JMU, others left to continue in other places. Of those who started here, 25 have already published.
FOKUS students are highlighted in bold print.

MScLS Publications
Endocrine signals fine-tune daily activity patterns in Drosophila. Pauls D, Selcho M, Räderscheidt J, Amatobi KM, Fekete A, Krischke M, Hermann-Luibl C, Ozbek-Unal AG, Ehmann N, Itskov PM, Kittel RJ, Helfrich-Förster C, Kühnlein RP, Mueller MJ, Wegener C. Curr Biol. 2021 Sep 27;31(18):4076-4087.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.002. Epub 2021 Jul 29.
Physical exercise mitigates neuropathic changes in an animal model for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 1X. Klein D, Yuan X, Weiß EM, Martini R. Exp Neurol. 2021 Sep;343:113786. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2021.113786. Epub 2021 Jun 19.
A phosphoproteomic approach reveals that PKD3 controls PKA-mediated glucose and tyrosine metabolism. Loza-Valdes A, Mayer AE, Kassouf T, Trujillo-Viera J, Schmitz W, Dziaczkowski F, Leitges M, Schlosser A, Sumara G. Life Sci Alliance. 2021 Jun 18;4(8):e202000863. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202000863. Print 2021 Aug.
MYC- and MIZ1-Dependent Vesicular Transport of Double-Strand RNA Controls Immune Evasion in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Krenz B, Gebhardt-Wolf A, Ade CP, Gaballa A, Roehrig F, Vendelova E, Baluapuri A, Eilers U, Gallant P, D'Artista L, Wiegering A, Gasteiger G, Rosenfeldt MT, Bauer S, Zender L, Wolf E, Eilers M. Cancer Res. 2021 Aug 15;81(16):4242-4256. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-21-1677. Epub 2021 Jun 18.
The healing myocardium mobilizes a distinct B-cell subset through a CXCL13-CXCR5-dependent mechanism. Heinrichs M, Ashour D, Siegel J, Büchner L, Wedekind G, Heinze KG, Arampatzi P, Saliba AE, Cochain C, Hofmann U, Frantz S, Campos Ramos G. Cardiovasc Res. 2021 Nov 22;117(13):2664-2676. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvab181.
The zinc cluster transcription factor Czf1 regulates cell wall architecture and integrity in Candida albicans. Mottola A, Ramírez-Zavala B, Hünniger K, Kurzai O, Morschhäuser J. Mol Microbiol. 2021 Aug;116(2):483-497. doi: 10.1111/mmi.14727. Epub 2021 May 11.
Natural Zeitgebers Under Temperate Conditions Cannot Compensate for the Loss of a Functional Circadian Clock in Timing of a Vital Behavior in Drosophila. Ruf F, Mitesser O, Mungwa ST, Horn M, Rieger D, Hovestadt T, Wegener C. J Biol Rhythms. 2021 Jun;36(3):271-285. doi: 10.1177/0748730421998112. Epub 2021 Mar 22.
Implementation of CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing to Generate Murine Lung Cancer Models That Depict the Mutational Landscape of Human Disease. Hartmann O, Reissland M, Maier CR, Fischer T, Prieto-Garcia C, Baluapuri A, Schwarz J, Schmitz W, Garrido-Rodriguez M, Pahor N, Davies CC, Bassermann F, Orian A, Wolf E, Schulze A, Calzado MA, Rosenfeldt MT, Diefenbacher ME. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Mar 2;9:641618. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.641618. eCollection 2021.
Serotonin-specific neurons differentiated from human iPSCs form distinct subtypes with synaptic protein assembly. Jansch C, Ziegler GC, Forero A, Gredy S, Wäldchen S, Vitale MR, Svirin E, Zöller JEM, Waider J, Günther K, Edenhofer F, Sauer M, Wischmeyer E, Lesch KP. J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2021 Feb;128(2):225-241. doi: 10.1007/s00702-021-02303-5. Epub 2021 Feb 9.
Activity of Tracheal Cytotoxin of Bordetella pertussis in a Human Tracheobronchial 3D Tissue Model. Kessie DK, Lodes N, Oberwinkler H, Goldman WE, Walles T, Steinke M, Gross R. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2021 Jan 19;10:614994. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.614994. eCollection 2020.

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