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
IL-12 from endogenous cDC1, and not vaccine DC, is required for Th1 induction. Ashour D, Arampatzi P, Pavlovic V, Förstner KU, Kaisho T, Beilhack A, Erhard F, Lutz MB. JCI Insight. 2020 May 21;5(10):135143. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.135143.
Improved bacterial RNA-seq by Cas9-based depletion of ribosomal RNA reads. Prezza G, Heckel T, Dietrich S, Homberger C, Westermann AJ, Vogel J. RNA. 2020 Apr 28. pii: rna.075945.120. doi: 10.1261/rna.075945.120. [Epub ahead of print]
The brain of Cataglyphis ants: neuronal organization and visual projections. Habenstein J, Amini E, Grübel K, El Jundi B, Rössler W. J Comp Neurol. 2020 Apr 26. doi: 10.1002/cne.24934. [Epub ahead of print]
Trypanosoma brucei colonizes the tsetse gut via an immature peritrophic matrix in the proventriculus. Rose C, Casas-Sánchez A, Dyer NA, Solórzano C, Beckett AJ, Middlehurst B, Marcello M, Haines LR, Lisack J, Engstler M, Lehane MJ, Prior IA, Acosta-Serrano Á. Nat Microbiol. 2020 Apr 20. doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-0707-z. Online ahead of print.
YBEY is an essential biogenesis factor for mitochondrial ribosomes. Summer S, Smirnova A, Gabriele A, Toth U, Fasemore AM, Förstner KU, Kuhn L, Chicher J, Hammann P, Mitulović G, Entelis N, Tarassov I, Rossmanith W, Smirnov A. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Mar 17:gkaa148. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa148. Online ahead of print.
Alpaca (Vicugna pacos), the first nonprimate species with a phosphoantigen-reactive Vγ9Vδ2 T cell subset. Fichtner AS, Karunakaran MM, Gu S, Boughter CT, Borowska MT, Starick L, Nöhren A, Göbel TW, Adams EJ, Herrmann T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Mar 24;117(12):6697-6707. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909474117. Epub 2020 Mar 5.
Butyrophilin-2A1 Directly Binds Germline-Encoded Regions of the Vγ9Vδ2 TCR and Is Essential for Phosphoantigen Sensing. Karunakaran MM, Willcox CR, Salim M, Paletta D, Fichtner AS, Noll A, Starick L, Nöhren A, Begley CR, Berwick KA, Chaleil RAG, Pitard V, Déchanet-Merville J, Bates PA, Kimmel B, Knowles TJ, Kunzmann V, Walter L, Jeeves M, Mohammed F, Willcox BE, Herrmann T. Immunity. 2020 Mar 17;52(3):487-498.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2020.02.014. Epub 2020 Mar 9.
The adrenergic-induced ERK3 pathway drives lipolysis and suppresses energy dissipation. El-Merahbi R, Viera JT, Valdes AL, Kolczynska K, Reuter S, Löffler MC, Erk M, Ade CP, Karwen T, Mayer AE, Eilers M, Sumara G. Genes Dev. 2020 Apr 1;34(7-8):495-510. doi: 10.1101/gad.333617.119. Epub 2020 Mar 5.
Serotonin (5-HT) neuron-specific inactivation of Cadherin-13 impacts 5-HT system formation and cognitive function. Forero A, Ku HP, Malpartida AB, Wäldchen S, Alhama-Riba J, Kulka C, Aboagye B, Norton WHJ, Young AMJ, Ding YQ, Blum R, Sauer M, Rivero O, Lesch KP. Neuropharmacology. 2020 May 15;168:108018. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.108018. Epub 2020 Feb 28.
Target gene-independent functions of MYC oncoproteins. Baluapuri A, Wolf E, Eilers M. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2020 May;21(5):255-267. doi: 10.1038/s41580-020-0215-2. Epub 2020 Feb 18.

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