Publications by FOKUS students

The program only started in the winter semester 2012/2013. Currently (Jan 2022), of the 62 students who started into the program over the years, 33 have begun or already finished a doctoral project at JMU, 6 others started or already finished their PhD somewhere else. Of those who started at JMU, 26 are authors on or more international peer reviewed publications.
FOKUS students are highlighted in bold print.

MScLS Publications

Distinct roles of α- and β-tubulin polyglutamylation in controlling axonal transport and in neurodegeneration. Bodakuntla S, Yuan X, Genova M, Gadadhar S, Leboucher S, Birling MC, Klein D, Martini R, Janke C, Magiera MM. EMBO J. 2021 Sep 1;40(17):e108498. doi: 10.15252/embj.2021108498. Epub 2021 Jul 26.

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.

Targeted protein degradation reveals a direct role of SPT6 in RNAPII elongation and termination. Narain A, Bhandare P, Adhikari B, Backes S, Eilers M, Dölken L, Schlosser A, Erhard F, Baluapuri A, Wolf E. Mol Cell. 2021 Aug 5;81(15):3110-3127.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.06.016. Epub 2021 Jul 6.

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.

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