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Week of February 12

By Basic Sciences department

Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

Climbing the mountain of adversity and removing barriers along the path. iScience.
Antentor Hinton Jr.*
Integrative analysis of pathogenic variants in glucose-6-phosphatase based on an AlphaFold2 model. PNAS Nexus.
Matt Sinclair* (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Richard Stein, Jonathan Sheehan, Emily Hawes, Richard O’Brien, Derek Claxton*.

Teal Spotlight cover of Heart and Circulatory Physiology showing a drawing of a diverse group of people sitting at a round table. A symbol of a handicapped person is in the center of the table. The whole group of people is surrounded by similar symbols (pride flag, gender symbols, disability symbols, etc.)

A Guide to Establishing, Implementing, and Optimizing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Committees. Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
Maigen Bethea* (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), Renã Robinson, Neng Vue, Heather Beasley, Annet Kirabo, Celestine Wanjalla, Antentor Hinton Jr.*

Featured as a Heart and Circulatory Physiology Spotlight Cover.

Advances in Physiology Education Spotlight cover showing a drawing of a Black scientists sitting at a long table facing the viewer. Other individuals surround the scientist. The background shows sciency symbols such as a DNA segment, atoms, an Erlenmeyer flask, etc.

A Workshop to Showcase the Diversity of Scientists to Middle School Students. Advances In Physiology Education.
Andrea Marshall*, Kit Neikirk, Dominique Stephens, Zer Vue, Heather Beasley, Yelena Janumyan Doe, Desmond Campbell, Letimicia Fears, Elsie Spencer, Zachary Conley, Antentor Hinton Jr.*

Featured as an Advances In Physiology Education Spotlight Cover.

“Marshall et al. conducted a workshop utilizing [blended learning] & [tactile learning] to teach middle schoolers about mitochondrial structure,” Advances in Physiology Education.

Pharmacology

Rapid sp3-Enriched Scaffold Generation via a Selective Aziridine Amide Ring-Opening Reaction. The Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Masahito Abe*, Jeremy Coleman, Christopher Presley, Nathan Schley, Craig Lindsley.
Evaluation of the Indazole Analogs of 5-MeO-DMT and Related Tryptamines as Serotonin Receptor 2 Agonists. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.
Navoda Jayakodiarachchi, Mallory Maurer, Daniel Schultz, Cayden Dodd, Analisa Thompson Gray, Hyekyung Cho, Olivier Boutaud, Carrie Jones, Craig Lindsley, Aaron Bender*.

Other biomedical basic sciences papers

ATP10A deficiency results in male-specific infertility in mice. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.
Adriana Norris*, Eugenia Yazlovitskaya, Tzushan Sharon Yang, Alex Mansueto, John Stafford, Todd Graham*.
Gravity-perfused airway-on-a-chip optimized for quantitative BSL-3 studies of SARS-CoV-2 infection: barrier permeability, cytokine production, immunohistochemistry, and viral load assays. Lab on a Chip.
Shannon Faley, David Schaffer, Eric Spivey, John Wikswo, Jacquelyn Brown.
Remodeling of the gastric environment in Helicobacter pylori-induced atrophic gastritis. mSystems.
Jennifer Shuman*, Aung Soe Lin, Mandy Westland, Kaeli Bryant, Blanca Piazuelo, Michelle Reyzer, Audra Judd, Hayes McDonald, Mark McClain, Kevin Schey, Holly Algood, Timothy Cover*.
Verification of the gene and protein expression of the aquaglyceroporin AQP3 in the mammalian lens. Experimental Eye Research.
Rosica Petrova* (University of Auckland), Kevin Schey.
EZH2 Inhibition Sensitizes IDH1R132H-Mutant Gliomas to Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor. Cells.
Lisa Sprinzen* (Columbia University Medical Center), Lisa Manier, Richard Caprioli.
Integration of metabolic flux with hepatic glucagon signaling and gene expression profiles in the conscious dog. Endocrinology And Metabolism.
Katie Coate*, Marta Smith, Guillaume Kraft, Ben Farmer, Patrick Donahue, Alan Cherrington, Dale Edgerton*.

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Mammalian orthoreovirus can exit cells in extracellular vesicles. PLOS Pathogens.
Sydni Caet Smith, Evan Krystofiak, Kristen Ogden.

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