Publications

de Lima RPereira, Li A, Gilani A, Rubio-Navarro A, Warren CD, Kong IY, Geri JB, Lo JC. C3aR1 on β cells Enhances β cell Function and Survival to Maintain Glucose Homeostasis. Mol Metab. 2025;:102134.

Naderi J, Johnson AKelsey, Thakkar H, Chandravanshi B, Ksiazek A, Anand A, Vincent V, Tran A, Kalimireddy A, Singh P, Sood A, Das A, Talbot CLamar, Distefano IA, J Maschek A, Cox J, Li Y, Summers SA, Atkinson DJ, Turapov T, Ratcliff JA, Fung J, Shabbir A, M Yassin S, Shiow S-AToh Ee, Holland WL, Pitt GS, Chaurasia B. Ceramide-induced FGF13 impairs systemic metabolic health. Cell Metab. 2025;.

Homan EA, Gilani A, Rubio-Navarro A, Johnson MA, Schaepkens OM, Cortada E, de Lima RPereira, Stoll L, Lo JC. Complement 3a receptor 1 on macrophages and Kupffer cells is not required for the pathogenesis of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Elife. 2025;13.

Lin S, Gade AR, Wang H-G, Niemeyer JE, Galante A, DiStefano I, Towers P, Nunez J, Matsui M, Schwartz TH, Rajadhyaksha A, Pitt GS. Interneuron FGF13 regulates seizure susceptibility via a sodium channel-independent mechanism. Elife. 2025;13.

Rubinelli L, Manzo OLaura, Sungho J, Del Gaudio I, Bareja R, Marino A, Palikhe S, Di Mauro V, Bucci M, Falcone DJ, Elemento O, Ersoy B, Diano S, Sasset L, Di Lorenzo A. Suppression of endothelial ceramide de novo biosynthesis by Nogo-B contributes to cardiometabolic diseases. Nat Commun. 2025;16(1):1968.

Ma L, Gilani A, Rubio-Navarro A, Cortada E, Li A, Reilly SM, Tang L, Lo JC. Adipsin and Adipocyte-derived C3aR1 Regulate Thermogenic Fat in a Sex-dependent Fashion. JCI Insight. 2024;.

Ma L, Gilani A, Rubio-Navarro A, Cortada E, Li A, Reilly SM, Tang L, Lo JC. Adipsin and Adipocyte-derived C3aR1 Regulate Thermogenic Fat in a Sex-dependent Fashion. JCI Insight. 2024;.

Katchman AN, Zakharov SI, Bohnen MS, Jimenez ASanchez, Kushner JS, Yang L, Chen B-X, Nasari A, Liu G, Rabbani DE, Han J, Leu C-S, Pitt GS, Marx SO. Augmented Cardiac Inotropy by Phosphodiesterase Inhibition Requires Phosphorylation of Rad and Increased Calcium Current. Circulation. 2024;149(20):1617-1620.

Cortada E, Yao J, Xia Y, Dündar F, Zumbo P, Yang B, Rubio-Navarro A, Perder B, Qiu M, Pettinato AM, Homan EA, Stoll L, Betel D, Cao J, Lo JC. Cross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury. Commun Biol. 2024;7(1):1611.

Buth JE, Dyevich CE, Rubin A, Wang C, Gao L, Marks T, Harrison MRm, Kong JH, M Ross E, Novitch BG, Pearson CAlayne. Foxp1 suppresses cortical angiogenesis and attenuates HIF-1alpha signaling to promote neural progenitor cell maintenance. EMBO Rep. 2024;25(5):2202-2219.

Buth JE, Dyevich CE, Rubin A, Wang C, Gao L, Marks T, Harrison MRm, Kong JH, M Ross E, Novitch BG, Pearson CAlayne. Foxp1 suppresses cortical angiogenesis and attenuates HIF-1alpha signaling to promote neural progenitor cell maintenance. EMBO Rep. 2024;25(5):2202-2219.

Yang L, Han Y, Zhang T, Dong X, Ge J, Roy A, Zhu J, Lu T, J Vandana J, de Silva N, Robertson CC, Xiang JZ, Pan C, Sun Y, Que J, Evans T, Liu C, Wang W, Naji A, Parker SCJ, Schwartz RE, Chen S. Human vascularized macrophage-islet organoids to model immune-mediated pancreatic β cell pyroptosis upon viral infection. Cell Stem Cell. 2024;.

Yang L, Han Y, Zhang T, Dong X, Ge J, Roy A, Zhu J, Lu T, J Vandana J, de Silva N, Robertson CC, Xiang JZ, Pan C, Sun Y, Que J, Evans T, Liu C, Wang W, Naji A, Parker SCJ, Schwartz RE, Chen S. Human vascularized macrophage-islet organoids to model immune-mediated pancreatic β cell pyroptosis upon viral infection. Cell Stem Cell. 2024;.

Manzo OLaura, Nour J, Sasset L, Marino A, Rubinelli L, Palikhe S, Smimmo M, Hu Y, Bucci MRosaria, Borczuk A, Elemento O, Freed JK, Norata GDanilo, Di Lorenzo A. Rewiring Endothelial Sphingolipid Metabolism to Favor S1P Over Ceramide Protects From Coronary Atherosclerosis. Circ Res. 2024;.

Bolzenius J, Sacdalan C, Ndhlovu LC, Sailasuta N, Trautmann L, Tipsuk S, Crowell TA, Suttichom D, Colby DJ, Phanuphak N, Chan P, Premeaux T, Kroon E, Vasan S, Hsu DC, Valcour V, Ananworanich J, Robb ML, Ake JA, Pohl KM, Sriplienchan S, Spudich S, Paul R. Brain volumetrics differ by Fiebig stage in acute HIV infection. AIDS. 2023;37(6):861-869.

Bolzenius J, Sacdalan C, Ndhlovu LC, Sailasuta N, Trautmann L, Tipsuk S, Crowell TA, Suttichom D, Colby DJ, Phanuphak N, Chan P, Premeaux T, Kroon E, Vasan S, Hsu DC, Valcour V, Ananworanich J, Robb ML, Ake JA, Pohl KM, Sriplienchan S, Spudich S, Paul R. Brain volumetrics differ by Fiebig stage in acute HIV infection. AIDS. 2023;37(6):861-869.

Johnston CD, de Menezes EGMarques, Bowler S, Siegler EL, Friday C, Norris PJ, Rice MC, Choi ME, Glesby MJ, Ndhlovu LC. Correction to: Plasma extracellular vesicles and cell-free mitochondrial DNA are associated with cognitive dysfunction in treated older adults with HIV. J Neurovirol. 2023;.

Rubinelli L, Garcia-Bonilla L, Sasset L, Cantalupo A, Goya B, Ip J, Anrather J, Iadecola C, Faraco G, Di Lorenzo A. Essential Role of Endothelial Sphingolipid Biosynthesis in Cerebrovascular Homeostasis. Circ Res. 2023;.

Lyons DE, Kumar P, Roan NR, Defechereux PA, Feschotte C, Lange UC, Murthy N, Sameshima P, Verdin E, Ake JA, Parsons MS, Nath A, Gianella S, Smith DM, Kallas EG, Villa TJ, Strange R, Mwesigwa B, O'Brien RLFurler, Nixon DF, Ndhlovu LC, Valente ST, Ott M. HIV-1 Remission: Accelerating the Path to Permanent HIV-1 Silencing. Viruses. 2023;15(11).

Larson EC, Ellis AL, Rodgers MA, Gubernat AK, Gleim JL, Moriarty RV, Balgeman AJ, Menezes YK, Ameel CL, Fillmore DJ, Pergalske SM, Juno JA, Maiello P, White AG, H Borish J, Godfrey DI, Kent SJ, Ndhlovu LC, O'Connor SL, Scanga CA. Host Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Is Similar in Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)-Infected, Antiretroviral Therapy-Treated and SIV-Naïve Juvenile Macaques. Infect Immun. 2023;:e0055822.

Shikuma CM, Wojna V, De Gruttola V, Siriwardhana C, Souza SA, Rodriguez-Benitez RJ, Turner EH, Kallianpur K, Bolzenius J, Chow D, Matos M, Shiramizu B, Clements DM, Premeaux TA, Ndhlovu LC, Paul R. Impact of antiretroviral therapy intensification with C-C motif chemokine receptor 5 antagonist maraviroc on HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment. AIDS. 2023;37(13):1987-1995.

Yang L, Han Y, Zhou T, Lacko LA, Saeed M, Tan C, Danziger R, Zhu J, Zhao Z, Cahir C, Giani AMaria, Li Y, Dong X, Moroziewicz D, Paull D, Chen Z, Zhong A, Noggle SA, Rice CM, Qi Q, Evans T, Chen S. Isogenic human trophectoderm cells demonstrate the role of NDUFA4 and associated variants in ZIKV infection. iScience. 2023;26(7):107001.

Sugawara S, Hueber B, Woolley G, Terry K, Kroll K, Manickam C, Ram DR, Ndhlovu LC, Goepfert P, Jost S, R Reeves K. Multiplex interrogation of the NK cell signalome reveals global downregulation of CD16 signaling during lentivirus infection through an IL-18/ADAM17-dependent mechanism. PLoS Pathog. 2023;19(9):e1011629.

Sugawara S, Hueber B, Woolley G, Terry K, Kroll K, Manickam C, Ram DR, Ndhlovu LC, Goepfert P, Jost S, R Reeves K. Multiplex interrogation of the NK cell signalome reveals global downregulation of CD16 signaling during lentivirus infection through an IL-18/ADAM17-dependent mechanism. PLoS Pathog. 2023;19(9):e1011629.

Sleiman Y, Reiken S, Charrabi A, Jaffré F, Sittenfeld LR, Pasquié J-L, Colombani S, Lerman BB, Chen S, Marks AR, Cheung JW, Evans T, Lacampagne A, Meli AC. Personalized medicine in the dish to prevent calcium leak associated with short-coupled polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in patient-derived cardiomyocytes. Stem Cell Res Ther. 2023;14(1):266.