Publications

Boobalan E, Thompson AH, Alur RP, McGaughey DM, Dong L, Shih G, Vieta-Ferrer ER, Onojafe IF, Kalaskar VK, Arno G, Lotery AJ, Guan B, Bender C, Memon O, Brinster L, Soleilhavoup C, Panman L, Badea TC, Minella A, Lopez AJ, Thomasy SM, Moshiri A, Blain D, Hufnagel RB, Cogliati T, Bharti K, Brooks BP. (2022) Zfp503/Nlz2 Is Required for RPE Differentiation and Optic Fissure Closure. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2022 Nov 1;63(12):5. doi: 10.1167/iovs.63.12.5. & BioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2022.03.28.486078

Tatomir A, Cuevas J, Badea TC, Muresanu DF, Rus V, Rus H (2022) Role of RGC-32 in multiple sclerosis and neuroinflammation – few answers and many questions, Frontiers in Immunology

Tien NW, Vitale C, Badea TC, Kerschensteiner D, (2022) Layer-specific developmentally precise axon targeting of transient suppressed-by-contrast retinal ganglion cells bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2021.11.26.470118 & J. of Neuroscience doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2332-21.2022

Vlaicu SI, Tatomir A, Fosbrink M, Nguyen V, Boodhoo D, Badea TC, Rus V, Rus H.(2022) RGC-32’ dual role in smooth muscle cells and atherogenesis. Clinical Immunology 238 (2022) 22 April 2022

Chuang JZ, Yang N, Otsu W, Fu C, Nakajima N, Yang HH, Lee MP, Akbar AF, Badea TC, Guo Z, Nuruzzaman A, Hsu KS, Dunaief JL, Sung CH (2021). Retinal pigment epithelium-specific CLIC4 mutant is a mouse model of dry age-related macular degeneration. Nat Commun 13, 374 (2022).

Goel M, Aponte AM, Wistow G, Badea TC. (2021) Molecular studies into Copine-4 function in Retinal Ganglion Cells, PLOSOne ,16(11): e0255860, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255860 & bioRxiv(2021), doi: 10.1101/2021.08.09.455730 .

Liu S, Aldinger KA, Cheng CV, Kiyama T, Dave M, McNamara HK, Zhao W, Stafford JM, Descostes N, Lee P, Caraffi SG, Ivanovski I, Errichiello E, Zweier C, Zuffardi O, Schneider M, Papavasiliou AS, Perry MS, Humberson J, Cho MT, Weber A, Swale A, Badea TC, Mao C-A, Garavelli L, Dobyns WB, and Reinberg D. (2021) NRF1 Association with AUTS2-Polycomb Mediates Specific Gene Activation in the Brain. Mol Cell. Vol 81 (22): 4663-4676.e8 Nov 18. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.09.020. & bioRxiv , (2021): doi: 10.1101/2021.03.30.437620

Luzina IG, Rus V, Lockatell V, Courneya JP, Hampton BS, Fishelevich R, Misharin AV, Todd NW, Badea TC, Rus, H, Atamas SP (2022) Regulator of Cell Cycle protein (RGCC/RGC-32) protects against pulmonary fibrosis. American Journal of respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (AJRCMB). vol 66 (2):146–157, February 2022 doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2021-0022OC (online ahead of print:2021 Oct 20).

Muzyka, VV, Badea TC. (2021) Genetic Interplay Between Transcription Factor Pou4f1/Brn3a and Neurotrophin Receptor Ret In Retinal Ganglion Cell Type Specification. Neural Development vol 16: 5 September 21, doi: 10.1186/s13064-021-00155-z, & bioRxiv , no. (2020): 2020.03.23.004242. doi: 10.1101/2020.03.23.004242.

Tatomir A, Beltrand A, Nguyen V, Courneya, JP, Boodhoo D, Cudrici C, Muresanu DF, Rus V, Badea TC, Rus H (2021) RGC-32 acts as a hub to regulate the transcriptomic changes associated with astrocyte development and reactive astrocytosis. Frontiers in Immunology – Jul 29;12:705308. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.705308. eCollection 2021.

Chen CK, Kiyama T,Weber N,Whitaker CM,Pan P, Badea TC, Massey SC, Mao CA (2021). Characterization of Tbr2-expressing retinal ganglion cells, J Comp Neurol 2021 doi: 10.1002/cne.25208 & bioRxiv: 2020.2006.2017.153551.

Brodie-Kommit J, Clark BS, Shi Q, Shiau F, Kim DW, Langel J, Sheely C, Ruzycki PA, Fries M, Javed A, Cayouette M, Schmidt T, Badea T, Glaser T, Zhao H, Singer J, Blackshaw S, Hattar S. Atoh7-independent specification of retinal ganglion cell identity. Sci Adv. 2021 Mar 12;7(11):eabe4983. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe4983.& bioRxiv , no. (2020): 2020.05.27.116954. doi: 10.1101/2020.05.27.116954

Oliver KM, Florez-Paz DM, Badea TC, Mentis GZ, Menon V, de Nooij JC. (2021) Molecular correlates of muscle spindle and Golgi tendon organ afferents. Nature Communications Mar 1; 12(1):1451 doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21880-3 & bioRxiv , no. (2020): 2020.04.03.023986. doi: 10.1101/2020.04.03.023986.

Paşcalău R, Badea TC (2023) Signaling – transcription interactions in mouse retinal ganglion cells early axon pathfinding –a literature review, Front. Ophthalmol., 2023 May 17; doi: 10.3389/fopht.2023.1180142

Kiyama T, Altay HY, Badea TC, Mao CA (2023) Pou4f1-Tbr1 transcriptional cascade controls the formation of Jam2-expressing retinal ganglion cells. Front. Ophthalmol., 2023 May 18; doi: 10.3389/fopht.2023.1175568

Nishida K, Matsumura S, Uchida H, Abe M, Sakimura K, Badea TC, Kobayashi T. (2023) Brn3a controls the soma localization and axonal extension patterns of developing spinal dorsal horn neurons. PLoS One. 2023 Sep 21;18(9):e0285295. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285295.

Soucy JR, Aguzzi EA, Cho J, Gilhooley MJ, Keuthan C, Luo Z, Monavarfeshani A, Saleem MA, Wang XW, Wohlschlegel J; RReSTORe Consortium; Baranov P, Di Polo A, Fortune B, Gokoffski KK, Goldberg JL, Guido W, Kolodkin AL, Mason CA, Ou Y, Reh TA, Ross AG, Samuels BC, Welsbie D, Zack DJ, Johnson TV. (2023) Retinal ganglion cell repopulation for vision restoration in optic neuropathy: a roadmap from the RReSTORe Consortium. Mol Neurodegener. 2023 Sep 21;18(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s13024-023-00655-y.