Publications
Aging
Alzheimer's disease risk factor APOE4 exerts dimorphic effects on female bone
Schurman CA, Kaur G, Kaya S, Bons J, Galicia Aguirre C, Liu Q, King CD, Wilson KA, Baker HL, Hady M, Maldonado Luna N, Bieri G, Villeda SA, Ellerby LM, Schilling B, Alliston T.
Advanced Science, e23511 (2026)
Amyloid-β-driven Alzheimer's disease reshapes the colonic immune system in mice
Makhijani P, Valentino TR, Manwaring-Mueller M, Emani R, Mu WC, Galicia Aguirre C, Tan CR, Rane A, Wilson KA, Kifle A, Chen N, Du H, Wu F, Ng JHY, Ambrose BD, Ashok Kumaar PV, Khan S, Winer S, Wang C, Mortha A, Furman D, Schilling B, Ellerby LM, Rojas OL, Andersen JK, Winer DA.
Cell Reports 44(9), 116109 (2025)
CD38 inhibition ameliorates age-related cognitive decline via a choroid plexus–cerebrospinal fluid–hippocampus axis
Verdin E, Fang J, Riley R, Schneider K, Perrone R, Kumaar P, King C, Kauwe G, Roberts A, Vega Hormazabal G, Zhang Y, Millard E, Liu X, Jara W, Galicia Aguirre C, Baker H, Murad N, Ambrose B, Tran T, Martin N, Zhang R, Sellegounder D, Melov S, Furman D, Tracy T, Gerencser A, Schilling B, Ellerby L.
Preprint, Research Square (2025)
Ketogenic diet reduces age-induced chronic neuroinflammation in mice
Nomura M, Murad NF, Madhavan SS, Mu WC, Eap B, Garcia TY, Aguirre CG, et al.
Aging Biology 2, 20240038 (2024)
Neurodegeneration
Cerulenin partially corrects the disrupted developmental transcriptomic signature in Huntington's disease striatal medium spiny neurons
Galicia Aguirre C, Tshilenge KT, Battistoni E, Lopez-Ramirez A, et al.
Stem Cells 43(8), sxaf029 (2025)
Proteomic analysis of Huntington's disease medium spiny neurons identifies alterations in lipid droplets
Tshilenge KT, Aguirre CG, Bons J, Gerencser AA, Basisty N, Song S, et al.
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 22(5), 100534 (2023)
Proteomic analysis of X-linked dystonia parkinsonism disease striatal neurons reveals altered RNA metabolism and splicing
Tshilenge KT, Bons J, Galicia Aguirre C, Geronimo-Olvera C, Shah S, Rose J, Gerencser AA, Mak SK, Ehrlich ME, Bragg DC, Schilling B, Ellerby LM.
Neurobiology of Disease, 106367 (2023)
Postnatal conditional deletion of Bcl11b in striatal projection neurons mimics the transcriptional signature of Huntington's disease
Song S, Creus Muncunill J, Galicia Aguirre C, Tshilenge KT, Hamilton BW, et al.
Biomedicines 10(10), 2377 (2022)
Unbiased identification of novel transcription factors in striatal compartmentation and striosome maturation
Cirnaru MD, Song S, Tshilenge KT, Corwin C, Mleczko J, Aguirre CG, et al.
eLife 10, e65979 (2021)
FOXO3 targets are reprogrammed as Huntington's disease neural cells and striatal neurons face senescence with p16INK4a increase
Voisin J, Farina F, Naphade S, Fontaine M, Tshilenge KT, et al.
Aging Cell 19(11), e13226 (2020)
Retinal Development & Regeneration
Rewiring the regenerated zebrafish retina: reemergence of bipolar neurons and cone-bipolar circuitry following an inner retinal lesion
McGinn TE, Galicia CA, Leoni DC, Partington N, Mitchell DM, et al.
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 7, 95 (2019)
Transcripts within rod photoreceptors of the zebrafish retina
Sun C, Galicia C, Stenkamp DL.
BMC Genomics 19(1), 127 (2018)
Expression patterns of dscam and sdk gene paralogs in developing zebrafish retina
Galicia CA, Sukeena JM, Stenkamp DL, Fuerst PG.
Molecular Vision 24, 443 (2018)
Study of selected rod photoreceptor expressed transcripts in zebrafish retina
Sun C, Galicia C, Fuerst PG, Stenkamp DL.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 58(8), 367–367 (2017)
Characterization and evolution of the spotted gar retina
Sukeena JM, Galicia CA, Wilson JD, McGinn T, Boughman JW, Stenkamp DL, et al.
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (2016)