Publications

Aging

1.

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)

2.

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)

3.

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)

4.

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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)

12.

Transcripts within rod photoreceptors of the zebrafish retina

Sun C, Galicia C, Stenkamp DL.

BMC Genomics 19(1), 127 (2018)

13.

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)

14.

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)

15.

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)