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Erica Peethumnongsin, Ph.D.

Medical School

Undergraduate Institution: Baylor University

Year: Fourth-Year Medical Student

Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology

Mentor: Hui Zheng, Ph.D.

Thesis Title: Convergence of Presenilin- and Tau-mediated Pathways on Axonal Trafficking and Axonal Transport

Publications:

Peethumnongsin E, Yang L, Kallhoff-Munoz V, Hu L, Takashima A, Pautler RG, Zheng H. Convergence of presenilin- and tau-mediated pathways on axonal trafficking and neuronal function. The Journal of neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2010;30(40):13409-18.
Smith KD, Peethumnongsin E, Lin H, Zheng H, Pautler RG. Increased Human Wildtype Tau Attenuates Axonal Transport Deficits Caused by Loss of APP in Mouse Models. Magnetic resonance insights. 2010;4:11-8.
Placanica L, Tarassishin L, Yang G, Peethumnongsin E, Kim SH, Zheng H, Sisodia SS, Li YM. Pen2 and presenilin-1 modulate the dynamic equilibrium of presenilin-1 and presenilin-2 gamma-secretase complexes. J Biol Chem. 2009. 284(5):2967-77
Kallhoff V, Peethumnongsin E, Zheng H. Lack of alpha-synuclein increases amyloid plaque accumulation in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Mol Neurodegener. 2007. 2:6.
Deng Y, Tarassishin L, Kallhoff V, Peethumnongsin E, Wu L, Li YM, Zheng H. Deletion of presenilin 1 hydrophilic loop sequence leads to impaired gamma-secretase activity and exacerbated amyloid pathology. J Neurosci. 2006. 26(14):3845-54.