Email

Positions

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Molecular & Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
HOUSTON, TX

Addresses

Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Lab)

1250 Moursund St., 11th Floor Ste 1125.01
HOUSTON, TX, 77030
United States

Websites

Selected Publications

• Kevin Ung , Burak Tepe, Brandon Pekarek, Benjamin R Arenkiel, Benjamin Deneen. " Parallel Astrocyte Calcium Signaling Modulates Olfactory Bulb Responses " J Neurosci Res .. 2020 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 32426930.
• N Link, H Chung, A Jolly, M Withers, B Tepe, B R Arenkiel, P S Shah, N J Krogan, H Aydin, B B Geckinli, T Tos, S Isikay, B Tuysuz, G H Mochida, A X Thomas, R D Clark, G M Mirzaa, J R Lupski, H J Bellen. " Mutations in ANKLE2, a ZIKA Virus Target, Disrupt an Asymmetric Cell Division Pathway in Drosophila Neuroblasts to Cause Microcephaly " Dev Cell.. 2019 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 31735666.
• Dongxue Mao, Guang Lin, Burak Tepe, Zhongyuan Zuo, Kai Li Tan, Mumine Senturk, Sheng Zhang, Benjamin R Arenkiel, Marco Sardiello, Hugo J Bellen. " VAMP Associated Proteins Are Required for Autophagic and Lysosomal Degradation by Promoting a PtdIns4P-mediated Endosomal Pathway " Autophagy. 2019 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 30741620.
• Marissa A Scavuzzo, Jolanta Chmielowiec, Diane Yang, Katrina Wamble, Lesley S Chaboub, Lita Duraine, Burak Tepe, Stacey M Glasgow, Benjamin R Arenkiel, Christel Brou, Benjamin Deneen, Malgorzata Borowiak. " Pancreatic Cell Fate Determination Relies on Notch Ligand Trafficking by NFIA " 2018 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 30590051.
• Burak Tepe, Matthew C Hill, Brandon T Pekarek, Patrick J Hunt, Thomas J Martin, James F Martin, Benjamin R Arenkiel. " Single-Cell RNA-Seq of Mouse Olfactory Bulb Reveals Cellular Heterogeneity and Activity-Dependent Molecular Census of Adult-Born Neurons " Cel Reports. 2018 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 30517858.
• Gary Liu, Jay M Patel, Burak Tepe, Cynthia K McClard, Jessica Swanson, Kathleen B Quast, Benjamin R Arenkiel. " An Objective and Reproducible Test of Olfactory Learning and Discrimination in Mice " J Vis Exp .. 2018 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 29630042.
• Gary Liu, Cynthia K McClard, Burak Tepe, Jessica Swanson, Brandon Pekarek, Sugi Panneerselvam, Benjamin R Arenkiel. " Olfactory Cued Learning Paradigm " Bio Protoc.. 2017 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 28752111.
• Alexander M Herman, Joshua Ortiz-Guzman, Mikhail Kochukov, Isabella Herman, Kathleen B Quast, Jay M Patel, Burak Tepe, Jeffrey C Carlson, Kevin Ung, Jennifer Selever , Qingchun Tong, Benjamin R Arenkiel. " A Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Feeding Circuit Modulates Appetite Suppression " Nature. 2016 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 27698417.
• Isabella Garcia, Paramjit K Bhullar, Burak Tepe, Joshua Ortiz-Guzman, Longwen Huang, Alexander M Herman, Lesley Chaboub, Benjamin Deneen, Nicholas J Justice, Benjamin R Arenkiel. " Local Corticotropin Releasing Hormone (CRH) Signals to Its Receptor CRHR1 During Postnatal Development of the Mouse Olfactory Bulb " Brain Struct Funct.. 2016 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 25224546.
• Thomas A Ravenscroft, Jasper Janssens, Pei-Tseng Lee, Burak Tepe, Paul C Marcogliese, Samira Makhzami, Todd C Holmes, Stein Aerts, Hugo J Bellen. " Drosophila Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Are Only Expressed in Active Neurons and Are Localized to Distal Axonal Initial Segment-like Domains " J Neurosci. 2020 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 32928889.
• Jeff C Carlson, Manuel Cantu Gutierrez, Brittney Lozzi, Emmet Huang-Hobbs, Williamson D Turner, Burak Tepe, Yiqun Zhang, Alexander M Herman, Ganesh Rao, Chad J Creighton, Joshua D Wythe, Benjamin Deneen. " Identification of diverse tumor endothelial cell populations in malignant glioma " Neuro Oncol.. ;
  Pubmed PMID: 33367832.
• Kevin Ung, Teng-Wei Huang, Brittney Lozzi, Junsung Woo, Elizabeth Hanson, Brandon Pekarek, Burak Tepe, Debosmita Sardar, Yi-Ting Cheng, Gary Liu, Benjamin Deneen, Benjamin R. Arenkiel. " Olfactory bulb astrocytes mediate sensory circuit processing through Sox9 in the mouse brain " Nat Commun.. ;
  Pubmed PMID: 34471129.