Email

katrine.taran@bcm.edu

Education

BS from UC Davis

06/2023 - Davis, California United States

Selected Publications

• Morstein J, Bowcut V, Fernando M, Yang Y, Zhu L, Jenkins ML, Evans JT, Guiley KZ, Peacock DM, Krahnke S, Lin Z, Taran KA, Huang BJ, Stephen AG, Burke JE, Lightstone FC, Shokat KM "Targeting Ras-, Rho-, and Rab-family GTPases via a conserved cryptic pocket." Cell. 2024 Oct 31;187(22):6379-6392.e17. Pubmed PMID: 39255801
• Matthew Decker, Benjamin J Huang, Tim Ware, Christopher Boone, Michelle Tang, Aishwarya Ballapuram, Julia Ybarra, Katrine Taran, Marcos Amendáriz, Camille Leung, Max Harris, Elliot Stieglitz, Micah Niphakis, Benjamin Cravatt, Kevin Shannon; "In Vivo and In Vitro Chemical Synthetic Lethality of ABHD17 and MEK Inhibition in NRAS-Mutant Acute Myeloid Leukemia.." Blood. 2024 Nov 5;144(Supplement 1):5808.
• Matthew Decker, Benjamin J. Huang, Timothy Ware, Christopher Boone, Michelle Tang, Julia Ybarra, Aishwarya C. Ballapuram, Katrine A. Taran, Pan-Yu Chen, Marcos Amendáriz, Camille J. Leung, Max Harris, Karensa Tjoa, … Benjamin F. Cravatt, Kevin Shannon "In vivo validation of the palmitoylation cycle as a therapeutic target in NRAS-mutant cancer." bioRxiv. 2025 Mar 21; Pubmed PMID: 40166265