Email

mahliyah.adkins-threats@bcm.edu

Positions

Research Coordinator

Medicine-Gastroenterology
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

PhD from Washington University in St. Louis

08/2023 - St. Louis, Missouri United States

Developmental, Regenerative, and Stem Cell Biology

BS from Truman State University

12/2016 - Kirksville

Selected Publications

• Zhi-Feng Miao, Mark A Lewis, Charles Cho, Mahliyah Adkins-Threats, Dongkook Park, Jeffrey W Brown, Jing-Xu Sun, Joseph R Burclaff... Marcus Mahar, Ilja Vietor, Lukas A Huber, Nicholas O Davidson, Valeria Cavalli, Deborah Rubin, Zhen-Ning Wang, Jason Mills "A Dedicated Evolutionarily Conserved Molecular Network Licenses Differentiated Cells to Return to the Cell Cycle." Dev Cell. 2020 Oct; Pubmed PMID: 32768422
• Zhi-Feng Miao, Mahliyah Adkins-Threats, Joseph R Burclaff, Luciana H Osaka, Jing-Xu Sun, Yan Kefalov, Zheng He, Zhen-Ning Wang, Jason C Mills "A Metformin-Responsive Metabolic Pathway Controls Distinct Steps in Gastric Progenitor Fate Decisions and Maturation." Cell Stem Cell. 2020; Pubmed PMID: 32243780
• Zhi-Feng Miao, Jing-Xu Sun, Mahliyah Adkins-Threats, Min-Jiao Pang, Jun-Hua Zhao, Xin-Wang, Kai-Wen Tang, Zhen-Ning Wang, Jason Mills "DDIT4 Licenses Only Healthy Cells to Proliferate During Injury-induced Metaplasia." Gastroenterology. 2021 Jan;160(1):P260-271. Pubmed PMID: 32956680
• Mahliyah Adkins-Threats and Jason Mills "Cell plasticity in regeneration in the stomach and beyond." Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2022 Aug; Pubmed PMID: 35809361

Funding

NSF-Graduate Research Fellowship - #DGE-17450378

(06/01/2019 - 06/30/2023) Grant funding from National Science Foundation