Soil-borne microbes can establish compatible relationships with host plants, providing a large variety of nutritive and protective compounds in exchange for photosynthesized sugars. However, the molecular mechanisms mediating the establishment of these beneficial relationships remain unclear. Our pr...
A cardinal symptom of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is the disruption of circadian patterns. Yet, to date, there is no direct evidence of circadian clock dysregulation in the brains of MDD patients. Circadian rhythmicity of gene expression has been observed in animals and peripheral human tissues,...
The goal of the project is to identify genes that make individuals more susceptible to bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness) and to better understand the brain pathways involved in the disease.
Blood (mRNA and miRNA) and skin mRNA transcriptomes were investigated across three time-points in a pilot investigation of ten severe psoriasis patients, treated with the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor, etanercept. We used illumina RNA-sequencing to analyse the small-RNA transcriptome in bloo...
Substance abuse, particularly cocaine, has detrimental effects on global public health, as acute intoxication often results in adverse outcomes and current pharmacological treatments exhibit limited effectiveness. The intricate process of cocaine intoxication involves substantial alterations in the ...
NLRC5 is a member of the NLR family of proteins. The observation that NLRC5 is found in the nucleus prompted us to perform a gene array to identify putative target genes of NLRC5. We generated Jurkat T cell lines that stably express either the wild-type or mutant forms of NLRC5 harboring mutations i...