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Catherine D McCusker PhD

TitleAdjunct Associate Professor
InstitutionUMass Chan Medical School
DepartmentMedicine
AddressUniversity of Massachusetts Boston
100 William T Morrissey Blvd
Boston MA 02125-3300
Phone617-287-4473
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    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
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    Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, United StatesBSChemistry
    University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United StatesPHDMolecular and Cellular Biology

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    1. Cherubino M, McCusker CD. The cellular logic of limb regeneration. Elife. 2026 Jan 22; 15. PMID: 41568428.
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    2. Raymond MJ, McCusker CD. Protocol for patterning competency assay in regenerative axolotl limb cells using the competency accessory limb model. STAR Protoc. 2025 Sep 19; 6(3):103920. PMID: 40580475.
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    3. Raymond MJ, Cherubino MA, Vieira WA, Manon S, McCusker CD. Neural regulation of H3K27me3 during the induction of patterning competency in regenerating Axolotl limb cells. Commun Biol. 2025 Apr 24; 8(1):659. PMID: 40275079.
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    4. Raymond MJ, McCusker CD. Making a new limb out of old cells: exploring endogenous cell reprogramming and its role during limb regeneration. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2024 02 01; 326(2):C505-C512. PMID: 38105753.
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    5. Gray MJ, Carter ED, Piovia-Scott J, Cusaac JPW, Peterson AC, Whetstone RD, Hertz A, Muniz-Torres AY, Bletz MC, Woodhams DC, Romansic JM, Sutton WB, Sheley W, Pessier A, McCusker CD, Wilber MQ, Miller DL. Broad host susceptibility of North American amphibian species to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans suggests high invasion potential and biodiversity risk. Nat Commun. 2023 06 05; 14(1):3270. PMID: 37277333.
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    6. Vieira WA, Raymond M, Kelley K, Cherubino MA, Sahin H, McCusker CD. Integration failure of regenerated limb tissue is associated with incongruencies in positional information in the Mexican axolotl. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2023; 11:1152510. PMID: 37333984.
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    7. Raymond M, Mccusker CD. The Accessory Limb Model Regenerative Assay and Its Derivatives. Methods Mol Biol. 2023; 2562:217-233. PMID: 36272079.
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    8. McCusker C, Rosello-Diez A. In preprints: new insights into proximodistal limb patterning and differentiation. Development. 2022 10 01; 149(19). PMID: 36200555.
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    9. McCusker C, Whited J, Monaghan J. Salamander models for elucidating mechanisms of developmental biology, evolution, and regeneration: Part two. Dev Dyn. 2022 06; 251(6):903-905. PMID: 35647817.
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    10. Duerr TJ, Jeon EK, Wells KM, Villanueva A, Seifert AW, McCusker CD, Monaghan JR. A constitutively expressed fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell-cycle indicator (FUCCI) in axolotls for studying tissue regeneration. Development. 2022 03 15; 149(6). PMID: 35266986.
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    11. Wells KM, Baumel M, McCusker CD. The Regulation of Growth in Developing, Homeostatic, and Regenerating Tetrapod Limbs: A Minireview. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021; 9:768505. PMID: 35047496.
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    12. Wells KM, Kelley K, Baumel M, Vieira WA, McCusker CD. Neural control of growth and size in the axolotl limb regenerate. Elife. 2021 11 15; 10. PMID: 34779399.
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    13. McCusker C, Monaghan J, Whited J. Salamander models for elucidating mechanisms of developmental biology, evolution, and regeneration: Part one. Dev Dyn. 2021 06; 250(6):750-752. PMID: 34060711.
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    14. Vieira WA, Goren S, McCusker CD. ECM-mediated positional cues are able to induce pattern, but not new positional information, during axolotl limb regeneration. PLoS One. 2021; 16(3):e0248051. PMID: 33667253.
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    15. Vieira WA, Anderson K, Glass Campbell L, McCusker CD. Characterizing the regenerative capacity and growth patterns of the Texas blind salamander (Eurycea rathbuni). Dev Dyn. 2021 06; 250(6):880-895. PMID: 32885536.
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    16. Vieira WA, Wells KM, McCusker CD. Advancements to the Axolotl Model for Regeneration and Aging. Gerontology. 2020; 66(3):212-222. PMID: 31779024.
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    17. Vieira WA, McCusker CD. Hierarchical pattern formation during amphibian limb regeneration. Biosystems. 2019 Sep; 183:103989. PMID: 31295535.
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    18. Vieira WA, Wells KM, Raymond MJ, De Souza L, Garcia E, McCusker CD. FGF, BMP, and RA signaling are sufficient for the induction of complete limb regeneration from non-regenerating wounds on Ambystoma mexicanum limbs. Dev Biol. 2019 07 15; 451(2):146-157. PMID: 31026439.
      Citations: 20     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    19. Vieira WA, McCusker CD. Regenerative Models for the Integration and Regeneration of Head Skeletal Tissues. Int J Mol Sci. 2018 Nov 26; 19(12). PMID: 30486286.
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    20. Vieira WA, Wells KM, Milgrom R, McCusker CD. Exogenous Vitamin D signaling alters skeletal patterning, differentiation, and tissue integration during limb regeneration in the axolotl. Mech Dev. 2018 10; 153:1-9. PMID: 30096415.
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    21. Vieira W, Sahin H, Wells K, McCusker C. Trimethylation of Histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3) ChIP-PCR and transcriptional expression data of Ef1-alpha, cyp26A, HoxC10, HoxD10 and HoxD11 in the Xenopus XTC cell line. Data Brief. 2017 Dec; 15:970-974. PMID: 29159235.
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    22. Sosnik J, Vieira WA, Webster KA, Siegfried KR, McCusker CD. A new and improved algorithm for the quantification of chromatin condensation from microscopic data shows decreased chromatin condensation in regenerating axolotl limb cells. PLoS One. 2017; 12(10):e0185292. PMID: 29023511.
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    23. McCusker CD, Diaz-Castillo C, Sosnik J, Phan A, Gardiner DM. Histological image data of limb skeletal tissue from larval and adult Ambystoma mexicanum. Data Brief. 2016 Sep; 8:1206-8. PMID: 27547798.
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    24. McCusker CD, Diaz-Castillo C, Sosnik J, Q Phan A, Gardiner DM. Cartilage and bone cells do not participate in skeletal regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum limbs. Dev Biol. 2016 08 01; 416(1):26-33. PMID: 27316294.
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    25. McCusker CD, Athippozhy A, Diaz-Castillo C, Fowlkes C, Gardiner DM, Voss SR. Positional plasticity in regenerating Amybstoma mexicanum limbs is associated with cell proliferation and pathways of cellular differentiation. BMC Dev Biol. 2015 Nov 23; 15:45. PMID: 26597593.
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    26. Wang X, Hsi TC, Guerrero-Juarez CF, Pham K, Cho K, McCusker CD, Monuki ES, Cho KW, Gay DL, Plikus MV. Principles and mechanisms of regeneration in the mouse model for wound-induced hair follicle neogenesis. Regeneration (Oxf). 2015 Aug; 2(4):169-181. PMID: 26504521.
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    27. McCusker C, Bryant SV, Gardiner DM. The axolotl limb blastema: cellular and molecular mechanisms driving blastema formation and limb regeneration in tetrapods. Regeneration (Oxf). 2015 Apr; 2(2):54-71. PMID: 27499868.
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    28. McCusker CD, Gardiner DM. Understanding positional cues in salamander limb regeneration: implications for optimizing cell-based regenerative therapies. Dis Model Mech. 2014 Jun; 7(6):593-9. PMID: 24872456.
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    29. McCusker C, Lehrberg J, Gardiner D. Position-specific induction of ectopic limbs in non-regenerating blastemas on axolotl forelimbs. Regeneration (Oxf). 2014 Feb; 1(1):27-34. PMID: 27499858.
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    30. McCusker CD, Gardiner DM. Positional information is reprogrammed in blastema cells of the regenerating limb of the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). PLoS One. 2013; 8(9):e77064. PMID: 24086768.
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    31. Cousin H, Abbruzzese G, McCusker C, Alfandari D. ADAM13 function is required in the 3 dimensional context of the embryo during cranial neural crest cell migration in Xenopus laevis. Dev Biol. 2012 Aug 15; 368(2):335-44. PMID: 22683825.
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    32. McCusker C, Gardiner DM. The axolotl model for regeneration and aging research: a mini-review. Gerontology. 2011; 57(6):565-71. PMID: 21372551.
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    33. McCusker CD, Alfandari D. Life after proteolysis: Exploring the signaling capabilities of classical cadherin cleavage fragments. Commun Integr Biol. 2009; 2(2):155-7. PMID: 19513270.
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    34. Neuner R, Cousin H, McCusker C, Coyne M, Alfandari D. Xenopus ADAM19 is involved in neural, neural crest and muscle development. Mech Dev. 2009 Mar-Apr; 126(3-4):240-55. PMID: 19027850.
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    35. McCusker C, Cousin H, Neuner R, Alfandari D. Extracellular cleavage of cadherin-11 by ADAM metalloproteases is essential for Xenopus cranial neural crest cell migration. Mol Biol Cell. 2009 Jan; 20(1):78-89. PMID: 18946084.
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    36. Alfandari D, McCusker C, Cousin H. ADAM function in embryogenesis. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2009 Apr; 20(2):153-63. PMID: 18935966.
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    37. McCusker C, Carroll JB, Rotello VM. Cationic polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) units as carriers for drug delivery processes. Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Feb 28; (8):996-8. PMID: 15719094.
      Citations: 15     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    38. Goodman CM, McCusker CD, Yilmaz T, Rotello VM. Toxicity of gold nanoparticles functionalized with cationic and anionic side chains. Bioconjug Chem. 2004 Jul-Aug; 15(4):897-900. PMID: 15264879.
      Citations: 328     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
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