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Melissa Sue Rotunno PhD

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUMass Chan Medical School
DepartmentNeurology
AddressUMass Chan Medical School
366 Plantation Street NERB N5-1029
Worcester MA 01605
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    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
    DepartmentBiochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
    DepartmentNeurology

    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
    DepartmentNeuroNexus Institute

    InstitutionMorningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    DepartmentBiochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    InstitutionMorningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    DepartmentNeuroscience


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    University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United StatesBSMicrobiology
    University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesPHDBiomedical Sciences

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    1. Barajas R, Barajas CB, Ramos YMR, Trillos SG, Sawhney S, Campos C, Hurtado-de-Mendoza A, Rotunno M, Gillanders E. Raising awareness and education of genetic testing and counseling through fotonovelas among Latina women at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. J Community Genet. 2024 Oct; 15(5):475-488. PMID: 39240499.
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    2. Funes S, Jung J, Gadd DH, Mosqueda M, Zhong J, Unger M, Stallworth K, Cameron D, Rotunno MS, Dawes P, Fowler-Magaw M, Keagle PJ, McDonough JA, Boopathy S, Sena-Esteves M, Nickerson JA, Lutz C, Skarnes WC, Lim ET, Schafer DP, Massi F, Landers JE, Bosco DA. Expression of ALS-PFN1 impairs vesicular degradation in iPSC-derived microglia. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 20; 15(1):2497. PMID: 38509062.
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    3. Kumar MS, Fowler-Magaw ME, Kulick D, Boopathy S, Gadd DH, Rotunno M, Douthwright C, Golebiowski D, Yusuf I, Xu Z, Brown RH, Sena-Esteves M, O'Neil AL, Bosco DA. Anti-SOD1 Nanobodies That Stabilize Misfolded SOD1 Proteins Also Promote Neurite Outgrowth in Mutant SOD1 Human Neurons. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Dec 16; 23(24). PMID: 36555655.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    4. Ahmed S, Odumade OA, van Zalm P, Smolen KK, Fujimura K, Muntel J, Rotunno MS, Winston AB, Steen JA, Parad RB, Van Marter LJ, Kourembanas S, Steen H. Urine Proteomics for Noninvasive Monitoring of Biomarkers in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. Neonatology. 2022; 119(2):193-203. PMID: 35073553.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    5. Huh YE, Park H, Chiang MSR, Tuncali I, Liu G, Locascio JJ, Shirvan J, Hutten SJ, Rotunno MS, Viel C, Shihabuddin LS, Wang B, Sardi SP, Scherzer CR. Glucosylceramide in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with GBA-associated and idiopathic Parkinson's disease enrolled in PPMI. NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2021 Nov 22; 7(1):102. PMID: 34811369.
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    6. Wesseling H, Mair W, Kumar M, Schlaffner CN, Tang S, Beerepoot P, Fatou B, Guise AJ, Cheng L, Takeda S, Muntel J, Rotunno MS, Dujardin S, Davies P, Kosik KS, Miller BL, Berretta S, Hedreen JC, Grinberg LT, Seeley WW, Hyman BT, Steen H, Steen JA. Tau PTM Profiles Identify Patient Heterogeneity and Stages of Alzheimer's Disease. Cell. 2020 12 10; 183(6):1699-1713.e13. PMID: 33188775.
      Citations: 189     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    7. Rotunno MS, Lane M, Zhang W, Wolf P, Oliva P, Viel C, Wills AM, Alcalay RN, Scherzer CR, Shihabuddin LS, Zhang K, Sardi SP. Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics implicates the granin family in Parkinson's disease. Sci Rep. 2020 02 12; 10(1):2479. PMID: 32051502.
      Citations: 28     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    8. Sama RR, Fallini C, Gatto R, McKeon JE, Song Y, Rotunno MS, Penaranda S, Abdurakhmanov I, Landers JE, Morfini G, Brady ST, Bosco DA. ALS-linked FUS exerts a gain of toxic function involving aberrant p38 MAPK activation. Sci Rep. 2017 03 08; 7(1):115. PMID: 28273913.
      Citations: 28     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    9. Rotunno MS, Auclair JR, Maniatis S, Shaffer SA, Agar J, Bosco DA. Identification of a misfolded region in superoxide dismutase 1 that is exposed in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Biol Chem. 2014 Oct 10; 289(41):28527-38. PMID: 25164820.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    10. Rotunno MS, Bosco DA. An emerging role for misfolded wild-type SOD1 in sporadic ALS pathogenesis. Front Cell Neurosci. 2013 Dec 16; 7:253. PMID: 24379756.
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    11. Auclair JR, Johnson JL, Liu Q, Salisbury JP, Rotunno MS, Petsko GA, Ringe D, Brown RH, Bosco DA, Agar JN. Post-translational modification by cysteine protects Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase from oxidative damage. Biochemistry. 2013 Sep 10; 52(36):6137-44. PMID: 23927036.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
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