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Heather S. Tillman

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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Bioinformatics· 1 Cancer Biology· 1 Neuroscience· 1

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 2 Approach:Bayesian inference· 1 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1

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Abner GonzaleziD· 1 shared Alexandre F. CariseyiD· 1 shared Ané Korff· 1 shared Anna K. LeeiD· 1 shared Asif ZubairiD· 1 shared Barbara BreznikiD· 1 shared Brett J.W. TeubneriD· 1 shared Dinesh RakhejaiD· 1 shared

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Melanoma antigens in pediatric medulloblastoma contribute to tumor heterogeneity and species-specificity of group 3 tumors

Rebecca R. J. Collins, Rebecca R. Florke Gee, Sima Tozandehjani, Tara Bayat, Maria Camila Hoyos Sanchez, Juan Sebastian Solano Gutierrez, Barbara Breznik, Anna K. Lee, Samuel T. Peters, Jon P. Connelly, Shondra M. Pruett‐Miller, Martine F. Roussel, Dinesh Rakheja, Heather S. Tillman, Patrick Ryan Potts, Klementina Fon Tacer

This study identifies MAGE antigens as markers of tumor heterogeneity and species-specificity in group 3 medulloblastoma, showing their role in cell survival and potential as therapeutic targets.

Acta Neuropathologica Communications · Jul 28, 2025Peer-reviewedCancer Biology

Cell type identification in spatial transcriptomics data can be improved by leveraging cell-type-informative paired tissue images using a Bayesian probabilistic model.

Asif Zubair, Richard H. Chapple, Sivaraman Natarajan, William C. Wright, Min Pan, Hyeong-Min Lee, Heather S. Tillman, John B. Easton, Paul Geeleher

Nucleic Acids Research · Apr 21, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

A murine model of hnRNPH2-related neurodevelopmental disorder recapitulates clinical features of human disease and reveals a mechanism for genetic compensation of HNRNPH2

Ané Korff, Xiaojing Yang, Kevin O’Donovan, Abner Gonzalez, Brett J.W. Teubner, Haruko Nakamura, James Messing, Fen Yang, Alexandre F. Carisey, Yong‐Dong Wang, Tushar Patni, Heather S. Tillman, Stanislav S. Zakharenko, Yuh Min Chook, J. Paul Taylor, Hong Joo Kim

This paper creates a mouse model of HNRNPH2-related neurodevelopmental disorder, showing similar symptoms to humans and revealing genetic compensation mechanisms.

bioRxiv · Mar 17, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience