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Vanessa M. Peterson

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States)

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Neuroscience· 2 Bioinformatics· 1 Cell Biology· 1

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Organism:human· 4 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 3 Assay:proteomics· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 2 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Assay:CRISPR screen· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1

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Alex M. Tamburino· 3 shared Rebecca S. MathewiD· 3 shared Bilal ÇakıriD· 2 shared Danny A. BittoniD· 2 shared Fan WuiD· 2 shared Iya G. Khalil· 2 shared Jindřich Soukup· 2 shared Khoi Chu· 2 shared

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Alex M. Tamburino

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Plaque-associated oligodendrocyte proteostatic failure underlies myelin loss in Alzheimers disease

Jong Shin, Nandita Joshi, B Miller, Shams Vellarikkal, Jianhua Huang, Fan Wu, Yi Cui, Aparna Murali, Joshua Chason, Christopher Scott Campbell, Khoi Chu, Reza Roozafzoon, Mark Dostalík, Jindřich Soukup, Gina Savastano, , Bilal Çakır

This study shows that amyloid plaques disrupt oligodendrocyte proteostasis, leading to myelin loss in Alzheimer's disease.

bioRxiv · Aug 6, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

InCytokine, an open-source software, reveals a TREM2 variant specific cytokine signature

Deepak Kumar Jha, Marco Ancona, Filip Oplt, Sonia L. Farmer, Martin Vagenknecht, Alejandro Vázquez-Otero, Illia Prazdnyk, Jindřich Soukup, Rebecca S. Mathew, Vanessa M. Peterson, Danny A. Bitton

InCytokine is an open-source tool for analyzing cytokine and chemokine data from protein arrays, revealing genotype-specific signatures in TREM2 variants.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences · Jan 23, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

SPACE: multimodal spatial CRISPR screening with whole-transcriptome readout at subcellular resolution in 3D models

Mengwei Hu, Yi Cui, Qianhui Huang, Khoi Chu, Sierra Mckinzie, Michael J. Patrick, Sharanya Iyengar, Maerjianghan Abuduli, Marianne L. Spatz, Nandita Joshi, Brendan Miller, Shamsudheen Karuthedath Vellarikkal, Timothy Riordan, Danny A. Bitton, Jan Lubojacky, , Vanessa M. Peterson

SPACE enables spatial CRISPR screening with whole-transcriptome and protein readouts at subcellular resolution, revealing novel regulatory mechanisms in tumor microenvironments.

bioRxiv · Sep 14, 2025 · PreprintCell Biology

High-density extracellular recordings from the interior of intact brain organoids enable automated high-throughput functional assay

Fan Wu, Cuthbert Steadman, Liam P. Argent, Brian G. Jamieson, Shamsudheen Karuthedath Vellarikkal, Alex M. Tamburino, Iya G. Khalil, Vanessa M. Peterson, Matthew E Kennedy, Rebecca S. Mathew, Eran Stark, Bilal Çakır

This paper develops an automated system to record neural activity from brain organoids and uses it to classify organoids with Alzheimer's disease mutations using a classifier with 100% accuracy.

bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience