Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
BIOL 2296 | Genetics | Undergraduate |
BIOL 3380 | Molecular Biology of Disease | Undergraduate |
BIOL 4391 | Accelerated Research in Biology | Undergraduate |
BIOL 4491 | Research in Biochemistry | Undergraduate |
SCTC 3386 | Diamond Peer Teachers - Internship II | Undergraduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Cunningham, C., Bellipanni, G., Habas, R., & Balciunas, D. (2020). Deletion of morpholino binding sites (DeMOBS) to assess specificity of morphant phenotypes. Scientific Reports, 10(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71708-1.
Ichino, N., Serres, M., Urban, R., Urban, M., Treichel, A., Schaefbauer, K., Greif, L., Varshney, G., Skuster, K., McNulty, M., Daby, C., Wang, Y., Liao, H., El-Rass, S., Ding, Y., Liu, W., Anderson, J., Wishman, M., Sabharwal, A., Schimmenti, L., Sivasubbu, S., Balciunas, D., Hammerschmidt, M., Farber, S., Wen, X., Xu, X., McGrail, M., Essner, J., Burgess, S., Clark, K., & Ekker, S. (2020). Building the vertebrate codex using the gene breaking protein trap library. ELife, 9, 1-60. doi: 10.7554/ELIFE.54572.
Wierson, W., Welker, J., Almeida, M., Mann, C., Webster, D., Torrie, M., Weiss, T., Kambakam, S., Vollbrecht, M., Lan, M., McKeighan, K., Levey, J., Ming, Z., Wehmeier, A., Mikelson, C., Haltom, J., Kwan, K., Chien, C., Balciunas, D., Ekker, S., Clark, K., Webber, B., Moriarity, B., Solin, S., Carlson, D., Dobbs, D., McGrail, M., & Essner, J. (2020). Efficient targeted integration directed by short homology in zebrafish and mammalian cells. ELife, 9, 1-25. doi: 10.7554/eLife.53968.
Tomar, D., Jaña, F., Dong, Z., Quinn, W., Jadiya, P., Breves, S., Daw, C., Srikantan, S., Shanmughapriya, S., Nemani, N., Carvalho, E., Tripathi, A., Worth, A., Zhang, X., Razmpour, R., Seelam, A., Rhode, S., Mehta, A., Murray, M., Slade, D., Ramirez, S., Mishra, P., Gerhard, G., Caplan, J., Norton, L., Sharma, K., Rajan, S., Balciunas, D., Wijesinghe, D., Ahima, R., Baur, J., & Madesh, M. (2019). Blockade of MCU-Mediated Ca 2+ Uptake Perturbs Lipid Metabolism via PP4-Dependent AMPK Dephosphorylation. Cell Reports, 26(13), 3709-3725.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.02.107.
Balciuniene, J. & Balciunas, D. (2019). A nuclear mtDNA concatemer (Mega-NUMT) could mimic paternal inheritance of mitochondrial genome. Frontiers in Genetics, 10(JUN). doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00518.
Burg, L., Palmer, N., Kikhi, K., Miroshnik, E., Rueckert, H., Gaddy, E., Cunningham, C.M., Mattonet, K., Lai, S., Marín-Juez, R., Waring, R., Stainier, D., & Balciunas, D. (2018). Conditional mutagenesis by oligonucleotide-mediated integration of loxP sites in zebrafish. PLoS Genetics, 14(11). doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007754.
Grajevskaja, V., Camerota, D., Bellipanni, G., Balciuniene, J., & Balciunas, D. (2018). Analysis of a conditional gene trap reveals that tbx5a is required for heart regeneration in zebrafish. PLoS ONE, 13(6). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197293.
Balciunas, D. (2018). Fish mutant, where is thy phenotype? PLoS Genetics, 14(2). doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007197.