Darius Balciunas

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Darius Balciunas

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Associate Professor

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.