Postdoctoral Fellow
Cook lab
CB# 7260, 3070H E Genetic Medicine
Awards and Honors
Diane Harris Award for exemplary leadership from our department
Graduate Fellow Award in Basic Sciences
Independent educational grant from Abbvie to support travel to AACR meeting in 2025
2025 Lineberger Predoctoral American Heart Association (AHA) Fellowship
2025 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Scholar-in-Training Award
Publications
- Bolhuis, D.L.*, Fleifel, D.*, Bonacci, T.*, Wang, X., Mouery, B.L., Cook, J.G., Brown, N.B., Emanuele, M.J., 2025. USP37 prevents unscheduled replisome unloading through MCM complex deubiquitination. Nature Communications. 16(1):4575. doi: 1038/s41467-025-59770-7.
- Wang, Y.*, Cope, O.*, Chen, J.*, Mehta, A., Fleifel, D., Ford, C., Benhamie, P., Haase, S., Gulec, S., Elston, T., Spanheimer, P., Tomblin, C.A., Rojas, A.M., Tate, T., Purvis, J., Wang, J., Dahl., J.M., Wolff, S., Cook, J.G., Brunk, E., 2025. Extrachromosomal DNA Gives Cancer a New Evolutionary Pathway. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.04.26.650733. (Under review).
- Stephenson G., Fleifel D., Cook, J.G., Laederach A., Ramos, Silvia B.V., 2025. Differential targeting of mRNA decay activator ZFP36L2 in mouse tissues. (Under review).
- Mouery, B.L., Baker, E.M., Mei, L., Wolff, S.C., Mills, C.A., Fleifel, D., Mulugeta, N., Herring, L.E., and Cook, J.G., 2024. APC/C prevents a noncanonical order of cyclin/CDK activity to maintain CDK4/6 inhibitor-induced arrest. PNAS, 121(30). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2319574121.
- Fleifel, D., and Cook, J.G., 2023. G1 dynamics at the crossroads of pluripotency and cancer. Cancers, 15(18). doi: 10.3390/cancers15184559.
- Limas, J.C., Littlejohn, A.N., House, A.M., Kedziora, K.M., Mouery, B.L., Ma, B., Fleifel, D., Walens, A., Aleman, M.M., Dominguez, D. and Cook, J.G., 2022. Quantitative profiling of adaptation to cyclin E overproduction. Life Science Alliance, 5(5). doi:10.26508/lsa.202201378.
