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PhD Candidate

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. Fleifel, D., and Cook, J.G., 2023. G1 dynamics at the crossroads of pluripotency and cancer. Cancers, 15(18). doi: 10.3390/cancers15184559.
  6. 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.
Dalia Fleifel
  • Address

    120 Mason Farm Road, Jean Cook lab

    3070H E Genetic Medicine Building

    Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260