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Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cook lab
\nCB# 7260, 3070H E Genetic Medicine<\/p>\n

Awards and Honors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diane Harris Award<\/a> for exemplary leadership from our department<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow Award in Basic Sciences<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Independent educational grant from Abbvie to support travel to AACR meeting in 2025<\/p>\n

2025 Lineberger Predoctoral American Heart Association (AHA) Fellowship<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Scholar-in-Training Award<\/a><\/p>\n

Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Bolhuis, D.L.*,\u00a0Fleifel, D.*,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Bonacci, 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.\u00a0Nature Communications<\/em>. 16(1):4575. doi: 1038\/s41467-025-59770-7.<\/li>\n
  2. Wang, Y.*, Cope, O.*, Chen, J.*, Mehta, A.,\u00a0Fleifel, D.,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Ford, 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.\u00a0bioRxiv<\/em>. doi: 10.1101\/2025.04.26.650733. (Under review).<\/li>\n
  3. Stephenson G.,\u00a0Fleifel D.,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Cook, J.G., Laederach A., Ramos, Silvia B.V., 2025. Differential targeting of mRNA decay activator ZFP36L2 in mouse tissues. (Under review).<\/li>\n
  4. Mouery, B.L., Baker, E.M., Mei, L., Wolff, S.C., Mills, C.A.,\u00a0Fleifel, D.,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Mulugeta, 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.\u00a0PNAS,\u00a0<\/em>121(30). doi: 10.1073\/pnas.2319574121.<\/li>\n
  5. Fleifel, D.,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0and Cook, J.G., 2023. G1 dynamics at the crossroads of pluripotency and cancer.\u00a0Cancers,\u00a0<\/em>15(18). doi: 10.3390\/cancers15184559.<\/li>\n
  6. Limas, J.C., Littlejohn, A.N., House, A.M., Kedziora, K.M., Mouery, B.L., Ma, B.,\u00a0Fleifel, D.,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Walens, A., Aleman, M.M., Dominguez, D. and Cook, J.G., 2022. Quantitative profiling of adaptation to cyclin E overproduction.\u00a0Life Science Alliance<\/em>, 5(5). doi:10.26508\/lsa.202201378.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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