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Research Associate

Recent Publications:

  1. Beaman MM, Yin W, Smith AJ, Sears PR, Leigh MW, Ferkol TW, Kearney B, Olivier KN, Kimple AJ, Clarke S, Huggins E, Nading E, Jung SH, Iyengar AK, Zou X, Dang H, Barrera A, Majoros WH, Rehder CW, Reddy TE, Ostrowski LE, Allen AS, Knowles MR, Zariwala MA, Crawford GE. Promoter Deletion Leading to Allele Specific Expression in a Genetically Unsolved Case of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. Am J Med Genet A. 2024 Oct 4:e63880. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63880. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39364610.
  2. Dougherty GW, Ostrowski LE, Nöthe-Menchen T, Raidt J, Schramm A, Olbrich H, Yin W, Sears PR, Dang H, Smith AJ, Beule AG, Hjeij R, Rutjes N, Haarman EG, Maas SM, Ferkol TW, Noone PG, Olivier KN, Bracht DC, Barbry P, Zaragosi LE, Fierville M, Kliesch S, Wohlgemuth K, König J, George S, Loges NT, Ceppe A, Markovetz MR, Luo H, Guo T, Rizk H, Eldesoky T, Dahlke K, Boldt K, Ueffing M, Hill DB, Pang YP, Knowles MR, Zariwala MA, Omran H. Recessively Inherited Deficiency of Secreted WFDC2 (HE4) Causes Nasal Polyposis and Bronchiectasis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Jul 1;210(1):63-76. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202308-1370OC. PMID: 38626355. PMCID: PMC11197063.
  3. Sears PR, Ostrowski LE. Mucociliary Transport Device Construction and Application to Study Mucociliary Clearance. Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2725:263-276. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3507-0_17. PMID: 37856031.
  4. Smith AJ, Bustamante-Marin XM, Yin W, Sears PR, Herring LE, Dicheva NN, López-Giráldez F, Mane S, Tarran R, Leigh MW, Knowles MR, Zariwala MA, Ostrowski LE. The role of SPAG1 in the assembly of axonemal dyneins in human airway epithelia. J Cell Sci. 2022 Mar 15;135(6):jcs259512. doi: 10.1242/jcs.259512. PMID: 35178554. PMCID: PMC8995097.
  5. Ostrowski LE, Yin W, Smith AJ, Sears PR, Bustamante-Marin XM, Dang H, Hildebrandt F, Daniels LA, Capps NA, Sullivan KM, Leigh MW, Zariwala MA, Knowles MR. Expression of a Truncated Form of ODAD1 Associated with an Unusually Mild Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Phenotype. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Feb 3;23(3):1753. doi: 10.3390/ijms23031753. PMID: 35163670; PMCID: PMC8835943.
  6. Kato T, Mikami Y, Sun L, Rogers TD, Grubb BR, Morrison CB, Ehre C, Sears PR, Ostrowski LE, Randell SH, Boucher RC. Reuse of Cell Culture Inserts for in vitro Human Primary Airway Epithelial Cell Studies. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2021 Jun;64(6):760-764. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2021-0033LE. PMID: 33788673. PMCID: PMC8456889.
  7. Zhao Y, Pinskey J, Lin J, Yin W, Sears PR, Daniels LA, Zariwala MA, Knowles MR, Ostrowski LE, Nicastro D. Structural insights into the cause of human RSPH4A primary ciliary dyskinesia. Mol Biol Cell. 2021 Jun 1;32(12):1202-1209. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E20-12-0806. PMID: 33852348. PMCID: PMC8351563.
  8. Sears PR, Bustamante-Marin XM, Gong H, Markovetz MR, Superfine R, Hill DB, Ostrowski LE. Induction of ciliary orientation by matrix patterning and characterization of mucociliary transport. Biophys J. 2021 Apr 20;120(8):1387-1395. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.01.041. PMID: 33705757. PMCID: PMC8105732.
  9. Bustamante-Marin XM, Horani A, Stoyanova M, Charng WL, Bottier M, Sears PR, Yin WN, Daniels LA, Bowen H, Conrad DF, Knowles MR, Ostrowski LE, Zariwala MA, Dutcher SK. Mutation of CFAP57, a protein required for the asymmetric targeting of a subset of inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas, causes primary ciliary dyskinesia. PLoS Genet. 2020 Aug 7;16(8):e1008691. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008691. PMID: 32764743; PMCID: PMC7444499.
  10. Chivukula RR, Montoro DT, Leung HM, Yang J, Shamseldin HE, Taylor MS, Dougherty GW, Zariwala MA, Carson J, Daniels MLA, Sears PR, Black KE, Hariri LP, Almogarri I, Frenkel EM, Vinarsky V, Omran H, Knowles MR, Tearney GJ, Alkuraya FS, Sabatini DM. A human ciliopathy reveals essential functions for NEK10 in airway mucociliary clearance. Nat Med. 2020 Feb;26(2):244-251. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0730-x. PMID: 31959991; PMCID: PMC7018620.
  11. Bustamante-Marin XM, Shapiro A, Sears PR, Charng WL, Conrad DF, Leigh MW, Knowles MR, Ostrowski LE, Zariwala MA. Identification of genetic variants in CFAP221 as a cause of primary ciliary dyskinesia. J Hum Genet. 2020 Jan;65(2):175-180. doi: 10.1038/s10038-019-0686-1. PMID: 31636325. PMCID: PMC6920546.
  12. Yin W, Livraghi-Butrico A, Sears PR, Rogers TD, Burns KA, Grubb BR, Ostrowski LE. Mice with a Deletion of Rsph1 Exhibit a Low Level of Mucociliary Clearance and Develop a PCD Phenotype. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2019 Sep;61(3):312-321. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2017-0387OC. PMID: 30896965. PMCID: PMC6839924.
  13. Bustamante-Marin XM, Yin WN, Sears PR, Werner ME, Brotslaw EJ, Mitchell BJ, Jania CM, Zeman KL, Rogers TD, Herring LE, Refabért L, Thomas L, Amselem S, Escudier E, Legendre M, Grubb BR, Knowles MR, Zariwala MA, Ostrowski LE. Lack of GAS2L2 Causes PCD by Impairing Cilia Orientation and Mucociliary Clearance. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Feb 7;104(2):229-245. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.12.009. PMID: 30665704. PMCID: PMC6372263.
  14. Blackmon RL, Kreda SM, Sears PR, Chapman BS, Hill DB, Tracy JB, Ostrowski LE, Oldenburg AL. Direct monitoring of pulmonary disease treatment biomarkers using plasmonic gold nanorods with diffusion-sensitive OCT. Nanoscale. 2017 Apr 13;9(15):4907-4917. doi: 10.1039/c7nr00376e. PMID: 28358158. PMCID: PMC5473168.
  15. Barrick J, Doblas A, Gardner MR, Sears PR, Ostrowski LE, Oldenburg AL. High-speed and high-sensitivity parallel spectral-domain optical coherence tomography using a supercontinuum light source. Opt Lett. 2016 Dec 15;41(24):5620-5623. doi: 10.1364/OL.41.005620. PMID: 27973473. PMCID: PMC5235345.
  16. Blackmon RL, Kreda SM, Sears PR, Ostrowski LE, Hill DB, Chapman BS, Tracy JB, Oldenburg AL. Diffusion-sensitive optical coherence tomography for real-time monitoring of mucus thinning treatments. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2016;9697. doi: 10.1117/12.2208805. PMID: 27746581. PMCID: PMC5061133.
  17. Sears PR, Yin WN, Ostrowski LE. Continuous mucociliary transport by primary human airway epithelial cells in vitro. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2015 Jul 15;309(2):L99-108. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00024.2015. PMID: 25979076. PMCID: PMC4504973.
  18. Teves ME, Sears PR, Li W, Zhang Z, Tang W, van Reesema L, Costanzo RM, Davis CW, Knowles MR, Strauss JF 3rd, Zhang Z. Sperm-associated antigen 6 (SPAG6) deficiency and defects in ciliogenesis and cilia function: polarity, density, and beat. PLoS One. 2014 Oct 21;9(10):e107271. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107271. PMID: 25333478. PMCID: PMC4204823.
  19. Knowles MR, Ostrowski LE, Leigh MW, Sears PR, Davis SD, Wolf WE, Hazucha MJ, Carson JL, Olivier KN, Sagel SD, Rosenfeld M, Ferkol TW, Dell SD, Milla CE, Randell SH, Yin W, Sannuti A, Metjian HM, Noone PG, Noone PJ, Olson CA, Patrone MV, Dang H, Lee HS, Hurd TW, Gee HY, Otto EA, Halbritter J, Kohl S, Kircher M, Krischer J, Bamshad MJ, Nickerson DA, Hildebrandt F, Shendure J, Zariwala MA. Mutations in RSPH1 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia with a unique clinical and ciliary phenotype. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2014 Mar 15;189(6):707-17. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201311-2047OC. PMID: 24568568. PMCID: PMC3983840.
  20. Sears PR, Thompson K, Knowles MR, Davis CW. Human airway ciliary dynamics. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2013 Feb 1;304(3):L170-83. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00105.2012. PMID: 23144323. PMCID: PMC3567369.
  21. Sears PR, Davis CW, Chua M, Sheehan JK. Mucociliary interactions and mucus dynamics in ciliated human bronchial epithelial cell cultures. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2011 Aug;301(2):L181-6. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00321.2010. PMID: 21531774. PMCID: PMC3154625.
  22. Rossi AH, Sears PR, Davis CW. Ca2+ dependency of ‘Ca2+-independent’ exocytosis in SPOC1 airway goblet cells. J Physiol. 2004 Sep 1;559(Pt 2):555-65. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.070433. PMID: 15218074. PMCID: PMC1665132.
Patrick Sears