ZFIN Person: van Rooijen, Ellen

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-040708-2

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-040708-2

van Rooijen, Ellen

Email:	evanrooijen@enders.tch.harvard.edu
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Affiliation:	The Zon Lab
Address:	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Children's Hospital Boston Division of Hematology/Oncology 300 Longwood Avenue, Karp 8 Boston, MA 02115 USA
Country:	United States
Phone:	+1 617 919 2944
Fax:	+1 617 355 7262
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

He, S., Zimmerman, M.W., Layden, H.M., Berezovskaya, A., Etchin, J., Martel, M.W., Thurston, G., Jing, C.B., van Rooijen, E., Kaufman, C.K., Rodig, S.J., Zon, L.I., Patton, E.E., Mansour, M.R., Look, A.T. (2021) Synergistic melanoma cell death mediated by inhibition of both MCL1 and BCL2 in high-risk tumors driven by NF1/PTEN loss. Oncogene. 40(38):5718-5729

Fazio, M., van Rooijen, E., Dang, M., van de Hoek, G., Ablain, J., Mito, J.K., Yang, S., Thomas, A., Michael, J., Fabo, T., Modhurima, R., Pessina, P., Kaufman, C.K., Zhou, Y., White, R.M., Zon, L.I. (2021) SATB2 induction of a neural crest mesenchyme-like program drives melanoma invasion and drug resistance. eLIFE. 10:

Minnoye, L., Taskiran, I.I., Mauduit, D., Fazio, M., Van Aerschot, L., Hulselmans, G., Christiaens, V., Makhzami, S., Seltenhammer, M., Karras, P., Primot, A., Cadieu, E., van Rooijen, E., Marine, J.C., Egidy, G., Ghanem, G.E., Zon, L., Wouters, J., Aerts, S. (2020) Cross-species analysis of enhancer logic using deep learning. Genome research. 30:1815-1834

Fazio, M., van Rooijen, E., Mito, J.K., Modhurima, R., Weiskopf, E., Yang, S., Zon, L.I. (2020) Recurrent co-alteration of HDGF and SETDB1 on chromosome 1q drives cutaneous melanoma progression and poor prognosis. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 34(3):641-647

Yu, Y., Schleich, K., Yue, B., Ji, S., Lohneis, P., Kemper, K., Silvis, M.S., Qutob, N., van Rooijen, E., Werner-Klein, M., Li, L., Dhawan, D., Meierjohann, S., Reimann, M., Elkahloun, A., Treitschke, S., Dörken, B., Speck, C., Mallette, F.A., Zon, L.I., Holmen, S.L., Peeper, D.S., Samuels, Y., Schmitt, C.A., Lee, S. (2018) Targeting the Senescence-Overriding Cooperative Activity of Structurally Unrelated H3K9 Demethylases in Melanoma. Cancer Cell. 33:322-336.e8

van Rooijen, E., van de Hoek, G., Logister, I., Ajzenberg, H., Knoers, N.V.A.M., van Eeden, F., Voest, E.E., Schulte-Merker, S., Giles, R.H. (2018) The von Hippel-Lindau Gene Is Required to Maintain Renal Proximal Tubule and Glomerulus Integrity in Zebrafish Larvae. Nephron. 138(4):310-323

Fazio, M., Avagyan, S., van Rooijen, E., Mannherz, W., Kaufman, C.K., Lobbardi, R., Langenau, D.M., Zon, L.I. (2017) Efficient Transduction of Zebrafish Melanoma Cell Lines and Embryos Using Lentiviral Vectors. Zebrafish. 14(4):379-382

van Rooijen, E., Fazio, M., Zon, L.I. (2017) From fish bowl to bedside: The power of zebrafish to unravel melanoma pathogenesis and discover new therapeutics. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 30(4):402-412

Volpi, S., Yamazaki, Y., Brauer, P.M., van Rooijen, E., Hayashida, A., Slavotinek, A., Sun Kuehn, H., Di Rocco, M., Rivolta, C., Bortolomai, I., Du, L., Felgentreff, K., Ott de Bruin, L., Hayashida, K., Freedman, G., Marcovecchio, G.E., Capuder, K., Rath, P., Luche, N., Hagedorn, E.J., Buoncompagni, A., Royer-Bertrand, B., Giliani, S., Poliani, P.L., Imberti, L., Dobbs, K., Poulain, F.E., Martini, A., Manis, J., Linhardt, R.J., Bosticardo, M., Rosenzweig, S.D., Lee, H., Puck, J.M., Zúñiga-Pflücker, J.C., Zon, L., Park, P.W., Superti-Furga, A., Notarangelo, L.D. (2017) EXTL3 mutations cause skeletal dysplasia, immune deficiency, and developmental delay.. The Journal of experimental medicine. 214(3):623-637

Tan, J.L., Fogley, R.D., Flynn, R.A., Ablain, J., Yang, S., Saint-André, V., Fan, Z.P., Do, B.T., Laga, A.C., Fujinaga, K., Santoriello, C., Greer, C.B., Kim, Y.J., Clohessy, J.G., Bothmer, A., Pandell, N., Avagyan, S., Brogie, J.E., van Rooijen, E., Hagedorn, E.J., Shyh-Chang, N., White, R.M., Price, D.H., Pandolfi, P.P., Peterlin, B.M., Zhou, Y., Kim, T.H., Asara, J.M., Chang, H.Y., Young, R.A., Zon, L.I. (2016) Stress from Nucleotide Depletion Activates the Transcriptional Regulator HEXIM1 to Suppress Melanoma. Molecular Cell. 62:34-46

Kaufman, C.K., Mosimann, C., Fan, Z.P., Yang, S., Thomas, A.J., Ablain, J., Tan, J.L., Fogley, R.D., van Rooijen, E., Hagedorn, E.J., Ciarlo, C., White, R.M., Matos, D.A , Puller, A.C., Santoriello, C., Liao, E.C., Young, R.A., and Zon, L.I. (2016) A zebrafish melanoma model reveals emergence of neural crest identity during melanoma initiation. Science (New York, N.Y.). 351(6272):aad2197

Wojciechowska, S., van Rooijen, E., Ceol, C., Patton, E.E., White, R.M. (2016) Generation and analysis of zebrafish melanoma models. Methods in cell biology. 134:531-49

Heilmann, S., Ratnakumar, K., Langdon, E., Kansler, E., Kim, I., Campbell, N.R., Perry, E., McMahon, A., Kaufman, C., van Rooijen, E., Lee, W., Iacobuzio-Donahue, C., Hynes, R., Zon, L., Xavier, J., White, R.M. (2015) A quantitative system for studying metastasis using transparent zebrafish. Cancer research. 75(20):4272-82

Martins Metelo, A., Noonan, H.R., Xiang, L., Jin, Y., Baker, R., Kamentsky, L., Zhang, Y., van Rooijen, E., Shin, J., Carpenter, A.E., Yeh, J.R., Peterson, R.T., Iliopoulos, O. (2015) Pharmacological HIF2α inhibition improves VHL disease–associated phenotypes in zebrafish model. J. Clin. Invest.. 125(5):1987-97

Mans, D.A., Vermaat, J.S., Weijts, B.G., van Rooijen, E., van Reeuwijk, J., Boldt, K., Daenen, L.G., van der Groep, P., Rowland, B.D., Jans, J.J., Roepman, R., Voest, E.E., van Diest, P.J., Verhaar, M.C., de Bruin, A., and Giles, R.H. (2013) Regulation of E2F1 by the von Hippel-Lindau tumour suppressor protein predicts survival in renal cell cancer patients. The Journal of pathology. 231(1):117-29

Basten, S.G., Davis, E.E., Gillis, A.J., van Rooijen, E., Stoop, H., Babala, N., Logister, I., Heath, Z.G., Jonges, T.N., Katsanis, N., Voest, E.E., van Eeden, F.J., Medema, R.H., Ketting, R.F., Schulte-Merker, S., Looijenga, L.H., and Giles, R.H. (2013) Mutations in LRRC50 Predispose Zebrafish and Humans to Seminomas. PLoS Genetics. 9(4):e1003384

Santhakumar, K., Judson, E.C., Elks, P.M., McKee, S., Elworthy, S., van Rooijen, E., Walmsley, S.S., Renshaw, S., Cross, S.S., and van Eeden, F.J. (2012) A zebrafish model to study and therapeutically manipulate hypoxia signaling in tumorigenesis. Cancer research. 72(16):4017-4027

van der Velden, Y.U., Wang, L., Zevenhoven, J., van Rooijen, E., van Lohuizen, M., Giles, R.H., Clevers, H., and Haramis, A.P. (2011) The serine-threonine kinase LKB1 is essential for survival under energetic stress in zebrafish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108(11):4358-4363

van Rooijen, E., Santhakumar, K., Logister, I., Voest, E., Schulte-Merker, S., Giles, R., and van Eeden, F. (2011) A Zebrafish Model for VHL and Hypoxia Signaling. Methods in cell biology. 105:163-190

van Rooijen, E., Voest, E.E., Logister, I., Bussmann, J., Korving, J., van Eeden, F.J., Giles, R.H., and Schulte-Merker, S. (2010) von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor mutants faithfully model pathological hypoxia-driven angiogenesis and vascular retinopathies in zebrafish. Disease models & mechanisms. 3(5-6):343-353

van Rooijen, E., Voest, E.E., Logister, I., Korving, J., Schwerte, T., Schulte-Merker, S., Giles, R.H., and van Eeden, F.J. (2009) Zebrafish mutants in the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor display a hypoxic response and recapitulate key aspects of Chuvash polycythemia. Blood. 113(25):6449-6460

van Rooijen, E., Giles, R.H., Voest, E.E., van Rooijen, C., Schulte-Merker, S., and van Eeden, F.J. (2008) LRRC50, a Conserved Ciliary Protein Implicated in Polycystic Kidney Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN. 19(6):1128-1138

Koudijs, M.J., den Broeder, M.J., Keijser, A., Wienholds, E., Houwing, S., van Rooijen, E.M., Geisler, R., and van Eeden, F.J. (2005) The Zebrafish Mutants dre, uki, and lep Encode Negative Regulators of the Hedgehog Signaling Pathway. PLoS Genetics. 1(2):e19

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
Genetic analysis of von Hippel-Lindau disease.
Nordstrom-O'Brien M, van der Luijt RB, van Rooijen E, van den Ouweland AM, Majoor-Krakauer DF, Lolkema MP, van Brussel A, Voest EE, Giles RH.
Hum Mutat. 2010 May;31(5):521-37.