ZFIN Person: Gjini, Evisa

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-071112-7

Gjini, Evisa

Email:	evisa_gjini@dfci.harvard.edu
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Address:	Department of Pediatric Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Mayer Building 630 44 Binney Street Boston, MA 02115 USA
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PUBLICATIONS

Neelamraju, Y., Gjini, E., Chhangawala, S., Fan, H., He, S., Jing, C.B., Nguyen, A.T., Prajapati, S., Sheridan, C., Houvras, Y., Melnick, A., Look, A.T., Garrett-Bakelman, F.E. (2023) Depletion of tet2 results in age-dependent changes in DNA methylation and gene expression in a zebrafish model of myelodysplastic syndrome. Frontiers in hematology. 2:

Gjini, E., Jing, C.B., Nguyen, A.T., Reyon, D., Gans, E., Kesarsing, M., Peterson, J., Pozdnyakova, O., Rodig, S.J., Mansour, M.R., Joung, K., Look, A.T. (2019) Disruption of asxl1 results in myeloproliferative neoplasms in zebrafish. Disease models & mechanisms. 12(5):

Mansour, M.R., He, S., Li, Z., Lobbardi, R., Abraham, B.J., Hug, C., Rahman, S., Leon, T.E., Kuang, Y.Y., Zimmerman, M.W., Blonquist, T., Gjini, E., Gutierrez, A., Tang, Q., Garcia-Perez, L., Pike-Overzet, K., Anders, L., Berezovskaya, A., Zhou, Y., Zon, L.I., Neuberg, D., Fielding, A.K., Staal, F.J.T., Langenau, D.M., Sanda, T., Young, R.A., Look, A.T. (2018) JDP2: An oncogenic bZIP transcription factor in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The Journal of experimental medicine. 215(7):1929-1945

Anderson, N.M., Li, D., Peng, H.L., Laroche, F.J., Mansour, M.R., Gjini, E., Aioub, M., Helman, D.J., Roderick, J.E., Cheng, T., Harrold, I., Samaha, Y., Meng, L., Amsterdam, A., Neuberg, D.S., Denton, T.T., Sanda, T., Kelliher, M.A., Singh, A., Look, A.T., Feng, H. (2016) The TCA cycle transferase DLST is important for MYC-mediated leukemogenesis. Leukemia. 30(6):1365-74

He, S., Mansour, M.R., Zimmerman, M.W., Ki, D.H., Layden, H.M., Akahane, K., Gjini, E., de Groh, E.D., Perez-Atayde, A.R., Zhu, S., Epstein, J.A., Look, A.T. (2016) Synergy between loss of NF1 and overexpression of MYCN in neuroblastoma is mediated by the GAP-related domain. eLIFE. 5

Gjini, E., Mansour, M.R., Sander, J.D., Moritz, N., Nguyen, A.T., Kesarsing, M., Gans, E., He, S., Chen, S., Ko, M., Kuang, Y.Y., Yang, S., Zhou, Y., Rodig, S., Zon, L.I., Joung, J.K., Rao, A., Look, A.T. (2015) A Zebrafish Model of Myelodysplastic Syndrome Produced Through tet2 Genomic Editing. Molecular and cellular biology. 35(5):789-804

Pyati, U.J., Gjini, E., Carbonneau, S., Lee, J.S., Guo, F., Jette, C.A., Kelsell, D.P., and Look, A.T. (2011) p63 Mediates an Apoptotic Response to Pharmacological and Disease-Related ER Stress in the Developing Epidermis. Developmental Cell. 21(3):492-505

Bolli, N., Payne, E.M., Rhodes, J., Gjini, E., Johnston, A.B., Guo, F., Lee, J.S., Stewart, R.A., Kanki, J.P., Chen, A.T., Zhou, Y., Zon, L.I., and Look, A.T. (2011) cpsf1 is required for definitive HSC survival in zebrafish. Blood. 117(15):3996-4007

Gjini, E., Hekking, L.H., Küchler, A., Saharinen, P., Wienholds, E., Post, J.A., Alitalo, K., and Schulte-Merker, S. (2011) Zebrafish Tie-2 shares a redundant role with Tie-1 in heart development and regulates vessel integrity. Disease models & mechanisms. 4(1):57-66

Hermans, K., Claes, F., Vandevelde, W., Zheng, W., Geudens, I., Orsenigo, F., De Smet, F., Gjini, E., Anthonis, K., Ren, B., Kerjaschki, D., Autiero, M., Ny, A., Simons, M., Dewerchin, M., Schulte-Merker, S., Dejana, E., Alitalo, K., and Carmeliet, P. (2010) Role of synectin in lymphatic development in zebrafish and frogs. Blood. 116(17):3356-3366

Alders, M., Hogan, B.M., Gjini, E., Salehi, F., Al-Gazali, L., Hennekam, E.A., Holmberg, E.E., Mannens, M.M., Mulder, M.F., Offerhaus, G.J., Prescott, T.E., Schroor, E.J., Verheij, J.B., Witte, M., Zwijnenburg, P.J., Vikkula, M., Schulte-Merker, S., and Hennekam, R.C. (2009) Mutations in CCBE1 cause generalized lymph vessel dysplasia in humans. Nature Genetics. 41(12):1272-1274

Kuchler, A.M., Gjini, E., Peterson-Maduro, J., Cancilla, B., Wolburg, H., and Schulte-Merker, S. (2006) Development of the zebrafish lymphatic system requires vegfc signaling. Current biology : CB. 16(12):1244-1248

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