ZFIN Person: Epstein, Jonathan A.

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-100324-2

Epstein, Jonathan A.

Email:	epsteinj@mail.med.upenn.edu
URL:	http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p12834
Affiliation:
Address:	1154 BRB II/III 421 Curie Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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Phone:	(215) 898-8731
Fax:	(215) 898-9871
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Butler, M.G., Iben, J.R., Marsden, K.C., Epstein, J.A., Granato, M., Weinstein, B.M. (2015) SNPfisher: tools for probing genetic variation in laboratory-reared zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 142(8):1542-52

Minchin, J.E., Dahlman, I., Harvey, C.J., Mejhert, N., Singh, M.K., Epstein, J.A., Arner, P., Torres-Vazquez, J., Rawls, J.F. (2015) Plexin D1 determines body fat distribution by regulating the type V collagen microenvironment in visceral adipose tissue. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112(14):4363-8

Wolman, M.A., de Groh, E.D., McBride, S.M., Jongens, T.A., Granato, M., Epstein, J.A. (2014) Modulation of cAMP and Ras Signaling Pathways Improves Distinct Behavioral Deficits in a Zebrafish Model of Neurofibromatosis Type 1. Cell Reports. 8(5):1265-70

Shin, J., Padmanabhan, A., de Groh, E.D., Lee, J.S., Haidar, S., Dahlberg, S., Guo, F., He, S., Wolman, M.A., Granato, M., Lawson, N.D., Wolfe, S.A., Kim, S.H., Solnica-Krezel, L., Kanki, J.P., Ligon, K.L., Epstein, J.A., and Look, A.T. (2012) Zebrafish neurofibromatosis type 1 genes have redundant functions in tumorigenesis and embryonic development. Disease models & mechanisms. 5(6):881-894

Zhu, C., Smith, T., McNulty, J., Rayla, A.L., Lakshmanan, A., Siekmann, A.F., Buffardi, M., Meng, X., Shin, J., Padmanabhan, A., Cifuentes, D., Giraldez, A.J., Look, A.T., Epstein, J.A., Lawson, N.D., and Wolfe, S.A. (2011) Evaluation and application of modularly assembled zinc-finger nucleases in zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 138(20):4555-4564

Zygmunt, T., Gay, C.M., Blondelle, J., Singh, M.K., Flaherty, K.M., Means, P.C., Herwig, L., Krudewig, A., Belting, H.G., Affolter, M., Epstein, J.A., and Torres-Vazquez, J. (2011) Semaphorin-PlexinD1 Signaling Limits Angiogenic Potential via the VEGF Decoy Receptor sFlt1. Developmental Cell. 21(2):301-314

Lee, J.S., Padmanabhan, A., Shin, J., Zhu, S., Guo, F., Kanki, J.P., Epstein, J.A., and Look, A.T. (2010) Oligodendrocyte progenitor cell numbers and migration are regulated by the zebrafish orthologs of the NF1 tumor suppressor gene. Human molecular genetics. 19(23):4643-4653

Degenhardt, K.R., Milewski, R.C., Padmanabhan, A., Miller, M., Singh, M.K., Lang, D., Engleka, K.A., Wu, M., Li, J., Zhou, D., Antonucci, N., Li, L., and Epstein, J.A. (2010) Distinct enhancers at the Pax3 locus can function redundantly to regulate neural tube and neural crest expression. Developmental Biology. 339(2):519-527

Padmanabhan, A., Lee, J.S., Ismat, F.A., Lu, M.M., Lawson, N.D., Kanki, J.P., Look, A.T., and Epstein, J.A. (2009) Cardiac and vascular functions of the zebrafish orthologues of the type I neurofibromatosis gene NFI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106(52):22305-22310

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS