Special Seminar Series
Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:00 p.m.
Carson Family Auditorium
Mandë Holford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biology
The City University of New York – Hunter College & Graduate Center
The Transformative Power of Venom in Evolution and Biomedical Applications
Recommended Readings:
Science News
Emily Driscoll and Luke Groskin. (2017, Nov 2). Breakthrough: The Killer Snail Chemist. Science Friday
Empirical Articles
Eriksson, Anders; Anand, Prachi; Gorson, Juliette; et al. (2018). Using Drosophila behavioral assays to characterize terebrid venom-peptide bioactivity. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 8
Leffler, Abba E.; Kuryatov, Alexander; Zebroski, Henry A.; et al. (2017). Discovery of peptide ligands through docking and virtual screening at nicotinic acetylcholine receptor homology models. PNAS. 114 (38): E8100-E8109
Kelly, Patrick; Anand, Prachi; Uvaydov, Alexander; et al. (2015). Developing a Dissociative Nanocontainer for Peptide Drug Delivery. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 12 (10): 12543-12555
Gorson, Juliette; Ramrattan, Girish; Verdes, Aida; et al. (2015). Molecular Diversity and Gene Evolution of the Venom Arsenal of Terebridae Predatory Marine Snails. GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 7 (6): 1761-1778
Anand, Prachi; Grigoryan, Alexandre; Bhuiyan, Mohammed H.; et al. (2014). Sample Limited Characterization of a Novel Disulfide-Rich Venom Peptide Toxin from Terebrid Marine Snail Terebra variegate. PLOS ONE. 9 (4)
Review Papers
Napolitano, Tanya; Holford, Mande. (2018). Breakthroughs in Venom Peptide Screening Methods to Advance Future Drug Discovery. PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE LETTERS. 25 (12): 1137-1148. PLEASE REQUEST FROM MARKUS LIBRARY.
Verdes, Aida; Anand, Prachi; Gorson, Juliette; et al. (2016). From Mollusks to Medicine: A Venomics Approach for the Discovery and Characterization of Therapeutics from Terebridae Peptide Toxins. TOXINS. 8 (4)
Book Chapters
Verdes, Aida; Holford, Mande. (2018). Beach to Bench to Bedside: Marine Invertebrate Biochemical Adaptations and Their Applications in Biotechnology and Biomedicine. Marine Organisms as Model Systems in Biology and Medicine. RESULTS AND PROBLEMS IN CELL DIFFERENTIATION Book Series. 65. PLEASE REQUEST FROM MARKUS LIBRARY.
Fry, Bryan G.; Koludarov, Ivan; Jackson, Timothy N. W.; et al. (2015). Seeing the Woods for the Trees: Understanding Venom Evolution as a Guide for Biodiscovery. VENOMS TO DRUGS: VENOM AS A SOURCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN THERAPEUTICS. 42: 1-36. PLEASE REQUEST FROM MARKUS LIBRARY.