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Katherine Pfister, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow
Education & Training
- BS, University of Virginia, 2009
- PhD, University of Virginia, 2016
- Postdoctoral Associate, University of Virginia, 2018
- Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pittsburgh, 2020
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Present
Selected Publications
Chiba T, Cerqueira DM, Li Y, Bodnar AJ, Mukherjee E, Pfister K, Phua YL, Shaikh K, Sanders BT, Hemker SL, Pagano PJ, Wu YL, Ho J, Sims-Lucas S. Endothelial-Derived miR-17∼92 Promotes Angiogenesis to Protect against Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 Mar;32(3):553-562. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2020050717. Epub 2021 Jan 29. PMID: 33514560; PMCID: PMC7920169.
Maggiore, Joseph C., et al. "Genetically engineering endothelial niche in human kidney organoids enables multilineage maturation, vascularization and de novo cell types." bioRxiv (2023).
Barbosa, Anne CS, et al. "Dicarboxylic acid supplementation protects from acute kidney injury via stimulation of renal peroxisomal activity." bioRxiv (2023): 2023-05.
Burton, Jordan B., et al. "Substantial Downregulation of Mitochondrial and Peroxisomal Proteins during Acute Kidney Injury revealed by Data-Independent Acquisition Proteomics." bioRxiv (2023): 2023-02.
Moran, Erin, et al. "AURKB/Ipl1 restarts replication forks to recover from replication stress." bioRxiv (2021): 2021-05.
Pfister K, Pipka JL, Chiang C, Liu Y, Clark RA, Keller R, Skoglund P, Guertin MJ, Hall IM, Stukenberg PT. Identification of Drivers of Aneuploidy in Breast Tumors. Cell Rep. 2018 May 29;23(9):2758-2769. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.04.102. PMID: 29847804; PMCID: PMC5997284.
Pfister K, Shook DR, Chang C, Keller R, Skoglund P. Molecular model for force production and transmission during vertebrate gastrulation. Development. 2016 Feb 15;143(4):715-27. doi: 10.1242/dev.128090. PMID: 26884399; PMCID: PMC4760319.
Eagleson G, Pfister K, Knowlton AL, Skoglund P, Keller R, Stukenberg PT. Kif2a depletion generates chromosome segregation and pole coalescence defects in animal caps and inhibits gastrulation of the Xenopus embryo. Mol Biol Cell. 2015 Mar 1;26(5):924-37. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E13-12-0721. Epub 2015 Jan 7. PMID: 25568341; PMCID: PMC4342028.
Academic and Research Interests
- Acute Kidney Injury
- Peroxisome
- Microscopy
- Pediatric Nephrology