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Sin JH, Bowman CJ, Germino J, Phillips SH, Sucharov J, Liu X, Wang Y, Miller CN, Parent AV, Bodansky A, Anderson MS, Waterfield MR. Thymic alveolar type 2 epithelial mimetic cells revealed by RUNX1 deficiency. Nat Immunol. 2026 May 25. doi: 10.1038/s41590-026-02536-0. PMID: 42185467.

Bowman CJ, Stibor D, Sun X, Lenci N, Shimizu H, Yamashita E, Advincula R, Kim MC, Turnbaugh J, Sun Y, Razani B, Turnbaugh P, Ye CJ, Malynn B, Ma A. A20's linear ubiquitin-binding motif restrains pathogenic activation of Th17 cells and IL-22-driven enteritis. J Clin Invest. 2025 Sep 2;135(17):e187499. doi: 10.1172/JCI187499. PMID: 40892518; PMCID: PMC12404748.

Bowman CJ, Ayer DE, Dynlacht BD. Foxk proteins repress the initiation of starvation-induced atrophy and autophagy programs. Nat Cell Biol. 2014 Dec;16(12):1202-14. doi: 10.1038/ncb3062. Epub 2014 Nov 17. PMID: 25402684; PMCID: PMC4250422.

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Sin JH, Bowman CJ, Sucharov J, Phillips SH, Waterfield MR. Foxp1 controls Fezf2-dependent gene expression, mimetic mTEC diversity, and thymic central tolerance. J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag168. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag168. PMID: 42361268; PMCID: PMC13308695.

Mennillo E, Lotstein ML, Lee G, Hou JH, Johri V, Leet DE, Ekstrand CA, Tsui J, He JY, Mahadevan U, Eckalbar WL, Gill RM, Bowman CJ, Oh DY, Fragiadakis GK, Kattah MG, Combes AJ. Single-cell spatial transcriptomics of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded biopsies reveals colitis-associated cell networks. J Clin Invest. 2026 Jun 9:e202488. doi: 10.1172/JCI202488. PMID: 42262875.

Tobias R, Kumar S, Liu J, Lenci N, Gharabi A, Stibor D, Advincula R, Achacoso P, Huang ZM, Bowman C, Ricardo-Gonzalez R, Nakamura MC, Liao W, Malynn BA, Ma A, Razani B. Unrestrained MyD88 signaling in A20-deficient keratinocytes triggers T cell dependent Psoriatic Arthritis like disease. J Invest Dermatol. 2025 Apr 30:S0022-202X(25)00451-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2025.03.043. PMID: 40316204.

Bowman CJ, Medeiros F, Fadare O, Sangoi AR, Horvai AE, Devine WP, McCluggage WG, Rabban JT. ALK Immunoexpression is Specific for Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor Among Vulvovaginal Mesenchymal Neoplasms. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2022 Feb 18. doi: 10.1097/PGP.0000000000000858. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35180768.

Bowman CJ, Zhang R, Balitzer D, Wang D, Rabinovitch PS, Kővári BP, Mattis AN, Kakar S, Lauwers GY, Choi WT. Persistent or recurrent Barrett's neoplasia after an endoscopic therapy session is associated with DNA content abnormality and can be detected by DNA flow cytometric analysis of paraffin-embedded tissue. Mod Pathol. 2021 Oct;34(10):1889-1900. doi: 10.1038/s41379-021-00832-8. Epub 2021 Jun 9. PMID: 34108638; PMCID: PMC8443444.

Subbaraj L, Bowman CJ, Singh A. A Masked Diagnosis: Sigmoid Endometriosis. ACG Case Rep J. 2021 Jun 9;8(6):e00557. doi: 10.14309/crj.0000000000000557. PMID: 34124277; PMCID: PMC8189634.

Man K, Bowman C, Braverman KN, Escalante V, Tian Y, Bisanz JE, Ganeshan K, Wang B, Patterson A, Bayrer JR, Turnbaugh PJ, Chawla A. A thermogenic fat-epithelium cell axis regulates intestinal disease tolerance. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2020 Dec 15;117(50):32029-32037. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2012003117. Epub 2020 Nov 30. PMID: 33257580; PMCID: PMC7749324.

Dobi D, Vincenti F, Chandran S, Greenland JR, Bowman C, Chen A, Junger H, Laszik ZG. The impact of belatacept on the phenotypic heterogeneity of renal T cell-mediated alloimmune response: The critical role of maintenance treatment and inflammatory load. Clin Transplant. 2020 Nov;34(11):e14084. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14084. Epub 2020 Oct 19. PMID: 32939817; PMCID: PMC8059253.

Kramer SP, Bowman CJ, Wang ZJ, Sheahon KM, Nakakura EK, Cho S-J, Umetsu SE, Behr SC. Hybrid low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma and sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma of the pancreas. J Gastrointest Cancer. 2020 Sep;51(3):1025-1029. doi: 10.1007/s12029-020-00369-0. PMID: 32034641.

Jack AS, Shah V, Ramey WL, Bowman C, Huie CJ, Jacques LG. Brachial Plexus Mucormycosis Secondary to Perineurial Spread: Literature Review and Case Report of a Rare Mode of Infectious Spread. Interdiscip Neurosurg. 2020 June. doi: 10.1016/j.inat.2020.100687.

Modrek AS, Golub D, Khan T, Bready D, Prado J, Bowman C, Deng J, Zhang G, Rocha PP, Raviram R, Lazaris C, Stafford JM, LeRoy G, Kader M, Dhaliwal J, Bayin NS, Frenster JD, Serrano J, Chiriboga L, Baitalmal R, Nanjangud G, Chi AS, Golfinos JG, Wang J, Karajannis MA, Bonneau RA, Reinberg D, Tsirigos A, Zagzag D, Snuderl M, Skok JA, Neubert TA, Placantonakis DG. Low-Grade Astrocytoma Mutations in IDH1, P53, and ATRX Cooperate to Block Differentiation of Human Neural Stem Cells via Repression of SOX2. Cell Rep. 2017 Oct 31;21(5):1267-1280. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.10.009. PMID: 29091765; PMCID: PMC5687844.

Wu SP, Cooper BT, Bu F, Bowman CJ, Killian JK, Serrano J, Wang S, Jackson TM, Gorovets D, Shukla N, Meyers PA, Pisapia DJ, Gorlick R, Ladanyi M, Thomas K, Snuderl M, Karajannis MA. DNA Methylation-Based Classifier for Accurate Molecular Diagnosis of Bone Sarcomas. JCO Precis Oncol. 2017;2017:PO.17.00031. doi: 10.1200/PO.17.00031. Epub 2017 Oct 6. PMID: 29354796; PMCID: PMC5772901.

Lilja KC, Zhang N, Magli A, Gunduz V, Bowman CJ, Arpke RW, Darabi R, Kyba M, Perlingeiro R, Dynlacht BD. Pax7 remodels the chromatin landscape in skeletal muscle stem cells. PLoS One. 2017 Apr 25;12(4):e0176190. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176190. PMID: 28441415; PMCID: PMC5404880.

Cheng J, Blum R, Bowman C, Hu D, Shilatifard A, Shen S, Dynlacht BD. A role for H3K4 monomethylation in gene repression and partitioning of chromatin readers. Mol Cell. 2014 Mar 20;53(6):979-92. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.02.032. PMID: 24656132; PMCID: PMC4031464.

Blum R, Vethantham V, Bowman C, Rudnicki M, Dynlacht BD. Genome-wide identification of enhancers in skeletal muscle: the role of MyoD1. Genes Dev. 2012 Dec 15;26(24):2763-79. doi: 10.1101/gad.200113.112. PMID: 23249738; PMCID: PMC3533080.

Vethantham V, Bowman C**, Yang Y**, Asp P, Lee JH, Skalnik DG, Dynlacht BD. Dynamic loss of H2B ubiquitylation without corresponding changes in H3K4 trimethylation during myogenic differentiation. Mol Cell Biol. 2012 Mar;32(6):1044-55. doi: 10.1128/MCB.06026-11. Epub 2012 Jan 17. PMID: 22252316; PMCID: PMC3295016.

Asp P, Blum R, Vethantham V, Parisi F, Micsinai M, Cheng J, Bowman C, Kluger Y, Dynlacht BD. Genome-wide remodeling of the epigenetic landscape during myogenic differentiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2011 May 31;108(22):E149-58. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1102223108. Epub 2011 May 5. PMID: 21551099; PMCID: PMC3107312.

van Oevelen C*, Bowman C*, Pellegrino J, Asp P, Cheng J, Parisi F, Micsinai M, Kluger Y, Chu A, Blais A, David G, Dynlacht BD. The mammalian Sin3 proteins are required for muscle development and sarcomere specification. Mol Cell Biol. 2010 Dec;30(24):5686-97. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00975-10. Epub 2010 Oct 18. PMID: 20956564; PMCID: PMC3004272.

Oztug Durer ZA, Cohlberg JA, Dinh P, Padua S, Ehrenclou K, Downes S, Tan JK, Nakano Y, Bowman CJ, Hoskins JL, Kwon C, Mason AZ, Rodriguez JA, Doucette PA, Shaw BF, Valentine JS. Loss of metal ions, disulfide reduction and mutations related to familial ALS promote formation of amyloid-like aggregates from superoxide dismutase. PLoS One. 2009;4(3):e5004. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005004. Epub 2009 Mar 27. PMID: 19325915; PMCID: PMC2659422.