Robert Walker
Clinical Instructor, Neurosurgery

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Education
- Howard University, MD
- University of Utah, MSc
- La Sierra University, BS
Publications
- Published on 11/20/2024
Clatterbuck Soper SF, Walker RL, Pineda MA, Zhu YJ, Dalgleish JLT, Wang J, Meltzer PS. Cancer-associated DAXX mutations reveal a critical role for ATRX localization in ALT suppression. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 20. PMID: 39803578.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/5/2023
Matsukawa T, Yin M, Nigam N, Negi V, Li L, Small D, Zhu YJ, Walker RL, Meltzer PS, Aplan PD. NUP98::Nsd1 and FLT3-ITD collaborate to generate acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia. 2023 Jul; 37(7):1545-1548. PMID: 37147424.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/1/2022
Matsukawa T, Yin M, Baslan T, Chung YJ, Cao D, Bertoli R, Zhu YJ, Walker RL, Freeland A, Knudsen E, Lowe SW, Meltzer PS, Aplan PD. Mcm2 hypomorph leads to acute leukemia or hematopoietic stem cell failure, dependent on genetic context. FASEB J. 2022 Sep; 36(9):e22430. PMID: 35920299.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/28/2020
Li XL, Pongor L, Tang W, Das S, Muys BR, Jones MF, Lazar SB, Dangelmaier EA, Hartford CC, Grammatikakis I, Hao Q, Sun Q, Schetter A, Martindale JL, Tang B, Jenkins LM, Robles AI, Walker RL, Ambs S, Chari R, Shabalina SA, Gorospe M, Hussain SP, Harris CC, Meltzer PS, Prasanth KV, Aladjem MI, Andresson T, Lal A. A small protein encoded by a putative lncRNA regulates apoptosis and tumorigenicity in human colorectal cancer cells. Elife. 2020 Oct 28; 9. PMID: 33112233.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/13/2020
Lazar SB, Pongor L, Li XL, Grammatikakis I, Muys BR, Dangelmaier EA, Redon CE, Jang SM, Walker RL, Tang W, Ambs S, Harris CC, Meltzer PS, Aladjem MI, Lal A. Genome-Wide Analysis of the FOXA1 Transcriptional Network Identifies Novel Protein-Coding and Long Noncoding RNA Targets in Colorectal Cancer Cells. Mol Cell Biol. 2020 10 13; 40(21). PMID: 32839292.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/30/2020
van Wietmarschen N, Sridharan S, Nathan WJ, Tubbs A, Chan EM, Callen E, Wu W, Belinky F, Tripathi V, Wong N, Foster K, Noorbakhsh J, Garimella K, Cruz-Migoni A, Sommers JA, Huang Y, Borah AA, Smith JT, Kalfon J, Kesten N, Fugger K, Walker RL, Dolzhenko E, Eberle MA, Hayward BE, Usdin K, Freudenreich CH, Brosh RM, West SC, McHugh PJ, Meltzer PS, Bass AJ, Nussenzweig A. Repeat expansions confer WRN dependence in microsatellite-unstable cancers. Nature. 2020 Oct; 586(7828):292-298. PMID: 32999459.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/31/2020
McGlinchey RP, Lacy SM, Walker RL, Lee JC. Cathepsin K is a potent disaggregase of a-synuclein fibrils. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2020 09 03; 529(4):1106-1111. PMID: 32819572.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/28/2020
Ohkuni K, Suva E, Au WC, Walker RL, Levy-Myers R, Meltzer PS, Baker RE, Basrai MA. Deposition of Centromeric Histone H3 Variant CENP-A/Cse4 into Chromatin Is Facilitated by Its C-Terminal Sumoylation. Genetics. 2020 04; 214(4):839-854. PMID: 32111629.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/7/2020
Au WC, Zhang T, Mishra PK, Eisenstatt JR, Walker RL, Ocampo J, Dawson A, Warren J, Costanzo M, Baryshnikova A, Flick K, Clark DJ, Meltzer PS, Baker RE, Myers C, Boone C, Kaiser P, Basrai MA. Skp, Cullin, F-box (SCF)-Met30 and SCF-Cdc4-Mediated Proteolysis of CENP-A Prevents Mislocalization of CENP-A for Chromosomal Stability in Budding Yeast. PLoS Genet. 2020 02; 16(2):e1008597. PMID: 32032354.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/16/2019
Yin M, Chung YJ, Lindsley RC, Walker RL, Zhu YJ, Ebert BL, Meltzer PS, Aplan PD. Engineered Bcor mutations lead to acute leukemia of progenitor B-1 lymphocyte origin in a sensitized background. Blood. 2019 06 13; 133(24):2610-2614. PMID: 30992267.
Read at: PubMed
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