Dr. Aidan Fenix
Former PhD Student; Currently a post-doc at the University of Washington in the lab of Charles (Chuck) Murry
Thesis Title: “Constructing Contractile Ensembles: How Cells Build Units of Force Generation”
Burnette Lab Publications:
2016 Fenix AM, Taneja N, Buttler CA, Lewis J, Van Engelenburg SB, Ohi R, Burnette DT. Expansion and concatenation of non-muscle myosin IIA filaments drive cellular contractile system formation during interphase and mitosis. Molecular Biology of the Cell. mbc.E15-10-0725; First Published on March 9. Highlighted in Faculty Opinions
2016 Taneja N, Fenix AM, Rathbun L, Millis BA, Tyska MJ, Hehnly H, Burnette DT. Focal adhesions control cleavage furrow shape and spindle tilt during mitosis. Scientific Reports. Jul 19;6:29846.
2017 Balikov DA, Crowder SW, Boire TC, Lee JB, Gupta MK, Fenix AM, Lewis HN, Ambrose CM, Short PA, Kim CS, Burnette DT, Reilly MA, Murthy NS, Kang ML, Kim WS, Sung HJ. Tunable Surface Repellency Maintains Stemness and Redox Capacity of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. Jun16.
2017 Lehtimäki JI, Fenix AM, Kotila TM, Balistreri G, Paavolainen L, Varjosalo M, Burnette DT, Lappalainen P. UNC-45a promotes myosin folding and stress fiber assembly. Journal of Cell Biology. 2017 Dec 4;216(12):4053-4072.
2018 Manalo A, Schroer AK, Fenix AM, Shancer Z, Coogan J, Brolsma T, Burnette DT, Merryman WD, Bader DM. Loss of CENP-F Results in Dilated Cardiomyopathy with Severe Disruption of Cardiac Myocyte Architecture. Scientific Reports. May 15;8(1):7546.
2018 Fenix AM, Neininger AC, Taneja N, Hyde K, Visetsouk MR, Garde RJ, Liu B, Nixon BR, Manalo AE, Becker JR, Crawley SW, Bader DM, Tyska MJ, Liu Q, Gutzman JH, Burnette DT. Muscle-specific stress fibers give rise to sarcomeres in cardiomyocytes. eLife. Dec 12;7. pii: e42144.
2019 Jiu Y, Kumari R, Fenix AM, Schaible N, Liu X, Varjosalo M, Krishnan R, Burnette DT, Lappalainen P. Myosin-18B Promotes the Assembly of Myosin II Stacks for Maturation of Contractile Actomyosin Bundles. Current Biology. Jan 7;29(1):81-92.e5. Highlighted in Faculty Opinions
2019 Howard AM, LaFever KS, Fenix AM, Scurrah CR, Lau KS, Burnette DT, Bhave G, Ferrell N, Page-McCaw A. DSS-induced damage to basement membranes is repaired by matrix replacement and crosslinking. The Journal of Cell Science. Apr 8;132(7). pii: jcs226860.
2019 Jeppesen DK, Fenix AM, Franklin JL, Higginbotham JN, Zhang Q, Zimmerman LJ, Ping J, LiuvQ, Liebler DC, Rome LH, Patton JG, Burnette DT, Coffey RJ. Reassessment of Exosome Composition. Cell. Apr 4;177(2):428-445.e18.
2020 Taneja N, Bersi MR, Baillargeon SM, Fenix AM, Cooper JA, Ohi R, Gama V, Merryman WD, Burnette DT. Precise tuning of cortical contractility regulates cell shape during cytokinesis. Cell Reports. Apr 7;31(1):107477.
B.S. Biology, University of Dayton