The Ohio State University Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Program

Our Students are Publishing!

Our Students are Publishing!

In the past 10 years MCDB students have co-authored more than 800 papers, averaging about 80 papers per year.  Here we feature those papers on which an MCDB student was the first author.  MCDB student names shown in bold.  The average MCDB student publishes 5 papers including 2 as first author.

Featured student publications

Tong Xiao

ZFP148 is a transcriptional repressor of cytolytic effector CD8+ T cell differentiation
Xiao T, Chen X, Song NJ, Brown RJ, Ma A, Mandula JK, Yousif A, Wang Y, Le M, Jianying L, Gao FY, Weaver B, Chen HY, Lay F, Sundi D, Velegraki M, Weltge P, Merchant JL, Rubinstein MP, Oestreich KJ, Lio J, Ghoneim HE, Li X, Theodorescu D, Xin G, Ma Q, Cui W, Li Z
Nature Immunology. 2026 Mar 27

Jack Kucinski

Rhabdomyosarcoma fusion oncoprotein initially pioneers a neural signature in vivo
Kucinski J, Tallan A, Taslim C, Cannon MV, Stanton BZ, Kendall GC
Cell Reports. 2025 Jul 22; 44(7):115923
 

Yi Wang

Proteotoxic stress response drives T cell exhaustion and immune evasion 
Wang Y, Ma A, Song NJ, Shannon AE, Amankwah YS, Chen X, Wu W, Wang Z, Saadey A, Yousif A, Ghosh G, Mandula JK, Velegraki M, Xiao T, Wen H, Huang SC, Wang R, Beusch CM, Dawood AS, Gordon DE, Abdel-Hakeem MS, Ghoneim HE, Xin G, Searle BC, Li Z  
Nature. 2025 Oct 1; Nature 647, 1025-1035.

Other featured student publications