Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct faculty typically have an academic or research appointment at another institution and contribute or collaborate with one or more School of Medicine faculty members or programs.
Adjunct rank detailsAlexej Abyzov, PhD
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2026
DNA copy number patterns reveal prognostic markers and elucidate mechanisms of evolution in IDH-mutant astrocytoma
Drucker K, Panda A, Decker P, Kosel M, Kollmeyer T, Burns T, Maqbool M, Shafqat S, Suvakov M, Zadeh G, Giannini C, Vaubel R, Raghunathan A, Parney I, Kizilbash S, Ida C, Abyzov A, Lachance D, Eckel-Passow J, Jenkins R. DNA copy number patterns reveal prognostic markers and elucidate mechanisms of evolution in IDH-mutant astrocytoma. Neuro-Oncology 2026, 28: 1397-1409. PMID: 41761580, PMCID: PMC13051352, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noag019.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2025
Karyotypic Profiling of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from a Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C Patient
Alsalloum A, Mingaleva N, Gornostal E, Antysheva Z, Sparber P, Skoblov M, Pozhitnova V, Belysheva T, Levashova A, Kuznetsova E, Suvorova Y, Krupinova J, Bogdanov V, Abyzov A, Mityaeva O, Volchkov P. Karyotypic Profiling of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from a Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C Patient. Cells 2025, 14: 1985. PMID: 41440007, PMCID: PMC12732065, DOI: 10.3390/cells14241985.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpecification of human brain regions with orthogonal gradients of WNT and SHH in organoids reveals patterning variations across cell lines
Scuderi S, Kang T, Jourdon A, Nelson A, Yang L, Wu F, Anderson G, Mariani J, Tomasini L, Sarangi V, Abyzov A, Levchenko A, Vaccarino F. Specification of human brain regions with orthogonal gradients of WNT and SHH in organoids reveals patterning variations across cell lines. Cell Stem Cell 2025, 32: 970-989.e11. PMID: 40315847, PMCID: PMC12145255, DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.04.006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAuthor Correction: Transgenerational transmission of post-zygotic mutations suggests symmetric contribution of first two blastomeres to human germline
Jang Y, Tomasini L, Bae T, Szekely A, Vaccarino F, Abyzov A. Author Correction: Transgenerational transmission of post-zygotic mutations suggests symmetric contribution of first two blastomeres to human germline. Nature Communications 2025, 16: 2352. PMID: 40064908, PMCID: PMC11894138, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56705-0.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersInterneuron Loss and Microglia Activation by Transcriptome Analyses in the Basal Ganglia of Tourette Disorder
Wang Y, Fasching L, Wu F, Suvakov M, Huttner A, Berretta S, Roberts R, Leckman J, Fernandez T, Abyzov A, Vaccarino F. Interneuron Loss and Microglia Activation by Transcriptome Analyses in the Basal Ganglia of Tourette Disorder. Biological Psychiatry 2025, 98: 260-270. PMID: 39892689, PMCID: PMC12255533, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.12.022.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2024
Transgenerational transmission of post-zygotic mutations suggests symmetric contribution of first two blastomeres to human germline
Jang Y, Tomasini L, Bae T, Szekely A, Vaccarino F, Abyzov A. Transgenerational transmission of post-zygotic mutations suggests symmetric contribution of first two blastomeres to human germline. Nature Communications 2024, 15: 9117. PMID: 39438473, PMCID: PMC11496613, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53485-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSomatic mosaicism in schizophrenia brains reveals prenatal mutational processes
Maury E, Jones A, Seplyarskiy V, Nguyen T, Rosenbluh C, Bae T, Wang Y, Abyzov A, Khoshkhoo S, Chahine Y, Zhao S, Venkatesh S, Root E, Voloudakis G, Roussos P, Network B, Park P, Akbarian S, Brennand K, Reilly S, Lee E, Sunyaev S, Walsh C, Chess A. Somatic mosaicism in schizophrenia brains reveals prenatal mutational processes. Science 2024, 386: 217-224. PMID: 39388546, PMCID: PMC11490355, DOI: 10.1126/science.adq1456.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchResolving the 22q11.2 deletion using CTLR-Seq reveals chromosomal rearrangement mechanisms and individual variance in breakpoints
Zhou B, Purmann C, Guo H, Shin G, Huang Y, Pattni R, Meng Q, Greer S, Roychowdhury T, Wood R, Ho M, Dohna H, Abyzov A, Hallmayer J, Wong W, Ji H, Urban A. Resolving the 22q11.2 deletion using CTLR-Seq reveals chromosomal rearrangement mechanisms and individual variance in breakpoints. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2024, 121: e2322834121. PMID: 39042694, PMCID: PMC11295037, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2322834121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGenome-wide analysis and visualization of copy number with CNVpytor in igv.js
Panda A, Suvakov M, Thorvaldsdottir H, Mesirov J, Robinson J, Abyzov A. Genome-wide analysis and visualization of copy number with CNVpytor in igv.js. Bioinformatics 2024, 40: btae453. PMID: 39018173, PMCID: PMC11303504, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae453.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSingle-cell genomics and regulatory networks for 388 human brains
Emani P, Liu J, Clarke D, Jensen M, Warrell J, Gupta C, Meng R, Lee C, Xu S, Dursun C, Lou S, Chen Y, Chu Z, Galeev T, Hwang A, Li Y, Ni P, Zhou X, Bakken T, Bendl J, Bicks L, Chatterjee T, Cheng L, Cheng Y, Dai Y, Duan Z, Flaherty M, Fullard J, Gancz M, Garrido-MartÃn D, Gaynor-Gillett S, Grundman J, Hawken N, Henry E, Hoffman G, Huang A, Jiang Y, Jin T, Jorstad N, Kawaguchi R, Khullar S, Liu J, Liu J, Liu S, Ma S, Margolis M, Mazariegos S, Moore J, Moran J, Nguyen E, Phalke N, Pjanic M, Pratt H, Quintero D, Rajagopalan A, Riesenmy T, Shedd N, Shi M, Spector M, Terwilliger R, Travaglini K, Wamsley B, Wang G, Xia Y, Xiao S, Yang A, Zheng S, Gandal M, Lee D, Lein E, Roussos P, Sestan N, Weng Z, White K, Won H, Girgenti M, Zhang J, Wang D, Geschwind D, Gerstein M, Akbarian S, Abyzov A, Ahituv N, Arasappan D, Almagro Armenteros J, Beliveau B, Berretta S, Bharadwaj R, Bhattacharya A, Brennand K, Capauto D, Champagne F, Chatzinakos C, Chen H, Cheng L, Chess A, Chien J, Clement A, Collado-Torres L, Cooper G, Crawford G, Dai R, Daskalakis N, Davila-Velderrain J, Deep-Soboslay A, Deng C, DiPietro C, Dracheva S, Drusinsky S, Duong D, Eagles N, Edelstein J, Galani K, Girdhar K, Goes F, Greenleaf W, Guo H, Guo Q, Hadas Y, Hallmayer J, Han X, Haroutunian V, He C, Hicks S, Ho M, Ho L, Huang Y, Huuki-Myers L, Hyde T, Iatrou A, Inoue F, Jajoo A, Jiang L, Jin P, Jops C, Jourdon A, Kellis M, Kleinman J, Kleopoulos S, Kozlenkov A, Kriegstein A, Kundaje A, Kundu S, Li J, Li M, Lin X, Liu S, Liu C, Loupe J, Lu D, Ma L, Mariani J, Martinowich K, Maynard K, Myers R, Micallef C, Mikhailova T, Ming G, Mohammadi S, Monte E, Montgomery K, Mukamel E, Nairn A, Nemeroff C, Norton S, Nowakowski T, Omberg L, Page S, Park S, Patowary A, Pattni R, Pertea G, Peters M, Pinto D, Pochareddy S, Pollard K, Pollen A, Przytycki P, Purmann C, Qin Z, Qu P, Raj T, Reach S, Reimonn T, Ressler K, Ross D, Rozowsky J, Ruth M, Ruzicka W, Sanders S, Schneider J, Scuderi S, Sebra R, Seyfried N, Shao Z, Shieh A, Shin J, Skarica M, Snijders C, Song H, State M, Stein J, Steyert M, Subburaju S, Sudhof T, Snyder M, Tao R, Therrien K, Tsai L, Urban A, Vaccarino F, van Bakel H, Vo D, Voloudakis G, Wang T, Wang S, Wang Y, Wei Y, Weimer A, Weinberger D, Wen C, Whalen S, Willsey A, Wong W, Wu H, Wu F, Wuchty S, Wylie D, Yap C, Zeng B, Zhang P, Zhang C, Zhang B, Zhang Y, Ziffra R, Zeier Z, Zintel T. Single-cell genomics and regulatory networks for 388 human brains. Science 2024, 384: eadi5199-eadi5199. PMID: 38781369, PMCID: PMC11365579, DOI: 10.1126/science.adi5199.Peer-Reviewed Original Research