Research Interest
The anatomy and physiology of the human body as well as developmental biology specifically mammary gland development.
Publications
Gao, Y., Kabotyanski, E., Shepherd, J., Villegas, E., Acosta, D., Hamor, C., Sun, T., Montemayor-Garcia, C., He, X., Dobrolecki, L., Westbrook, T., Lewis, M., Hilsenbeck, S., Zhang, X., Perou, C., Rosen, J. (2021). Tumor Suppressor PLK2 may serve as a Biomarker in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer for Improved Response to PLK1 Therapeutics. Cancer Research Communications. 1(3):178-193
Villegas, E., Kabotyanski, E.B., Shore, A.N., Creighton, C.J., Westbrook, T.F., Rosen, J.M. (2014). Plk2 regulates mitotic spindle orientation and mammary gland development. Development. 141(7):1562-71.
Santorelli LA, Thompson CRL, Villegas E, Svetz J, Dinh C, Parikh A, Sucgang R, Kuspa A, Strassman JE, Queller DC, and Shaulsky G. 2008 Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in a social amoeba. Nature 451:1107-1110.