Key EASE Publications

  • Khera N, Raju RM, Lipton SA. The transcriptional and cellular landscape of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience. 2025 Nov 10; 18: 1665802. PMID: 41293128 pdf link

  • Raju RM, Smith CJ. Microglia as critical mediators linking perinatal immune stress to mental health trajectories. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2025 Jul 9; 51: 16-28. PMID: 40629104 pdf link

  • Raju RM, Tsai LH. Dismantling silos: The case for an integrated approach to address childhood determinants of lifelong brain health. Neuron. 2023 Sep 26; 111(23): 3706-3709. PMID: 37794591 pdf link

  • Barker SJ, Raju RM, Milman NEP, Wang J, Davila-Velderrain J, Gunter-Rahman F, Parro CC, Bozzelli PL, Abdurrob F, Abdelaal K, Bennett DA, Kellis M, Tsai LH. MEF2 is a key regulator of cognitive potential and confers resilience to neurodegeneration. Science translational medicine. 2021 Nov 3; 13(618): eabd7695. PMID: 34731014. pdf link

Publications by Year

    • Lashus DC, Gomez A, Hummel T, Jacobs LF, Majid A, Raju RM, Smith CJ, Williams J, Bratman GN. Associations of forest vs. urban environmental exposure with well-being and nasal microbiome composition: An exploratory pilot study. Environmental research. 2026 Feb 15; 291: 123582. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.123582. PMID: 41443494; PMCID: PMC12950270.

    • de Magalhães CG, Moldakozhayev A, Lopez M, Bowman GL, Chhatwal JP, Kellis M, Mohs R, Nisenbaum L, Quiroz YT, Raju RM, Sperling RA, Moqri M, Gladyshev VN. The Right Person, the Right Treatment, at the Right Time in Alzheimer's Disease: Insights From the 2025 Brain Aging Symposium. Aging cell. 2026 Jan 1; 25(1): e70351. doi: 10.1111/acel.70351. PMID: 41466363; PMCID: PMC12748508.

    • Khera N, Raju RM, Lipton SA. The transcriptional and cellular landscape of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience. 2025 Nov 10; 18: 1665802. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2025.1665802. PMID: 41293128; PMCID: PMC12640947.

    • Raju RM, Smith CJ. Microglia as critical mediators linking perinatal immune stress to mental health trajectories. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2025 Jul 9. doi: 10.1038/s41386-025-02162-8. PMID: 40629104.

    • Gunter-Rahman F, Mallett S, White F, Jacques PÉ, Raju RM, Hivert MF, Lee E. Hypoxia in extravillous trophoblasts links maternal obesity and offspring neurobehavior. iScience. 2025 May 12; 28(6): 112636. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112636. PMID: 40502709; PMCID: PMC12152354.

    • Gunter-Rahman F, Adams CD, Raju RM, Zhang Y, Lee E, Messerlian C. Multiomic profiling reveals timing of menopause predicts prefrontal cortex aging and cognitive function. Aging cell. 2025 Feb 1; 24(2): e14395. doi: 10.1111/acel.14395. PMID: 39501567; PMCID: PMC11822667.

    • Rodrigues-Amorim D, Bozzelli PL, Kim T, Liu L, Gibson O, Yang CY, Murdock MH, Galiana-Melendez F, Schatz B, Davison A, Islam MR, Shin Park D, Raju RM, Abdurrob F, Nelson AJ, Min Ren J, Yang V, Stokes MP, Tsai LH. Multisensory gamma stimulation mitigates the effects of demyelination induced by cuprizone in male mice. Nature communications. 2024 Aug 8; 15(1): 6744. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51003-7. PMID: 39112447; PMCID: PMC11306744.

    • Raju RM, Tsai LH. Dismantling silos: The case for an integrated approach to address childhood determinants of lifelong brain health [review]. Neuron. 2023 Sep 26. PMID: 37794591.

    • Smith CJ, Rendina DN, Kingsbury MA, Malacon KE, Nguyen DM, Tran JJ, Devlin BA, Raju RM, Clark MJ, Burgett L, Zhang JH, Cetinbas M, Sadreyev RI, Chen K, Iyer MS, Bilbo SD. Microbial modulation via cross-fostering prevents the effects of pervasive environmental stressors on microglia and social behavior, but not the dopamine system. Molecular Psychiatry. 2023 Jun 28. PMID: 37198262.

    • Udeochu JC, Amin S, Huang Y, Fan L, Torres ES, Carling GK, Liu B, McGurran H, Coronas-Samano G, Kauwe G, Mousa GA, Wong MY, Ye P, Nagiri RK, Lo I, Holtzman J, Corona C, Yarahmady A, Gill MT, Raju RM, Mok S, Gong S, Luo W, Zhao M, Tracy TE, Ratan RR, Tsai LH, Sinha SC, Gan L. Tau activation of microglial cGAS-IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience. Nature Neuroscience. 2023 May 26. PMID: 37095396; PMCID: PMC10166855.

    • Pao P, Seo J, Lee A, Kristky O, Patnaik D, Penney J, Raju RM, Geigenmuller U, Silva MC, Lucente DE, Gusella JF, Dickerson BC, Loon A, Yu MX, Bula M, Yu M, Haggarty SJ, Tsai LH. A Cdk5-derived peptide inhibits Cdk5/p25 activity and improves neurodegenerative phenotypes. PNAS. 2023 Apr 18. PMID: 37043533; PMCID: PMC10120002.

    • Milman NE, Tinsley CE, Raju RM, Lim MM. Loss of sleep when it is needed most - Consequences of persistent developmental sleep disruption: A scoping review of rodent models [review]. Neurobiol Sleep Circadian Rhythms. 2022 Dec 6. doi: 10.1016/j.nbscr.2022.100085. PMID: 36567958; PMCID: PMC9768382.

    • Leeman K, Raju RM, O'Brien C, Casey D, Hansen A. Development and use of an infant resuscitation performance tool (Infa-RePT) to improve team performance. Pediatric research. 2022 May 14. doi: 10.1038/s41390-022-02097-6. PMID: 35568732; PMCID: PMC9659671.

    • Raju RM, Leeman K. Pediatric Advanced Life Support in a Neonatal Context. NeoReviews. 2022 May 1; 23(5): e359-e362. doi: 10.1542/neo.23-5-e359. PMID: 35490183.

    • Barker SJ, Raju RM, Milman NEP, Wang J, Davila-Velderrain J, Gunter-Rahman F, Parro CC, Bozzelli PL, Abdurrob F, Abdelaal K, Bennett DA, Kellis M, Tsai LH. MEF2 is a key regulator of cognitive potential and confers resilience to neurodegeneration. Science translational medicine. 2021 Nov 3; 13(618): eabd7695. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abd7695. PMID: 34731014; PMCID: PMC9258338.

    • Barrero-Castillero A, Beam K, Bernardini LB, Ramos EGC, Davenport P, Duncan AR, Fraiman Y, Frazer LC, Healy H, Herzberg EM, Keyes ML, Leeman K, Leone K, Levin J, Lin M, Raju RM, Sullivan A. COVID-19: neonatal-perinatal perspectives. Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association. 2021 May 1; 41(5): 940-951. doi: 10.1038/s41372-020-00874-x. PMID: 33293665; PMCID: PMC7721617.

    • Marco A, Meharena HS, Dileep V, Raju RM, Davila-Velderrain J, Zhang AL, Adaikkan C, Young JZ, Gao F, Kellis M, Tsai LH. Mapping the epigenomic and transcriptomic interplay during memory formation and recall in the hippocampal engram ensemble. Nature neuroscience. 2020 Dec 1; 23(12): 1606-1617. doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-00717-0. PMID: 33020654; PMCID: PMC7686266.

    • Raju SM, Raju RM, Shumskiy I, Morenz AM, Whitney KM, Vernacchio L, Fleegler E. Are Pediatric House Calls the Future? Exploring Patient Perceptions of Home-Centered Health. Clinical pediatrics. 2019 Sep 1; 58(10): 1049-1055. doi: 10.1177/0009922819859869. PMID: 31248269.

    • Raju RM, Tsai LH. The complexity of neuroinflammation at single-cell resolution. Nature reviews. Neurology. 2019 May 1; 15(5): 249-250. doi: 10.1038/s41582-019-0165-5. PMID: 30858531.

    • Lehmann J, Cheng TY, Aggarwal A, Park AS, Zeiler E, Raju RM, Akopian T, Kandror O, Sacchettini JC, Moody DB, Rubin EJ, Sieber SA. An Antibacterial β-Lactone Kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Disrupting Mycolic Acid Biosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 2018 Jan 2; 57(1): 348-353. doi: 10.1002/anie.201709365. PMID: 29067779; PMCID: PMC6104829.

    • Lehmann J, Cheng TY, Aggarwal A, Park AS, Zeiler E, Raju RM, Akopian T, Kandror O, Sacchettini JC, Moody DB, Rubin EJ, Sieber SA. An Antibacterial β-Lactone Kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Disrupting Mycolic Acid Biosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 2018 Jan 2; 57(1): 348-353. doi: 10.1002/anie.201709365. PMID: 29067779; PMCID: PMC6104829.

    • Shumskiy I, Raju RM, Tschudy MM. Home Visits: Advancing Pediatric Training by Preserving Past Traditions. Pediatrics. 2016 Sep 1; 138(3). doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-2015. PMID: 27558936.

    • Marakalala MJ, Raju RM, Sharma K, Zhang Y, Eugenin EA, Prideaux B, Daudelin IB, Chen PY, Booty MG, Kim JH, Eum SY, Via LE, Behar SM, Barry, 3rd CE, Mann M, Dartois V, Rubin EJ. Inflammatory signaling in human tuberculosis granulomas is spatially organized. Nature medicine. 2016 May 1; 22(5): 531-8. doi: 10.1038/nm.4073. PMID: 27043495; PMCID: PMC4860068.

    • Raju RM, Raju SM, Zhao Y, Rubin EJ. Leveraging Advances in Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment to Address Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease. Emerging infectious diseases. 2016 Mar 1; 22(3): 365-9. doi: 10.3201/eid2203.151643. PMID: 26886068; PMCID: PMC4766907.

    • Moreira W, Ngan GJ, Low JL, Poulsen A, Chia BC, Ang MJ, Yap A, Fulwood J, Lakshmanan U, Lim J, Khoo AY, Flotow H, Hill J, Raju RM, Rubin EJ, Dick T. Target mechanism-based whole-cell screening identifies bortezomib as an inhibitor of caseinolytic protease in mycobacteria. mBio. 2015 May 5; 6(3): e00253-15. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00253-15. PMID: 25944857; PMCID: PMC4436076.

    • Raju RM, Jedrychowski MP, Wei JR, Pinkham JT, Park AS, O'Brien K, Rehren G, Schnappinger D, Gygi SP, Rubin EJ. Post-translational regulation via Clp protease is critical for survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS pathogens. 2014 Mar 6; 10(3): e1003994. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003994. PMID: 24603869; PMCID: PMC3946367.

    • Raju RM, Goldberg AL, Rubin EJ. Bacterial proteolytic complexes as therapeutic targets. Nature reviews. Drug discovery. 2012 Oct 1; 11(10): 777-89. doi: 10.1038/nrd3846. PMID: 23023677.

    • Akopian T, Kandror O, Raju RM, Unnikrishnan M, Rubin EJ, Goldberg AL. The active ClpP protease from M. tuberculosis is a complex composed of a heptameric ClpP1 and a ClpP2 ring. The EMBO journal. 2012 Mar 21; 31(6): 1529-41. doi: 10.1038/emboj.2012.5. PMID: 22286948; PMCID: PMC3321190.

    • Raju RM, Unnikrishnan M, Rubin DH, Krishnamoorthy V, Kandror O, Akopian TN, Goldberg AL, Rubin EJ. Mycobacterium tuberculosis ClpP1 and ClpP2 function together in protein degradation and are required for viability in vitro and during infection. PLoS pathogens. 2012 Feb 1; 8(2): e1002511. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002511. PMID: 22359499; PMCID: PMC3280978.

    • La Rosa V, Poce G, Canseco JO, Buroni S, Pasca MR, Biava M, Raju RM, Porretta GC, Alfonso S, Battilocchio C, Javid B, Sorrentino F, Ioerger TR, Sacchettini JC, Manetti F, Botta M, De Logu A, Rubin EJ, De Rossi E. MmpL3 is the cellular target of the antitubercular pyrrole derivative BM212. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy. 2012 Jan 1; 56(1): 324-31. doi: 10.1128/AAC.05270-11. PMID: 22024828; PMCID: PMC3256021.

    • Kavanagh O, Estes M, Reeck A, Raju RM, Opekun AR, Gilger MA, Graham DY, Atmar RL. Serological responses to experimental Norwalk virus infection measured using a quantitative duplex time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay. Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI. 2011 Jul 1; 18(7): 1187-90. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00039-11. PMID: 21593238; PMCID: PMC3147314.