Recent Publications from the Lab

  1. Strader, L.C., Chen, T., Dong, X., Edwards, D., Sureshkumar, S., Balasubramanian, S., Antunes, M.S., Zebluim, L., Chaisupa, P. and Wright, R.C. (2025). Core biological principles and tools stemming from basic Arabidopsis research. The Plant Cell 37(7): koaf141. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf141

  2. Kassaw, T.K., Xu, W., Zalewski, C.S., Kiwimagi, K., Weiss, R., Antunes, M.S., Prasad, A. and Medford, J.I. (2025). Genetic Toggle Switch in Plants. ACS Synthetic Biology 14(6): 1988-2001. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00777

  3. Ferreira, S.S.; Pandey, S.; Hemminger, J.; Bozdag, S.; Antunes, M.S. (2025) Early changes in microRNA expression in Arabidopsis plants infected with the fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum. PLoS ONE 20(2): e0318532. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318532

  4. Monti, D.L.; Gill, J.C.; Adair, T.L.; Adams, S.D.; Ahumada-Santos, Y.P.; Amaya, I.; Anders, K.; Anderson, J.R.; Antunes, M.S.; Ayuk, M.; Baliraine, F.; (+103 authors); Graham, M.J.; Sivanathan, V. (2024) An inclusive Research Education Community (iREC) Model to Facilitate Undergraduate Science Education Reform. Frontiers in Education 9: 1442318.  https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1442318

  5. Ferreira, S.S.; Antunes, M.S. (2024) Genetically encoded Boolean logic operators to sense and integrate phenylpropanoid metabolite levels in plants. New Phytologist 243: 674-687. http://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19823

  6. Anderson, C.E., Ferreira, S.S.; Antunes, M.S. (2023). Integration of multiple stress signals in plants using synthetic Boolean logic gates. Plant Physiology 192(4): 3189-3202. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad254

  7. Ferreira, S.S.; Anderson, C.E.; Antunes, M.S. (2023) A logical way to reprogram plants. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 654: 80-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.02.080

  8. Amack, S.C.; Ferreira, S.S.; Antunes, M.S. (2023) Tuning the Transcriptional Activity of the CaMV 35S Promoter in Plants by Single-Nucleotide Changes in the TATA Box. ACS Synthetic Biology 12(1): 178-185. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.2c00457

  9. Hanauer, D.I.; Zhang, T.; Graham, M.J.; Adams, S.D.; Yesmi, P.; lvey, R.M.; Antunes, M.S.; Ayuk, M.A.; Báez-Flores, M.E.; Bancroft, C.T.; (+130 authors); Jacobs-Sera, D.; Hatfull, G.F.; Asai, D.J.; Sivanathan, V. (2023) Models of Classroom Assessment for Course-Based Research Experiences. Frontiers in Education 8: 1279921. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1279921

  10. Ferreira, S.S.; Antunes, M.S. (2021) Re-engineering plant phenylpropanoid metabolism with the aid of synthetic biosensors. Frontiers in Plant Science 12:701385. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.701385

  11. Amack, S.C.; Antunes, M.S. (2020) CaMV35S promoter - A plant biology and biotechnology workhorse in the era of synthetic biology. Current Plant Biology 24: 100179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpb.2020.100179

  12. Kassaw, T.K.; Donayre-Torres, A.J.; Antunes, M.S.; Morey, K.J.; Medford, J.I. (2018) Engineering Synthetic Regulatory Circuits in Plants. Plant Science 273: 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2018.04.005