Research Interests
Our laboratory is interested in mechanisms of cell death in apoptosis and neurodegeneration. My project focuses on the role of the ubiquilin protein in late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Honors and Awards

• 2006-2007 Jean C. and William D. Willis Neuroscience Research Endowment, UTMB
• 2007 Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, UTMB
• 2007-2012 National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health
• 2007-2011 USA Funds Access to Education Scholarship
• 2007 Arthur V. Simmang Academic Scholarship, UTMB
• 2007 Leroy Olson, Ph.D. Endowed Scholarship, UTMB
• 2007 Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award, Departmental Research Retreat, UTMB
• 2008 Henry Noble Scholarship, Mensa Education & Research Foundation
• 2009 Jen Chieh and Katherine Huang Scholarship, UTMB
• 2009 Outstanding Predoctoral Poster Presentation Award, Departmental Research Retreat, UTMB
• 2010 Best student abstract (won all expense paid trip to 25th Annual National MD/PhD Student Conference in Keystone, Colorado), UTMB M.D.-Ph.D. Combined Degree Program
• 2010 Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Fisher Academic Excellence Award in Neuroscience, UTMB
  
• 2010 Michael Tacheeni Scott Scholarship, UTMB
• 2010 Arthur V. Simmang Academic Scholarship, UTMB
  

Publications:

Stieren, E.S.*, El Ayadi, A.*, Xiao, Y., Landsverk, M.L., Oberhauser, A.F., Barral, J.M., & Boehning, D. Ubiquilin-1 is a molecular chaperone for the amyloid precursor protein. Hum Mol Genet, in review. [*contributed equally]

Stieren, E.*, Werchan, W.P.*, El Ayadi, A., Li, F., & Boehning, D. FAD mutations in amyloid precursor protein do not directly perturb intracellular calcium homeostasis. PLoS One, 5(8): e11992; 2010. [*contributed equally]

Stieren, E.S., El Ayadi, A., Siller, E., Barral, J.M., & Boehning, D. Ubiquilin-1 is a molecular chaperone for the amyloid precursor protein. Presented at Amyloid Fibril Formation and Protein Misfolding: Molecular Mechanisms and Cellular Effects, FASEB Summer Research Conferences, Snowmass Village, CO; June, 2009.

Stieren, E.S., El Ayadi, A., Siller, E., Landsverk, M.L., Galvan, A.A., Herce, H.H., Barral, J.M., & Boehning, D. Ubiquilin-1 is neuroprotective by inhibiting the maturation and aggregation of APP species. 2008 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience: Online. 2008.

El Ayadi, A., Stieren, E.S., Barral, J.M., & Boehning, D. Ubiquilin-1 is a potent mediator of amyloid precursor protein turnover. 2008 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience: Online. 2008.

Stieren, E.S., Landsverk, M.L., Herce, H.H., Galvan, A.A., Barral, J.M., & Boehning, D.F. Ubiquilin-1 interacts with amyloid precursor protein and alters its trafficking and proteolytic processing. 2007 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience: Online. 2007.

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