UCSF’s innovative, collaborative approach to patient care, research and education spans disciplines across the life sciences, making it a world leader in scientific discovery and its translation to improving health.

Christina Homer, MD, PhD

Clinical Fellow

Medicine

[email protected]

Publications:

Embolic Hypodermic Needle Causing Traumatic Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report.

Critical care explorations

Yen AF, Homer CM, Mohapatra A, Langnas E, Gomez A, Hendrickson CM

Polymerase pausing induced by sequence-specific RNA-binding protein drives heterochromatin assembly.

Genes & development

Parsa JY, Boudoukha S, Burke J, Homer C, Madhani HD

Genome-wide analysis of the regulation of Cu metabolism in Cryptococcus neoformans.

Molecular microbiology

Garcia-Santamarina S, Festa RA, Smith AD, Yu CH, Probst C, Ding C, Homer CM, Yin J, Noonan JP, Madhani H, Perfect JR, Thiele DJ

Polymerase pausing induced by sequence-specific RNA binding protein drives heterochromatin assembly.

bioRxiv

Jahan-Yar Parsa, Selim Boudoukha, Jordan Burke, Christina Homer, Hiten Madhani

The histone variant H2A.Z promotes splicing of weak introns.

Genes & development

Nissen KE, Homer CM, Ryan CJ, Shales M, Krogan NJ, Patrick KL, Guthrie C

Integrated Activity and Genetic Profiling of Secreted Peptidases in Cryptococcus neoformans Reveals an Aspartyl Peptidase Required for Low pH Survival and Virulence.

PLoS pathogens

Clarke SC, Dumesic PA, Homer CM, O'Donoghue AJ, La Greca F, Pallova L, Majer P, Madhani HD, Craik CS

Phospho-site mutants of the RNA Polymerase II C-terminal domain alter subtelomeric gene expression and chromatin modification state in fission yeast.

Nucleic Acids Research

Inada M, Nichols RJ, Parsa JY, Homer CM, Benn RA, Hoxie RS, Madhani HD, Shuman S, Schwer B, Pleiss JA

Intracellular Action of a Secreted Peptide Required for Fungal Virulence.

Cell host & microbe

Homer CM, Summers DK, Goranov AI, Clarke SC, Wiesner DL, Diedrich JK, Moresco JJ, Toffaletti D, Upadhya R, Caradonna I, Petnic S, Pessino V, Cuomo CA, Lodge JK, Perfect J, Yates JR, Nielsen K, Craik CS, Madhani HD

Product binding enforces the genomic specificity of a yeast polycomb repressive complex.

Cell

Dumesic PA, Homer CM, Moresco JJ, Pack LR, Shanle EK, Coyle SM, Strahl BD, Fujimori DG, Yates JR, Madhani HD

RNA-directed remodeling of the HIV-1 protein Rev orchestrates assembly of the Rev-Rev response element complex.

eLife

Jayaraman B, Crosby DC, Homer C, Ribeiro I, Mavor D, Frankel AD

Using a Transcriptional Network to Approach the Mechanism of Fungal Meningitis.

Biophysical journal

Christina M. Homer, Alexi Goranov, Dan Santos, Ippolito Caradonna, Sarah Petnic, Hiten D. Madhani