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PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

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  1. Gemmellaro, M. D., Lorusso, N., Domke, R., Kovalska, KM., Hashim, A., Arevalo Mojica, M., O’Connor, AJ., Pate, O., Patel, U., Raise, G., Shumskaya, M. (2023). Assessment of fungal succession in decomposing swine carcasses (Sus scrofa L.) using DNA metabarcoding. Journal of Fungi, 9 (9), 866.
  2. Shumskaya, M., Mironov, K. S., Ballesteros, J., Safonov, I., & Halling, R. E. (2023). DNA isolation and genome sequence of the 134-years old holotype specimen of Boletus subvelutipes Ecology and Evolution, 13(8), e10389.
  3. Shumskaya, M., Lorusso, N., Patel, U., Leigh, M., Somervuo, P., & Schigel, D. (2023). MycoPins: a metabarcoding-based method to monitor fungal colonization of fine woody debris. MycoKeys, 96, 77-95.
  4. Shumskaya, M., Coniglio, S., & Vassiliou, E. K. (2023). Polyunsaturated fatty acids and their immunomodulatory properties. Biology, 12(2), 279.
  5. Shumskaya, M., Filippova, N., Lorentzen, L., Blue, S., Andrew, C., & Lorusso, N. (2023). Citizen science helps in the study of fungal diversity in New Jersey. Scientific Data, 10(1), 1–10.
  6. Suarez Casanova, V. M.; Shumskaya, M. (2021) Exploring DNA in Biochemistry Lab Courses: DNA Barcoding and Phylogenetic Analysis. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 49(5): 789-799.
  7. Niepielko, M. G.; Shumskaya, M. (2021) Early Requirement for Bioinformatics in Undergraduate Biology Curricula. Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 1, 12.
  8. Mironov K.S., Kupriyanova E.V., Shumskaya M., Los D.A. (2021) Alcohol stress on cyanobacterial membranes: new insights revealed by transcriptomics. Gene. 764, 145055.
  9. Shumskaya M., Mishra S., Lorentzen L. (2020) Online Low Stakes Assignments to Support Scientific Lab Report Writing in Introductory Science Courses. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 21 (3), 21.3.73.
  10. Lorusso N., Shumskaya M. (2020) Online laboratory exercise on computational biology: phylogenetic analyses and protein modelling based on SARS-CoV-2 data during COVID-19 remote instruction. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 2020;1–2.
  11. Zhukov A., Shumskaya M. (2020) Very-long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) in plant response to stress. Functional Plant Biology, 47(8): 695-703.
  12. Mironov K.S., Shumskaya M., Los D.A. (2020) Construction of prokaryotic strand-specific primary-transcripts saturated RNASeq library by controlled heat magnesium-dependent mRNA degradation. Biochimie, 177: 63-67.
  13. Shumskaya M., Quinlan RF, Wurtzel E.T. (2020) Elucidating carotenoid biosynthetic enzyme localization and interactions using fluorescent microscopy. In: Plant and Food Carotenoids, Methods in Molecular Biology, Ed: Ralf Welsch, Springer-Nature, New York, USA. p. 223-234.
  14. Mironov K., Sinetova M., Shumskaya M., Los D.A. (2019) Universal Molecular Triggers of Stress Responses in Cyanobacteria. Life, 9, 67.
  15. Blue, S., Vardar, A., Zambell, C., & Shumskaya, M. (2019). Assessment of Dead Wood Fungi Biodiversity in Urban Parks and Natural Reserves across New Jersey. In Vivo, 40(2), 53.
  16. Mironov K, Leusenko P, Ustinova V, Bolatkhan K, Zayadan B, Kupriyanova E, Shumskaya M, Sinetova M, Los DA. (2019) Draft genome sequences of a putative prokaryotic consortium IPPAS B-1204: cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya and alpha-proteobacterium Porphyrobacter sp. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 8 (15): e01637-18.
  17. Moose R., Schigel D., Kirby L., Shumskaya M. (2019) Dead wood fungi in North America: an insight into research and conservation potential. Nature Conservation, 32:1-17
  18. Mironov K.S., Shumskaya M., Sidorov R.A., Trofimova M.S., Los D.A. (2018) Membrane physical state and stress regulation in Synechocystis: fluidizing alcohols repress fatty acid desaturation. The Plant Journal, 96 (5):1007-1017.
  19. Fedurayev P.V, Mironov K.S., Gabrielyan D.A., Bedbenov V.S., Zorina A.A., Shumskaya M., Los D.A. (2018) “Hydrogen peroxide participates in perception and transduction of cold stress signal in Synechocystis”. Plant and Cell Physiology, 59 (6): 1255-1264.
  20. Jerilyn A. Timlin, Aaron M. Collins, Thomas A. Beechem, Maria Shumskaya and Eleanore T. Wurtzel (2017). Localizing and Quantifying Carotenoids in Intact Cells and Tissues. In: Carotenoids. Dragan Cvetkovic (Ed.), InTech. Full text
  21. Sinetova M.A., Bolatkhan K., Sidorov R.A.,  Mironov K.S., Skrypnik A.N., Kupriyanova E.V., Zayadan B.K., Shumskaya M.,  Los D.A. (2017) Polyphasic characterization of the thermotolerant cyanobacterium Desertifilum sp. strain IPPAS B-1220. FEMS Letters, 364 (4): fnx027. Full text
  22. Beltran J., Kloss B., Hosler J.P., Geng J., Liu A., Modi A., Dawson D.H., Sono M., Shumskaya M., Ampomah-Dwamena C., Love J.D., Wurtzel E.T. (2015) Control of carotenoid biosynthesis through a heme-based cis-trans isomerase. Nature Chemical Biology, 11 (8), 598-605 Full text from Nature Chemical Biology
  23. Ampomah-Dwamena, C., Driedonks, N., Lewis, D., Shumskaya, M., Chen, X., Wurtzel, E.T., Espley, R.V., Allan, A.C. (2015) The Phytoene synthase gene family of apple (Malus x domestica) and its role in controlling fruit carotenoid content.  BMC Plant Biology, 15:185 Full text from BMC Plant Biology web-site
  24. Shumskaya, M. and Wurtzel, E.T. (2013) The carotenoid biosynthetic pathway: thinking in all dimensions.  Plant Science, 208: 58–63 (invited review). Download Full Text (Plant Science 2013)     Read from Plant Science web-site “Highly Cited Papers” – it received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of {a specific} academic field …based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year. View article metrics
  25. Do W., Herrera C., Mighty J., Shumskaya M., Redenti S.M., Sauane M. (2013) Sigma 1 Receptor Plays a Prominent Role in IL-24-induced Cancer-specific Apoptosis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 439(2): 215-220.  Download Full Text (BBRC 2013)     Read from BBRC web-site  
  26. Shumskaya M., Bradbury L.M.T., Monaco R., and Wurtzel E.T. (2012) Plastid Localization of the Key Carotenoid Enzyme Phytoene Synthase Is Altered by Isozyme, Allelic Variation, and Activity. Plant Cell, 24 (9): 3725-3741. Download Full Text (Plant Cell 2012)   Read from Plant Cell web-site
  27. Quinlan R.F., Shumskaya M. (co-first author), Bradbury L.M.T., Beltrán J., Ma C., Kennelly E.J., and Wurtzel E.T. (2012) Synergistic interactions between carotene ring hydroxylases drive lutein formation in plant carotenoid biosynthesis. Plant Physiology, 160 (1), 204-214. Download Full Text (Plant Physiology 2012)  Read from Plant Physiology web-site
  28. Bradbury L.M.T., Shumskaya M., Tzfadia O., Wu S.-B., Kennelly E.J., and Wurtzel E.T. (2012) Lycopene cyclase paralog CruP protects against reactive oxygen species in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms. PNAS USA, 109 (27), E1880-E1897. Download Full Text (PNAS 2012)     Read from PNAS web-site 
  29. Pisareva T., Shumskaya M., Maddalo, G., Ilag, L., Norling B. (2007) Proteomics of Synechocystis PCC 6803: Screening of integral plasma membrane proteins. FEBS J, 274(3):791-804. Download Full Text (FEBS J 2007)  Read from FEBS J web-site
  30. Kanesaki Y., Yamamoto H., Paithoonrangsarid K., Shoumskaya M., Suzuki I., Hayashi H., Murata N., (2007) Histidine kinases play important roles in the perception and signal transduction of H2O2 in the cyanobacterium, Plant J, 49(2):313-24. Download Full Text (Plant J 2007)    Read from Plant J web-site
  31. Shumskaya M.A., Paithoonrangsarid K., Kanesaki Y., Los D.A., Zinchenko V.V., Tanticharoen M., Suzuki I., Murata N. (2005) Identical Hik-Rre systems are involved in perception and transduction of salt signals and hyperosmotic signals but regulate the expression of individual genes to different extents in Synechocystis. J Biol Chem, 280(22):21531-8. Download Full Text (JBC 2005)    Read from J Biol Chem web-site
  32. Pathoonrangsarid K., Shumskaya M.A. (co-first author), Kanesaki Y., Satoh S., Tabata S., Los D.A., Zinchenko V.V., Hayashi H., Tanticharoen M., Suzuki I., Murata N. (2004) Five histidine kinases perceive osmotic stress and regulate distinct sets of genes in Synechocystis. J Biol Chem, 279(51):53078-86. Download Full Text (JBC 2004)    Read from J Biol Chem web-site

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS AND DATASETS

  1. Shumskaya, M., Lorusso, N. S., Patel, U., Leigh, M., Somervuo, P., & Schigel, D. (2022). Fungal communities in decaying poplar pins in Northeastern USA discovered by MycoPins method. Kean University. Sampling event dataset. In GBIF.org. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/94d0f0a0-183f-49ae-aa8c-1bc4e930ec48https://doi.org/10.15468/r7rxf6
  2. Shumskaya M, Safonov I, Burghardt J, Burghardt N, Smithson J, Patino M, Barg J, Richards J, Grobman M, Broderick E, Patterson P, Smullen D, Bierman S, Giannotti K, Hugerich L, Hugerich P, Itagaki K, Kelly R, Tomat V, Karvois A, McClary S, Michleski M, Niciporciucas M, Wise B, Zeme E, Lorusso N (2022). Fungi of parks, forests and reserves of New Jersey (2007-2019). Version 1.2. Kean University. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/vereeh.
  3. Lorusso, N., Shumskaya, M., Gemmellaro M.D. (2022) Applying phylogenetic tree building in MEGA X to forensic applications for identifying unknown specimens. QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/XY5F-XQ54 https://qubeshub.org/publications/2567/2
  4. Shumskaya, M.; Benjamin, S.; Niepielko, M. G.; Lorusso, N. S. (2021) Statistics with epidemiology of COVID-19. QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/H1HE-5Z05. https://qubeshub.org/publications/2439/1
  5. Shumskaya, M., Lorusso, N. (2020). Introduction to nucleotide sequence and protein analysis in MEGA and PyMol using coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and other related pathogens. QUBES Educational Resources. doi: 10.25334/37N4-SW29.https://qubeshub.org/publications/1796/2 
  6. Shumskaya, M., Zambell, C. (2019). NMDS to Study Dead Wood Fungi Communities in Parks of New Jersey. NEON Faculty Mentoring Network, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/A2ME-QH70. https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1367/about?v=1
  7. Shumskaya M, Zambell C, Annuzzi J, Berisha K, Benjamin S, Emezua J, Gardner Z, Huerta-Aguilar S, Laboy A, Shaikh S, Blue S, Hylton N (2020). Survey of Saproxylic Fungi Communities from Franklin Parker Preserve, NJ via metabarcoding. Kean University. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/44bgnt
  8. Kalinina L., Leostrin A., Lu D., Skrede I., Viner I., Filippova N., Shumskaya M., Schigel D. (2019). 2019 ForBio and UiO International Dead Wood Course. Biodiversity assessment. Version 1.3. Voronezhsky State Nature Biosphere Reserve Named After V. Peskov. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.15468/bwnsxn
  9. Shumskaya M., Zambell C., Mishra S., Bell E., Blue S., Yearwood-Marut J., Marut W., Vindas-Cruz A., Jennings A., Hylton N., Burghardt J. (2019). Survey of saproxylic fungi across parks of New Jersey. Kean University. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ngpb5m  accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-07-25. * – Kean University undergraduate students who participated in collection and analysis of data, ** – Union County undergraduate students who participated in collection and analysis of data as a part of STEMPact project between Kean U and UCC.
  10. Shumskaya, M. and Schigel, D. ForBio and UiB Dead Wood Course 2019. Course summary. Available at: http://zapovednik-vrn.ru/en/news-and-events/2019-07-04-forbio/
  11. Shumskaya M., Safonov I., Burghardt J., Burghardt N., Smithson J., Patino M., Barg J., Richards J., Grobman M., Broderick E., Patterson P., Smullen D., Bierman S., Giannotti K., Hugerich L., Hugerich P., Itagaki K., Kelly R., Tomat V., Karvois A., McClary S., Michleski M., Niciporciucas M., Wise B., Zeme E., Lorusso N. (2019). Fungi of parks, forests and reserves of New Jersey, 2018. Kean University. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mxl2uj

PATENT

2017          U.S. Patent #9677056 “Method of Modifying Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Plants”

EDITORIAL

Shumskaya M. (2014) Proteomics and bioinformatics in metabolic engineering. MOJ Proteomics Bioinform, 1(4):00021. Download Full Text (MOJPB 2014)  Read from MOJ PB web-site

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