ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-110713-1
Tornini, Valerie A.
Email: valerie.tornini@yale.edu
URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ER59MscAAAAJ
Affiliation:
Address: Department of Genetics Yale School of Medicine P.O. Box 208005 333 Cedar Street New Haven, CT 06520
Country: United States
Phone: 914-290-2964
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ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2877-6057


BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS


PUBLICATIONS
Tornini, V.A., Miao, L., Lee, H.J., Gerson, T., Dube, S.E., Schmidt, V., Kroll, F., Tang, Y., Du, K., Kuchroo, M., Vejnar, C.E., Bazzini, A.A., Krishnaswamy, S., Rihel, J., Giraldez, A.J. (2023) linc-mipep and linc-wrb encode micropeptides that regulate chromatin accessibility in vertebrate-specific neural cells. eLIFE. 12:
De Simone, A., Evanitsky, M.N., Hayden, L., Cox, B.D., Wang, J., Tornini, V.A., Ou, J., Chao, A., Poss, K.D., Di Talia, S. (2021) Control of osteoblast regeneration by a train of Erk activity waves. Nature. 590(7844):129-133
Han, Y., Chen, A., Umansky, K.B., Oonk, K.A., Choi, W.Y., Dickson, A.L., Ou, J., Cigliola, V., Yifa, O., Cao, J., Tornini, V.A., Cox, B.D., Tzahor, E., Poss, K.D. (2019) Vitamin D Stimulates Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Controls Organ Size and Regeneration in Zebrafish. Developmental Cell. 48(6):853-863.e5
Cox, B.D., De Simone, A., Tornini, V.A., Singh, S.P., Di Talia, S., Poss, K.D. (2018) In Toto Imaging of Dynamic Osteoblast Behaviors in Regenerating Skeletal Bone. Current biology : CB. 28(24):3937-3947.e4
Tornini, V.A., Thompson, J.D., Allen, R.L., Poss, K.D. (2017) Live fate-mapping of joint-associated fibroblasts visualizes expansion of cell contributions during zebrafish fin regeneration. Development (Cambridge, England). 144:2889-2895
Tornini, V.A., Puliafito, A., Slota, L.A., Thompson, J.D., Nachtrab, G., Kaushik, A.L., Kapsimali, M., Primo, L., Di Talia, S., Poss, K.D. (2016) Live Monitoring of Blastemal Cell Contributions during Appendage Regeneration. Current biology : CB. 26(22):2981-2991
Foglia, M.J., Cao, J., Tornini, V.A., Poss, K.D. (2016) Multicolor mapping of the cardiomyocyte proliferation dynamics that construct the atrium. Development (Cambridge, England). 143(10):1688-96
Kang, J., Hu, J., Karra, R., Dickson, A.L., Tornini, V.A., Nachtrab, G., Gemberling, M., Goldman, J.A., Black, B.L., Poss, K.D. (2016) Modulation of tissue repair by regeneration enhancer elements. Nature. 532(7598):201-6
Tornini, V.A. (2016) Clonal Analysis of the Zebrafish Fin Regeneration Blastema. Thesis.
Nachtrab, G., Kikuchi, K., Tornini, V.A., and Poss, K.D. (2013) Transcriptional components of anteroposterior positional information during zebrafish fin regeneration. Development (Cambridge, England). 140(18):3754-3764

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
Fereshteh M, Ito T, Kovacs JJ, Zhao C, Kwon HY, Tornini V, Konuma T, Chen M, Lefkowitz RJ, Reya T. β-Arrestin2 mediates the initiation and progression of myeloid leukemia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jul 31;109(31):12532-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1209815109. Epub 2012 Jul 5.