ZFIN Person: Samsa, Leigh Ann

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-140806-6

Samsa, Leigh Ann

Email:	lsamsa@email.unc.edu
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Affiliation:	Zebrafish Aquaculture Core (ZAC) facility and also: Jiandong Liu Lab
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Country:	United States
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Battista, N.A., Douglas, D.R., Lane, A.N., Samsa, L.A., Liu, J., Miller, L.A. (2019) Vortex Dynamics in Trabeculated Embryonic Ventricles. Journal of cardiovascular development and disease. 6(1)

Fleming, N.D., Samsa, L.A., Hassel, D., Qian, L., Liu, J. (2018) Rapamycin attenuates pathological hypertrophy caused by an absence of trabecular formation. Scientific Reports. 8:8584

Brown, D., Samsa, L.A., Ito, C., Ma, H., Batres, K., Arnaout, R., Qian, L., Liu, J. (2017) Neuregulin-1 is essential for nerve plexus formation during cardiac maturation. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 22(3):2007-2017

Haskell, G.T., Jensen, B.C., Samsa, L.A., Marchuk, D., Huang, W., Skrzynia, C., Tilley, C., Seifert, B.A., Rivera-Muñoz, E.A., Koller, B., Wilhelmsen, K.C., Liu, J., Alhosaini, H., Weck, K.E., Evans, J.P., Berg, J.S. (2017) Whole Exome Sequencing Identifies Truncating Variants in Nuclear Envelope Genes in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease. Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics. 10(3):e001443

Samsa, L.A., Ito, C.E., Brown, D.R., Qian, L., Liu, J. (2016) IgG-Containing Isoforms of Neuregulin-1 Are Dispensable for Cardiac Trabeculation in Zebrafish. PLoS One. 11:e0166734

Mouillesseaux, K.P., Wiley, D.S., Saunders, L.M., Wylie, L.A., Kushner, E.J., Chong, D.C., Citrin, K.M., Barber, A.T., Park, Y., Kim, J.D., Samsa, L.A., Kim, J., Liu, J., Jin, S.W., Bautch, V.L. (2016) Notch regulates BMP responsiveness and lateral branching in vessel networks via SMAD6.. Nature communications. 7:13247

Brown, D.R., Samsa, L.A., Qian, L., Liu, J. (2016) Advances in the Study of Heart Development and Disease Using Zebrafish. Journal of cardiovascular development and disease. 3(2)

Samsa, L.A., Fleming, N., Magness, S., Qian, L., Liu, J. (2016) Isolation and Characterization of Single Cells from Zebrafish Embryos. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. (109)

Samsa, L.A., Givens, C., Tzima, E., Stainier, D.Y., Qian, L., Liu, J. (2015) Cardiac contraction activates endocardial Notch signaling to modulate chamber maturation in zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 142:4080-91

Samsa, L.A., Yang, B., Liu, J. (2013) Embryonic cardiac chamber maturation: Trabeculation, conduction, and cardiomyocyte proliferation.. American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics. 163C(3):157-68

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS