Feature publications

*co-first author; ^cresponding author

Wang C, Uddin M, Wani A, Graham Z, Ratanatharathorn A, Aiello A, Koenen K, Maggio M, Wildman D. The relationship between social adversity, micro-RNA expression and post-traumatic stress in a prospective, community-based cohort. Nat. Ment. Health. 2026; (In Press).

Lucky A, Shakri A, Liang X, Min H, Li XL, Adapa S, Jiang R, Cui L, Wang C^, Jun M^. GCN5 Is a Master Regulator of Gene Expression in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Cells. 2025; 14: 876

Feng Y*, Gao W*, Wang C*, Shi S, Zhou D, Sun L, Zhu L, Cui L, Cao Y, Zhu X. Loss of serine/threonine protein phosphatase 6 severely impairs sexual stage development in malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei. PLoS Pathog. 2025; 21: e1013318.

Malla P, Wang Z, Brashear AM, Yang Z, Lo E, Baird K, Wang C^, Cui L^. Effectiveness of an unsupervised primaquine regimen for preventing Plasmodium Vivax malaria relapses in northeast myanmar: A single-arm nonrandomized observational study. J Infect Dis. 2024; 229: 1557-1564.

Min H*, Liang X*, Wang C*, Qin J, Boonhok R, Muneer A, Brashear AM, Li X, Minns AM, Adapa SR, Jiang RHY, Ning G, Cao Y, Lindner SE, Miao J Cui L. The DEAD-box RNA helicase PfDOZI imposes opposing actions on RNA metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum. Nat Commun. 2024; 15: 3747.

Lucky BA*, Wang C*, Li X, Liang X, Muneer A, Miao J. Transforming the CRISPR/dCas9-based gene regulation technique into a forward screening tool in Plasmodium falciparum. iScience. 2024; 27: 109602.

Wang C^, Dong Y, Li C, Oberstaller J, Zhang M, Gibbons J, Pires CV, Zhu L, Kim K, Miao J, Otto TD, Cui L, Adams JH, Liu X. MalariaSED: a deep learning framework to decipher the regulatory contributions of noncoding variants in malaria parasites. Genome Biol. 2023; 24: 231.

Lucky BA*, Wang C*, Li X, Chim-Ong A, Adapa SR, Quinlivan E, Jiang RHY, Cui L, Miao J. Characterization of the dual role of Plasmodium falciparum DNA methyltransferase in regulating transcription and translation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023; 51: 3918-3933.

Lucky BA*, Wang C*, Liu M, Liang X, Min H, Fan Q, Siddiqui FA, Adapa SR, Li X, Jiang RHY, Chen X, Cui L, Miao J. A type II protein arginine methyltransferase regulates merozoite invasion in Plasmodium falciparum. Commun Biol. 2023; 6: 659.

Zhang M*, Wang C*, Oberstaller J*, Thomas P, Otto TD, Boyapalle S, Adapa SR, Button-Simons K, Mayho M, Rayner JC, Ferdig MT, Jiang RHY, Adams JH. The apicoplast link to fever-survival and artemisinin-resistance in the malaria parasite. Nat Commun. 2021; 12: 4563.

Wang C, Gibbons J, Adapa DR, Oberstaller J, Liao X, Zhang M, Adams JH, Jiang RHY. The human malaria parasite genome is configured into thousands of co-expressed linear regulatory units. Journal of genetics and Genomics. 2020; 47: 513-521.

Zhang M*, Wang C*, Otto TD, Oberstaller J, Liao X, Adapa SR, Udenze K, Bronner IF, Casandra D, Mayho M, Brown J, Li S, Swanson J, Rayner JC, Jiang RHY, Adams JH. Uncovering the essential genes of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum by saturation mutagenesis. Science. 2018; 360: eaap7847.

Brancucci NMB, Gerdt JP, Wang C, De Niz M, Philip N, Adapa SR, Zhang M, Hitz E, Niederwieser I, Boltryk SD, Laffitte MC, Clark MA, Grüring C, Ravel D, Blancke Soares A, Demas A, Bopp S, Rubio-Ruiz B, Conejo-Garcia A, Wirth DF, Gendaszewska-Darmach E, Duraisingh MT, Adams JH, Voss TS, Waters AP, Jiang RHY, Clardy J, Marti M. Lysophosphatidylcholine levels regulate stage differentiation in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Cell. 2017; 171: 1532.