Brian T Emmer
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
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Brian T Emmer
Assistant Professor
  • About
  • Qualifications
  • Center Memberships
  • Research Overview
  • Recent Publications
    • Qualifications
    • Residency
      University of Michigan, Internal Medicine, 2014
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
      Laboratory of David Ginsburg, MD, University of Michigan, United States
    • MD
      Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 E. Chicago Avenue 1-003, Ward Building, 2011
    • PhD
      Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, 2011
    • BS
      University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003
    Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Taubman Institute
    • Center Member
      Samuel and Jean Frankel Cardiovascular Center
    Research Overview

    functional genomics, atherosclerosis, lipoprotein metabolism, acute lung injury, genome editing

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Preprint
      Lipoprotein(a) metabolomic and proteomic features and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in young, healthy adults
      Goonewardena SN, Jurga T, Lloyd-Jones D, Damodaran D, Thyagarajan B, Jacobs DR, Shore S, Brandt EJ, Clish C, Tanriverdi K, Freedman JE, Emmer BT, Wilkins JT, Do R, Bittner VA, Rosenson RS, Shah RV, Murthy VL. medRxiv, DOI:10.1101/2024.05.12.24307240
    • Preprint
      Functional interrogation of cellular Lp(a) uptake by genome-scale CRISPR screening.
      Khan TG, Cunha JB, Raut C, Burroughs M, Goonewardena SN, Smrcka AV, Speliotes EK, Emmer BT. 2024 May 12; DOI:10.1101/2024.05.11.593568
      PMID: 38766193
    • Journal Article
      Functional overlap between the mammalian Sar1a and Sar1b paralogs in vivo.
      Tang VT, Xiang J, Chen Z, McCormick J, Abbineni PS, Chen X-W, Hoenerhoff M, Emmer BT, Khoriaty R, Lin JD, Ginsburg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2024 May 7; 121 (19): e2322164121 DOI:10.1073/pnas.2322164121
      PMID: 38687799
    • Presentation
      Massively Parallel Interrogation of Lipoprotein Uptake Modifiers
      Emmer B. 2024 May;
    • Preprint
      Functional overlap between the mammalian Sar1a and Sar1b paralogs in vivo.
      Tang VT, Xiang J, Chen Z, McCormick J, Abbineni PS, Chen X-W, Hoenerhoff M, Emmer BT, Khoriaty R, Lin JD, Ginsburg D. 2024 Feb 29; DOI:10.1101/2024.02.27.582310
      PMID: 38463989
    • Journal Article
      Type I interferon signaling induces a delayed antiproliferative response in respiratory epithelial cells during SARS-CoV-2 infection.
      Bragazzi Cunha J, Leix K, Sherman EJ, Mirabelli C, Frum T, Zhang CJ, Kennedy AA, Lauring AS, Tai AW, Sexton JZ, Spence JR, Wobus CE, Emmer BT. J Virol, 2023 Dec 21; 97 (12): e0127623 DOI:10.1128/jvi.01276-23
      PMID: 37975674
    • Journal Article
      ARF6 is a host factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro
      Mirabelli C, Sherman EJ, Cunha JB, Wotring JW, El Saghir J, Harder J, Kretzler M, Sexton JZ, Wobus CE, Emmer BT. bioRxiv, DOI:10.1101/2022.06.09.495482
    • Journal Article
      Identification of LMAN1- and SURF4-Dependent Secretory Cargoes.
      Tang VT, Abbineni PS, Veiga Leprevost FD, Basrur V, Khoriaty R, Emmer BT, Nesvizhskii AI, Ginsburg D. J Proteome Res, 2023 Nov 3; 22 (11): 3439 - 3446. DOI:10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00259
      PMID: 37844105
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