Scott Pletcher

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William H Howell Collegiate Professor of Physiology
Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Research Professor
Institute of Gerontology
Medical School
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Scott Pletcher
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      Frankel Institute for Heart and Brain Health
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      Caswell Diabetes Institute
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      Samuel and Jean Frankel Cardiovascular Center

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    • Journal Article
      Regenerate to “Rejuvenate”: Insights From Adult Resident Stem Cells of Aged Flatworms and Mice
      Murach KA, Dungan CM, Chambers TL, Horvath S, Nandakumar J, Gladyshev VN, Pletcher SD, Dai X, Guo L. Aging Cell, 2025 Nov 1; 24 (11): DOI:10.1111/acel.70236
      PMID: 40947308
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      Regeneration leads to global tissue rejuvenation in aging sexual planarians
      Dai X, Li X, Tyshkovskiy A, Zuckerman C, Cheng N, Lin P, Paris D, Qureshi S, Kruglyak L, Mao X, Nandakumar J, Gladyshev VN, Pletcher S, Sobota J, Guo L. Nature Aging, 2025 May 1; 5 (5): 780 - 798. DOI:10.1038/s43587-025-00847-9
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      Symposia Report of The Annual Biological Sciences Section Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America 2023, Tampa, Florida
      Rogina B, Anderson R, Lebrasseur NK, Curran SP, Yousefzadeh MJ, Ghosh B, Duque G, Howlett S, Austad S, Demuth I, Gerstorf D, Korfhage J, Lombard DB, Abadir P, Christensen K, Carey JR, Alberts SC, Campos F, Palavicini JP, Palmer A, Bell J, Basisty N, De Cabo R, Gomes A, Dixit VD, Sen P, Baur JA, Imai SI, Li X, Valdez G, Orr ME, Pletcher S, Andersen J, Jones L, Castillo-Azofeida D, Bonaguidi M, Suh Y, Duncan FE, Murray A, Wang MC, Burkewitz K, Henne M, Zhou K, Bouhrara M, Benjamini D, Kolind S, Walker KA, Reiter DA, Dean DC, Gorbunova V, Gladyshev VN, Palovics R, Niedernhofer LJ, Fan R, Bueckle AD, Hurley J, Esser KA, Kapahi P, Sato S, Jiang N, Ashiqueali SA, Diaz J, Mishra SP, Raimundo N, Banarjee R, Allsopp R, Reynolds LM, Zhang B, Sebastiani P, Monti S, Schork N, Rappaport N. Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2025 May 1; 80 (5): DOI:10.1093/gerona/glaf026
      PMID: 39932386
    • Journal Article
      Behavioral dissection of hunger states in Drosophila
      Weaver KJ, Raju S, Rucker RA, Chakraborty T, Holt RA, Pletcher SD. Elife, 2023 Jun 16; 12: DOI:10.7554/eLife.84537
      PMID: 37326496
    • Journal Article
      Behavioral dissection of hunger states in Drosophila
      Weaver KJ, Raju S, Rucker RA, Chakraborty T, Holt RA, Pletcher SD. eLife, 2023 Jun 17; 12: DOI:10.7554/elife.84537.3
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      Ring neurons in the Drosophila central complex comprise a rheostat for sensory modulation of aging
      Gendron C, Chakraborty T, Pletcher S. 2023 Mar 14;
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      Effects of hunger on neuronal histone modifications slow aging in Drosophila
      Weaver KJ, Holt RA, Henry E, Lyu Y, Pletcher SD. Science, 2023 May 12; 380 (6645): 625 - 632. DOI:10.1126/science.ade1662
      PMID: 37167393
    • Journal Article
      Light modulates Drosophila lifespan via perceptual systems independent of circadian rhythms
      Johnson JC, Munneke AS, Richardson HM, Gendron CM, Pletcher SD. Aging, 2023 Jan 1; 15 (2): 396 - 420. DOI:10.18632/aging.204472
      PMID: 36622279