Email

xhako@bcm.edu

Positions

Graduate Student

Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

BS from Purdue Univeristy

05/2018 - West Lafayette, Indiana United States

Biochemistry, Genetics

Selected Publications

• Larissa Nitschke, Ambika Tewari, Stephanie L Coffin, Eder Xhako, Kaifang Pang, Vincenzo A Gennarino, Jennifer L Johnson, Francisco A Blanco, Zhandong Liu, Huda Y Zoghbi "miR760 regulates ATXN1 levels via interaction with its 5' untranslated region." Genes & Development. 2020 Aug 1; Pubmed PMID: 32763910
• Nitschke L, Coffin SL, Xhako E, El-Najjar DB, Orengo JP, Alcala E, Dai Y, Wan YW, Liu Z, Orr HT, Zoghbi HY "Modulation of ATXN1 S776 phosphorylation reveals the importance of allele-specific targeting in SCA1." JCI Insight. 2021 Feb 8; Pubmed PMID: 33554954
• Coffin SL, Durham MA, Nitschke L, Xhako E, Brown AM, Revelli JP, Villavicencio Gonzalez E, Lin T, Handler HP, Dai Y, Trostle AJ, Wan YW, Liu Z, Sillitoe RV, Orr HT, Zoghbi HY "Disruption of the ATXN1-CIC complex reveals the role of additional nuclear ATXN1 interactors in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1." Neuron. 2023 Feb 15;111(4):P481-492.E8. Pubmed PMID: 36577402