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Julia Johnston

Johns Hopkins University

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Image-Based Profiling of Induced Trophoblast Stem Cells Identifies Signatures Associated with Sex, Schizophrenia Genomic Risk and Placental Stress

Frank J. Piscotta, Jiyoung Kim, Jisu Ha, Bonna J. Sheehan, Julia Johnston, J PETERS, T. B. Hyde, Brady J. Maher, Juan C. Caicedo, Daniel R. Weinberger, Evgeny Shlevkov, Gianluca Ursini

The paper uses image-based profiling of hiPSC-derived trophoblasts to identify SCZ risk signatures linked to sex, placental genomic risk, and hypoxic stress.

bioRxiv · Jan 7, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Screening of a kinase inhibitor library in human Huntington disease iPSC derived striatal precursor neurons reveals a neuroprotective effect of PKC alpha and PKC beta1 inhibition

Mali Jiang, Tianze Shi, Ritika Miryala, Matthew Rodriguez, Ronald S. Wang, Rashi Sultania, Lauren C. Guttman, Julia Johnston, Louisa Mulligan, Yushan Li, Anning Cui, Karim Belkas, Yuxuan Xue, Yuna Um, Amy Yuan, , Christopher A. Ross

The paper screens a kinase inhibitor library in HD iPSC-derived neurons to identify PKC alpha and beta1 inhibition as neuroprotective against mutant huntingtin toxicity.

bioRxiv · Sep 18, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience