Publications

Browse my published research papers and view manuscripts in-progress here, or access my bibliography via Google Scholar, ORCID, or ResearchGate using the links below:

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Published works

Urban, N.D., Lacy, S.M., Van Pelt, K.M., Abdon, B., Mattiola, Z., Klaiss, A., Tabler, S., Donahue E.K.F., Burkewitz, K., Truttmann, M.C. (2025). Functionally diversified Caenorhabditis elegans BiP orthologs control body growth, reproduction, stress resistance, aging, and autophagy. Nature Communications 16, 11094.

doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65998-0

Van Pelt, K.M. & Truttmann, M.C. (2025). Loss of FIC-1-mediated AMPylation activates the UPRER

and upregulates cytosolic HSP70 family chaperones to suppress polyglutamine toxicity.

PLoS Genetics 21(6): e1011723. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011723

Van Pelt, K.M. & Truttmann, M.C. (2020). Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system for studying aging-associated neurodegenerative diseases. Translational Medicine of Aging, 4: 60-72. doi.org/10.1016/j.tma.2020.05.001

Nath, S.R., Lieberman, M.L., Yu, Z., Marchioretti, C., Jones, S.T., Danby, E.C.E., Van Pelt, K.M., Soaru, G., Robins, D.M., Bates, G.P., Pennuto, M., Lieberman, A.P. (2020). MEF2 impairment underlies skeletal muscle atrophy in polyglutamine disease. Acta Neuropathologica, 140(1): 63-80.

doi.org/10.1007/s00401-020-02156-4

Preprints and manuscripts in preparation

Van Pelt, K.M., Costa, M.C.C., & Truttmann, M.C. (2025). Ficd deletion ameliorates motor phenotypes in a mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3. (Manuscript in preparation).