Dylan Corcoran

PhD Student
Headshot of student, Dylan Corcoran.
dylancorcoran@arizona.edu
Pronouns:
he, him, his

Research Advisors:

Curtis Thorne

Andrew Paek

Research Topic:

Cell cycle; stem cell fate; Wnt signaling; organoids; tissue patterning

Selected Publications: 

Ru, W., Koga, T., Wang, X., Guo, Q., Gearhart, M. D., Zhao, S., Murphy, M., Kawakami, H., Corcoran, D., Zhang, J., Zhu, Z., Yao, X., Kawakami, Y., & Xu, C. (2022). Structural studies of SALL family protein zinc finger cluster domains in complex with DNA reveal preferential binding to an AATA tetranucleotide motif. The Journal of biological chemistry, 298(12), 102607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102607

Pappas, M. P., Kawakami, H., Corcoran, D., Chen, K. Q., Scott, E. P., Wong, J., Gearhart, M. D., Nishinakamura, R., Nakagawa, Y., & Kawakami, Y. (2024). Sall4 regulates posterior trunk mesoderm development by promoting mesodermal gene expression and repressing neural genes in the mesoderm. Development (Cambridge, England), 151(5), dev202649. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202649

Kawakami, H., Chen, K. Q., Zhang, R., Pappas, M. P., Bailey, A., Reisz, J. A., Corcoran, D., Nishinakamura, R., D'Alessandro, A., & Kawakami, Y. (2023). Sall4 restricts glycolytic metabolism in limb buds through transcriptional regulation of glycolytic enzyme genes. Developmental biology, 501, 28–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2023.06.004

Chen, K. Q., Kawakami, H., Anderson, A., Corcoran, D., Soni, A., Nishinakamura, R., & Kawakami, Y. (2024). Sall genes regulate hindlimb initiation in mouse embryos. Genetics, 227(1), iyae029. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae029

Selected Presentations:

Corcoran, D., Kawakami, Y. Sall4 promotes Wnt signaling and NMP differentiation balance through regulation of Cxxc4. 2022 Developmental Biology Center Symposium. 

Degrees

  • University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, BS, GCD (Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development), 2022