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Sarah E. Millar is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their work spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The main fields of study for this scientist include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 28 publications, and Medicine, with 26 publications.

Their research focuses on several subfields, notably Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Urology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Key research topics associated with their work include Hair Growth and Disorders, Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer, Ocular Surface and Contact Lens, Corneal Surgery and Treatments, melanin and skin pigmentation, Cancer-related gene regulation, and Fibroblast Growth Factor Research.

Frequently published venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Investigative Dermatology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Developmental Cell
  • Nature

Recent publications by Sarah E. Millar include:

  • Dedifferentiation maintains melanocyte stem cells in a dynamic niche, 2023, Nature
  • NF-κB perturbation reveals unique immunomodulatory functions in Prx1 + fibroblasts that promote development of atopic dermatitis, 2022, Science Translational Medicine
  • Identifying Treatments for Taste and Smell Disorders: Gaps and Opportunities, 2020, Chemical Senses
  • HDAC3 ensures stepwise epidermal stratification via NCoR/SMRT-reliant mechanisms independent of its histone deacetylase activity, 2020, Genes & Development
  • FAM20B-catalyzed glycosaminoglycans control murine tooth number by restricting FGFR2b signaling, 2020, BMC Biology

The researcher has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Mingang Xu, Xuming Zhu, Andrzej A. Dlugosz, Edward E. Morrisey, and Avery August. These collaborations have supported a body of work contributing to various aspects of molecular and cell biology as well as clinical applications.

Best Publications

  • Cytoplasmic chromatin triggers inflammation in senescence and cancer

    Zhixun Dou;Kanad Ghosh;Maria Grazia Vizioli;Jiajun Zhu

  • WNT signals are required for the initiation of hair follicle development.

    Thomas Andl;Seshamma T. Reddy;Trivikram Gaddapara;Sarah E. Millar

  • Wnt-dependent de novo hair follicle regeneration in adult mouse skin after wounding

    Mayumi Ito;Zaixin Yang;Thomas Andl;Chunhua Cui

  • Molecular mechanisms regulating hair follicle development.

    Sarah E. Millar

  • Characterization of Wnt gene expression in developing and postnatal hair follicles and identification of Wnt5a as a target of Sonic hedgehog in hair follicle morphogenesis.

    Seshamma Reddy;Thomas Andl;Alexander Bagasra;Min Min Lu

  • A mammalian microRNA cluster controls DNA methylation and telomere recombination via Rbl2-dependent regulation of DNA methyltransferases

    Roberta Benetti;Susana Gonzalo;Susana Gonzalo;Isabel Jaco;Purificación Muñoz

  • Regeneration of fat cells from myofibroblasts during wound healing

    Maksim V. Plikus;Maksim V. Plikus;Christian F. Guerrero-Juarez;Mayumi Ito;Yun Rose Li

  • Pax3 functions at a nodal point in melanocyte stem cell differentiation

    Deborah Lang;Min Min Lu;Li Huang;Kurt A. Engleka

  • Wnt/β-catenin signaling directs multiple stages of tooth morphogenesis

    Fei Liu;Emily Y. Chu;Brenda Watt;Yuhang Zhang

  • Epithelial Bmpr1a regulates differentiation and proliferation in postnatal hair follicles and is essential for tooth development.

    Thomas Andl;Kyung Ahn;Alladin Kairo;Emily Y. Chu

  • The miRNA-Processing Enzyme Dicer Is Essential for the Morphogenesis and Maintenance of Hair Follicles

    Thomas Andl;Elizabeth P. Murchison;Fei Liu;Yuhang Zhang

  • Reciprocal requirements for Eda/Edar/NF-κB and Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathways in hair follicle induction

    Yuhang Zhang;Philip Tomann;Thomas Andl;Natalie M. Gallant

  • Towards a molecular understanding of hair loss and its treatment.

    George Cotsarelis;Sarah E Millar

  • Canonical WNT signaling promotes mammary placode development and is essential for initiation of mammary gland morphogenesis

    Emily Y. Chu;Julie Hens;Thomas Andl;Alladin Kairo

  • WNT signaling in the control of hair growth and structure.

    Sarah E. Millar;Karl Willert;Patricia C. Salinas;Patricia C. Salinas;Henk Roelink;Henk Roelink

  • Wnt/beta-catenin signaling acts upstream of N-myc, BMP4, and FGF signaling to regulate proximal-distal patterning in the lung.

    Weiguo Shu;Susan Guttentag;Zhishan Wang;Thomas Andl

  • Distinct functions for Wnt/β-catenin in hair follicle stem cell proliferation and survival and interfollicular epidermal homeostasis

    Yeon Sook Choi;Yuhang Zhang;Yuhang Zhang;Mingang Xu;Yongguang Yang

  • Fgf9 from dermal γδ T cells induces hair follicle neogenesis after wounding

    Ohsang Kwon;Ohsang Kwon;Zhikun Zhang;Michelle Spata

  • Autoimmune disease of the ovary induced by a ZP3 peptide from the mouse zona pellucida

    Sung Hee Rhim;Sarah E. Millar;Frank Robey;An Ming Luo

  • A mammalian microRNA cluster controls DNA methylation and telomere recombination via Rbl2-dependent regulation of DNA methyltransferases (Nature Structural and Molecular Biology (2008) 15, (268-279))

    Roberta Benetti;Susana Gonzalo;Isabel Jaco;Purificación Mũoz

Frequent Co-Authors

Makoto Mark Taketo
Makoto Mark Taketo Kyoto University
Edward E. Morrisey
Edward E. Morrisey University of Pennsylvania
Andras Nagy
Andras Nagy Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Maksim V. Plikus
Maksim V. Plikus University of California, Irvine
George Cotsarelis
George Cotsarelis University of Pennsylvania
Gregory J. Hannon
Gregory J. Hannon University of Cambridge
Stefano Piccolo
Stefano Piccolo University of Padua
Jurrien Dean
Jurrien Dean National Institutes of Health
Min Min Lu
Min Min Lu University of Pennsylvania
Andrzej A. Dlugosz
Andrzej A. Dlugosz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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