Publications

Sapkota, N., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Z. et al. Universal conditional networks (UniCoN) for multi-age embryonic cartilage segmentation with Sparsely annotated data. Sci Rep 15, 3893 (2025). https://doi-org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1038/s41598-025-87797-9

Ru Y., Ma M., Zhou X., Kriti D., Cohen N., D’Souza S., Schaniel C., Motch Perrine S.M., Kuo S., Pichurin O., Pinto D., Housman G., Holmes G., Schadt E., van Bakel H., Zhang B., Jabs E.W., Wu M. Integrated transcriptomic analysis of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived osteogenic differentiation reveals a regulatory role of KLF16. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Jan 27:2024.02.11.579844. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.11.579844. PMID: 38405902; PMCID: PMC10888757.

Gignac, P. M., Aceves, V., Baker, S… Zobek, C.M. (2024). The role of networks to overcome large-scale challenges in tomography: The non-clinical tomography users research network. Tomography of Materials and Structures, 5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmater.2024.100031

Kawasaki, K., Ohta, Y., Castro, C. D., & Flajnik, M. F. (2024). The immunoglobulin J chain is an evolutionarily co-opted chemokine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(3), e2318995121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318995121

Nishchal Sapkota, Yejia Zhang, Susan M Motch Perrine, Yuhan Hsi, Sirui Li, Meng Wu, Greg Holmes, Abdul R. Abdulai, Ethylin W. Jabs, Joan T. Richtsmeier, and Danny Z Chen. (2024). ConUNETR: A conditional transformer network for 3D Micro-CT embryonic cartilage segmentation. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2024 Athens, Greece. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03695

Ying Ru, Meng Ma, Xianxiao Zhou, Divya Kriti, Ninette Cohen, Sunita D’Souza, Christoph Schaniel, Susan M. Motch Perrine, Sharon Kuo, Dalila Pinto, Genevieve Housman, Meng Wu, Greg Holmes, Eric Schadt, Harm van Bakel, Bin Zhang, Ethylin Wang Jabs. (2024). Transcriptomic landscape of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived osteogenic differentiation identifies a regulatory role of KLF16. bioRxiv [Preprint]. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.11.579844. PMID: 38405902; PMCID: PMC10888757.

Motch Perrine, S. M., Sapkota, N., Kawasaki, K., Zhang, Y., Chen, D. Z., Kawasaki, M., Durham, E. L., Heuzé, Y., Legeai-Mallet, L., & Richtsmeier, J. T. (2023). Embryonic cranial cartilage defects in the Fgfr3^Y367C/+ mouse model of achondroplasia. The Anatomical Record, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25327

Pitirri, M. K., Richtsmeier, J. T., Kawasaki, M., Coupe, A. P., Perrine, S. M., & Kawasaki, K. (2023). Come together over me: Cells that form the dermatocranium and chondrocranium in mice. The Anatomical Record, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25295

Pitirri, MK, EL Durham, N Romano, J Santos, H Zhen, DZ Chen, K Kawasaki, EW Jabs, JT Richtsmeier, M Wu, SM Motch Perrine 2022 Meckel’s cartilage in mandibular development and dysmorphogenesis. Frontiers in Genetics, https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.871927.

Lesciotto, K.M., L. Tomlinson, S. Leonard, J.T. Richtsmeier. 2022. Normative embryonic and early postnatal cranial bone volume and tissue mineral density values for C57BL/6J laboratory mice. Devel Dyn, DVDY458; doi: 10.1002/dvdy.458, PMID 35092111

Kazuki, Y, FJ Gao, M Yamakawa, M Hirabayashi, K Kazuki, N Kajitani, S Miyagawa-Tomita, S Abe, M Sanbo, H Hara, H Kuniishi, S Ichisaka, Y Hata, M Koshima, H Takayama, S Takehara, Y Nakayama, M Hiratsuka, Y Iida, S Matsukura, N Noda, Y Li, A J Moyer, B Cheng, N Singh, JT Richtsmeier, M Oshimura, RH Reeves. 2022. A transchromosomic rat model with human chromosome 21 shows robust Down syndrome features. Amer J Hum Genet, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.12.015.

Motch Perrine, SM, M Kathleen Pitirri, EL Durham, M Kawasaki, H Zheng, DZ Chen, K Kawasaki, JT Richtsmeier. 2022. A dysmorphic mouse model reveals developmental interactions of chondrocranium and dermatocranium eLife 11:e76653. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.76653

Holmes, G., Gonzalez-Reiche A.S., Saturne, M., Motch-Perrine, S.M., Zhou, X., Borges, A.C., Shewale, B., Richtsmeier, J.T., Zhang, B., van Bakel, H., Jabs, E.W. (2021). Single-cell analysis identifies a key role for Hhip in murine coronal suture development. Nat Comm https://rdcu.be/cCQlI, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27402-5.

Harmon, D.J., Attardi, S.M., Barremkala, M., Bentley, D.C., Brown, K.M., Dennis, J.F., Goldman, H.M., Harrell, K.M., Klein, B.A., Ramnanan, C.J., Richtsmeier, J.T. and Farkas, G.J. (2021). An Analysis of Anatomy Education Before and During Covid‐19: May–August 2020. Anat Sci Educ. https://doi.org/10.1002/ase.2051

Pitirri, M.K. and J.T. Richtsmeier (Eds) 2021 Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates: bone, brains, and muscle, Volume I; DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003206231

Pitirri, M.K. and J.T. Richtsmeier (Eds) 2021 Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates: Genes, skin, energetics, breathing, and feeding, Volume II; DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003206293

Richtsmeier, J.T., M.K. Pitirri. 2021. Evolutionary cell biology in anthropological research, Chapter 1 In Pitirri, M.K. and J.T. Richtsmeier (Eds) Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates: bone, brains, and muscle, Volume I, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. Pp 1-18.

Martínez-Abadías, N., R. Gonzàlez, R. Mateu, J. Sastre, A. Robert-Moreno, J. Swoger, S.M. Motch-Perrine, K. Kawasaki, J.T. Richtsmeier, J. Sharpe. 2021. How gene expression can induce correlated changes in brain and skull systems, Chapter 8 In Pitirri, M.K. and J.T. Richtsmeier (Eds) Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates: bone, brains, and muscle, Volume I, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. Pp. 203-226.

Durham, E.L., M.K. Pitirri. 2021. Stem Cells in Primate Evolution, Chapter 9 In Pitirri, M.K. and J.T. Richtsmeier (Eds) Evolutionary Cell Processes in Primates: Genes, skin, energetics, breathing, and feeding, Volume II, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. Pp. 213-235.

Motch Perrine, S.M., M.K. Pitirri, E.L. Durham, M. Kawasaki, H. Zheng, D.Z. Chen, K. Kawasaki, J.T. Richtsmeier. 2021. Over 400 million years of cooperation: untangling the chondrocranium-dermatocranium connection. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.24.469914v1