Joanna Gongora

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Ben Garcia, PhD

Undergraduate university: St. Louis University, 2022

Enrollment year: 2024

Research summary

Graduate publications
Zahn E, Xie Y, Liu X, Karki R, Searfoss RM, de Luna Vitorino FN, Lempiäinen JK, Gongora J, Lin Z, Zhao C, Yuan ZF, Garcia B. 2025 Development of a High-Throughput Platform for Quantitation of Histone Modifications on a New QTOF Instrument. Mol Cell Proteomics, 24(1):100897. PMCID: PMC11787651

Michmerhuizen NL, Heikamp EB, Iacobucci I, Umeda M, Arthur B, Mishra V, Park CS, Di Giacomo D, Hiltenbrand R, Gao Q, Radko-Juettner S, Lott J, Martucci C, Subramanyam V, Hatton C, Wenge DV, Baviskar P, Portola P, Claquin A, Chandra B, Baggett DW, Khalighifar A, Huang H, Zhou P, Long L, Shi H, Sun Y, Papachristou EK, Sekhar Reddy Chilamakuri C, de Luna Vitorino FN, Gongora JM, Wu H, Pounds SB, Janke LJ, Kentsis A, D’Santos CS, Garcia BA, Kriwacki RW, Chi H, Klco JM, Armstrong SA, Mullighan CG. 2025 KAT6A and KAT7 Histone Acetyltransferase Complexes Are Molecular Dependencies and Therapeutic Targets in NUP98-Rearranged Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Cancer Discov, 5(10):2096-16. PMCID: PMC12498098

Yu L, Jin Y, Chen J, Zhu Z, Su S, Wilkerson EM, Gongora J, Cloer EW, Major MB, Liu P. 2025 Stable Cas9 expression regulates cell growth by facilitating mTORC2 activation. Nucleic Acids Res, 53(18):gkaf965. PMCID: PMC12477591

Lin Z, Xie Y, Gongora J, Liu X, Zahn E, Palai BB, Ramirez DH, Searfoss RM, Vitorino FN, Karki R, Dann GP, Zhao C, Han X, MacTaggart B, Lan X, Fu D, Greenberg L, Zhang Y, Lavine KJ, Greenberg MJ, Lv D, Kashina A, Garcia BA. 2025 An unbiased proteomic platform for ATE1-based arginylation profiling. Nat Chem Biol, 21(12):1970-80. PMCID: PMC12643917

Systematic perturbations of SETD2, NSD1, NSD2, NSD3, and ASH1L reveal their distinct contributions to H3K36 methylation. 2024 Systematic perturbations of SETD2, NSD1, NSD2, NSD3, and ASH1L reveal their distinct contributions to H3K36 methylation. Genome Biol, 25(1):263. PMCID: PMC11465688