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, ():Online ahead of print. PMCID:

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