Titi Akinwe

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty, PhD

Undergraduate university: Georgia State University, 2018

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary
Ventral pallidal transcriptional adaptations underlying punishment-resistant opioid intake

Graduate publications
Ng JK, Chen Y, Akinwe TM, Heins HB, Mehinovic E, Chang Y, Gutmann DH, Gurnett CA, Payne ZL, Manuel JG, Karchin R, Turner TN. 2025 Proteome-wide assessment of differential missense variant clustering in neurodevelopmental disorders and cancer. Cell Genom, 5(4):100807. PMCID: PMC12008811

Dougherty JD, Sarafinovska S, Chaturvedi SM, Law TE, Akinwe TM, Gabel HW. 2025 Single-cell technology grows up: Leveraging high-resolution omics approaches to understand neurodevelopmental disorders. Curr Opin Neurobiol, 92():102990

Starosta RT, Jensen N, Couteranis S, Slaugh R, Easterlin D, Tate V, Sams EI, Valle K, Akinwe T, Hou YC, Turner TN, Cole FS, Milbrandt J, Dickson P. 2024 Using a new analytic approach for genotyping and phenotyping chromosome 9p deletion syndrome. Eur J Hum Genet, 32(9):1095-105. PMCID: PMC11369271

Bewley AF, Akinwe TM, Turner TN, Gutmann DH. 2022 Neurofibromatosis-1 Gene Mutational Profiles Differ Between Syndromic Disease and Sporadic Cancers. Neurol Genet, 8(4):e200003. PMCID: PMC10331586