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Herbig Publications

Selected Publications

·         Turano PS, Akbulut E, Aquino NM, Garza-Martínez L, Singh S, Yap GS, Fitzgerald-Bocarsly P, Martínez-Zamudio RI, Herbig U.  Senescent CD8 T Effector Memory Cells are Functionally Impaired, Enriched in Aging and Disease, and a Barrier to Immunotherapy. 2025. bioRxiv doi: 10.64898/2025.12.16.694716.

·         Turano PS, Akbulut E, Dewald HK, Vasilopoulos T, Fitzgerald-Bocarsly P, Herbig U*, Martínez-Zamudio RI*. Age-independent and targetable Transcription Factor Networks regulating CD8 T cells Senescence in Aging Humans. 2026. Cell Reports, 45, 116795. *co-senior authors.

·         Ricardo Iván Martínez-Zamudio, Alketa Stefa, José Américo Nabuco, Themistoklis Vasilopoulos, Mark Simpson, Gregory Doré, Pierre-François Roux, Mark A. Galan7, Ravi J. Chokshi, Oliver Bischof and Utz Herbig. Escape From Oncogene-Induced Senescence is Controlled by POU2F2 and Memorized by Chromatin Scars. 2023. Cell Genomics, 3, 100293

·         Ricardo Iván Martínez-Zamudio1, Hannah K. Dewald1, Themistoklis Vasilopoulos, Lisa Gittens-Williams, Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly2, and Utz Herbig2. 2021. Senescence-associated β-galactosidase reveals the abundance of senescent CD8+ T cells in aging humans. Aging Cell. e13344. 1co-1st authors; 2co-senior authors

·         Razdan N, Vasilopoulos T, Herbig U. 2018 Telomere dysfunction promotes transdifferentiation of human fibroblasts into myofibroblasts. Aging Cell 17:e12838. 

·         Patel, P., Suram, A., Mirani, N., Bischof, O., Herbig, U. 2016. Derepression of hTERT Gene Expression Promotes Escape from Oncogene-Induced Cellular Senescence. PNAS; in press

·         Suram A, Kaplunov J, Patel PL, Ruan H, Cerutti A, Boccardi V, Fumagalli M, Di Micco R, Mirani N, Gurung RL, Hande MP, d'Adda di Fagagna F, Herbig U. 2012. Oncogene-induced telomere dysfunction enforces cellular senescence in human cancer precursor lesions. The EMBO Journal. 31: 2839-51

·         Fumagalli M, Rossiello F, Clerici M, Barozzi S, Cittaro D, Kaplunov JM, Bucci G, Dobreva M, Matti V, Beausejour CM, Herbig U, Longhese MP, d'Adda di Fagagna F. 2012. Telomeric DNA damage is irreparable and causes persistent DNA-damage-response activation. Nature Cell Biology 14: 355-65

·         Herbig, U., Ferreira, M., Condel, L., Carey, D. and Sedivy, J.M. 2006. Cellular senescence in aging primates. Science 311:1257