Sheng was a graduate student in the lab. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 2018, with B.S. in Biochemistry, B.S. in Neuroscience, and B.S in Psychology. He is originally from Shanghai, China. When he is not in the lab, he enjoys listening to music, watching movies and working out in the gym. After completing his PhD, Sheng moved on to a junior strategic analyst position at Purohit Navigation.
Publications
Lynch E.M., Pittman S., Daw J., Ikenaga C., Chen S., Dhavale D.D., Jackrel M.E., Ayala Y.M., Kotzbauer P., Ly C.V., Pestronk A., Lloyd T.E., and Weihl C.C. (2024). Seeding competent TDP-43 persists in human patient and mouse muscle. BioRxiv. link
Chen S., Puri A., Bell B., Fritsche J., Palacios H.H., Balch M., Sprunger M.L., Howard M.K., Ryan J.J., Haines J.N., Patti G.J., Davis A.A., and Jackrel M.E. (2024). HTRA1 disaggregates α-synuclein amyloid fibrils and coverts them into non-toxic and seeding incompetent species. Nat. Commun. 15: 2436. link
Shrimali, P.C., Chen S.*, Dreher R.D.*, Howard M.K.*, Buck J., Kim D., Rudra J.S.^, and M.E. Jackrel^ (2022). Amyloidogenic propensity of self-assembling peptides and their adjuvant potential for use as DNA vaccines. Biorxiv.
(*equal contributions, ^Co-corresponding author) pdf file link
Salazar, M.D., N.B. Zelt, R. Saldivar, C.P. Kuntz, S. Chen, W.D. Penn, R. Bonneau, J. Koehler Leman, and J.P. Schlebach. (2020). Classification of the Molecular Defects Associated with Pathogenic Variants of the SLC6A8 Creatine Transporter. Biochemistry, 59 (13), 1367–1377.