Keith Conrad Fernandez

Graduate Student
Keith Conrad Fernandez

Lab Phone

646-888-2614

Start Year

2016

Education

BBMedSci, University of Malaya

Publications

 
First Author Publications
Fernandez, K. C., Feeney, L., Smolkin, R. M., Yen, W.-F., Matthews, A. J., Alread, W., Petrini, J. H. J., & Chaudhuri, J. (2022). The structure-selective endonucleases GEN1 and MUS81 mediate complementary functions in safeguarding the genome of proliferating B lymphocytes. eLife, 11, e77073. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77073
 
Fernandez, K. C., & Chaudhuri, J. (2019). Uncoupling the DSB End-Protecting and CSR-Promoting Functions of 53BP1. Cell Reports, 28(6), 1387–1388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2019.07.076
 
Contributing Author Publications
Yewdell, W.T., Fernandez, K.C., Downs-Canner, S.M., & Chaudhuri, J. (2026). The Molecular Logic of Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Class Switch Recombination. Annual Review of Immunology, 527–571. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-immunol-082323-121803
 
Meng, F.-L., Nair, L., Fernandez, K. C., Basu, U., & Chaudhuri, J. (2024). Chapter 11 – Mechanism and Regulation of Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination. Molecular Biology of B Cells (Third Edition), 213–234. http://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-95895-0.00021-0
 
Sharma, R., Smolkin, R. M., Chowdhury, P., Fernandez, K. C., Kim, Y., Cols, M., Alread, W., Yen, W.-F., Hu, W., Wang, Z.-M., Violante, S., Chaligné, R., Li, M. O., Cross, J. R., & Chaudhuri, J. (2023). Distinct metabolic requirements regulate B cell activation and germinal center responses. Nature Immunology, 24(8), 1358–1369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01540-y
 
Yewdell, W. T., Kim, Y., Chowdhury, P., Lau, C. M., Smolkin, R. M., Belcheva, K. T., Fernandez, K. C., Cols, M., Yen, W.-F., Vaidyanathan, B., Angeletti, D., McDermott, A. B., Yewdell, J. W., Sun, J. C., & Chaudhuri, J. (2020). A Hyper-IgM Syndrome Mutation in Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Disrupts G-Quadruplex Binding and Genome-wide Chromatin Localization. Immunity, 53(5), 952-970.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.10.003
 
Nicolas, L., Cols, M., Smolkin, R., Fernandez, K. C., Yewdell, W. T., Yen, W.-F., Zha, S., Vuong, B. Q., & Chaudhuri, J. (2019). Cutting Edge: ATM Influences Germinal Center Integrity. Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md.: 1950), 202(11), 3137–3142. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1801033

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