Publications

• Bhatta S, Grzybowski A, Ortiz G, DiStasio M. Mechanobiological Specialization of Choroid Plexus Macrophages Defined by Titin Expression. 2026. 2026.01.20.700716. Preprint at [bioRxiv]

• Ugwuowo U, Faust B, Tang H, DiStasio M. Adequate capture of spatial heterogeneity of Ki-67 proliferative index in meningiomas requires multiple tissue sections. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2025 Nov 1;84(11):1067-1070. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlaf043. PubMed PMID: 40257502; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12531482. [pdf]

• Miller SJ, Dhodapkar RM, Sutova HE, Xue Y, Lee S, Logan R, Ran C, Bhatta S, Gomm A, Ju IG, Heyang M, Darji RY, DiStasio M, Tanzi RE, Zhang C, Zhou ZJ, Hafler BP. SARS-CoV-2 induces Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology in ex vivo human retinal explants and retinal organoids. Sci Adv. 2025 Jul 4;11(27):eads5006. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ads5006. Epub 2025 Jul 4. PubMed PMID: 40614201; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12227045.

• Yoshida TM, Nguyen M, Zhang L, Lu BY, Zhu B, Murray KN, Mineur YS, Zhang C, Xu D, Lin E, Luchsinger J, Bhatta S, Waizman DA, Coden ME, Ma Y, Israni-Winger K, Russo A, Wang H, Song W, Al Souz J, Zhao H, Craft JE, Picciotto MR, Grutzendler J, Distasio M, Palm NW, Hafler DA, Wang A. The subfornical organ is a nucleus for gut-derived T cells that regulate behaviour. Nature. 2025 Jul;643(8071):499-508. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09050-7. Epub 2025 May 28. PubMed PMID: 40437096; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12768464. [doi]

• Sun X, Xu C, Rocha JF, Liu C, Hollander-Bodie B, Goldman L, DiStasio M, Perlmutter M, Krishnaswamy S. Hyperedge Representations with Hypergraph Wavelets: Applications to Spatial Transcriptomics. ArXiv. 2024 Sep 14;. PubMed PMID: 39314512; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11419178. [doi]

• Liao C, Walters BW, DiStasio M, Lesch BJ. Human-specific epigenomic states in spermatogenesis. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2024 Dec;23:577-588. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.12.037. eCollection 2024 Dec. PubMed PMID: 38274996; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10809009.

• Pucciarelli D, Lu BY, Zlobec I, DiStasio M. Beyond the Lab and Into the Hospital: An Outlook on the Clinical Utility of Spatial Omics Technologies. GEN Biotechnology. 2023 2:5, 360-371. [doi] [pdf]

• Kuchroo M*, DiStasio M*, Song E*, Calapkulu E, Zhang L, Ige M, Sheth AH, Menon M, Tong A, Godavarthi A, Xing Y, Gigante S, Steach H, Huang J, Huguet G, Narain J, You K, Mourgkos G, Dhodapkar RM, Hirn MJ, Rieck B, Wolf G, Krishnaswamy S, Hafler BP. Single-cell analysis reveals inflammatory interactions driving macular degeneration. Nat Commun. 2023 May 5;14(1):2589. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37025-7. PMID: 37147305; PMCID: PMC10162998. [pdf]

• Fan R, Liu Y, DiStasio M, Su G, Asashima H, Enninful A, Qin X, Deng Y, Bordignon P, Cassano M, Tomayko M, Xu M, Halene S, Craft J, Hafler D. Spatial-CITE-seq: spatially resolved high-plex protein and whole transcriptome co-mapping. Nat Biotechnol. 2023 Feb 23. doi: 10.1038/s41587-023-01676-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36823353. [pdf]

• Hanin A, Cespedes J, Huttner A, Strelnikov D, Gopaul M, DiStasio M, Vezzani A, Hirsch LJ, Aronica E. Neuropathology of New-Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus (NORSE). J Neurol. 2023 Apr 20. doi: 10.1007/s00415-023-11726-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37079033. [pdf]

• Suster DI, Craig Mackinnon A, DiStasio M, Basu MK, Pihan G, Suster S. Atypical thymomas with squamoid and spindle cell features: clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical and molecular genetic study of 120 cases with long-term follow-up. Mod Pathol. 2022 Feb 10. doi: 10.1038/s41379-022-01013-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35145198. [pdf]

• Jang AI, Bernstock JD, Segar DJ, DiStasio M, Matulonis U, Bi WL. Case Report: Frontoparietal Metastasis From a Primary Fallopian Tube Carcinoma. Front Surg. 2021 Feb 17;8:594570. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2021.594570. PMID: 33681280; PMCID: PMC7927667. [pdf]

• DiStasio M, Nagakura I, Nadler M, Anderson MP. T-lymphocytes and Cytotoxic Astrocyte Blebs Correlate Across Autism Brains. Annals of Neurology. 2019 18(6):885-898 doi: 10.1002/ana.25610.

• Slavin J, DiStasio M, Dellaripa P, Groff M. Odontoid Cervical Gout Causing Atlantoaxial Instability: A Case Report. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine 1, 1–4 (2019). [pdf]

• VanderLaan PA, Chen Y, DiStasio M, Rangachari D, Costa DB, Heher YK. Molecular Testing Turnaround Time in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Monitoring a Moving Target. Clin Lung Cancer. 2018 Sep;19(5):e589-e590. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2018.04.005.

• Ravindran K, DiStasio M, Laham R, Ogilvy CS, Thomas AJ, VanderLaan PA, Alturki A. Histopathological demonstration of subacute endothelialization following aneurysm re-treatment with the Pipeline embolization device. World Neurosurg. 2018 Jul 18. pii: S1878-8750(18)31568-7.

• Zhao Y, Bucur O, Irshad H, Chen F, Weins A, Stancu AL, Oh EY, DiStasio M, Torous V, Glass B, Stillman IE, Schnitt SJ, Beck AH, Boyden ES. Nanoscale imaging of clinical specimens using pathology-optimized expansion microscopy. Nat Biotechnol. 2017 Jul 17. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3892. [pdf]

• DiStasio M, Chen Y, Rangachari D, Costa DB, Heher YK, VanderLaan PA. Molecular Testing Turnaround Time for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in Routine Clinical Practice Confirms Feasibility of CAP/IASLC/AMP Guideline Recommendations: A Single-center Analysis. Clin Lung Cancer. 2017 Mar 14. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2017.03.001.

• DiStasio M and Balogh K. Community-acquired lobar pneumonia encountered at autopsy. IDCases. 2016 Sep 19;6:34-5. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2016.09.006.

• Semework M and DiStasio M. Short-term dynamics of causal information transfer in thalamocortical networks during natural inputs and microstimulation for somatosensory neuroprosthesis. Front Neuroeng. 2014 Sep 9;7:36. doi: 10.3389/fneng.2014.00036

• DiStasio M and Francis JT. Use of Frontal Lobe Hemodynamics as Reinforcement Signals to an Adaptive Controller. PLoS One. 2013 Jul 22;8(7):e69541. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069541.

• Choi JS* and DiStasio M*, Brockmeier AJ, Francis JT. An electric field model for prediction of somatosensory (S1) cortical field potentials induced by ventral posterior lateral (VPL) thalamic microstimulation. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2012 Mar;20(2):161-9. [pdf]

• Brockmeier AJ, Choi JS, Distasio MM, Francis JT, Príncipe JC. Optimizing microstimulation using a reinforcement learning framework. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011;2011:1069-72. [pdf]

• Alexeeva N, Sames C, Jacobs P, Hobday L, DiStasio MM, Mitchell SA, Calancie B. Comparison of training methods to improve walking in persons with chronic spinal cord injury: a randomized clinical trial. J Spinal Cord Med. 2011;34(4):362-79.

• Scheinost D, Teisseyre TZ, Distasio MM, DeSalvo MN, Papademetris X, Blumenfeld H. New Open Source Ictal SPECT Analysis Method Implemented in BioImage Suite. Epilepsia. 2010 Apr;51(4):703-7 [pdf]

• Meltzer JA, Zaveri H, Goncharova I, DiStasio MM, Papademetris X, Spencer S, Spencer D, Constable RT. Effects of working memory load on oscillatory power in human intracranial EEG. Cerebral Cortex 2008 18(8):1843-1855 [pdf]

• Papademetris X, Jackowski MP, Rajeevan N, DiStasio M, Okuda H, Constable RT, Staib LH. BioImage Suite: An integrated medical image analysis suite: An update. Insight J. 2006;2006:209. PMID: 25364771