Eszter Vladar, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine-Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care


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Graduate School
  • PhD, Stanford University (2007)
Undergraduate School
  • BS, University of California–Davis (CA) (2000)
Department
Medicine-Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care

Publications

  • Benam KH, Vladar EK, Janssen WJ, Evans CM. Mucociliary Defense: Emerging Cellular, Molecular, and Animal Models. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2018 Nov;15(Supplement_3):S210-S215. PubMed PMID: 30431350
  • Vladar EK, Stratton MB, Saal ML, Salazar-De Simone G, Wang X, Wolgemuth D, Stearns T, Axelrod JD. Cyclin-dependent kinase control of motile ciliogenesis. Elife. 2018 Aug 28;7. PubMed PMID: 30152757
  • Lang UE, Torres R, Cheung C, Vladar EK, McCalmont TH, Kim J, Judson-Torres RL. Ciliation index is a useful diagnostic tool in challenging spitzoid melanocytic neoplasms. J Invest Dermatol. 2020 Jan 21. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31978411
  • Stevens EM, Vladar EK, Alanin MC, Christensen ST, von Buchwald C, Milla C. Ciliary Localization of the Intraflagellar Transport Protein IFT88 Is Disrupted in Cystic Fibrosis. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2020 Jan;62(1):120-123. PubMed PMID: 31891309
  • Smith P, Godde N, Rubio S, Tekeste M, Vladar EK, Axelrod JD, Henderson DJ, Milgrom-Hoffman M, Humbert PO, Hinck L. VANGL2 regulates luminal epithelial organization and cell turnover in the mammary gland. Sci Rep. 2019 May 8;9(1):7079. PubMed PMID: 31068622
  • Everman JL, Sajuthi S, Saef B, Rios C, Stoner AM, Numata M, Hu D, Eng C, Oh S, Rodriguez-Santana J, Vladar EK, Voelker DR, Burchard EG, Seibold MA. Functional genomics of CDHR3 confirms its role in HRV-C infection and childhood asthma exacerbations. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019 Oct;144(4):962-971. PubMed PMID: 30930175
  • Goldfarbmuren KC, Jackson ND, Sajuthi SP, Dyjack N, Li KS, Rios CL, Plender EG, Montgomery MT, Everman JL, Bratcher PE, Vladar EK, Seibold MA. Dissecting the cellular specificity of smoking effects and reconstructing lineages in the human airway epithelium. Nat Commun. 2020 May 19;11(1):2485. PubMed PMID: 32427931
  • Montgomery MT, Sajuthi SP, Cho SH, Everman JL, Rios CL, Goldfarbmuren KC, Jackson ND, Saef B, Cromie M, Eng C, Medina V, Elhawary JR, Oh SS, Rodriguez-Santana J, Vladar EK, Burchard EG, Seibold MA. Genome-wide Analysis Reveals Mucociliary Remodeling of the Nasal Airway Epithelium Induced by Urban PM2.5. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2020 Apr 10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32275839
  • Vladar EK, Königshoff M. Noncanonical Wnt planar cell polarity signaling in lung development and disease. Biochem Soc Trans. 2020 Feb 28;48(1):231-243. PubMed PMID: 32096543
  • Kunimoto K, Bayly RD, Vladar EK, Vonderfecht T, Gallagher AR, Axelrod JD. Disruption of Core Planar Cell Polarity Signaling Regulates Renal Tubule Morphogenesis but Is Not Cystogenic. Curr Biol. 2017 Oct 23;27(20):3120-3131.e4. PubMed PMID: 29033332
  • Böscke R, Vladar EK, Könnecke M, Hüsing B, Linke R, Pries R, Reiling N, Axelrod JD, Nayak JV, Wollenberg B. Wnt Signaling in Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2017 May;56(5):575-584. PubMed PMID: 28059551
  • Vladar EK, Mitchell BJ. It's a family act: the geminin triplets take center stage in motile ciliogenesis. EMBO J. 2016 May 2;35(9):904-6. PubMed PMID: 27006276
  • Lang UE, Cheung C, Vladar EK, Swetter SM, Kim J. Loss of primary cilia correlates with cytologic severity in dysplastic melanocytic nevi. J Cutan Pathol. 2016 Feb;43(2):113-9. PubMed PMID: 26272818
  • Vladar EK, Nayak JV, Milla CE, Axelrod JD. Airway epithelial homeostasis and planar cell polarity signaling depend on multiciliated cell differentiation. JCI Insight. 2016 Aug 18;1(13). PubMed PMID: 27570836
  • Yuan K, Orcholski ME, Panaroni C, Shuffle EM, Huang NF, Jiang X, Tian W, Vladar EK, Wang L, Nicolls MR, Wu JY, de Jesus Perez VA. Activation of the Wnt/planar cell polarity pathway is required for pericyte recruitment during pulmonary angiogenesis. Am J Pathol. 2015 Jan;185(1):69-84. PubMed PMID: 25447046
  • Laurencon A, Orme CM, Peters HK, Boulton CL, Vladar EK, Langley SA, Bakis EP, Harris DT, Harris NJ, Wayson SM, Hawley RS, Burtis KC. A large-scale screen for mutagen-sensitive loci in Drosophila. Genetics. 2004 May;167(1):217-31. PubMed PMID: 15166149
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Balkissoon CD, Vladar EK, Ramakrishnan VR, Lynch DA, Taylor-Cousar JL. Machine learning evaluates improvement in sinus computed tomography opacification with CFTR modulator therapy. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2020 Nov 2. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33140564
  • Aros CJ, Vijayaraj P, Pantoja CJ, Bisht B, Meneses LK, Sandlin JM, Tse JA, Chen MW, Purkayastha A, Shia DW, Sucre JMS, Rickabaugh TM, Vladar EK, Paul MK, Gomperts BN. Distinct Spatiotemporally Dynamic Wnt-Secreting Niches Regulate Proximal Airway Regeneration and Aging. Cell Stem Cell. 2020 Sep 3;27(3):413-429.e4. PubMed PMID: 32721381
  • Goldfarbmuren KC, Jackson ND, Sajuthi SP, Dyjack N, Li KS, Rios CL, Plender EG, Montgomery MT, Everman JL, Bratcher PE, Vladar EK, Seibold MA. Dissecting the cellular specificity of smoking effects and reconstructing lineages in the human airway epithelium. Nat Commun. 2020 May 19;11(1):2485. PubMed PMID: 32427931
  • Montgomery MT, Sajuthi SP, Cho SH, Everman JL, Rios CL, Goldfarbmuren KC, Jackson ND, Saef B, Cromie M, Eng C, Medina V, Elhawary JR, Oh SS, Rodriguez-Santana J, Vladar EK, Burchard EG, Seibold MA. Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals Mucociliary Remodeling of the Nasal Airway Epithelium Induced by Urban PM(2.5). Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2020 Aug;63(2):172-184. PubMed PMID: 32275839
  • Vladar EK, Königshoff M. Noncanonical Wnt planar cell polarity signaling in lung development and disease. Biochem Soc Trans. 2020 Feb 28;48(1):231-243. PubMed PMID: 32096543
  • Vladar EK, Brody SL. Analysis of ciliogenesis in primary culture mouse tracheal epithelial cells. Methods Enzymol. 2013;525:285-309. PubMed PMID: 23522475
  • Lang UE, Torres R, Cheung C, Vladar EK, McCalmont TH, Kim J, Judson-Torres RL. Ciliation Index Is a Useful Diagnostic Tool in Challenging Spitzoid Melanocytic Neoplasms. J Invest Dermatol. 2020 Jul;140(7):1401-1409.e2. PubMed PMID: 31978411
  • Vladar EK, Lee YL, Stearns T, Axelrod JD. Observing planar cell polarity in multiciliated mouse airway epithelial cells. Methods Cell Biol. 2015;127:37-54. PubMed PMID: 25837385
  • Stevens EM, Vladar EK, Alanin MC, Christensen ST, von Buchwald C, Milla C. Ciliary Localization of the Intraflagellar Transport Protein IFT88 Is Disrupted in Cystic Fibrosis. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2020 Jan;62(1):120-123. PubMed PMID: 31891309
  • Klos Dehring DA, Vladar EK, Werner ME, Mitchell JW, Hwang P, Mitchell BJ. Deuterosome-mediated centriole biogenesis. Dev Cell. 2013 Oct 14;27(1):103-12. PubMed PMID: 24075808
  • Tan FE, Vladar EK, Ma L, Fuentealba LC, Hoh R, Espinoza FH, Axelrod JD, Alvarez-Buylla A, Stearns T, Kintner C, Krasnow MA. Myb promotes centriole amplification and later steps of the multiciliogenesis program. Development. 2013 Oct;140(20):4277-86. PubMed PMID: 24048590
  • Vladar EK, Bayly RD, Sangoram AM, Scott MP, Axelrod JD. Microtubules enable the planar cell polarity of airway cilia. Curr Biol. 2012 Dec 4;22(23):2203-12. PubMed PMID: 23122850
  • Guntur VP, Manka LA, Moore CM, Wynn E, Vladar EK, Alam R, Pham TH, Fingerlin TE, Martin RJ. Refractory neutrophilic asthma and ciliary genes. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Jan 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35034774
  • Vladar EK, Antic D, Axelrod JD. Planar cell polarity signaling: the developing cell's compass. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2009 Sep;1(3):a002964. PubMed PMID: 20066108
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Balkissoon CD, Strand M, E Miller J, Khatiwada A, Vladar EK, Lynch DA, Taylor-Cousar JL. Olfactory dysfunction in people with cystic fibrosis with at least one copy of F508del. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2021 Dec 15. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34908251
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Balkissoon CD, Strand M, Vladar EK, Ramakrishnan VR, Taylor-Cousar JL. Olfactory dysfunction in cystic fibrosis: Impact of CFTR modulator therapy. J Cyst Fibros. 2021 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34598881
  • Bassuk AG, Wallace RH, Buhr A, Buller AR, Afawi Z, Shimojo M, Miyata S, Chen S, Gonzalez-Alegre P, Griesbach HL, Wu S, Nashelsky M, Vladar EK, Antic D, Ferguson PJ, Cirak S, Voit T, Scott MP, Axelrod JD, Gurnett C, Daoud AS, Kivity S, Neufeld MY, Mazarib A, Straussberg R, Walid S, Korczyn AD, Slusarski DC, Berkovic SF, El-Shanti HI. A homozygous mutation in human PRICKLE1 causes an autosomal-recessive progressive myoclonus epilepsy-ataxia syndrome. Am J Hum Genet. 2008 Nov;83(5):572-81. PubMed PMID: 18976727
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Balkissoon CD, Strand M, Vladar EK, Lynch DA, Taylor-Cousar JL. Impact of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Therapy on Chronic Rhinosinusitis and Health Status: Deep Learning CT Analysis and Patient-reported Outcomes. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 Jan;19(1):12-19. PubMed PMID: 34436985
  • Bridges JP, Vladar EK, Huang H, Mason RJ. Respiratory epithelial cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19. Thorax. 2022 Feb;77(2):203-209. PubMed PMID: 34404754
  • Carraro G, Langerman J, Sabri S, Lorenzana Z, Purkayastha A, Zhang G, Konda B, Aros CJ, Calvert BA, Szymaniak A, Wilson E, Mulligan M, Bhatt P, Lu J, Vijayaraj P, Yao C, Shia DW, Lund AJ, Israely E, Rickabaugh TM, Ernst J, Mense M, Randell SH, Vladar EK, Ryan AL, Plath K, Mahoney JE, Stripp BR, Gomperts BN. Transcriptional analysis of cystic fibrosis airways at single-cell resolution reveals altered epithelial cell states and composition. Nat Med. 2021 May;27(5):806-814. PubMed PMID: 33958799
  • Vladar EK, Axelrod JD. Dishevelled links basal body docking and orientation in ciliated epithelial cells. Trends Cell Biol. 2008 Nov;18(11):517-20. PubMed PMID: 18819800
  • Guo K, Barrett BS, Mickens KL, Vladar EK, Morrison JH, Hasenkrug KJ, Poeschla EM, Santiago ML. Interferon Resistance of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants. bioRxiv. 2021 Dec 10. PubMed PMID: 33758840
  • Vladar EK, Stearns T. Molecular characterization of centriole assembly in ciliated epithelial cells. J Cell Biol. 2007 Jul 2;178(1):31-42. PubMed PMID: 17606865
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Balkissoon CD, Vladar EK, Ramakrishnan VR, Lynch DA, Taylor-Cousar JL. Machine learning evaluates improvement in sinus computed tomography opacification with CFTR modulator therapy. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2021 May;11(5):953-954. PubMed PMID: 33140564
  • Vohwinkel CU, Burns N, Coit E, Yuan X, Vladar EK, Sul C, Schmidt EP, Carmeliet P, Stenmark K, Nozik ES, Tuder RM, Eltzschig HK. HIF1A-dependent induction of alveolar epithelial PFKFB3 dampens acute lung injury. JCI Insight. 2022 Nov 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36326834
  • Kunimoto K, Weiner AT, Axelrod JD, Vladar EK. Distinct overlapping functions for Prickle1 and Prickle2 in the polarization of the airway epithelium. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022;10:976182. PubMed PMID: 36176272
  • Guo K, Barrett BS, Morrison JH, Mickens KL, Vladar EK, Hasenkrug KJ, Poeschla EM, Santiago ML. Interferon resistance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Aug 9;119(32):e2203760119. PubMed PMID: 35867811
  • Kim E, Mathai SK, Stancil IT, Ma X, Hernandez-Gutierrez A, Becerra JN, Marrero-Torres E, Hennessy CE, Hatakka K, Wartchow EP, Estrella A, Huber JP, Cardwell JH, Burnham EL, Zhang Y, Evans CM, Vladar EK, Schwartz DA, Dobrinskikh E, Yang IV. Aberrant Multiciliogenesis in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2022 Aug;67(2):188-200. PubMed PMID: 35608953
  • Heinzelmann K, Hu Q, Hu Y, Dobrinskikh E, Ansari M, Melo-Narváez MC, Ulke HM, Leavitt C, Mirita C, Trudeau T, Saal ML, Rice P, Gao B, Janssen WJ, Yang IV, Schiller HB, Vladar EK, Lehmann M, Königshoff M. Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies G-protein coupled receptor 87 as a basal cell marker expressed in distal honeycomb cysts in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Eur Respir J. 2022 Jun;59(6). PubMed PMID: 35604813
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Miller JE, Balkissoon CD, Khatiwada A, Vladar EK, Ramakrishnan VR, Lynch DA, Taylor-Cousar JL. Objective and patient-based measures of chronic rhinosinusitis in people with cystic fibrosis treated with highly effective modulator therapy. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2022 Nov;12(11):1435-1438. PubMed PMID: 35595546
  • Nick JA, Dedrick RM, Gray AL, Vladar EK, Smith BE, Freeman KG, Malcolm KC, Epperson LE, Hasan NA, Hendrix J, Callahan K, Walton K, Vestal B, Wheeler E, Rysavy NM, Poch K, Caceres S, Lovell VK, Hisert KB, de Moura VC, Chatterjee D, De P, Weakly N, Martiniano SL, Lynch DA, Daley CL, Strong M, Jia F, Hatfull GF, Davidson RM. Host and pathogen response to bacteriophage engineered against Mycobacterium abscessus lung infection. Cell. 2022 May 26;185(11):1860-1874.e12. PubMed PMID: 35568033
  • Bai X, Buckle AM, Vladar EK, Janoff EN, Khare R, Ordway D, Beckham D, Fornis LB, Majluf-Cruz A, Fugit RV, Freed BM, Kim S, Sandhaus RA, Chan ED. Author Correction: Enoxaparin augments alpha-1-antitrypsin inhibition of TMPRSS2, a promising drug combination against COVID-19. Sci Rep. 2022 Apr 19;12(1):6466. PubMed PMID: 35440617
  • Bai X, Buckle AM, Vladar EK, Janoff EN, Khare R, Ordway D, Beckham D, Fornis LB, Majluf-Cruz A, Fugit RV, Freed BM, Kim S, Sandhaus RA, Chan ED. Enoxaparin augments alpha-1-antitrypsin inhibition of TMPRSS2, a promising drug combination against COVID-19. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 25;12(1):5207. PubMed PMID: 35338216
  • Winnica DE, Monzon A, Ye S, Vladar EK, Saal M, Cooney R, Liu C, Sharma S, Holguin F. Airway epithelial Paraoxonase-2 in obese asthma. PLoS One. 2022;17(3):e0261504. PubMed PMID: 35286330
  • Guntur VP, Manka LA, Moore CM, Wynn E, Vladar EK, Alam R, Pham TH, Fingerlin TE, Martin RJ. Refractory neutrophilic asthma and ciliary genes. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Jun;149(6):1970-1980. PubMed PMID: 35034774
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Balkissoon CD, Strand M, E Miller J, Khatiwada A, Vladar EK, Lynch DA, Taylor-Cousar JL. Olfactory dysfunction in people with cystic fibrosis with at least one copy of F508del. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2022 Jul;12(7):963-966. PubMed PMID: 34908251
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Balkissoon CD, Strand M, Vladar EK, Ramakrishnan VR, Taylor-Cousar JL. Olfactory dysfunction in cystic fibrosis: Impact of CFTR modulator therapy. J Cyst Fibros. 2022 Mar;21(2):e141-e147. PubMed PMID: 34598881
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Balkissoon CD, Strand M, Vladar EK, Lynch DA, Taylor-Cousar JL. Impact of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Therapy on Chronic Rhinosinusitis and Health Status: Deep Learning CT Analysis and Patient-reported Outcomes. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 Jan;19(1):12-19. PubMed PMID: 34436985
  • Bridges JP, Vladar EK, Huang H, Mason RJ. Respiratory epithelial cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19. Thorax. 2022 Feb;77(2):203-209. PubMed PMID: 34404754
  • Carraro G, Langerman J, Sabri S, Lorenzana Z, Purkayastha A, Zhang G, Konda B, Aros CJ, Calvert BA, Szymaniak A, Wilson E, Mulligan M, Bhatt P, Lu J, Vijayaraj P, Yao C, Shia DW, Lund AJ, Israely E, Rickabaugh TM, Ernst J, Mense M, Randell SH, Vladar EK, Ryan AL, Plath K, Mahoney JE, Stripp BR, Gomperts BN. Transcriptional analysis of cystic fibrosis airways at single-cell resolution reveals altered epithelial cell states and composition. Nat Med. 2021 May;27(5):806-814. PubMed PMID: 33958799
  • Guo K, Barrett BS, Mickens KL, Vladar EK, Morrison JH, Hasenkrug KJ, Poeschla EM, Santiago ML. Interferon Resistance of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants. bioRxiv. 2021 Dec 10. PubMed PMID: 33758840
  • Beswick DM, Humphries SM, Balkissoon CD, Vladar EK, Ramakrishnan VR, Lynch DA, Taylor-Cousar JL. Machine learning evaluates improvement in sinus computed tomography opacification with CFTR modulator therapy. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2021 May;11(5):953-954. PubMed PMID: 33140564
  • Miller JE, Taylor-Cousar JL, Humphries SM, Khatiwada A, Chen H, Wilson A, Vladar EK, Lynch DA, Li DA, Beswick DM. Chronic rhinosinusitis and olfaction after highly effective modulator therapy: The role of individual sinus inflammation. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2023 Dec 26. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38146638
  • Beswick DM, Khatiwada A, Miller JE, Humphries SM, Wilson A, Vladar EK, Lynch DA, Taylor-Cousar JL. Impact of highly effective modulator therapy on chronic rhinosinusitis and health status: 2-year follow-up. J Cyst Fibros. 2023 Oct 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37805356
  • Hisert KB, Vladar EK. Cystic Fibrosis Airways: Does Disease Stem from Faulty Stem Cells?. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Nov 1;208(9):913-914. PubMed PMID: 37751560
  • Cooney RA, Saal ML, Geraci KP, Maynard C, Cleaver O, Hoang ON, Moore TT, Hwang RF, Axelrod JD, Vladar EK. A WNT4- and DKK3-driven canonical to noncanonical Wnt signaling switch controls multiciliogenesis. J Cell Sci. 2023 Aug 15;136(16). PubMed PMID: 37505110
  • Ozekin YH, Saal ML, Pineda RH, Moehn K, Ordonez-Erives MA, Delgado Figueroa MF, Frazier C, Korth KM, Königshoff M, Bates EA, Vladar EK. Intrauterine exposure to nicotine through maternal vaping disrupts embryonic lung and skeletal development via the Kcnj2 potassium channel. Dev Biol. 2023 Sep;501:111-123. PubMed PMID: 37353105
  • Vladar EK, Kunimoto K, Rojas-Hernandez LS, Spano JM, Sellers ZM, Joo NS, Cooney RA, Axelrod JD, Milla CE. Notch signaling inactivation by small molecule ?-secretase inhibitors restores the multiciliated cell population in the airway epithelium. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2023 Jun 1;324(6):L771-L782. PubMed PMID: 37039381
  • Numata M, Sajuthi S, Bochkov YA, Loeffler J, Everman J, Vladar EK, Cooney RA, Reinhardt RL, Liu AH, Seibold MA, Voelker DR. Anionic Pulmonary Surfactant Lipid Treatment Inhibits Rhinovirus A Infection of the Human Airway Epithelium. Viruses. 2023 Mar 14;15(3). PubMed PMID: 36992456

Practice Locations

UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
12605 E. 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0000