Joe Nassour, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Publications

  • Vaurs M, Claude E, Zanella E, Rodrigues J, Nassour J, Karlseder J, Azzalin CM, Doksani Y, Decottignies A. TRF1 relies on fork reversal to prevent fragility at human telomeres. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 11;16(1):6439. PubMed PMID: 40645989
  • Nassour J, Karlseder J. Telomere Crisis Shapes Cancer Evolution. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2025 Aug 11. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 40789644
  • Constitutive cGAS-STING activation in ALT+ cells Dan Geelen, Alexander Beacom, Mélina Vaurs, Manon Mahieu, Rachid Boutoual, Amélie Derumier, Remington Hoerr, View ORCID ProfileAxelle Loriot, Joe Nassour, Anabelle Decottignies. Dan Geelen and Alexander Beacom contributed equally to this work and share first authorship. Joe Nassour and Anabelle Decottignies contributed equally and share senior authorship.
  • Nassour J, Przetocka S, Karlseder J. Telomeres as hotspots for innate immunity and inflammation. DNA Repair (Amst). 2024 Jan;133:103591. PubMed PMID: 37951043
  • Nassour J, Aguiar LG, Correia A, Schmidt TT, Mainz L, Przetocka S, Haggblom C, Tadepalle N, Williams A, Shokhirev MN, Akincilar SC, Tergaonkar V, Shadel GS, Karlseder J. Telomere-to-mitochondria signalling by ZBP1 mediates replicative crisis. Nature. 2023 Feb;614(7949):767-773. PubMed PMID: 36755096

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