Publications
Selected Publications
Heyward FD*†, Rosen ED. Evidence of persistent hyperphagia following a dietary weight-loss intervention in mice. BioRxiv, (2024).
Heyward, F. D.*†, Liu, N., Jacobs, C., Machado, N. L. S., Ivison, R., Uner, A., Srinivasan, H., Patel, S. J., Gulko, A., Sermersheim, T., Tsai, L., Rosen, E. D. AgRP neuron cis-regulatory analysis across hunger states reveals that IRF3 mediates leptin’s acute effects. Nature Communications 15, 4646 (2024).
Heyward, F. D.*, Gilliam, D., Coleman, M. A., Gavin, C. F., Wang, J., Kaas, G., Trieu, R., Lewis, J., Moulden, J., & Sweatt, J. D. Obesity Weighs down Memory through a Mechanism Involving the Neuroepigenetic Dysregulation of Sirt1. Journal of Neuroscience 36, 1324–1335 (2016).
Heyward, F. D.* et al. Adult mice maintained on a high-fat diet exhibit object location memory deficits and reduced hippocampal SIRT1 gene expression. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 98, 25–32 (2012).
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† = corresponding author
All Publications
Heyward FD*†, Rosen ED. Evidence of persistent hyperphagia following a dietary weight-loss intervention in mice. BioRxiv, (2024).
Heyward, F. D.*†, Liu, N., Jacobs, C., Machado, N. L. S., Ivison, R., Uner, A., Srinivasan, H., Patel, S. J., Gulko, A., Sermersheim, T., Tsai, L., Rosen, E. D. AgRP neuron cis-regulatory analysis across hunger states reveals that IRF3 mediates leptin’s acute effects. Nature Communications 15, 4646 (2024).
Hayes, C.A., Berrios-Negron, A.L., Tamir, T., Hardeman, K.N., Heyward F.D.† Academic ethics of mental health: the national black postdocs framework for the addressment of support for undergraduate and graduate trainees. Neuropsychopharmacology. (2024).
Beasley HK*, Clark AL*, Garner A*, Heyward FD*, Moore E*, Nelson RG*, Ray K*, Silvers S*, Stephens D*, Woappi Y*. What does Juneteenth mean in STEMM? Cell. 2023 Jun 8;186(12):2501-2505. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.011. Epub 2023 Jun 8. PMID: 37295394.
Patel S, Liu N, Piaker S, Andrade M, Heyward FD, Sermersheim T, Edinger N, Srinivasan H, Emont M, Westcott G, Luther J, Yan S, Kumari M, Ahmad R, Deleye Y, Tchernoff A, White P, Baselli G, Meroni M, Valenti L, Tsai L, and Rosen E (2022). Hepatic IRF3 fuels dysglycemia in obesity through direct regulation of Ppp2r1b. Science Translational Medicine, Vol 14, Issue 637.
Mukaz, D. K.*, Heyward, F. D.*, & Eche, I. J.* Young researchers series #3. Trends Cell Biol 32, 553–556 (2022).
Heyward, F. D.*, Gilliam, D., Coleman, M. A., Gavin, C. F., Wang, J., Kaas, G., Trieu, R., Lewis, J., Moulden, J., & Sweatt, J. D. Obesity Weighs down Memory through a Mechanism Involving the Neuroepigenetic Dysregulation of Sirt1. Journal of Neuroscience 36, 1324–1335 (2016).
Heyward, F. D.* & Sweatt, J. D. DNA Methylation in Memory Formation: Emerging Insights. Neuroscientist 21, 475–489 (2015).
Ayers, L. W., Asok, A., Heyward, F. D., & Rosen, J. B. (2013). Freezing to the predator odor 2,4,5 dihydro 2,5 trimethylthiazoline (TMT) is disrupted by olfactory bulb removal but not trigeminal deafferentation. Behavioural Brain Research, 253, 54–59.
Heyward, F. D.* Walton, R. G., Carle, M. S., Coleman, M. A., Garvey, W. T., & Sweatt, J. D. Adult mice maintained on a high-fat diet exhibit object location memory deficits and reduced hippocampal SIRT1 gene expression. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 98, 25–32 (2012).