A complete list of my academically published work is available on my Google Scholar.
Selected preprints
- 1. Afanasiev, E., and Goeva, A. (2026). found: Inferring cell-level perturbation from structured label noise in single-cell data. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.10.717768.
- 2. Degenhard, T., Groh, A.M., Afanasiev, E., Luo, M., Yaqubi, M., Stratton, J.A., and Petrecca, K. (2024). An integrative layer-resolved atlas of the adult human meninges. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.13.623440.
Selected peer-reviewed publications
- 1. Groh, A.M.R., Afanasiev, E., Thevakumaran, R., Creeggan, F., Callahan-Martin, L., Bigotte, M., Yaqubi, M., Gertsvolf, J., Pei, J., Wu, H., et al. (2026). Periventricular gradient pathology is linked to ependymal reactivity and cell adhesion disruption in multiple sclerosis. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02461-3.
- 2. Butic, A.B., Afanasiev, E., Spencer, S.A., Abdelmageed, M., Paul, A., Alexander, K.M., Ayers, K.N., Schell, T.D., Lauver, M.D., Jin, G., et al. (2026). PD-1 regulates CD4+ T cell-mediated CD8+ T cell responses in the brain to balance viral control and neuroinflammation. Nature Communications 17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76762-3.
- 3. Bigotte, M., Groh, A.M.R., Afanasiev, E., Wong, V., Lancon, K., Yaqubi, M., Creeggan, F., Sinott, A., Pei, J., Moore, C.S., et al. (2025). Cerebrospinal fluid-driven ependymal motile cilia defects are implicated in multiple sclerosis. Brain 149, 2654ā2667. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaf440.
- 4. Alexander, K.M., Afanasiev, E., Butic, A.B., Jin, G., Abdelmageed, M., Paul, A., Stratton, J.A., Lukacher, A.E., and Spencer, S.A. (2025). CXCR4 and CXCR6 dually limit T cell entry into the polyomavirus-infected brain. Journal of Neuroinflammation 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-025-03496-2.
- 5. Recinto, S.J., Kazanova, A., Liu, L., Cordeiro, B., Premachandran, S., Bessaiah, H., Allot, A., Afanasiev, E., Mukherjee, S., Pei, J., et al. (2025). PINK1 deficiency rewires early immune responses in a mouse model of Parkinsonās disease triggered by intestinal infection. npj Parkinsonās Disease 11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-025-00945-w.
- 6. Drake, S.S., Zaman, A., Gianfelice, C., Hua, E.M.-L., Heale, K., Afanasiev, E., Klement, W., Stratton, J.A., Prat, A., Zandee, S., et al. (2024). Senolytic treatment diminishes microglia and decreases severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Journal of Neuroinflammation 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-024-03278-2.
- 7. Groh, A.M.R., Song, Y.L., Tea, F., Lu, B., Huynh, S., Afanasiev, E., Bigotte, M., Del Bigio, M.R., and Stratton, J.A. (2024). Multiciliated ependymal cells: an update on biology and pathology in the adult brain. Acta Neuropathologica 148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-024-02784-0.
- 8. Kibalnyk, Y., Afanasiev, E., Noble, R.M.N., Watson, A.E.S., Poverennaya, I., Dittmann, N.L., Alexiou, M., Goodkey, K., Greenwell, A.A., Ussher, J.R., et al. (2024). The chromatin regulator Ankrd11 controls cardiac neural crest cell-mediated outflow tract remodeling and heart function. Nature Communications 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48955-1.
- 9. Groh, A.M.R., CaporicciāDinucci, N., Afanasiev, E., Bigotte, M., Lu, B., Gertsvolf, J., Smith, M.D., Garton, T., CallahanāMartin, L., Allot, A., et al. (2024). Ependymal cells undergo astrocyteālike reactivity in response to neuroinflammation. Journal of Neurochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnc.16120.
- 10. Yaqubi, M., Groh, A.M.R., Dorion, M.-F., Afanasiev, E., Luo, J.X.X., Hashemi, H., Sinha, S., Kieran, N.W., Blain, M., Cui, Q.-L., et al. (2023). Analysis of the microglia transcriptome across the human lifespan using single cell RNA sequencing. Journal of Neuroinflammation 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-023-02809-7.
- 11. Yaqubi, M., Luo, J.X.X., Baig, S., Cui, Q., Petrecca, K., Desu, H., Larochelle, C., Afanasiev, E., Hall, J.A., Dudley, R., et al. (2022). Regional and ageārelated diversity of human mature oligodendrocytes. Glia 70, 1938ā1949. https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.24230.