Intestinal epithelial development; colon cancer; inflammatory bowel disease.

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BS: Microbiology and Biochemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1995.

PhD: Cell and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2001.

Postdoctoral: Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2001-2005.

Spence JR, Lauf R, Shroyer NF. Vertebrate intestinal endoderm development. Dev Dyn. 2011 Mar;240(3):501-20.

Spence JR, Mayhew CN, Rankin SA, Kuhar MF, Vallance JE, Tolle K, Hoskins EE, Kalinichenko VV, Wells SI, Zorn AM, Shroyer NF, Wells JM. Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into intestinal tissue in vitro. Nature. 2011 Feb 3;470(7332):105-9.

Kazanjian A, Noah T, Brown D, Burkart J, Shroyer NF. Atonal homolog 1 is required for growth and differentiation effects of notch/gamma-secretase inhibitors on normal and cancerous intestinal epithelial cells. Gastroenterology. 2010 Sep;139(3):918-28, 928.e1-6.

Kohli R, Kirby M, Setchell KD, Jha P, Klustaitis K, Woollett LA, Pfluger PT, Balistreri WF, Tso P, Jandacek RJ, Woods SC, Heubi JE, Tschoep MH, D'Alessio DA, Shroyer NF, Seeley RJ. Intestinal adaptation after ileal interposition surgery increases bile acid recycling and protects against obesity-related comorbidities. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2010 Sep;299(3):G652-60.

Phelan JD, Shroyer NF, Cook T, Gebelein B, Grimes HL. Gfi1-cells and circuits: unraveling transcriptional networks of development and disease.Curr Opin Hematol. 2010 Jul;17(4):300-7.

Noah TK,Kazanjian A, Whitsett J, Shroyer NF. SAM Pointed Domain ETS Factor (SPDEF) regulates terminal differentiation and maturation of intestinal goblet cells. Exp Cell Res. 2010 Feb;316(3):452-65.

Bossuyt W, Kazanjian A, Aerts S, Leenaerts I, Claeys A, de Geest N, van Kelst S, de Hertogh G, Geboes K, Chuah M, Boivin GP, VandenDriessche T, Marynen P, Cools J, Shroyer NF, Hassan BA. Atonal homolog 1 (Atoh1) is a tumor suppressor gene. PLoS Biology. 2009;7:e39.

Kiesslich R, Goetz M, Angus EM, Hu Q, Guan Y, Potten C, Allen T, Neurath MF, Shroyer NF, Montrose MH, Watson AJM. Identification of epithelial gaps in human small and large intestine by confocal endomicroscopy: A translational study from mouse to man. Gastroenterology. 2007;133:1769-78.

Shroyer NF, Helmrath MA, Wang VY-C, Antalffy BA, Henning SJ, Zoghbi HY. Intestine specific ablation of Mouse atonal homolog 1 (Math1) reveals a role in cellular homeostasis. Gastroenterology. 2007; 132:2478-88.

Shroyer NF, Wallis Shultz D, Venken KJT, Bellen HJ, Zoghbi HY. Gfi1 functions downstream of Math1 to control intestinal secretory cell subtype allocation and differentiation. Genes and Development. 2005;19:2412-7.