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Mandë Holford

TitleAssistant Professor of Chemistry
InstitutionHunter College, CUNY
Departmentchemistry
AddressRoom 1307 HN, Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Avenue
New York NY 10065
Phone212-772-5330
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    1. Castoe TA, Daly M, Jungo F, Kirchhoff KN, Koludarov I, Mackessy S, Macrander J, Mehr S, Modica MV, Sanchez EE, Zancolli G, Holford M. A Vision for VenomsBase: An Integrated Knowledgebase for the Study of Venoms and Their Applications. Integr Org Biol. 2025; 7(1):obaf026. PMID: 40661153.
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    2. Kirchhoff KN, Williams M, Stambouli B, Pardos-Blas JR, Courtney A, Sugarman AL, Vanselow DJ, Carrasco C, Cuddy C, Schafer WR, Cheng KC, Seuntjens E, Holford M. Neurons, Muscles, and Venom: Identifying Drivers of Cephalopod Predation. bioRxiv. 2025 Jun 15. PMID: 40661549.
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    3. Hanley D, Hauber ME, Holford M, Moya C, Spottiswoode CN, Dixit T. Pigment concentrations only partially predict avian eggshell colour mimicry in a polymorphic host-brood parasite system. Biol Lett. 2025 Jun; 21(6):20250112. PMID: 40494396.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    4. Fedosov AE, Zaharias P, Lemarcis T, Modica MV, Holford M, Oliverio M, Kantor YI, Puillandre N. Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush. Syst Biol. 2024 09 05; 73(3):521-531. PMID: 38456663.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    5. Naidu P, Holford M. Microscopic marvels: Decoding the role of micropeptides in innate immunity. Immunology. 2024 12; 173(4):605-621. PMID: 39188052.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    6. Achimba F, Faezov B, Cohen B, Dunbrack R, Holford M. Targeting Dysregulated Ion Channels in Liver Tumors with Venom Peptides. Mol Cancer Ther. 2024 Feb 01; 23(2):139-147. PMID: 38015557.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    7. Romano JD, Li H, Napolitano T, Realubit R, Karan C, Holford M, Tatonetti NP. Discovering Venom-Derived Drug Candidates Using Differential Gene Expression. Toxins (Basel). 2023 07 09; 15(7). PMID: 37505720.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    8. Holford M, Normark BB. Integrating the Life Sciences to Jumpstart the Next Decade of Discovery. Integr Comp Biol. 2022 02 05; 61(6):1984-1990. PMID: 34788424.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    9. Grillo CA, Holford M, Walter NG. From Flatland to Jupiter: Searching for Rules of Interaction Across Biological Scales. Integr Comp Biol. 2022 02 05; 61(6):2048-2052. PMID: 34254127.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    10. Achrak E, Ferd J, Schulman J, Dang T, Krampis K, Holford M. VenomFlow: An Automated Bioinformatic Pipeline for Identification of Disulfide-Rich Peptides from Venom Arsenals. Methods Mol Biol. 2022; 2498:89-97. PMID: 35727542.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    11. McDermott M, Cerullo AR, Parziale J, Achrak E, Sultana S, Ferd J, Samad S, Deng W, Braunschweig AB, Holford M. Advancing Discovery of Snail Mucins Function and Application. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2021; 9:734023. PMID: 34708024.
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    12. Gorson J, Fassio G, Lau ES, Holford M. Diet Diversity in Carnivorous Terebrid Snails Is Tied to the Presence and Absence of a Venom Gland. Toxins (Basel). 2021 02 02; 13(2). PMID: 33540609.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    13. Kelly MP, Napolitano T, Anand P, Ho JSK, Jabeen S, Kuppan J, Manir S, Holford M. Induced Disassembly of a Virus-like Particle under Physiological Conditions for Venom Peptide Delivery. Bioconjug Chem. 2021 01 20; 32(1):111-120. PMID: 33306347.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    14. Cerullo AR, Lai TY, Allam B, Baer A, Barnes WJP, Barrientos Z, Deheyn DD, Fudge DS, Gould J, Harrington MJ, Holford M, Hung CS, Jain G, Mayer G, Medina M, Monge-N?jera J, Napolitano T, Espinosa EP, Schmidt S, Thompson EM, Braunschweig AB. Comparative Animal Mucomics: Inspiration for Functional Materials from Ubiquitous and Understudied Biopolymers. ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2020 10 12; 6(10):5377-5398. PMID: 33320564.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    15. Modica MV, Gorson J, Fedosov AE, Malcolm G, Terryn Y, Puillandre N, Holford M. Macroevolutionary Analyses Suggest That Environmental Factors, Not Venom Apparatus, Play Key Role in Terebridae Marine Snail Diversification. Syst Biol. 2020 05 01; 69(3):413-430. PMID: 31504987.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    16. Fassio G, Modica MV, Mary L, Zaharias P, Fedosov AE, Gorson J, Kantor YI, Holford M, Puillandre N. Venom Diversity and Evolution in the Most Divergent Cone Snail Genus Profundiconus. Toxins (Basel). 2019 10 28; 11(11). PMID: 31661832.
      Citations: 13     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    17. Anand P, Filipenko P, Huaman J, Lyudmer M, Hossain M, Santamaria C, Huang K, Ogunwobi OO, Holford M. Selective Inhibition of Liver Cancer Cells Using Venom Peptide. Mar Drugs. 2019 Oct 17; 17(10). PMID: 31627357.
      Citations: 16     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    18. Eriksson A, Anand P, Gorson J, Grijuc C, Hadelia E, Stewart JC, Holford M, Claridge-Chang A. Using Drosophila behavioral assays to characterize terebrid venom-peptide bioactivity. Sci Rep. 2018 10 15; 8(1):15276. PMID: 30323294.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    19. Holford M, Daly M, King GF, Norton RS. Venoms to the rescue. Science. 2018 Aug 31; 361(6405):842-844. PMID: 30166472.
      Citations: 53     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    20. Angell Y, Holford M, Moos WH. Building on Success: A Bright Future for Peptide Therapeutics. Protein Pept Lett. 2018; 25(12):1044-1050. PMID: 30430932.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    21. Verdes A, Holford M. Beach to Bench to Bedside: Marine Invertebrate Biochemical Adaptations and Their Applications in Biotechnology and Biomedicine. Results Probl Cell Differ. 2018; 65:359-376. PMID: 30083928.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    22. Napolitano T, Holford M. Breakthroughs in Venom Peptide Screening Methods to Advance Future Drug Discovery. Protein Pept Lett. 2018; 25(12):1137-1148. PMID: 30381057.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    23. Angell Y, Holford M, Moos WH. Peptides 2020: A Clear Therapeutic Vision. Protein Pept Lett. 2018; 25(12):1042-1043. PMID: 30706773.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    24. Verdes A, Simpson D, Holford M. Are Fireworms Venomous? Evidence for the Convergent Evolution of Toxin Homologs in Three Species of Fireworms (Annelida, Amphinomidae). Genome Biol Evol. 2018 01 01; 10(1):249-268. PMID: 29293976.
      Citations: 15     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    25. Leffler AE, Kuryatov A, Zebroski HA, Powell SR, Filipenko P, Hussein AK, Gorson J, Heizmann A, Lyskov S, Tsien RW, Poget SF, Nicke A, Lindstrom J, Rudy B, Bonneau R, Holford M. Discovery of peptide ligands through docking and virtual screening at nicotinic acetylcholine receptor homology models. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 09 19; 114(38):E8100-E8109. PMID: 28874590.
      Citations: 33     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    26. Gorson J, Holford M. Small Packages, Big Returns: Uncovering the Venom Diversity of Small Invertebrate Conoidean Snails. Integr Comp Biol. 2016 11; 56(5):962-972. PMID: 27371389.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    27. Verdes A, Anand P, Gorson J, Jannetti S, Kelly P, Leffler A, Simpson D, Ramrattan G, Holford M. From Mollusks to Medicine: A Venomics Approach for the Discovery and Characterization of Therapeutics from Terebridae Peptide Toxins. Toxins (Basel). 2016 Apr 19; 8(4):117. PMID: 27104567.
      Citations: 20     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    28. Moon J, Gorson J, Wright ME, Yee L, Khawaja S, Shin HY, Karma Y, Musunri RL, Yun M, Holford M. Characterization and Recombinant Expression of Terebrid Venom Peptide from Terebra guttata. Toxins (Basel). 2016 Mar 03; 8(3). PMID: 26950153.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    29. Verdes A, Cho W, Hossain M, Brennan PL, Hanley D, Grim T, Hauber ME, Holford M. Nature's Palette: Characterization of Shared Pigments in Colorful Avian and Mollusk Shells. PLoS One. 2015; 10(12):e0143545. PMID: 26650398.
      Citations: 12     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    30. Kelly P, Anand P, Uvaydov A, Chakravartula S, Sherpa C, Pires E, O'Neil A, Douglas T, Holford M. Developing a Dissociative Nanocontainer for Peptide Drug Delivery. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015 Oct 09; 12(10):12543-55. PMID: 26473893.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    31. Anand P, O'Neil A, Lin E, Douglas T, Holford M. Tailored delivery of analgesic ziconotide across a blood brain barrier model using viral nanocontainers. Sci Rep. 2015 Aug 03; 5:12497. PMID: 26234920.
      Citations: 26     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    32. Holford M, Nichols R. A tale of two states. Science. 2015 Jul 31; 349(6247):455. PMID: 26228115.
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    33. Gorson J, Ramrattan G, Verdes A, Wright EM, Kantor Y, Rajaram Srinivasan R, Musunuri R, Packer D, Albano G, Qiu WG, Holford M. Molecular Diversity and Gene Evolution of the Venom Arsenal of Terebridae Predatory Marine Snails. Genome Biol Evol. 2015 May 28; 7(6):1761-78. PMID: 26025559.
      Citations: 23     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    34. Igic B, Nunez V, Voss HU, Croston R, Aidala Z, L?pez AV, Van Tatenhove A, Holford ME, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME. Using 3D printed eggs to examine the egg-rejection behaviour of wild birds. PeerJ. 2015; 3:e965. PMID: 26038720.
      Citations: 25     Fields:    
    35. Modica MV, Puillandre N, Castelin M, Zhang Y, Holford M. A good compromise: rapid and robust species proxies for inventorying biodiversity hotspots using the Terebridae (Gastropoda: Conoidea). PLoS One. 2014; 9(7):e102160. PMID: 25003611.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    36. Anand P, Grigoryan A, Bhuiyan MH, Ueberheide B, Russell V, Quino?ez J, Moy P, Chait BT, Poget SF, Holford M. Sample limited characterization of a novel disulfide-rich venom peptide toxin from terebrid marine snail Terebra variegata. PLoS One. 2014; 9(4):e94122. PMID: 24713808.
      Citations: 19     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    37. Puillandre N, Modica MV, Zhang Y, Sirovich L, Boisselier MC, Cruaud C, Holford M, Samadi S. Large-scale species delimitation method for hyperdiverse groups. Mol Ecol. 2012 Jun; 21(11):2671-91. PMID: 22494453.
      Citations: 62     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    38. Castelin M, Puillandre N, Kantor YI, Modica MV, Terryn Y, Cruaud C, Bouchet P, Holford M. Macroevolution of venom apparatus innovations in auger snails (Gastropoda; Conoidea; Terebridae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2012 Jul; 64(1):21-44. PMID: 22440724.
      Citations: 15     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    39. Puillandre N, Holford M. The Terebridae and teretoxins: Combining phylogeny and anatomy for concerted discovery of bioactive compounds. BMC Chem Biol. 2010 Sep 17; 10:7. PMID: 20849634.
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    40. Holford M, Puillandre N, Modica MV, Watkins M, Collin R, Bermingham E, Olivera BM. Correlating molecular phylogeny with venom apparatus occurrence in Panamic auger snails (Terebridae). PLoS One. 2009 Nov 05; 4(11):e7667. PMID: 19890382.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    41. Holford M, Auer S, Laqua M, Iba?ez-Tallon I. Manipulating neuronal circuits with endogenous and recombinant cell-surface tethered modulators. Front Mol Neurosci. 2009; 2:21. PMID: 19915728.
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    42. Holford M, Zhang MM, Gowd KH, Azam L, Green BR, Watkins M, Ownby JP, Yoshikami D, Bulaj G, Olivera BM. Pruning nature: Biodiversity-derived discovery of novel sodium channel blocking conotoxins from Conus bullatus. Toxicon. 2009 Jan; 53(1):90-8. PMID: 18950653.
      Citations: 36     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    43. Holford M, Puillandre N, Terryn Y, Cruaud C, Olivera B, Bouchet P. Evolution of the Toxoglossa venom apparatus as inferred by molecular phylogeny of the Terebridae. Mol Biol Evol. 2009 Jan; 26(1):15-25. PMID: 18840603.
      Citations: 17     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    44. Holford M. Made-to-measure postdocs. Nature. 2006 Oct 26; 443(7114):1028. PMID: 17133662.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    45. Ayers B, Blaschke UK, Camarero JA, Cotton GJ, Holford M, Muir TW. Introduction of unnatural amino acids into proteins using expressed protein ligation. Biopolymers. 1999; 51(5):343-54. PMID: 10685045.
      Citations: 15     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    46. Holford M, Muir TW. Adding 'splice' to protein engineering. Structure. 1998 Aug 15; 6(8):951-6. PMID: 9739093.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
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