Education
B.S., Cellular and Molecular Biology - University of Michigan
Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, Infection, Immunity and Inflammation

Memberships
American Gastroenterological Association, Trainee Member
American Physiological Society, Trainee Member
American Association of Immunologists, Trainee Member

Awards
Rutgers NJMS Dean Morris Schaffer Award
American Physiological Society, GIL Research Recognition Award

Publications

Chawla AS, Vandereyken M, Arias M, Santiago L, Dikovskaya D, Nguyen C, Skariah N, Wenner N, Golovchenko NB, Thomson SJ, Ondari E, Garzón-Tituaña M, Anderson CJ, Bergkessel M, Hinton JCD, Edelblum KL, Pardo J, Swamy M. Distinct cell death pathways induced by granzymes collectively protect against intestinal Salmonella infection. Mucosal Immunol. In press.

Balasubramanian I, Bandyopadhyay S, Flores J, Bianchi-Smak J, Lin X, Liu H, Sun S, Golovchenko NB, Liu Y, Wang D, Patel R, Joseph I, Suntornsaratoon P, Vargas J, Green P, Bhagat G, Lagana S, Ying W, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Li W, Singh S, Zhou Z, Kollias G, Farr L, Moonah S, Yu S, Wei Z, Bonder E, Zhang L, Kiela P, Edelblum KL, Ferraris R, Liu TC, Gao N. Infection and inflammation stimulate CD74+ Paneth cell subset to regulate disease progression. EMBOJ. 2023 Nov 2;42(21).

Xu WX*, Golovchenko NB*, Fong A, Achi S, Bucar EB, Vidmar KJ, Zhang L, Frey MR, Prinz I, Pizarro TT, Kollias G, Edelblum KL. Dysregulation of gamma delta intraepithelial lymphocytes precedes Crohn’s disease-like ileitis. bioRxiv. 2023 Sep 3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.31.555710. *contributed equally

Hu MD, Golovchenko NB, Burns GL, Nair PM, Kelly TJ, Agos J, Irani MZ, Soh WS, Zeglinski MR, Lemenze A, Bonder EM, Sandrock I, Prinz I, Granville DJ, Keely S, Watson AJM, Edelblum KL; Gamma delta intraepithelial lymphocytes facilitate pathological epithelial cell shedding via CD103-mediated granzyme release. Gastroenterology. 2022 Mar;162(3):877-889

Fischer MA*, Golovchenko NB*, Edelblum KL. Gamma delta T cell migration: Separating trafficking from surveillance behaviors at barrier surfaces. Immunol Rev. 26 August 2020. *contributed equally

Grosz BR, Golovchenko NB, Ellis M, Kumar K, Nicholson GA, Antonellis A, Kennerson ML. A de novo EGR2 variant, c.1232A > G p.Asp411Gly, causes severe early-onset Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy Type 3 (Dejerine-Sottas Neuropathy). Sci Rep 9, 19336. 2019.

Seregin SS, Golovchenko N, Schaf B, Chen J, Pudlo NA, Mitchell J, Baxter NT, Zhao L, Schloss PD, Martens EC, Eaton KA, Chen GY. NLRP6 Protects Il10-/- Mice from Colitis by Limiting Colonization of Akkermansia muciniphila. Cell Reports. 2017 Jun 6;19(10):2174. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.05.074

Seregin SS, Golovchenko N, Schaf B, Eaton KA, Chen J, Chen GY. NLRP6 function in inflammatory monocytes reduces susceptibility to chemically-induced intestinal injury. Mucosal Immunology 2016; 10(2): 434-445.

Fellowships
New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Predoctoral Fellowship - COCR23PRF032