Journal Articles

A Rapid High-Throughput Method for Determining Albumin and Globulin Contents in Pea and Soybean Seeds. Pankaj Bhowmik, Brittany Polley, Iain Wallace, John Muirhead, Zachery Belak, and Muralikrishna Narra. Sustainable Food Proteins 3(1):e70005. (2025).

Activation of the Anaphase Promoting Complex Restores Impaired Mitotic Progression and Chemosensitivity in Multiple Drug-Resistant Human Breast Cancer. Mathew Lubachowski, Cordell VanGenderen, Sarah Valentine, Zach Belak, Gerald Floyd Davies, Terra Gayle Arnason and Troy Anthony Alan Harkness. Cancers 16(9):1755 (2024).

Iron accumulation and partitioning in hydroponically grown wild and cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Tamanna A. Jahan, Shweta Kalve, Zachery Belak, Christopher Eskiw, Bunyamin Tar’an. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14 (2023).

Probability of consolidation constrains novel serotype emergence in dengue fever virus. Gilberto Sanchez-Gonzalez, Zachery R. Belak, Luis Lozano, Renaud Conde. PLoS ONE. 16(4):e0248765 (2021)

Genes responsive to rapamycin and serum deprivation are clustered on chromosomes and undergo reorganization within local chromatin environments. Zachery R. Belak, Joshua A. Pickering, Zoe E. Gillespie, Gerald Audette, Mark Eramian, Jennifer A. Mitchell, Joanna M. Bridger, Anthony Kusalik, and Christopher H. Eskiw. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 98(2) (2019)

Biochemical and gelation properties of mechanically separated pork. W. Xiang, Z. Belak, C. Eskiw, S. Ghosh, and P. J. Shand. Meat and Muscle Biology. 2(2):177 (2019)

A rapid, high-throughput method for determining chronological lifespan in budding yeast. Zachery R. Belak, Troy A. A. Harkness, and Christopher H. Eskiw. Journal of Biological Methods. 5(4):106 (2018)

Conserved RNA binding activity of a Yin-Yang 1 homologue in the ova of the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Zachery R. Belak, Nicholas Ovsenek, and Christopher H. Eskiw. Scientific Reports. 8(1):8061 (2018)

Rapid nuclear exclusion of Hcm1 in aging Saccharomyces cerevisiae leads to vacuolar alkalization and replicative senescence. Ata Ghavidel, Kunal Baxi, Martin Prusinkiewicz, Cynthia Swan, Zach R. Belak, Christopher H. Eskiw, Carlos E. Carvalho, and Troy Harkness. G3: Genes, Genomes, and Genetics. 8(5):1579-92 (2018)

Effects of fluoride on expression of bone-specific genes in developing Xenopus laevis larvae. Manoj Nair, Zachery R. Belak, Nick Ovsenek. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 89(4): 377-386 (2011).

Parameters for effective in vitro production of zinc finger nucleic acid-binding proteins. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. Zachery R. Belak, Manoj Nair, Nick Ovsenek. 58(3): 166-174 (2011).

Modulation of HSF1 activity by novobiocin and geldanamycin. Renaud Conde, Zachery R. Belak, Manoj Nair, Ruth F. O’Carroll, Nick Ovsenek. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 87(6): 845-851 (2009).

Biochemical characterization of Yin Yang 1 – RNA complexes. Zachery R. Belak, Andrew Ficzycz, Nick Ovsenek. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 86(1): 31-36 (2008).

Assembly of the Yin Yang 1 transcription factor into messenger ribonucleoprotein particles requires direct RNA binding activity. Zachery R. Belak, Nick Ovsenek. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 262: 37913-37920 (2007).

Asymmetric distribution of metals in the Xenopus laevis oocyte: a synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microprobe study. Bogdan Florin Gh. Popescu, Zachery R. Belak, Konstantin Ignatyev, Nick Ovsenek, Helen Nichol. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 85(5): 537-542 (2007).

Heat shock factor 1 is required for constitutive Hsp70 expression and normal lens development in embryonic zebrafish. Tyler G. Evans, Zachery Belak, Nick Ovsenek, Patrick H. Krone. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology. 146(1): 131-140 (2007).

Book Chapters

High-Throughput Rapid Yeast Chronological Lifespan Assay. Khawaja AA, Belak ZR, Eskiw CH, Harkness TAA. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2196:229-233 (2021).

Conference Publications

Stage-dependent analysis of mRNP proteins in oogenesis of Xenopus laevis (Talk) Bahar Bahrani, Anil Keshvara, Justin Guenther, Zachery Belak, Nick Ovsenek. (2012). American Society for Cell Biology Annual Conference 2012, San Francisco, United States, 2012-12-17

Ultrastructural analysis of chromatin domains and chromatin intermixing (Talk) Zachery R. Belak. (2017). Asilomar Chromatin, Chromosomes, and Epigenetics Conference 2017, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, 2017-12-8.