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Leal, S.M., Hastings, S., Hsia, Y., Ghannoum, M., Momany, M. and E. Pearlman. 2010. Distinct Roles for Dectin-1 and TLR4 in the Pathogenesis of Aspergillus fumigatus Keratitis. PLoSPath, 6:1000976:1-16.

Lindsey, R., Ha,Y. and M. Momany. 2010. A septin from the filamentous fungus A. nidulans induces atypical pseudohyphae in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae.  PLoSOne5:9858.

Pearlman, E., Leal, S., Tarabishy, A., Sun, Y., Szczotka-Flynn, L., Imamura, Y., Mukherajee, P.,Chandra, J., Momany, M., Hastings-Cowden, S. and M. Ghannoum, M. 2010. Pathogenesis of Fungal Keratitis. In Encyclopedia of the Eye. (eds. Besharse, J. Dartt, D., Battelle,B. Dana, R. Beebe, D. Bex,P., Bishop,P., Bok, D.,  D'Amore, P., Edelhauser, H. Mcloon, L., Niederkorn, J., Reh, T. and E. Tamm. Academic Press.

Lindsey, R., Cowden, S. Hernandez-Rodriguez, Y. and M. Momany. 2010. Septins AspA and AspC are important for normal development and limit the emergence of new growth foci in the multicellular fungus Aspergillus nidulans. Eukaryotic Cell 9:155-63.

Kriangripipipat, T. and M. Momany. 2009. Aspergillus nidulans protein O-mannosyltransferases play roles in cell wall integrity and developmental patterning. Eukaryotic Cell 8:1475-1485.

Hernadez-Rodriguez, Y. and M. Momany. 2008. Growth Polarity. In Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillosis (eds. Latge, JP and W. Steinbach), ASM Press.

Momany, M., Pan, F. and R. Malmberg. 2008. Evolution and conserved domains of the septins. In The Septins (eds. P. Hall, H. Russell and J. Pringle), John Wiley and Sons Ltd., p35-45.

Breakspear, A., Langford, K., Momany, M. and S. Assinder.  2007. CopA:GFP localizes to putative Golgi equivalents in Aspergillus nidulans. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 277: 90-7.

Breakspear, A. and M. Momany. 2007.  Aspergillus nidulans conidiation genes dewA, fluG and stuA are differentially regulated in early vegetative growth.  Eukaryotic Cell 6: 1697-200.

Pan, F., Malmberg, R. and M. Momany.  2007. Analysis of septins across kingdoms reveals orthology and new motifs. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7, 103.

Toledo, M., Levery, S.B., Bennion, B., Guimaraes, L.L., Castle, S.L., Lindsey, R., Momany, M., Park, C.,Straus, A.H. and H.K. Takahashi. 2007. Sphingolipids of the mycopathogen Aspergillus fumigatus: characterization of glycosylinositol phosphorylceramide antigens with manp(α1→2)Ins and glcpN(α1→2)Ins core motifs. 2007. Journal of Lipid Research 48: 1801-24.

Breakspear, A. and M. Momany. 2007.   Microarrays in Aspergillus species. In The Aspergilli (eds. S. Osmani and G. Goldman), pp 469-75, CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Breakspear, A. and M. Momany. 2007. The First Fifty Microarray Studies in Filamentous Fungi. Microbiology 153: 7-15. 

Lindsey, R. and M. Momany. 2006. Septin localization across kingdoms: three themes with variations. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 9: 1-7.

Ha, Y., Covert, S. and M. Momany. 2006. Characterization of FsFKS1, the 1, 3-β-glucan synthase from the caspofungin-resistant fungus Fusarium solani. Eukaryotic Cell 5: 1036-1042.

Hill, T.W., Loprete, D.M., Momany, M., Ha, Y., Harsch, L.M., Livesay, J.A., Mirchandani, A., Murdock, J.J., Vaughan, M.J. and Watt, M.B. 2006. Isolation of cell wall mutants in Aspergillus nidulans by screening for hypersensitivity to Calcofluor White. Mycologia 98:399-409.

Galagan JE, Calvo SE, Cuomo C, Ma LJ, Wortman JR, Batzoglou S, Lee SI, Basturkmen M, Spevak CC, Clutterbuck J, Kapitonov V, Jurka J, Scazzocchio C, Farman M, Butler J, Purcell S, Harris S, Braus GH, Draht O, Busch S, D'Enfert C, Bouchier C, Goldman GH, Bell-Pedersen D, Griffiths-Jones S, Doonan JH, Yu J, Vienken K, Pain A, Freitag M, Selker EU, Archer DB, Penalva MA, Oakley BR, Momany M, Tanaka T, Kumagai T, Asai K, Machida M, Nierman WC, Denning DW, Caddick M, Hynes M, Paoletti M, Fischer R, Miller B, Dyer P, Sachs MS, Osmani SA, Birren BW. 2005. Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae. Nature 438: 1105-1115.

Harris, S.D., Read, N.D., Roberson, R.W., Shaw, B., Seiler, S., Plamann, M. and M. Momany. 2005 Polarisome meets Spitzenkorper: Microscopy, Genetics, and Genomics Converge. Eukaryotic Cell 4: 225-229.

Momany, M. 2005. Growth Control and Polarization. 2005. Medical Mycology 4:523-525.

Lin, X. and M. Momany. 2004. Identification and complementation of abnormal hyphal branching mutants ahbA1 and ahbB1 in Aspergillus nidulans. Fungal Genetics and Biology 41: 998-1006.

Momany, M., Lindsey, R., Hill, T.W., Richardson, E.A., Momany, C., Pedreira, M., Guest, G.M., Fisher, J.F., Hessler, R.B. and K. A. Roberts. 2004. The Aspergillus fumigatus cell wall is organized in domains that are remodeled during polarity establishment. Microbiology150:3261-3268.

Harris, S.D. and M. Momany. 2004. Polarity in filamentous fungi: moving beyond the yeast paradigm. Fungal Genetics and Biology 41: 391-400.

Guest, G. M., Lin, X., Momany, M., 2004. Aspergillus nidulans RhoA is involved in polar growth, branching, and cell wall synthesis. Fungal Genetics and Biology 41: 13-22.

Lin, X., Momany, C., Momany, M., 2003. SwoHp, a nucleoside diphosphate kinase, is essential in Aspergillus nidulans. Eukaryotic Cell 2: 1169-77.

Lin, X and M. Momany. 2003. swoC plays a role in polar growth and nuclear distribution in A. nidulans. Genetics 165: 543-554.

Bennion, B., Park, C., Fuller, M., Lindsey, R., Momany, M., Jennemann, R., Levery, S. B., 2003. Glycosphingolipids of the model fungus Aspergillus nidulans: characterization of GIPCs with oligo-alpha-mannose-type glycans. Journal of Lipid Research 44: 2073-88.

Momany, M. 2002. Polarity in filamentous fungi: establishment, maintenance and new axes. Curr Opin Microbiol 5, 580-585.

Shaw, B.D. and M. Momany. 2002. Aspergillus nidulans polarity mutant swoA is complemented by protein O-mannosyltransferase pmtA. Fungal Genet. Biol.: 37, 263-270.

Shaw, B.D. and M. Momany. 2002. Aspergillus nidulans swoF is an N-myristoyl transferase. Eukaryotic Cell 1: 241-248.

Westfall, P.J. and M. Momany. 2002. The Aspergillus septin AspB plays pre- and post-mitotic roles in septum, branch, and conidiophore development. Mol. Biol. Cell.13: 110-118.

Momany, M. Richardson, E.A., VanSickle, C., and Jedd, G. 2002. Mapping Woronin body position in Aspergillus nidulans. Mycologia 94: 259-265.

Levery, S.B., Momany, M., Lindsey, R., Toledo, M.S., Shayman, J.A., Fuller, M., Brooks, K., Doong, R.L., Straus, A.H., and Takahashi, H.K. 2002. Disruption of the glucosylceramide biosynthetic pathway in Aspergillus nidulans and Aspergillus fumigatus by inhibitors of UDP-Glc:ceramide glucosyltransferase strongly affects spore germination, cell cycle, and hyphal growth. FEBS Lett 525: 59-64.

Momany, M., Zhao, J., Lindsey, R., and P.J. Westfall. 2001. Characterization of the Aspergillus nidulans septin (asp) gene family. Genetics 157: 969-977.

Momany, M. 2001. Using Microscopy to explore the duplication cycle. In Molecular and Cellular Biology of Filamentous Fungi: A Practical Approach (Talbot, ed.). pp.119-125. Oxford University Press. Oxford

Momany, M. and I. Taylor. 2000.Landmarks in the early duplication cycle of Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus nidulans: polarity, germ tube emergence and septation. Microbiology 146:3279-3284.

Guest, G. and M. Momany. 2000. Analysis of cell wall sugars in the pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus and the saprophyte Aspergillus nidulans. Mycologia 92:1047-1050.

Momany, M., Westfall, P.J., and G. Abramowsky. 1999. Aspergillus nidulans swo mutants show defects in polarity establishment, polarity maintenance, and hyphal morphogenesis. Genetics 151: 557-567.

Toledo, M.S., Levery, S. B., Straus, A.H., Suzuki, E., Momany, M., Glushka, J., Moulton, M., and Takahashi, H.K. 1999. Structural characterization of cerebrosides from mycopathogens: Quantitative changes in 2-hydroxy fatty acyl (E)- L 3,4- unsaturation associated with yeast to mycelial phase transition in Paracoccidiodes brasiliensis, and with glucosyl- versus galactosylceramide fractions in Aspergillus fumigatus. Biochemistry 38: 7294-7306.

Hamer, J.E., Morrell, J.A., Hamer, L., Wolkow, T. and M. Momany. 1998. Cellularization in Aspergillus nidulans. In Gow et al., eds. The Fungal Colony, pp. 200-229.

Momany, M., and J.E. Hamer. 1997. The relationship of actin, microtubules, and crosswall synthesis during septation in Aspergillus nidulans. Cell Motility and Cytoskeleton 38: 373-384.

Momany, M., and J.E. Hamer. 1997. The Aspergillus nidulans septin encoding gene, aspB, is essential for growth. Fungal Genet. Biol. 21: 92-100.

Momany, M., Morrell, J. M., Harris, S. D.and J.E. Hamer. 1995. Septation in A. nidulans. Can. J. Bot. 73: S396-S399.

Chua, S.S., Momany M., Mendoza, L. and P.J. Szaniszlo. 1994.Identification of three chitin synthase genes in the dimorphic fungal pathogen Sporothrix schenckii. Curr. Microbiol. 29: 151-156.

Momany, M. and P.J. Szaniszlo. 1994. DNA isolation from Wangiella dermatitidis. In Molecular Biology of Pathogenic Fungi: A Laboratory Manual (B. Maresca and G.S. Kobayashi, eds.), pp. 519-520. Telos Press, New York.

Momany, M. and P.J. Szaniszlo. 1994. PCR amplification of fungal chitin synthase homologous sequences. In Molecular Biology of Pathogenic Fungi: A Laboratory Manual (B. Maresca and G.S. Kobayashi, eds.), pp.533-536. Telos Press, New York.

Momany, M. and P.J. Szaniszlo. 1994. Membrane isolation from Wangiella dermatitidis. In Molecular Biology of Pathogenic Fungi: A Laboratory Manual (B. Maresca and G.S. Kobayashi, eds.), pp.545-550. Telos Press, New York.

Miyazaki, A., Momany, M., Szaniszlo, P.J., Jayaram, M. and T. Ootaki. 1993. Chitin synthase gene(s) of the Zygomycete fungus Phycomyces blaesleeanus. Gene 134: 129-134.

Szaniszlo, P.J. and M. Momany. 1993. Chitin, chitin synthase, and chitin synthase conserved region homologues in Wangiella dermatitidis. In Molecular Biology and Its Application to Medical Mycology (Maresca et al, eds.), pp. 229-242. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.

Bowen, A.R., Chen-Wu, J.L., Momany, M., Young, R., Szaniszlo, P.J. and P.W. Robbins. 1992. Classification of Fungal Chitin Synthases. PNAS 89: 519-523.

Teaching/ Popular science

Momany, M. 2002. Actin Anchor in the Spitzenkorper? Inoculum 53 (5): 12-13.

Momany, M. 2002. Woronin bodies unplugged. Inoculum 53 (6): 27.

Both articles appeared in Cellacious Interests, a monthly column highlighting recent work in fungal cell and molecular biology in Inoculum, the newsletter of the Mycological Society of America.

Momany, M. 1990. Gene busters, Our mysterious ally, The language of cells. Alcalde: UT Austin Alumni Magazine 78(3): 6-1; 78(4): 16-19; 78(5): 14-18. Three part series for nonscientists explaining research in the Microbiology Department.

Momany, M. 1989. Correspondence Study Guide: Biology 302, Cellular and Molecular Biology. Leecraft, J. (ed.) University of Texas at Austin Extension Instruction and Materials center; Austin, Texas.