Peer Reviewed Papers
Schaffer N, Mitias S, Guo Y, Bernstein S, and Lindberg L. The proSAAS Chaperone is Highly Expressed in Retinal Neurons. PLoS ONE 20(5): e0321867. May 16th 2025.
Mitias S, Schaffer N , Nair S, Lindberg L. ProSAAS is Preferentially Secreted from Neurons During Homeostatic Scaling and Reduces Amyloid Plaque Size in the 5xFAD Mouse Hippocampus. Journal of Neurochemistry. August 8th 2024.
Kumar S, Schaffer N, Bharmal Z, Mood Q, Erill I, Caruso S. Complete Genome and Characteristics of Cluster BC Bacteriophage SoJo, Isolated from Streptomyces mirabilis NRRL B-2400 in Columbia, Maryland. Microbiology Resource Announcements, ASM Journals. April 11th 2024.
Primary author on one and co-author on two bacteriophage genomes in NCBI, accession numbers:
OQ938581, OQ938586, and OQ995431
Poster Presentations
Schaffer N, Culver O.P, Jhou T. Acute fentanyl administration suppresses VTA glutamate afferent signaling. Society for Neuroscience, November 17th, 2025.
Schaffer N, Culver O.P, Jhou T. Dopamine Dynamics During Aversive Learning. Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience, November 8th, 2024.
Miller A, Schaffer N, Diebolt J. Examination of Late Stage Lytic Genes in BI Cluster Actinobacteriophages. UMBC Phage Hunters Poster Gala May 12th, 2023.
Schaffer N, Einsig J. From Soil to Sipho: The story of Miek. UMBC Phage Hunters Poster Gala, December 6th, 2022.
Schaffer N, Nair S, Lindberg I. The ProSAAS Neural Chaperone Interacts with Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteins. Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience Conference, September 30th, 2022.