Josiah Gerdts, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Neurology Residency UCSF 06/2020
• MD, PhD Neurobiology Washington University 05/2017
• Neuroimmunology UCSF

Publications (11)

Top publication keywords:
Nerve DegenerationMitogen-Activated Protein KinasesAxonsWallerian DegenerationSynthetic BiologyMembrane GlycoproteinsArmadillo Domain ProteinsNADNeurodegenerative DiseasesReceptors, Interleukin-1Peripheral Nerve InjuriesCytoskeletal ProteinsNeuroprotective AgentsGlycogen Synthase Kinase 3I-kappa B Kinase

• Programming multicellular assembly with synthetic cell adhesion molecules.
  Nature 2022 Stevens AJ, Harris AR, Gerdts J, Kim KH, Trentesaux C, Ramirez JT, McKeithan WL, Fattahi F, Klein OD, Fletcher DA, Lim WA
• Brain Abscess Caused by Bordetella hinzii.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2021 Mehta N, Gerdts J, Fung M, Guterman EL
• Clinical Problem Solving: An Older Woman With Weakness from Head to Toe.
  The Neurohospitalist 2021 Hartmann DA, Bock M, Douglas V, Gerdts J, Ramani B, Shah M
• Axon Self-Destruction: New Links among SARM1, MAPKs, and NAD+ Metabolism.
  Neuron 2016 Gerdts J, Summers DW, Milbrandt J, DiAntonio A
• SARM1 activation triggers axon degeneration locally via NAD⁺ destruction.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2015 Gerdts J, Brace EJ, Sasaki Y, DiAntonio A, Milbrandt J

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• Sarm1-mediated axon degeneration requires both SAM and TIR interactions.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2013 Gerdts J, Summers DW, Sasaki Y, DiAntonio A, Milbrandt J
• A model of toxic neuropathy in Drosophila reveals a role for MORN4 in promoting axonal degeneration.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2012 Bhattacharya MR, Gerdts J, Naylor SA, Royse EX, Ebstein SY, Sasaki Y, Milbrandt J, DiAntonio A
• Image-based screening identifies novel roles for IkappaB kinase and glycogen synthase kinase 3 in axonal degeneration.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2011 Gerdts J, Sasaki Y, Vohra B, Marasa J, Milbrandt J
• Inhibiting the Na+/H+ exchanger reduces reperfusion injury: a small animal MRI study.
  Frontiers in bioscience (Elite edition) 2011 Ferrazzano P, Shi Y, Manhas N, Wang Y, Hutchinson B, Chen X, Chanana V, Gerdts J, Meyerand ME, Sun D
• A concerted role of Na+ -K+ -Cl- cotransporter and Na+/Ca2+ exchanger in ischemic damage.
  Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2007 Luo J, Wang Y, Chen H, Kintner DB, Cramer SW, Gerdts JK, Chen X, Shull GE, Philipson KD, Sun D
• Role of Na+-K+-Cl- cotransport and Na+/Ca2+ exchange in mitochondrial dysfunction in astrocytes following in vitro ischemia.
  American journal of physiology. Cell physiology 2006 Kintner DB, Luo J, Gerdts J, Ballard AJ, Shull GE, Sun D