Serra Akbas Kaya, PhD
Assistant Researcher
Orthopaedic Surgery
School of Medicine

Websites

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• Alliston Lab Website - Serra Kaya (allistonlab.ucsf.edu)

Grants and Projects

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• Joint Shape Change as a Target for Understanding, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Osteoarthritis, DOD US Army Med. Res. Acq. Activity, 2023-2027

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
Elastic ModulusActivin Receptors, Type IIOsteocytesGenome-Wide Association StudyMicroRNAsBone and BonesWnt Signaling PathwayMechanotransduction, CellularCortical BoneTransforming Growth Factor betaFractures, BoneOsteolysisBone DensityShear StrengthLactation

• Genetic and Gene Expression Resources for Osteoporosis and Bone Biology Research.
  Current osteoporosis reports 2023 Kaya S, Alliston T, Evans DS
• miR181a/b-1 controls osteocyte metabolism and mechanical properties independently of bone morphology.
  Bone 2023 Yoon J, Kaya S, Matsumae G, Dole N, Alliston T
• Bone-cartilage crosstalk informed by aging mouse bone transcriptomics and human osteoarthritis genome-wide association studies.
  Bone reports 2022 Kaya S, Bailey KN, Schurman CA, Evans DS, Alliston T
• Prioritization of Genes Relevant to Bone Fragility Through the Unbiased Integration of Aging Mouse Bone Transcriptomics and Human GWAS Analyses.
  Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2022 Kaya S, Schurman CA, Dole NS, Evans DS, Alliston T
• Mechanosensitive miR-100 coordinates TGFβ and Wnt signaling in osteocytes during fluid shear stress.
  FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2021 Dole NS, Yoon J, Monteiro DA, Yang J, Mazur CM, Kaya S, Belair CD, Alliston T
• Fluid shear stress generates a unique signaling response by activating multiple TGFβ family type I receptors in osteocytes.
  FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2021 Monteiro DA, Dole NS, Campos JL, Kaya S, Schurman CA, Belair CD, Alliston T
• Osteocyte dysfunction promotes osteoarthritis through MMP13-dependent suppression of subchondral bone homeostasis.
  Bone research 2019 Mazur CM, Woo JJ, Yee CS, Fields AJ, Acevedo C, Bailey KN, Kaya S, Fowler TW, Lotz JC, Dang A, Kuo AC, Vail TP, Alliston T
• Lactation-Induced Changes in the Volume of Osteocyte Lacunar-Canalicular Space Alter Mechanical Properties in Cortical Bone Tissue.
  Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2016 Kaya S, Basta-Pljakic J, Seref-Ferlengez Z, Majeska RJ, Cardoso L, Bromage TG, Zhang Q, Flach CR, Mendelsohn R, Yakar S, Fritton SP, Schaffler MB