Postdoctoral Fellow (2022 – present)
email: danielle.buglak@nih.gov
phone: (301) 435-3003
HISTORY
2012 – 2016 – B.S., Washington and Jefferson College
2016 – 2022 – Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (advisor: Dr. Vicky Bautch)
RESEARCH
– Mechanisms of sperm head tail connection
PUBLICATIONS
5. Buglak DB, Galleta BJ, and Rusan NM (2025) “Molecular models of the sperm head-tail coupling apparatus.” J Cell Sci. DOI: DOI: 10.1242/jcs.264168
4. Buglak DB*, Holmes KHM*, Galletta BJ, and Rusan NM (2024) “The proximal centriole-like structure maintains nucleus-centriole architecture in sperm.” J Cell Sci. DOI: 10.1242/jcs.262311.
3. Buglak DB, Bougaran P, Kulikauskas MR, Liu Z, Monaghan-Benson E, Gold AL, Marvin AP, Burciu A, Tanke NT, Oatley M, Ricketts SN, Kinghorn K, Johnson BN, Shiau CE, Rogers S, Guilluy C, Bautch VL. (2023) Nuclear SUN1 stabilizes endothelial cell junctions via microtubules to regulate blood vessel formation. Elife. Mar 29;12:e83652
2. Ruter DL, Liu Z, Ngo KM, X S, Marvin A, Buglak DB, Kidder EJ, Bautch VL. (2021) SMAD6 transduces endothelial cell flow responses required for blood vessel homeostasis. Angiogenesis. May;24(2):387-398.
1. Buglak DB, Kushner EJ, Marvin AP, Davis KL, Bautch VL. Excess centrosomes disrupt vascular lumenization and endothelial cell adherens junctions. (2020) Angiogenesis. Nov;23(4):567-575.
INVITED TALKS
2025 – 66th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. San Diego, CA.
2025 – NHLBI Research Retreat. Bethesda, MD.
2023 – Cell Bio 2023 ASCB/EMBO Meeting. Boston, MA.
OF NOTE
2025 – Best oral presentation, NHLBI Research Retreat
2024-present – NHLBI Lenfant Fellowship (intramural F32 equivalent)
2019-2021 – American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellow