• Cancer Biology
• Circadian Biology
• Circadian Rhythm Disruption in Aggressive Breast Tumor
• Immunology
• Tumor Microenvironment

Publications:

Ogunlusi O., Ghosh A., Sarkar M., Carter K., Davuluri H., Chakraborty M., Eckel-Mahan K., Menet J., Bell-Pedersen D., and Sarkar TR. Rhythm is essential: Unraveling the relation between the circadian clock and cancer. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology (2025). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.critrevonc.2025.104632.

Ogunlusi O, Mrinmoy Sarkar, Arhit Chakrabarti, Devon J Boland, Tristan Nguyen, James Sampson, Christian Nguyen, Danielle Fails, Yava Jones-Hall, Loning Fu, Bani Mallick, Alex Keene, Jeff Jones, Tapasree Roy Sarkar. Circadian rhythm disruption alters mammary gland morphology and accelerates “cold” aggressive tumorigenesis through a LILRB4-dependent pathway [preprint] doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.19.585534. Posted on bioRxiv March 20, 2024.

Sarkar M, Nguyen T, Gundre E, Ogunlusi O, El-Sobky M, Giri B, Sarkar TR. Cancer-associated fibroblasts: The chief architect in the tumor microenvironment. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2023 Jan 30; 11:1089068. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1089068. PMID: 36793444; PMCID: PMC9923123.

Sarkar M, Nguyen T, Gundre E, Ogunlusi O, El-Sobky M, Giri B, Sarkar TR. Cancer-associated fibroblasts: The chief architect in the tumor microenvironment. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2023 Jan 30; 11:1089068. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1089068. PMID: 36793444; PMCID: PMC9923123.

Presentations:

Oral Presentations

Ogunlusi, O. 2025. “Circadian rhythm disruption alters mammary gland mammary gland morphology and accelerates cold aggressive tumorigenesis through a LILRB4-dependent pathway”, Student and Postdoc Research Conference, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University. 3rd position in the Post-Candidacy Category

Ogunlusi, O. 2024. “Circadian rhythm disruption alters mammary gland mammary gland morphology and accelerates cold aggressive tumorigenesis through a LILRB4-dependent pathway”, Molecular & Mechanisms of Cancer Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (<15% of presenters get selected to give a talk).

Ogunlusi, O. 2024. “Circadian rhythm disruption alters mammary gland mammary gland morphology and accelerates cold aggressive tumorigenesis through a LILRB4-dependent pathway”, Biological & Chemical Science Symposium, Texas A&M University. 1st position in the Biological Science Category.

Ogunlusi, O. 2023. “3D-Bioprinted Vascularized Breast Cancer Model for in vivo Mimicry of Tumor Pathophysiology”, 18th Annual TAMUS Pathways Student Research Symposium. 2nd position in the Life Sciences Category.

Poster Presentations

Ogunlusi, O. 2024. “Circadian rhythm alters mammary gland morphology and accelerates “cold” aggressive tumorigenesis through a LILRB4-dependent pathway”, Texas Society for Circadian Biology and Medicine 2024 Annual Meeting.

Ogunlusi, O. 2024. “Circadian Rhythm Disruption Accelerate Mammary Tumorigenesis by Altering the Tumor Microenvironment”, Student and Postdoc Research Conference, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University.

Ogunlusi, O. 2023. “Circadian Rhythm Disruption Accelerate Mammary Tumorigenesis by Altering the Tumor Microenvironment”, San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium December 5 – 9, 2023.

Ogunlusi, O. 2023. “Circadian Rhythm Disruption Accelerate Mammary Tumorigenesis by Altering the Tumor Microenvironment”, 6th Annual Symposium, Cancer Research: Basic Science to Bioinformatics.

Ogunlusi, O. 2023. “3D-Bioprinted Vascularized Breast Cancer Model for in vivo Mimicry of Tumor Pathophysiology”, Student and Postdoc Research Conference, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University.