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Biography

Joseph Floramo, Ph.D., is a biological sciences adjunct faculty member at Saint Xavier University. He completed his doctorate in cell and molecular biology at the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids in the lab of Tao Yang, Ph.D., where the focus of his research was on developing a tracking tool for the post-translational modification of polySUMOylation. He also completed a master's degree and bachelor's degree in biological sciences at Purdue University Northwest - Hammond Campus. He completed a master’s thesis under Radmila Sarac-Stanic, Ph.D., characterizing the exosomes in the context of cystic fibrosis. During this time, he taught a variety of labs, including cell biology, genetics, microbiology, and animal physiology and assisted with cell and tissue culture and recombinant DNA techniques. With a wide range of research interests, he likes to encourage and assist undergraduate researchers to gain experience and knowledge and develop new skills that will help them in all aspects of life.

Publications

• Floramo JS, Zhao Y, Cohen L, Gallik K, Brass D, Yang T. An RNF4-Based Tool for Tracking Subcellular Localization of PolySUMOylation During Cellular Stress. Biomolecules. 2026; 16(5):748. 
• Joseph S. Floramo, Vladimir Molchanov, Huadie Liu, Ye Liu, Sonya E.L. Craig and Tao Yang. An Integrative View of Stressors as Causative Agents in OA Pathogenesis. Biomolecules. 2023. 
• Huadie Liu, Sonya E.L. Craig, Vladimir Molchanov, Joseph S. Floramo, Yaguang Zhao and Tao Yang. SUMOylation in Skeletal Development, Homeostasis, and Disease. Cells 2022, 11(17), 2710.  
• Huadie Liu, Ye Liu, Seung-Gi Jin, Jennifer Johnson, Hongwen Xuan, Di Lu, Jianshuang Li, Lukai Zhai, Xianfeng Li, Yaguang Zhao, Minmin Liu, Sonya E. L. Craig, Joseph S. Floramo, Vladimir Molchanov, Jie Li, Jia-Da Li, Connie Krawczyk, Xiabong Shi, Gerd P Pfeifer, Tao Yang. TRIM28 secures skeletal stem cell fate during skeletogenesis by silencing neural gene expression and repressing GREM1/AKT/mTOP signaling axis. Cell Reports 2023.