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Mojca Usaj

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Mojca Usaj

Associate Professor

Biology

Faculty of Science

Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Biomedical Innovations Molecular and Cellular Biology

Latest papers

Vacuolar pH regulates clathrin-mediated endocytosis through TORC1 signaling during replicative aging.
The Journal of cell biology · 2025 · senior author
A deep learning method for event recognition in CALET data
2025
Dissipation of lysosome pH impairs formation and collapses existing LPS-induced lysosome tubules in macrophages
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025

All 41 publications

41 publications.

Vacuolar pH regulates clathrin-mediated endocytosis through TORC1 signaling during replicative aging.

Antenor KG, Lee-Dadswell J, Salahshour N, Grishchenko N, Swaleh S, Makhija G, Spangaro A, Mattiazzi Usaj M

The Journal of cell biology20253 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202412064 PMID: 40990464

A deep learning method for event recognition in CALET data

Adrien Picquenot, Michela Negro, Nicholas Wade Cannady, O. Adriani, Yosui Akaike, Kohta Asano, Y. Asaoka, E. Berti, P. Betti, Gabriele Bigongiari, Walter Robert Binns, M. Bongi, Paolo Brogi, Andrew E. Bruno, Guido Castellini, Caterina Checchia, M. L. Cherry, G. Collazuol, Georgia A. DeNolfo, K. Ebisawa, Anthony W. Ficklin, Hiroyuki Fuke, S. Gonzi, T. G. Guzik, T. Hams, K. Hibino, M. Ichimura, M. H. Israel, Kohei Kasahara, J. Kataoka, et al. (81 authors)

2025Open Access

DOI: 10.22323/1.501.0113

Dissipation of lysosome pH impairs formation and collapses existing LPS-induced lysosome tubules in macrophages

Shiraz Anwar, Solmaz Ebrahimi-Iranpour, Maria R. Narciso, Tamara Berilia, Saaimatul Huq, Tracy Lackraj, Tamara Berilia, Namrotaa Roy Chowdhury, Mojca Mattiazzi Ušaj, Roberto J. Botelho

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.25.677195

From pixels to insights: Machine learning and deep learning for bioimage analysis.

Jan M, Spangaro A, Lenartowicz M, Mattiazzi Usaj M

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology202431 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/bies.202300114 PMID: 38058114

PIFiA: self-supervised approach for protein functional annotation from single-cell imaging data.

Razdaibiedina A, Brechalov A, Friesen H, Mattiazzi Usaj M, Masinas MPD, Garadi Suresh H, Wang K, Boone C, Ba J, Andrews B

Molecular systems biology202414 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s44320-024-00029-6 PMID: 38472305

PIFiA: self-supervised approach for protein functional annotation from single-cell imaging data

Brenda Andrews, Anastasia Razdaibiedina, Alexander V. Brechalov, Helena Friesen, Mojca Mattiazzi Ušaj, Myra Paz David Masinas, Harsha Garadi Suresh, Kyle E. Wang, Charles M. Boone, Jimmy Lei Ba

2024

DOI: 10.6019/s-biad1156

Vacuolar pH regulates clathrin-mediated endocytosis through TORC1 signaling during yeast replicative aging

Kenneth Gabriel Antenor, Jaime Lee-Dadswell, Nina Grishchenko, Shaimaa Swaleh, Allie Spangaro, Mojca Mattiazzi Ušaj

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)2024Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.28.625547

PIFiA: self-supervised approach for protein functional annotation from single-cell imaging data

Brenda Andrews, Anastasia Razdaibiedina, Alexander V. Brechalov, Helena Friesen, Mojca Mattiazzi Ušaj, Myra Paz David Masinas, Harsha Garadi Suresh, Kyle E. Wang, Charles M. Boone, Jimmy Lei Ba

2024

DOI: 10.6019/s-biad1155

Identification of triazenyl indoles as inhibitors of fungal fatty acid biosynthesis with broad-spectrum activity.

Iyer KR, Li SC, Revie NM, Lou JW, Duncan D, Fallah S, Sanchez H, Skulska I, Ušaj MM, Safizadeh H, Larsen B, Wong C, Aman A, Kiyota T, Yoshimura M, Kimura H, Hirano H, Yoshida M, Osada H, Gingras AC, Andes DR, Shapiro RS, Robbins N, Mazhab-Jafari MT, Whitesell L, Yashiroda Y, Boone C, Cowen LE

Cell chemical biology202328 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2023.06.005 PMID: 37369212

PIFiA: Self-supervised Approach for Protein Functional Annotation from Single-Cell Imaging Data.

Razdaibiedina A, Brechalov A, Friesen H, Usaj MM, Masinas MPD, Suresh HG, Wang K, Boone C, Ba J, Andrews B

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology20234 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.24.529975 PMID: 36909656

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Mojca Usaj

Research

Latest papers

Vacuolar pH regulates clathrin-mediated endocytosis through TORC1 signaling during replicative aging.

A deep learning method for event recognition in CALET data

Dissipation of lysosome pH impairs formation and collapses existing LPS-induced lysosome tubules in macrophages

From pixels to insights: Machine learning and deep learning for bioimage analysis.

PIFiA: self-supervised approach for protein functional annotation from single-cell imaging data.

PIFiA: self-supervised approach for protein functional annotation from single-cell imaging data

Vacuolar pH regulates clathrin-mediated endocytosis through TORC1 signaling during yeast replicative aging

PIFiA: self-supervised approach for protein functional annotation from single-cell imaging data

Identification of triazenyl indoles as inhibitors of fungal fatty acid biosynthesis with broad-spectrum activity.

PIFiA: Self-supervised Approach for Protein Functional Annotation from Single-Cell Imaging Data.

Frequent collaborators

Mojca Mattiazzi Usaj

Brenda Andrews

Charles Boone

Elena Kuzmin

Quaid Morris

Amy Caudy

Anne-Claude Gingras

Jimmy Ba

Igor Stagljar

Grant Brown

Brian Raught

Erin Styles

Ming Tsao

Alex Nguyen Ba

Ahmed Aman

Mikko Taipale

Leah Cowen

Igor Jurisica

Ming-Sound Tsao

Roberto Botelho

Jason Moffat

Alan Moses