Beuerman, Roger

Research Interests:

Ocular surface disease, Myopia, Proteomics, Peptide Anti microbials, Biomarkers

Selected Publications:

Toshida H, Nguyen D, Beuerman RW, Murakami A.; Neurological evaluation of acute lacrimomimetic effect of Cyclosporine in an experimental rabbit dry eye model. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2009 Jun;50(6):2736-41. Epub 2009 Feb 14.

Tong L, Chew J, Yang H, Ang LP, Tan DT, Beuerman RW. Distinct gene subsets in pterygia formation and recurrence: dissecting complex biological phenomenon using genome wide expression data. BMC Med Genomics 2009 Mar 10;2(1):14.

Tong L, Diebold, Yolanda, Calonge, Margarita, Gao JP, Stern M, Beuerman RW. Comparison of Gene Expression Profiles of Conjunctival Cell Lines with Primary Cultured Conjunctival Epithelial Cells and Human Conjunctival Tissue. Gene Expression, Vol 14(5):265-278.

Zhou L, RW Beuerman, Chew AP, Koh SK, Cafaro, Thamara, Urrets-Zavalia, Enrique, Julio L, Sam, SERRA, HORACIO.; Quantitative Anaylsis of N-linked Glycoproteins in Tear Fluid of Climatic Droplet Keratopathy by Glycopeptide Capture and iTRAQ. Journal of Proteome Research. 2009 Apr;8(4):1992-2003.

Tan DT, Beuerman RW. Ocular surface research at the Singapore Eye Research Institute. Ocul Surf. 2009 Apr;27(2):115-7

Zhou L, Beuerman RW, Ang LP, Chan CM, Li SF, Chew FT, Tan DT.; Elevation of human {alpha}-defesins and S100 calcium binding protein A8 and A9 in tear fluid of ptergyium patients. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2009 May;50(5):2077-86. Epub 2009 Jan 24.

Barathi VA, Weon SR, Beuerman RW. Expression of muscarinic receptors in human and mouse sclera and their role in the regulation of sclera fibroblasts proliferation. Mol Vis. 2009 Jun 30;15:1277-93.

Bai Y, Liu S, Jiang P, Zhou L, Li J, Tang C, Verma C, Mu Y, Beuerman RW, Pervushin K. Structure-dependent charge density as a determinant of antimicrobial activity of peptides analogues of defensin. Biochemistry 2009 Aug 4;48(30):7229-39.

Zhou L, Beuerman RW, Chan CM, Zhao SZ, Li XR, Yang H, Tong L, Liu S, Stern ME, Tan D. Identification of Tear Fluid Biomarkers in Dry Eye Syndrome Using iTRAQ Quantitive Proteomics. J Proteome Res. 2009 Sep 21. [Epub ahead of print].

Riau AK, Beuerman RW, Lim LS, Mehta JS. Preservation, sterilization and de-epithelialization of human amniotic membrane for use in ocular surface reconstruction. Biomaterials Vol 31 Issue 2, Jan 2010, Page 216-225.