Recent Faculty Publications
Our research has been published in a variety of national and international peer-reviewed journals.
- Simmons SR, Lenhard AP, Battaglia MC, Bou Ghanem EN. (2025) Adenosine 2B Receptor Signaling Impairs Vaccine-Mediated Protection Against Pneumococcal Infection in Young Hosts by Blunting Neutrophil Killing of Antibody-Opsonized Bacteria. Vaccines (Apr), 13(4) doi:10.3390/vaccines13040414
- Roach SN, Phillips W, Pross LM, Sanders AE, Pierson MJ, Hunter RC, Langlois RA. (2025) Virus-induced perturbations in the mouse microbiome are impacted by microbial experience. mSphere (Feb)e0056324.
- Waxman B, Salka K, Timilsina U, Umthong S, Shukla D, Stavrou S. (2025) Heparanase, a host gene that potently restricts retrovirus transcription. mBio (Feb)e0325224.
- Ciganda M, Jackson AP, Bangs JD. (2024) Diversification of sphingolipid synthase activities in kinetoplastid protozoa. Molecular and biochemical parasitology (Dec), 260: 111656.
- Sharif M, Greenberg L, Bangs J. (2024) Multifunctional Roles of Sec13 Paralogues in the Euglenozoan Trypanosoma brucei. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (Dec). doi:10.1101/2024.12.03.626618
- Heise N, Koeller CM, Sharif M, Bangs JD. (2024) Stage-specific function of sphingolipid synthases in African trypanosomes. mBio (Dec)e0350124.
- Hunt BC, Brix V, Vath J, Guterman LB, Taddei SM, Deka N, Learman BS, Brauer AL, Shen S, Qu J, Armbruster CE. (2024) Metabolic interplay between Proteus mirabilis and Enterococcus faecalis facilitates polymicrobial biofilm formation and invasive disease. mBio (Dec), 15(12): e0216424. doi:10.1128/mbio.02164-24
- Fihn CA, Lembke HK, Gaulin J, Bouchard P, Villarreal AR, Penningroth MR, Crone KK, Vogt GA, Gilbertsen AJ, Ayotte Y, Coutinho de Oliveira L, Serrano-Wu MH, Drouin N, Hung DT, Hunter RC, Carlson EE. (2024) Evaluation of expanded 2-aminobenzothiazole library as inhibitors of a model histidine kinase and virulence suppressors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Bioorganic chemistry (Dec), 153: 107840. doi:10.1016/j.bioorg.2024.107840
- Huang Y, Schomer R, Reyes MJR, Costa K, Parales RE, Whitaker R, Dawson SC. (2024) Metagenome-assembled genomes of freshwater Hyphomicrobium sp. G-191 and Methylophilus sp. enriched from Cedar Swamp, Woods Hole, MA. Microbiology resource announcements (Nov)e0060824.
- Biggs BW, Price MN, Lai D, Escobedo J, Fortanel Y, Huang YY, Kim K, Trotter VV, Kuehl JV, Lui LM, Chakraborty R, Deutschbauer AM, Arkin AP. (2024) High-throughput protein characterization by complementation using DNA barcoded fragment libraries. Molecular systems biology (Nov), 20(11): 1207-1229. doi:10.1038/s44320-024-00068-z
- Soo N, Farinre O, Chahroudi A, Boliar S, Goswami R. (2024) A gut check: understanding the interplay of the gastrointestinal microbiome and the developing immune system towards the goal of pediatric HIV remission. Retrovirology (Oct), 21(1): 15. doi:10.1186/s12977-024-00648-9
- Chen R, Tang L, Melendy T, Yang L, Goodison S, Sun Y. (2024) Prostate Cancer Progression Modeling Provides Insight into Dynamic Molecular Changes Associated with Progressive Disease States. Cancer research communications (Oct), 4(10): 2783-2798. doi:10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-24-0210
- Giram P, Bist G, Woo S, Wohlfert E, Pili R, You Y. (2024) Prodrugs of paclitaxel improve in situ photo-vaccination. Photochemistry and photobiology (Oct).
- Martin C, Mahan KS, Wiggen TD, Gilbertsen AJ, Hertz MI, Hunter RC, Quinn RA. (2024) Microbiome and metabolome patterns after lung transplantation reflect underlying disease and chronic lung allograft dysfunction. Microbiome (Oct), 12(1): 196. doi:10.1186/s40168-024-01893-y
- Homiski C, Dey-Rao R, Shen S, Qu J, Melendy T. (2024) DNA damage-induced phosphorylation of a replicative DNA helicase results in inhibition of DNA replication through attenuation of helicase function. Nucleic acids research (Sep), 52(17): 10311-10328. doi:10.1093/nar/gkae663
- Huang, Y.Y.; Price, M.N.; Hung, A.; Gal-Oz, O.; Tripathi, S.; Smith, C.W.; Ho, D.; Carion, H.; Deutschbauer, A.M.; Arkin, A.P. (2024) Barcoded overexpression screens in gut Bacteroidales identify genes with roles in carbon utilization and stress resistance. Nature Communications (Aug)(15): 6618.
- Tchalla EYI, Betadpur A, Khalil AY, Bhalla M, Bou Ghanem EN. (2024) Sex-based difference in immune responses and efficacy of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Journal of leukocyte biology (Aug)
- Fletcher JR, Hansen LA, Martinez R, Freeman CD, Thorns N, Villareal AR, Penningroth MR, Vogt GA, Tyler M, Hines KM, Hunter RC. (2024) Commensal-derived short-chain fatty acids disrupt lipid membrane homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (Aug). doi:10.1101/2024.08.12.607382
- Umthong S, Timilsina U, D'Angelo MR, Salka K, Stavrou S. (2024) MARCH2, a T cell specific factor that restricts HIV-1 infection. PLoS pathogens (Jul), 20(7): e1012330. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1012330
- Johnson AO, Shipman BM, Hunt BC, Learman BS, Brauer AL, Zhou SP, Hageman Blair R, De Nisco NJ, Armbruster CE. (2024) Function and contribution of two putative Enterococcus faecalis glycosaminoglycan degrading enzymes to bacteremia and catheter-associated urinary tract infection. Infection and immunity (Jul), 92(7): e0019924. doi:10.1128/iai.00199-24
