Recent Faculty Publications

Our research has been published in a variety of national and international peer-reviewed journals.

  • Timilsina U, Ivey EB, Duffy S, Plianchaisuk A, The Genotype To Phenotype Japan G P-Japan Consortium , Ito J, Sato K, Stavrou S. (2024) SARS-CoV-2 ORF7a Mutation Found in BF.5 and BF.7 Sublineages Impacts Its Functions. International journal of molecular sciences (Feb), 25(4).
  • S. Maley, Y. Yue, K. Burns, K. Hovey, J. Wactawski-Wende, J. Freudenheim, D. McSkimming, M. LaMonte, C. Andrews, Y. Sun, M. Buck, A. Millen. (2023) Alcohol consumption and the diversity of the oral microbiome in postmenopausal women. Journal of Nutrition (Dec)in press.
  • Umthong S., Timilsina U., Stavrou S. (2023) MARCH2, a T cell specific factor that inhibits HIV-1 infection. 33rd International Workshop on Retroviral Pathogenesis. Trento, (Dec)Oral
  • Brauer AL, Learman BS, Armbruster CE. (2023) Differential contribution of hydrogen metabolism to Proteus mirabilis fitness during single-species and polymicrobial catheter-associated urinary tract infection. Pathogens (Dec), 12(12): 1377. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12121377
  • Ciganda M, Sotelo-Silveira J, Dubey AP, Pandey P, Smith JT, Shen S, Qu J, Smircich P, Read LK. (2023) Translational control by Trypanosoma brucei DRBD18 contributes to the maintenance of the procyclic state. RNA (New York, N.Y.) (Dec), 29(12): 1881-1895. doi:10.1261/rna.079625.123
  • Key M, Baptista CG, Bergmann A, Floyd K, Blader IJ, Dou Z. (2023) Toxoplasma gondii harbors a hypoxia-responsive coproporphyrinogen dehydrogenase-like protein. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (Nov). doi:10.1101/2023.11.16.567449
  • Huang, Y.Y.; Price, M.N.; Hung, A.; Gal-Oz, O.; Ho, D.; Carion, H.; Deutschbauer, A.M.; Arkin, A.P. (2023) Barcoded overexpression screens in gut Bacteroidales identify genes with new roles in carbon utilization and stress resistance. bioRxiv (Oct)
  • Banerjee D, Umland TC, Panepinto JC. (2023) Correction for Banerjee et al., "De Novo Pyrimidine Biosynthesis Connects Cell Integrity to Amphotericin B Susceptibility in Cryptococcus neoformans". mSphere (Oct), 8(5): e0040623. doi:10.1128/msphere.00406-23
  • Smith JT, Tylec B, Naguleswaran A, Roditi I, Read LK. (2023) Developmental dynamics of mitochondrial mRNA abundance and editing reveal roles for temperature and the differentiation-repressive kinase RDK1 in cytochrome oxidase subunit II mRNA editing. mBio (Oct), 14(5): e0185423. doi:10.1128/mbio.01854-23
  • Alexsandra Lenhard, Basma H. Joma, Nalat Siwapornchai, Anders P. Hakansson, John M. Leong and Elsa N. Bou Ghanem. (2023) Immune responses during transition of pneumococci from colonizers to pathogens. Society for Leukocyte Biology 56th Annual Meeting. Athens, Georgia (Sep)Poster; Oral
  • Shaunna R. Simmons, Sydney E. Herring, Essi Y.I. Tchalla, Alexsandra Lenhard, Manmeet Bhalla and Elsa N. Bou Ghanem. (2023) Adenosine signaling boosts neutrophil recruitment in pneumococcal infected aged hosts. Society for Leukocyte Biology 56th Annual Meeting. Athens, Georgia (Sep)Poster; Oral
  • Anagha Betadpur, Essi Y.I. Tchalla, Andrew Y, Khalil and Elsa N. Bou Ghanem. (2023) Sex-based differences in pneumococcal conjugate vaccine efficacy. Society for Leukocyte Biology 56th Annual Meeting. Athens, Georgia (Sep)Poster; Oral
  • Essi Y.I. Tchalla, Andrew Y, Khalil, Manmeet Bhalla, Elizabeth A. Wohlfert and Elsa N. Bou Ghanem. (2023) Neutrophils control T cell response to the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Society for Leukocyte Biology 56th Annual Meeting. Athens, Georgia (Sep)Poster; Oral
  • L. Yang, R. Chen, T. Melendy, S. Goodison, Y. Sun. (2023) Identifying significantly perturbed subnetworks in cancer using multiple protein-protein interaction networks. Cancers (Aug), 16(15): 4090.
  • Lis A, Baptista CG, Dahlgren K, Corvi MM, Blader IJ. (2023) Identification of Toxoplasma calcium-dependent protein kinase 3 as a stress-activated elongation factor 2 kinase. mSphere (Aug), 8(4): e0015623. doi:10.1128/msphere.00156-23
  • Yang L, Chen R, Melendy T, Goodison S, Sun Y. (2023) Identifying Significantly Perturbed Subnetworks in Cancer Using Multiple Protein-Protein Interaction Networks. Cancers (Aug), 15(16). doi:10.3390/cancers15164090
  • Manmeet Bhalla, Vijay R. Ravi, Alexsandra Lenhard, Essi Y.I. Tchalla, Jennifer K. Lang and Elsa N. Bou Ghanem. (2023) CD73 expression on neutrophils protects against cardiomyocyte damage during Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. ASM Microbe. Houston, Texas (Jun)Poster
  • Waxman B., Timilsina U., Umthong S., Stavrou S. (2023) Heparanase blocks retrovirus infection by targeting proviral transcription. American Society of Virology. (Jun)Oral
  • Umthong S., Timilsina U., D’Angelo M., Stavrou S. (2023) Characterization of MARCH2 protein and its anti-HIV-1 function. HIV vaccines, Immunoprophylaxis, and Drugs. (Jun)Poster
  • Dubey AP, Tylec BL, Mishra A, Sortino K, Chen R, Sun Y, Read LK. (2023) KREH1 RNA helicase activity promotes utilization of initiator gRNAs across multiple mRNAs in trypanosome RNA editing. Nucleic acids research (Jun), 51(11): 5791-5809. doi:10.1093/nar/gkad292