Achievements 2022 -2023

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Krausert, Rachel (2022). Distinguished Service Award. Department of Microbiology and Immunology Annual Retreat

Kempen, Cody (2022). Teresa Haire Memorial Award. Department of Microbiology and Immunology Annual Retreat

Lanze, Carla. (2022). Irving Abrahams Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Graduate Student. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stony Brook University.

Mishra, Smruti (2022). Outstanding Poster Award. Department of Microbiology and Immunology Annual Retreat

Montoya, Valeria. (2022). Outstanding Poster Award. Department of Microbiology and Immunology Annual Retreat

White, Rachel (2022). Outstanding Poster Award. Department of Microbiology and Immunology Annual Retreat

White, Rachel (2022). Teresa Haire Memorial Award. Department of Microbiology and Immunology Annual Retreat


Jointly Authored Publications/Research Reports/Reviews

Bettke, J.A., Tam, J.W., Montoya, V., Butler, B.P., and van der Velden, A.W.M. (2022). Inflammatory monocytes promote granuloma-mediated control of persistent Salmonella infection. Infection and Immunity 90(4): e0007022.

Benziger, P.T., Kopping, E.J., McLaughlin, P.A., and Thanassi, D.G. (2023). Francisella tularensis disrupts TLR2-MYD88-p38 signaling early during infection to delay apoptosis of macrophages and promote virulence in the host. mBio Jul 5: e0113623.

Conde, J.N., Himmler, G.E., Mladinich, M.C., Setoh, Y.X., Amarilla, A.A., Schutt, W.R., Saladino, N., Gorbunova, E.E., Salamango, D.J., Benach, J., Kim, H.K., and Mackow, E.R. (2023). Establishment of a CPER reverse genetics system for Powassan virus defines attenuating NS1 glycosylation sites and an infectious NS1-GFP11 reporter virus. mBio Jul 25: e0138823.

Conde, J.N., Sanchez-Vicente, S., Saladino, N., Gorbunova, E.E., Schutt, W.R., Mladinich, M.C., Himmler, G.E., Benach, J., Kim, H.K., and Mackow, E.R. (2022). Powassan viruses spread cell to cell during direct isolation from Ixodes ticks and persistently infect human brain endothelial cells and pericytes. Journal of Virology 96(1): e02168221.

Conde, J.N., Mladninich, M, Schutt, W., and Mackow, E.R. (2022). Measuring transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) for Dengue infection studies. Methods in Molecular Biology 2409: 197-205.

Helminiak, L., Mishra, S., and Kim, H.K. (2022). Pathogenicity and virulence of Rickettsia. Virulence 13(1): 1752-1771.

Normile, T.G., Chu, T.H., Sheridan, B.S., and Del Poeta, M. (2022). Vaccine protection by Cryptococcus neoformans delta sgl1 is mediated by γδ T cells via TLR2 signaling. Mucosal Immunology 15(6): 1416-1430.

Psonis, J.J., Michelen, Y., Bandrjee, K., Fries, B.C., and Sae-Tia, S. (2022). Cryptogenic liver abscess caused by a K1 serotype Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate. Journal of Global Infectious Diseases 14(3): 117-119.

Qiu, Z., Khairallah, C., Chu, T.H., Imperato, J.N., Lei, X., Romanov, G., Atakilit, A., Puddington, L., and Sheridan, B.S. (2023). Retinoic acid signaling during priming licenses intestinal CD103+ CD8 TRM cell differentiation. Journal of Experimental Medicine 220(5): e20210923.

Salatto, D., Huang, Z., Benziger, P.T., Carrillo, J.Y., Bajaj, Y., Gauer, A., Tsapatsaris, L., Sumpter, B.G., Li, R., Takenaka, M., Yin, W., Thanassi, D.G., Endoh, M., and Koga, T. (2023). Structure-based design of dual bactericidal and bacteria-releasing nanosurfaces. ACS Applied Materials Interfaces 15(2): 3420-3432.

Schutt, W.R., Conde, J.N., Mladinich, M., Himmler, G.E., and Mackow, E.R., (2023). ZIKV induction of tritstetraprolin in endothelial and Sertoli cells post-transcriptionally inhibits IFNb/L expression and promotes ZIKV persistence. mBio (in press).

 


Abstracts, Conferences/Colloquiums, Invited Talks, Presentations

White, R., and Hearing, P. (2023). Characterizing the Role of Cellular Protein TFII-I in Adenovirus Infection. Oral presentation at the DNA Tumor Virus Meeting, July 26-31, 2023. Montreal, QC, Canada.