Achievements 2024 - 2025

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Cardenas Arevalo, K. 2024 Outstanding Poster Award, Department of Microbiology & Immunology Retreat, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Mathur, A. 2024 Distinguished Service Award. Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Mishra, S. 2004 Teresa Haire Memorial Award. Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Podszus, C. 2024 Distinguished Service Award. Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Riley, S. 2024 Distinguished Service Award. Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Swenson, K. 2024 Abrahams Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Graduate Student. Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY.


Jointly Authored Publications/Research Reports/Reviews

Bland, W.A., Mitra, D., Owens, S., McEvoy, K., Hogan, C.H., Boccuzzi, L., Kirilov, V., Meyer, T.J., Khairallah, C., Sheridan, B.S., Forrest, J.C., and Krug, L.T. (2024). A replication-deficient gammaherpesvirus vaccine protects mice from lytic disease and reduces latency establishment. NPJ Vaccines 9(1): 116.

Kopping, E.J., Benziger, P.T., and Thanassi, D.G. (2024). TolC and EmrA1 contribute to Francisella novidida multidrug resistance and modulation of host cell death. Journal of Bacteriology Aug. 28: e0024624.

Lanze, C.E., and Konopka, J.B. (2024). Sur7 mediates a novel pathway for PI4,5P2 regulation in C. albicans that promotes stress resistance and cell wall morphogenesis. Molecular biology of the Cell 35(7): ar99. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E23-08-0324.

Mladinich, M.C., Himmler, G.E., Conde, J.N., Gorbunova, E.E., Schutt, W.R., Sarkar, S., Tsirka, S.-A.E., Kim, H.K., and Mackow, E.R. (2024). Age-dependent Powassan virus lethality is linked to glial cell activation and divergent neuroinflammatory cytokine responses in a murine model. Journal of Virology 98(8): e0056024.

Silva, V.K.A., Oliveira, N.K., and Fries, B.C. (2024). Measuring replicative lifespan in Cryptococcus neoformans. Methods Molecular Biology 2775: 375.

Singh, A., Beaupre, M., Villegas-Novoa, C., Shiomitsu, K., Gaudino, S.J., Tawch, S., Damie, R., Kempen, C., Choudhury, B., BcAleer, J.P., Sheridan, B.S., Denoya, P., Blumberg, R.S., Hearing, P., Allbritton, N.L., and Kumar, P. (2024). IL-22 promotes mucin-type O-glycosylation and MATH1+ cell-mediated amelioration of intestinal inflammation. Cell Reports 43(8): 114643.

Yoo, K., Bhattacharya, S., Oliveira, N.K., Pereira de Sa, N., Matos, G.S., Del Poeta, M., and Fries, B.C. (2024). With age comes resilience: how mitochondrial modulation drives age-associated fluconazole tolerance in Cryptococcus neoformans. mBio Aug. 13:e0184724.


Abstracts, Conferences/Colloquiums, Invited Talks, Presentations