Publications

Michael McClelland

Formate oxidation in the intestinal mucus layer enhances fitness of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.  Winter MG, Hughes ER, Muramatsu MK, Jimenez AG, Chanin RB, Spiga L, Gillis CC, McClelland M, Andrews-Polymenis H, Winter SE. mBio. 2023 Jul 27:e0092123. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00921-23.

Orkide Koyuncu

Pseudorabies virus hijacks DDX3X, initiating an addictive “mad itch” and immune suppression, to facilitate viral spread.

Cronin SJF, Tejada MA, Song R, Laval K, Cikes D, Ji M, Brai A, Stadlmann J, Novatchikova M, Perlot T, Ali OH, Botta L, Decker T, Lazovic J, Hagelkruys A, Enquist L, Rao S, Koyuncu OO, Penninger JM. bioRxiv. 2023 May 9:2023.05.09.539956. doi: 10.1101/2023.05.09.539956. 

Anthony James

Dual effector population modification gene-drive strains of the African malaria mosquitoes, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii.  Carballar-Lejarazú R, Dong Y, Pham TB, Tushar T, Corder RM, Mondal A, Sánchez C HM, Lee HF, Marshall JM, Dimopoulos G, James AA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jul 18;120(29):e2221118120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2221118120. Epub 2023 Jul 10.PMID: 37428915 

Alan Barbour

Autoimmunity to synovial extracellular matrix proteins in patients with post-infectious lyme arthritis. Kanjana K, Strle K, Lochhead RB, Pianta A, Mateyka LM, Wang Q, Arvikar SL, Kling DE, DeAngelo CA, Curham L, Barbour AG, Costello CE, Moon JJ, Steere AC. J Clin Invest. 2023 Jul 20:e161170. doi: 10.1172/JCI161170. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37471146

Yongsheng Shi

Part of Ph.D. student Liang Liu’s thesis work was accepted in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. Liang was supported by the Virology T32 predoctoral training grant. 

Other news

Orkide Koyunku

Orkide’s graduate student Stephanie Salazar was appointed to the Virology T32 training grant. Stephanie just advanced and is finishing her 3rd year. 

Bert Semler

Dr. Bert Semler has accepted the position of MMG Graduate Advisor, effective July 2023. We express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Marian Waterman for her outstanding contributions as the AY22/23 MMG Graduate Advisor. Her dedication and hard work have been invaluable to our department.

Thomas Burke

Thomas received a grant from the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge, a community movement to raise awareness and funds for critical cancer research at the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. 

Matt Marsden

Matt received a grant from the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge, a community movement to raise awareness and funds for critical cancer research at the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. 

New graduate students to the department

The department welcomed 5 new graduate students from the CMB program.

Megan Holmes – Hertel lab

Harika Pulipelli – Hertel lab

Meggie Danielson – Burke lab

Tessa Chou – Marsden lab

Nishad Maggirwar – Marsden lab