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
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