Recent Publications

SpiR is a gut microbial enzyme that drives cholesterol conversion

| Nature Communications
Author(s): Gabriela Arp, Sophia Levy, Angela K. Jiang, et. al
UMD Author(s): Maggie Grant, Xiaofang Jiang, Gabriela Arp, Angela Jiang

Before the East African Radiation: Sex Chromosome Systems in Basal Haplotilapiine Cichlids

| Genome Biology and Evolution
Author(s): Kristen A Behrens, Zexuan Zhao, Michael R Kidd, et. al
UMD Author(s): Thomas Kocher, Zexuan Zhao

Mucins and Respiratory Virus Infection.

| Annual Review of Virology
Author(s): Mathur S, Corkran M, Scull MA
UMD Author(s): Maria Corkran

Correction for Biswas et al., “A novel aptamer-based dNTP assay reveals that intact HIV virions are highly stable and do not contain enough dNTPs to support DNA synthesis”

| Journal of Virology
Author(s): Urja Biswas, Cynthia Bernal, Ruofan Wang, et. al
UMD Author(s): Jeffrey DeStefano, Urja Biswas

Shaping the Tumor Microenvironment: Insights from Host–Microbiota Interactions

| Cancer Discovery
Author(s): Khiem C. Lam, Romina S. Goldszmid
UMD Author(s): Khiem Lam

Spatial Distributions for Animal Movement Processes

| The Mathematics of Movement
Author(s): Christen H. Fleming, William F. Fagan, Jesse M. Alston, et. al
UMD Author(s): William Fagan, Gayatri Anand

Functional divergence of MdpS and MdpS2 reveals mucin-targeting strategies in Streptococcus oralis

| Journal of oral microbiology
Author(s): Fredrik Leo, Jonas Nilsson, Liisa Arike, et. al
UMD Author(s): Gregg Duncan, Sahana Kumar

Structural insights into clonal restriction and diversity in T cell recognition of two immunodominant SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid epitopes

| Nature Communications
Author(s): Ping Yuan, Guodong Chen, Yukun Li, et. al
UMD Author(s): Shayana Saravanakumar

Smart underwear: A novel wearable for long-term monitoring of gut microbial gas production via flatus

| Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X
Author(s): Santiago Botasini, David Zhan, Norman Fischer, et. al
UMD Author(s): Maggie Grant

Phosphatidylserine receptors TIM-1 and AXL mediate tick-borne Powassan virus entry

| iScience
Author(s): Maria Daskou, Anne K. Zaiss, Arjit Vijey Jeyachandran, et. al
UMD Author(s): Kari-Ann Takano

Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways

| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Author(s): William F. Fagan, Ananke G. Krishnan, Christen H. Fleming, et. al
UMD Author(s): Gayatri Anand, William Fagan

AAV-mediated MUC5AC siRNA delivery to prevent mucociliary dysfunction in asthma

| Gene Therapy
Author(s): Sahana Kumar, Maria Corkran, Yahya Cheema, et. al
UMD Author(s): Gregg Duncan, Sahana Kumar

From WGS to gels: Development and testing of PCR primers targeting toxic Digitalis in support of food safety

| Applications in Plant Sciences
Author(s): Elizabeth Sage Hunter, Sydnee Fo, Robert Literman, et. al
UMD Author(s): Liz Hunter

Methods for Discerning the Impact of Mucus on Host Defenses Against Viral Infection.

| Current Protocols
Author(s): Corkran M, Boboltz A, Duncan GA, et. al
UMD Author(s): Maria Corkran

AAV-mediated MUC5AC siRNA delivery to prevent mucociliary dysfunction in asthma.

| Gene Therapy
Author(s): Kumar S, Corkran M, Cheema Y, et. al
UMD Author(s): Maria Corkran

A novel aptamer-based dNTP assay reveals that intact HIV virions are highly stable and do not contain enough dNTPs to support DNA synthesis

| Journal of Virology
Author(s): Urja Biswas, Cynthia Bernal, Ruofan Wang, et. al
UMD Author(s): Jeffrey DeStefano, Urja Biswas

ERC2.0 evolutionary rate covariation update improves inference of functional interactions across large phylogenies

| Genome Research
Author(s): Jordan H. Little, Guillermo Hoffmann Meyer, Aakash Grover, et. al
UMD Author(s): Guillermo Hoffmann Meyer

Antimicrobial peptide class that forms discrete β-barrel stable pores anchored by transmembrane helices

| Nature Communications
Author(s): Seth W. Dickey, Dylan J. Burgin, Ama N. Antwi, et. al
UMD Author(s): Seth Dickey, Ama Antwi

Characterizing lineage-specific genes in testate lobose amoebae (Arcellinida)

| Protist
Author(s): Angela K. Jiang, Taylor R. Sehein, Rebecca Gawron, et. al
UMD Author(s): Angela Jiang

Seeing is believing: Genome editing made easy with RUBY for educational purposes

| Plant Physiology
Author(s): William K Sexton, Yanhao Cheng, Bing Yang, et. al
UMD Author(s): Shunyuan Xiao, Kyle Sexton, Yiping Qi

Analysis of polyclonal and monoclonal antibody to the influenza virus nucleoprotein in different oligomeric states

| Virus Research
Author(s): Mallory L. Myers, Michael T. Conlon, John R. Gallagher, et. al
UMD Author(s): De'Marcus Woolfork

Linking bacterial androgen production and prostate cancer

| Nature Microbiology
Author(s): Gabriela Arp, Sophia Levy, Brantley Hall
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall, Gabriela Arp

The nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of amoebophrya sp. ex Karlodinium veneficum

| G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Author(s): Wesley DeMontigny, Tsvetan Bachvaroff, K Verhoeven
UMD Author(s): Wesley DeMontigny