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

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

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

Host Cell Death Signaling Pathways Manipulated by
Mycobacterium tuberculosis

| Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
Author(s): Guanchao Ding, Volker Briken
UMD Author(s): Guanchao Ding

Host Cell Death Signaling Pathways Manipulated by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

| Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
Author(s): Guanchao Ding, Volker Briken
UMD Author(s): Guanchao Ding

Shaping the Tumor Microenvironment: Insights from Host–Microbiota Interactions

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

Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea

| Ecology Letters
Author(s): Stephanie Y. Chia, Anshuman Swain, Nathaniel Josephs, et. al
UMD Author(s): Stephanie Chia

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

Collective learning in living neural networks facilitated by random contextual photostimulation

| Physical Review E
Author(s): Dulara De Zoysa, Sylvester J. Gates III, Anna M. Emenheiser, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sylvester Gates, Wolfgang Losert

The host calcium system contributes to intracellular Rickettsia pathogenesis

| Infection and Immunity
Author(s): Jinyi C. Zhu, Jack H. Cook, Mustapha Dahmani, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sean Riley, Jinyi "Cornelia" Zhu

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

| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
UMD Author(s): William Fagan, Stephanie Chia, Gayatri Anand

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

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

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

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

Identification of gut bacteria reductases that biotransform steroid hormones

| Nature Communications
Author(s): Gabriela Arp, Angela K. Jiang, Keith Dufault-Thompson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall, Angela Jiang, Gabriela Arp, Xiaofang Jiang, Maggie Grant, Sophia Levy