Recent Publications

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


Microfluidic digital focus assays for the quantification of infectious influenza virus.

| Lab on a Chip
Author(s): Srimathi SR, Ignacio MA, Rife M, et. al
UMD Author(s): Maria Corkran


Preliminary pharmacokinetics and in vivo studies indicate analgesic and stress mitigation effects of a novel NMDA receptor modulator

| The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Author(s): Blaise M. Costa, De’Yana Hines, Nakia Phillip, et. al
UMD Author(s): Nakia Fallen


Preliminary pharmacokinetics and in vivo studies indicate analgesic and stress mitigation effects of a novel NMDA receptor modulator.

| The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Author(s): Costa BM, Hines D, Phillip N, et. al
UMD Author(s): Nakia Fallen


Mucus Physically Restricts Influenza A Viral Particle Access to the Epithelium.

| Advanced Biology
Author(s): Kaler L, Engle EM, Corkran M, et. al
UMD Author(s): Maria Corkran


Intergenerational transport of double-stranded RNA in C. elegans can limit heritable epigenetic changes

| eLife
Author(s): Nathan Shugarts, Aishwarya Sathya, Andrew L Yi, et. al
UMD Author(s): Aishwarya Sathya


Convergent evolution of oxidized sugar metabolism in commensal and pathogenic microbes in the inflamed gut

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


Somy evolution in the honey bee infecting trypanosomatid parasite Lotmaria passim

| G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Author(s): Lindsey M Markowitz, Anthony Nearman, Zexuan Zhao, et. al
UMD Author(s): Carlos Machado, Zexuan Zhao


EzSEA: an interactive web interface for enzyme sequence evolution analysis

| Bioinformatics Advances
Author(s): Angela K Jiang, Jerry Zhao, Xiaofang Jiang
UMD Author(s): Angela Jiang, Xiaofang Jiang


Microrheology of gel-forming airway mucins isolated from porcine trachea

| Soft Matter
Author(s): Elizabeth M. Engle, Sydney Yang, Allison Boboltz, et. al
UMD Author(s): Gregg Duncan, Sahana Kumar


Identification of gut bacteria reductases that biotransform steroid hormones

| Nature Communications
Author(s): Arp, Gabriela, Jiang, Angela K., Dufault-Thompson, Keith, et. al
UMD Author(s): Angela Jiang, Xiaofang Jiang


Rapid in situ forming PEG hydrogels for mucosal drug delivery

| Biomaterials Science
Author(s): Taj Yeruva, Robert J. Morris III, Sahana Kumar, et. al
UMD Author(s): Gregg Duncan, Sahana Kumar


Metabolic cross-feeding of a dietary antioxidant enhances anaerobic energy metabolism by human gut bacteria

| Cell Host & Microbe
Author(s): Zhe Zhou, Angela Jiang, Xiaofang Jiang, et. al
UMD Author(s): Angela Jiang, Xiaofang Jiang


Urinary tract infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

| Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Author(s): Nour El Husseini, Jared A. Carter, Vincent T. Lee, et. al
UMD Author(s): Vincent Lee, Jared Carter


The PdxR-PdxKU locus involved in vitamin B 6 salvage is important for group A streptococcal resistance to neutrophil killing and survival in human blood

| Microbiology Spectrum
Author(s): Sarah E. Davis, Meaghan T. Hart, Rezia Era D. Braza, et. al
UMD Author(s): Aolani Perry


Hidden gems: Scattered knowledge hampered freshwater jellyfish research over the past one‐and‐a‐half centuries

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Florian Lüskow, Nicholas Bezio, Luciano Caputo, et. al
UMD Author(s): Nicholas Bezio


Progerin mRNA expression in non-HGPS patients is correlated with widespread shifts in transcript isoforms

| NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
Author(s): Reynold Yu, Huijing Xue, Wanru Lin, et. al
UMD Author(s): Kan Cao, Wanru Lin