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• CEEZAD Opens Application for 2019 Summer Training Program for Veterinary and Biomedical Students
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease with Guest Editor Dr. Jeffrey Adamovicz

• LIDR Fosters Research for the Advancement of Vaccines and Therapeutics
• LIDR BSO, Dr. Travis McCarthy, Elected to MABioN Executive Council
• MRIGlobal and University of Missouri earn Zika study grant

Recent Publications

• Ledbetter L., Cherla R., Chambers C., Zhang Y., Zhang G. (2019). Eosinophils affect antibody isotype switching and may partially contribute to early vaccine-induced immunity against Coxiella burnetiii. Infection and Immunity.
• Ludlow A.B., Pauling C.D., Marketon M.M., Anderson D.M. (2019) Drosophila as a Model for Understanding the Insect Host of Yersinia pestis. In: Vadyvaloo V., Lawrenz M. (eds) Pathogenic Yersinia. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2010. Humana, New York, NY
• Anderson P.E., Olson R.M., Willix J.L., Anderson D.M. (2019) Standardized Method for Aerosol Challenge of Rodents with Yersinia pestis for Modeling Primary Pneumonic Plague. In: Vadyvaloo V., Lawrenz M. (eds) Pathogenic Yersinia. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2010. Humana, New York, NY
• Olson RM, Anderson DM. 2019. Shift from primary pneumonic to secondary septicemic plague by decreasing the volume of intranasal challenge with Yersinia pestis in the murine model. PLoS One.
• Lacey et al. 2018. Caspase -1 and Caspase -11 Mediate Pyroptosis, Inflammation, and Control of Brucella Joint Infection. Infect Immun. 
• Lacey, et al. 2019. IFN‐γ‐dependent nitric oxide suppresses Brucella‐induced arthritis by inhibition of inflammasome activation. J Leukoc Biol.
• Kantor, et al. 2019. Infection Pattern of Mayaro Virus in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) and Transmission Potential of the Virus in Mixed Infections With Chikungunya Virus. J Med Entomol.
• Olson, et al. 2019. Yersinia pestis exploit early activation of myeloid differentiation primary response 88 (MyD88) for growth in the lungs during pneumonic plague. Infect Immun.
• Cherla et al. (2018). Coxiella burnetii Inhibits Neutrophil Apoptosis by Exploiting Survival Pathways and Antiapoptotic Protein Mcl-1. Infect Immun.
• Kantor et al. (2018). Ultrastructural Analysis of Chikungunya Virus Dissemination from the Midgut of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Viruses.
• Sheridan et al. (2018). African and Asian strains of Zika virus differ in their ability to infect and lyse primitive human placental trophoblast. PLoS One.
• Xia et al. (2018). Viral dedication to vigorous destruction of interferon receptors. Virology.

• Buttrum et al. (2018). Both major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) and MHC-II molecules are required, while MHC-I appears to play a critical role in host defense against primary Coxiella burnetii infection. Infect Immun.

• Whyte et al. (2018). Inactivation of porcine interleukin-1beta results in failure of rapid conceptus elongation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

• Skyberg and Lacey (2017). Hematopoietic MyD88 and IL-18 are essential for IFN-gamma-dependent restriction of type A Francisella tularensis infection. J Leukoc Biol.

• Dhariwala et al. (2017). Induction of type I interferon through a noncanonical toll-like receptor 7 pathway during Yersinia pestis infection. Infect Immun.

• Olson and Anderson (2017). Usurping bacterial virulence factors as self-delivery vehicles for therapeutic use. Virulence.

• Dong et al. (2017). Chikungunya virus dissemination from the midgut of Aedes aegypti is associated with temporal basal lamina degradation during bloodmeal digestion. PLoS Negl Trop Dis.

• Dong et al. (2017). The midgut transcriptome of Aedes aegypti fed with saline or protein meals containing chikungunya virus reveals genes potentially involved in viral midgut escape. BMC Genomics.

• Lacey et al. (2017). Temporal role for MyD88 in a model of brucella-induced arthritis and musculoskeletal inflammation. Infect Immun.

• Sheridan et al. (2017). Vulnerability of primitive human placental trophoblast to Zika virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

• Kantor et al. (2017). Identification and initial characterization of matrix metalloproteinases in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Mol Biol.

• Olson and Anderson (2017). Fractionation techniques to examine effector translocation. Meth Mol Biol.

 

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