APRIL 2013

Worm therapy: Why parasites may be good for you.

Dr. P'ng Loke's Lab

Spotlight Section: Articles of Significant Interest Selected by the Infection and Immunity Editors “Leukocidin AB Facilitates the Escape of Staphylococcus aureus after Engulfment by Human Neutrophils”

“Staphylococcus aureus elaborates the leukocidin AB to mediate escape from within human neutrophils”.

Dr. Victor Torres Lab

JANUARY 2013

CCR5 is a receptor for Staphylococcus aureus leukotoxin ED

Faculty of 1000: Recommended as being of special significance in its field by Rino Rappuoli and Fabio Bagnoli 

A surprising link between a staph toxin and CCR5

Dr. Victor Torres Lab and Dr. Derya Unutmaz Lab

DECEMBER 2012

Population structuring of multi-copy, antigen-encoding genes in Plasmodium falciparum

Mathematical models and empirical data show that immune selection structures the parasite population into “ var strains”
eLIFE Insight commentary “ Mathematics and Malaria”
Karen Day with modeling collaborators Yael Artzy and Mercedes Pascual (HHMI Univ Michigan)

Dr. Karen Day Lab

A Drug Used to Treat HIV Might Defuse Deadly Staph Infections
 
Dr. Victor Torres Lab and Dr. Derya Unutmaz Lab
 

JULY 2012

Control of viral latency in neurons by axonal mTOR signaling and the 4E-BP translation repressor.

Editors' Choice Virology: Connecting Stress to Viral Reactivation by Annalisa M. VanHook Sci.

Dr. Ian Mohr Lab and Dr. Angus Wilson Lab

DECEMBER 2011

FtsH-dependent degradation of phage shock protein C in Yersinia enterocolitica and Escherichia coli

Universally conserved membrane protease in prokaryotes degrades phage shock protein C in Y. enterocolitica and E. coli

Dr. Andrew Darwin Lab

Staphylococcus aureus leukocidin ED contributes to systemic infection by targeting neutrophils and promoting bacterial growth in vivo

Microbe Hunters Place Staph in the Crosshairs

Dr. Victor Torres Lab

An RNA Pyrophosphohydrolase Triggers 5'-Exonucleolytic Degradation of mRNA in Bacillus subtilis

Dr. Joel Belasco Lab

The Yersinia enterocolitica Phage-shock-proteins B and C can form Homodimers and Heterodimers in vivo with the Possibility of Close Association between Multiple Domains

Dr. Andrew Darwin Lab