Presentations
Our undergraduate interns completed their summer programs on July 26. This culminated in the presentation of their research in the Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium last July 24, 2024 here at UAMS. Congratulations to all the students! They are:
Oral Presentation (12 chosen from 53 submissions)
Allie Farrar, Hendrix College (Manzano Lab), pictured above
Poster Presentation
Armari Jackson, Arkansas State University (Aachoui Lab)
Kalayna King, Arkansas State University (Liu Lab)
Alyssa Nolan, University of Central Arkansas (Stumhofer Lab)
Eli Shepherd, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (Forrest Lab)
Publications
Enhancing Neoadjuvant Virotherapy’s Effectiveness by Targeting Stroma to Improve Resectability in Pancreatic Cancer. Ferdous KU, Tesfay MZ, Cios A, Shelton RS, Hartupee C, Urbaniak A, Chamcheu JC, Mavros MN, Giorgakis E, Mustafa B, Simoes CC, Miousse IR, Basnakian AG, Moaven O, Post SR, Cannon MJ, Kelly T, Nagalo BM. Biomedicines. 2024 Jul 18;12(7):1596.
Development and validation of systems for genetic manipulation of the Old World tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete, Borrelia duttonii. Jackson-Litteken CD, Guo W, Hogland BA, Ratliff CT, McFadden L, Fullerton MS, Voth DE, Rego ROM, Blevins JS. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 Jul 22;18(7):e0012348.
Yersinia pestis and pneumonic plague: Insight into how a lethal pathogen interfaces with innate immune populations in the lung to cause severe disease. Venugopal G, Pechous RD. Cell Immunol. 2024 Jul 10;403-404:104856.
Intraperitoneal activation of myeloid cells clears ascites and reveals IL27-dependent regression of metastatic ovarian cancer. Murphy B, Miyamoto T, Manning BS, Mirji G, Ugolini A, Kannan T, Hamada K, Zhu YP, Claiborne DT, Huang L, Zhang R, Nefedova Y, Kossenkov A, Veglia F, Shinde R, Zhang N. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jun 29:2024.06.25.600597.
RANKL-mediated osteoclast formation is required for bone loss in a murine model of Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis. Campbell MJ, Bustamante-Gomez C, Fu Q, Beenken KE, Reyes-Pardo H, Smeltzer MS, O’Brien CA. Bone. 2024 Jul 1;187:117181.
An ex vivo human precision-cut lung slice platform provides insight into SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis and antiviral drug efficacy. Pechous RD, Malaviarachchi PA, Banerjee SK, Byrum SD, Alkam DH, Ghaffarieh A, Kurten RC, Kennedy JL, Zhang X. J Virol. 2024 Jul 23;98(7):e0079424.
Grants
Dr. J. Craig Forrest. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01 AI181787. Defining KSHV LANA functions in viral pathogenesis and immune evasion.