Archives for 2018

As my time in the Freiberg Lab comes to a close, I haven’t been idle!

Natural History and Pathogenesis of Wild-Type Marburg Virus Infection in STAT2 Knockout Hamsters.Atkins C, Miao J, Kalveram B, Juelich T, Smith JK, Perez D, Zhang L, Westover JLB, Van Wettere AJ, Gowen BB, Wang Z, Freiberg AN. J Infect Dis. 2018 Nov 22;218(suppl_5):S438-S447. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiy457.PMID: 30192975

Human neural stem cell-derived neuron/astrocyte co-cultures respond to La Crosse virus infection with proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines. Dawes BE, Gao J, Atkins C, Nelson JT, Johnson K, Wu P, Freiberg AN.J Neuroinflammation. 2018 Nov 15;15(1):315. doi: 10.1186/s12974-018-1356-5.

And please see our preprint (currently under review at Journal of Virology) VAMP8 contributes to TRIM6-mediated type-I interferon antiviral response during West Nile virus infection. Colm Atkins, Sarah Van Tol, Preeti Bharaj, Ricardo Rajsbaum, Alexander N. Freiberg.

I am happy to announce that I will be joining Brian Daniels at Rutgers University in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience in January 2019 as a Research Associate/Lab Manager.

At the yearly IHII/McLaughlin Colloquium at UTMB I was named a James W. McLaughlin Travel Awardee for my poster presentation, Development of a STAT2 knockout hamster model for wild-type Marburg virus, work under preparation for a manuscript in 2018.

None of this work would be possible without collaborators and coauthors.

Jinxin Mio², Birte Kalveram¹, Terry Juelich¹, Jennifer K. Smith¹, David Perez¹, Lihong Zhang¹, Jonna L.B. Westover², Arnaud Van Wettere², Brian B. Gowen², Zhongde Wang^2,*, Alexander N. Freiberg^1,3,4*

¹Department of Pathology, ³Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, ⁴Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

²Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA

I look forward to using this funding to present further exemplary work from our group in the future.