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• Bliska discovers antibodies to LcrV do not inhibit intracellular survival of Y. pestis... download the journal article
  

• Casadevall identifies linear epitopes in domain 1 of anthrax PA elicit neutralizing antibodies... download the journal article
  

• Lipkin interviewed by Nature Medicine on viral discovery technology and preventing future pandemics... click here to read the entire interview
  

• Palese reviews Swine Influenza outbreaks.... download the journal article

• NBC investigators at Columbia study genetic origins of new H1N1 influenza... download the journal article

• Porotto and Moscona show inhibition of intermediate states of paramyxovirus fusion protein activation by peptides... download the journal article

• Basler discovers Nipah virus P gene encodes mechanism to sequester inactive STAT1 in the nucleus... download the journal article

• Shi identifies inhibitors of different steps in WNV replication... download the journal article

• Benach discovers a complement-independent antibody to Borrelia is osmolytic... download the journal article

• Briese, Palacios, Lipkin and collaborators discover a new hemorrhagic fever-associated arenavirus in South Africa... download the journal article

• Palese determines the adjuvant alpha-C-GalCer enhances immune response to live attenuated influenza vaccine... download the journal article

• Boyer and Crystal review adenoviral vectors as a vaccine strategy... download the journal article

• Shi and Garcia-Sastre demonstrate the Dengue viral polymerase NS5 mediates STAT2 degradation... download the journal article

• Moudy, Shi, and Kramer discover glycosylation of WNV envelope protein is required for transmission by mosquitos... download the journal article

• Benach and colleagues develop monoclonal antibodies to Francisella tularensis... download journal article

• Tonge and Slayden identify diphenyl ethers as slow-onset inhibiters of the FabI enzyme of F. tularensis during their inter-RCE collaboration... download journal article
• Bai and Fikrig demonstrate TLR7 alters IL-23-dependent leukocyte homing in WNV encephalitis... download journal article
• Moscona identifies antimalarial is active against Hendra and Nipah viruses... download journal article
• Basler and inter-RCE collaborators isolate neutralizing antibodies from survivors of the 1918 influenza pandemic... download the pdf
• Shi uses multi-faceted approach to study flavivirus methyltransferases as a therapeutic target... download pdf on identification of 2 distinct methyltransferases, ... download pdf on interactions between methyltransferase and genomic RNA, ... download pdf reviewing flavivirus methyltransferases
  
• Roy establishes that ankyrin repeat proteins from Coxiella burnetii can enter host cells by the Type IV Secretion System... download the pdf
  
• Basler and Aguilar review virulence determinants of highly pathogenic influenza viruses... download the pdf
  
• Goldman and Casadevall characterize a human serum protease that neutralizes lethal toxin cytotoxicity... download the pdf
  
• Briese, Palacios, and Lipkin find novel rhinovirus is globally distributed... download the pdf
  
• Breaker identifies riboswitches in V. cholerae, which are positively regulated by cyclic-di-GMP... download the pdf
  
• Crystal obtains immediate and prolonged protection against anthrax lethal toxin by co-administration of adenovirus and adeno-associated virus vaccine vectors... download the pdf
  
• Bai and Fikrig discover ICAM-1 is involved in CNS infection of WNV... download the pdf
  
• Morse and colleagues evaluate risk analysis data on inhalational anthrax ... download the pdf
  
• NBC investigator Casadevall determines host genetic background influences antibody production to protective antigen from B. anthracis.... download the pdf
  
• Mackow discovers how hantavirus orchestrates cellular permeability by host factors... download the pdf
  
• Tan reviews chemistry behind targeting microbial natural product biosynthesis with small molecule inhibitors... download the pdf
  
• Palacios, Briese, Lipkin and colleagues identify new Arenavirus... download the pdf
  
• Palese and the Proteomics Core identify host cell proteins that are associated with influenza virions... download the pdf
  
• Rose determines immunological efficacy of Semliki Forest virus-VSV glycoprotein hybrid particles as a vaccine vector... download the pdf
  
• Bliska and colleagues at Stony Brook University evaluate the role of Caf1A in the biogenesis of
  the F1 capsule of Y. pestis.... download the pdf
  
• Briese and Lipkin work with international collaborators to demonstrate transmission of fatal human respiratory viruses to Great Apes... download the pdf
  
• Rose improves immune responses to VSV vector-based SARS vaccine... download the pdf
  
• Goldman and Casadevall review anthrax-associated shock... download the pdf