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  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Adam Kuspa is affiliated with the Welch Foundation in the United States. Their research spans fields closely related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, and microbiology. Kuspa's work includes contributions to several subfields such as immunology, plant science, molecular biology, cell biology, and epidemiology.

Key topics in Kuspa's research involve plant-microbe interactions and immunity, plant tissue culture and regeneration, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, neutrophil functions including myeloperoxidase and oxidative mechanisms, the complement system in diseases, and research related to cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus.

The scientist has published articles in venues such as Genome Biology and Evolution and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Notable papers include:

  • Loss of the Polyketide Synthase StlB Results in Stalk Cell Overproduction in Polysphondylium violaceum, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • A lectin that targets specific bacteria for killing on DNA-based extracellular traps, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in their research endeavors include Takaaki B. Narita, Yoshinori Kawabe, Koryu Kin, Richard A. Gibbs, and Donna M. Muzny.

Adam Kuspa has been recognized by the scientific community with the Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2005.

Best Publications

  • The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

    L. Eichinger;J. A. Pachebat;J. A. Pachebat;G. Glöckner;M.-A. Rajandream

  • Tagging developmental genes in Dictyostelium by restriction enzyme-mediated integration of plasmid DNA.

    Adam Kuspa;William F. Loomis

  • A global analysis of developmentally regulated genes in Myxococcus xanthus

    Lee Kroos;Adam Kuspa;Dale Kaiser

  • Immune-like phagocyte activity in the social amoeba.

    Guokai Chen;Olga Zhuchenko;Adam Kuspa

  • Sequence and analysis of chromosome 2 of Dictyostelium discoideum

    Gernot Glöckner;Ludwig Eichinger;Karol Szafranski;Justin A. Pachebat

  • A MAP KINASE NECESSARY FOR RECEPTOR-MEDIATED ACTIVATION OF ADENYLYL CYCLASE IN DICTYOSTELIUM

    Jeffrey E. Segall;Adam Kuspa;Gad Shaulsky;Maria Ecke

  • Conserved developmental transcriptomes in evolutionarily divergent species

    Anup Parikh;Edward Roshan Miranda;Mariko Katoh-Kurasawa;Danny Fuller

  • CRAC, a cytosolic protein containing a pleckstrin homology domain, is required for receptor and G protein-mediated activation of adenylyl cyclase in Dictyostelium.

    Robert Insall;Adam Kuspa;Pamela J. Lilly;Gad Shaulsky

  • Intercellular signaling is required for developmental gene expression in Myxococcus xanthus

    Adam Kuspa;Lee Kroos;Dale Kaiser

  • Periodic signaling controlled by an oscillatory circuit that includes protein kinases ERK2 and PKA.

    Mineko Maeda;Sijie Lu;Gad Shaulsky;Yuji Miyazaki

  • Self-recognition in social amoebae is mediated by allelic pairs of tiger genes.

    Shigenori Hirose;Rocio Benabentos;Hsing-I Ho;Adam Kuspa

  • Polymorphic Members of the lag Gene Family Mediate Kin Discrimination in Dictyostelium

    Rocio Benabentos;Shigenori Hirose;Richard Sucgang;Tomaz Curk

  • Identification of heat-stable A-factor from Myxococcus xanthus.

    A Kuspa;L Plamann;D Kaiser

  • Comparative genomics of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium purpureum

    Richard Sucgang;Alan Kuo;Xiangjun Tian;William J Salerno

  • A-signalling and the cell density requirement for Myxococcus xanthus development.

    A Kuspa;L Plamann;D Kaiser

  • Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae

    Lorenzo A. Santorelli;Christopher R. L. Thompson;Elizabeth Villegas;Jessica Svetz

  • LagC is required for cell-cell interactions that are essential for cell-type differentiation in Dictyostelium.

    J L Dynes;A M Clark;G Shaulsky;A Kuspa

  • YAKA, A PROTEIN KINASE REQUIRED FOR THE TRANSITION FROM GROWTH TO DEVELOPMENT IN DICTYOSTELIUM

    Glaucia Mendes Souza;Sijie Lu;Adam Kuspa

  • A transcriptional profile of multicellular development in Dictyostelium discoideum.

    Nancy Van Driessche;Chad Shaw;Mariko Katoh;Takahiro Morio

  • Starvation promotes Dictyostelium development by relieving PufA inhibition of PKA translation through the YakA kinase pathway

    G.M. Souza;A.M. da Silva;A. Kuspa

Frequent Co-Authors

Gad Shaulsky
Gad Shaulsky Baylor College of Medicine
William F. Loomis
William F. Loomis University of California, San Diego
Dale Kaiser
Dale Kaiser Stanford University
Joan E. Strassmann
Joan E. Strassmann Washington University in St. Louis
Ivan Bratko
Ivan Bratko University of Ljubljana
David C. Queller
David C. Queller Washington University in St. Louis
Richard A. Gibbs
Richard A. Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine
Angelika A. Noegel
Angelika A. Noegel University of Cologne
Chad A. Shaw
Chad A. Shaw Baylor College of Medicine

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