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Brenda A. Wilson is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on immunology and microbiology, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and medicine.

Their work covers multiple subfields including microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, infectious diseases, and physiology. The central topics explored in their research include microbial infections and disease research, gut microbiota and health, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, plant virus research studies, toxin mechanisms and immunotoxins, transgenic plants and applications, and rabies epidemiology and control.

Wilson's publication record demonstrates contributions to various scientific journals. Frequent venues for their work are:

  • Microbiology Spectrum
  • mSystems
  • Vaccine
  • Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wilson include:

  • "Traditional Human Populations and Nonhuman Primates Show Parallel Gut Microbiome Adaptations to Analogous Ecological Conditions," published in 2020 in mSystems
  • "Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A Contributes to Increased Mammalian Respiratory Epithelial Permeability Induced by Pasteurella multocida Infection," published in 2023 in Microbiology Spectrum
  • "Two Bordetella bronchiseptica attenuated vaccine candidates confer protection against lethal challenge with B. Bronchiseptica and Pasteurella multocida toxin in mouse models," published in 2022 in Vaccine
  • "Recovery of microbial community profile information hidden in chimeric sequence reads," published in 2021 in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • "Development of an Online Tool for Pasteurella multocida Genotyping and Genotypes of Pasteurella multocida From Different Hosts," published in 2021 in Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Wilson collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors, including Fei Wang, Huanchun Chen, Bin Wu, Zhong Peng, and Xiangru Wang. Each of these collaborators has contributed to multiple publications alongside Wilson.

Best Publications

  • Critical Evaluation of Two Primers Commonly Used for Amplification of Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes

    Jeremy A. Frank;Claudia I. Reich;Shobha Sharma;Jon S. Weisbaum;Jon S. Weisbaum

  • Habitat degradation impacts black howler monkey ( Alouatta pigra ) gastrointestinal microbiomes

    Katherine R Amato;Carl J Yeoman;Carl J Yeoman;Angela Kent;Nicoletta Righini

  • Bacterial Pathogenesis : A Molecular Approach

    Brenda A. Wilson;Abigail A. Salyers;Dixie D Whitt;Malcolm E Winkler

  • Pasteurella multocida: from Zoonosis to Cellular Microbiology

    Brenda A. Wilson;Mengfei Ho

  • Obesity during childhood and adolescence augments bone mass and bone dimensions

    Mary B Leonard;Justine Shults;Brenda A Wilson;Andrew M Tershakovec

  • The Gut Microbiota Appears to Compensate for Seasonal Diet Variation in the Wild Black Howler Monkey ("Alouatta pigra")

    Katherine R. Amato;Katherine R. Amato;Steven R. Leigh;Angela D. Kent;Roderick I. Mackie

  • Characterization of the fecal microbiome from non-human wild primates reveals species specific microbial communities.

    Suleyman Yildirim;Carl J. Yeoman;Maksim Sipos;Manolito Torralba

  • Gut Microbiome of Coexisting BaAka Pygmies and Bantu Reflects Gradients of Traditional Subsistence Patterns

    Andres Gomez;Klara J. Petrzelkova;Michael B. Burns;Carl J. Yeoman

  • Pregnancy's stronghold on the vaginal microbiome

    Marina R. S. Walther-António;Patricio Jeraldo;Patricio Jeraldo;Margret E. Berg Miller;Carl J. Yeoman

  • Role of Glutamic Acid 988 of Human Poly-ADP-ribose Polymerase in Polymer Formation EVIDENCE FOR ACTIVE SITE SIMILARITIES TO THE ADP-RIBOSYLATING TOXINS

    Gerald T. Marsischky;Brenda A. Wilson;R.John Collier

  • Comparative Genomics of Gardnerella vaginalis Strains Reveals Substantial Differences in Metabolic and Virulence Potential

    Carl J. Yeoman;Suleyman Yildirim;Susan M. Thomas;A. Scott Durkin

  • Heterogeneity of Vaginal Microbial Communities within Individuals

    Tae Kyung Kim;Susan M. Thomas;Mengfei Ho;Shobha Sharma

  • Gut microbiome composition and metabolomic profiles of wild western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) reflect host ecology

    Andres Gomez;Klara Petrzelkova;Carl J. Yeoman;Klara Vlckova

  • A multi-omic systems-based approach reveals metabolic markers of bacterial vaginosis and insight into the disease.

    Carl J. Yeoman;Susan M. Thomas;Margret E. Berg Miller;Alexander V. Ulanov

  • Primate vaginal microbiomes exhibit species specificity without universal Lactobacillus dominance.

    Suleyman Yildirim;Carl J Yeoman;Sarath Chandra Janga;Sarath Chandra Janga;Susan M Thomas

  • The vaginal microbiome in health and disease.

    Bryan A. White;Douglas J. Creedon;Karen E. Nelson;Brenda A. Wilson

  • Caste-Specific Differences in Hindgut Microbial Communities of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

    Karen M. Kapheim;Karen M. Kapheim;Vikyath D. Rao;Carl J. Yeoman;Carl J. Yeoman;Brenda A. Wilson

  • Active-site mutations of diphtheria toxin: effects of replacing glutamic acid-148 with aspartic acid, glutamine, or serine.

    B A Wilson;K A Reich;K A Reich;B R Weinstein;B R Weinstein;R J Collier

  • Pasteurella multocida toxin activation of heterotrimeric G proteins by deamidation

    Joachim H. C. Orth;Inga Preuss;Ines Fester;Andreas Schlosser

  • Pasteurella multocida Toxin Activates the Inositol Triphosphate Signaling Pathway in Xenopus Oocytes via Gqα-coupled Phospholipase C-β1

    Brenda Anne Wilson;Xinjun Zhu;Mengfei Ho;Luo Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven R. Leigh
Steven R. Leigh University of Colorado Boulder
Karen E. Nelson
Karen E. Nelson J. Craig Venter Institute
Bryan A. White
Bryan A. White University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Manolito Torralba
Manolito Torralba J. Craig Venter Institute
H. Rex Gaskins
H. Rex Gaskins University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chad M. Rienstra
Chad M. Rienstra University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan F. Steinberg
Susan F. Steinberg Columbia University
Gary J. Olsen
Gary J. Olsen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Modrý
David Modrý University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Klára J. Petrželková
Klára J. Petrželková Czech Academy of Sciences

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