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  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Carolina Barillas-Mury is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a significant concentration in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology, Insect Science, Molecular Biology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work addresses several key topics including mosquito-borne diseases and control, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, malaria research and control, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, immune responses and vaccinations, insect resistance and genetics, and HIV research and treatment.

Several notable publications by Carolina Barillas-Mury include:

  • BCG vaccine protection from severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A Potent Anti-Malarial Human Monoclonal Antibody Targets Circumsporozoite Protein Minor Repeats and Neutralizes Sporozoites in the Liver, 2020, Immunity
  • Mosquito cellular immunity at single-cell resolution, 2020, Science
  • Plasmodium falciparum evades immunity of anopheline mosquitoes by interacting with a Pfs47 midgut receptor, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Understanding pathogen survival and transmission by arthropod vectors to prevent human disease, 2022, Science

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Alvaro Molina-Cruz (19 publications)
  • Ana Beatriz F. Barletta (17 publications)
  • Gaspar E. Cánepa (8 publications)
  • Octávio A. C. Talyuli (7 publications)
  • José M. C. Ribeiro (6 publications)

The scientist has published extensively in key venues with the highest number of publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 10 publications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - 7 publications
  • Nature Communications - 4 publications
  • Science - 3 publications
  • PLoS Pathogens - 3 publications

Among professional recognitions, Carolina Barillas-Mury was named a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2017 and became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Immunity-Related Genes and Gene Families in Anopheles gambiae

    George K. Christophides;Evgeny Zdobnov;Carolina Barillas-Mury;Ewan Birney

  • Evolutionary Dynamics of Immune-Related Genes and Pathways in Disease-Vector Mosquitoes

    Robert M. Waterhouse;Evgenia V. Kriventseva;Stephan Meister;Zhiyong Xi

  • Comparative genome and proteome analysis of Anopheles gambiae and Drosophila melanogaster.

    Evgeny M. Zdobnov;Christian Von Mering;Ivica Letunic;David Torrents

  • Flavivirus susceptibility in Aedes aegypti.

    William C. Black;Kristine E. Bennett;Norma Gorrochótegui-Escalante;Carolina V. Barillas-Mury

  • Hemocyte differentiation mediates innate immune memory in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes.

    Janneth Rodrigues;Fábio André Brayner;Luiz Carlos Alves;Rajnikant Dixit

  • Genome expression analysis of Anopheles gambiae: Responses to injury, bacterial challenge, and malaria infection

    George Dimopoulos;George K. Christophides;Stephan Meister;Jörg Schultz

  • Molecular interactions between Anopheles stephensi midgut cells and Plasmodium berghei: the time bomb theory of ookinete invasion of mosquitoes

    Yeon Soo Han;Joanne Thompson;Fotis C. Kafatos;Carolina Barillas-Mury

  • BCG vaccine protection from severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

    Luis E. Escobar;Alvaro Molina-Cruz;Carolina Barillas-Mury

  • Malaria immunity in man and mosquito: insights into unsolved mysteries of a deadly infectious disease.

    Peter D Crompton;Jacqueline Moebius;Silvia Portugal;Michael Waisberg

  • The role of reactive oxygen species on Plasmodium melanotic encapsulation in Anopheles gambiae

    Sanjeev Kumar;George K. Christophides;Rafael Cantera;Bradley Charles

  • Directional gene expression and antisense transcripts in sexual and asexual stages of Plasmodium falciparum

    María J López-Barragán;Jacob Lemieux;Mariam Quiñones;Kim C Williamson;Kim C Williamson

  • A Role for Insect Galectins in Parasite Survival

    Shaden Kamhawi;Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao;Van M. Pham;Sanjeev Kumar

  • A peroxidase/dual oxidase system modulates midgut epithelial immunity in Anopheles gambiae.

    Sanjeev Kumar;Alvaro Molina-Cruz;Lalita Gupta;Janneth Rodrigues

  • Reactive oxygen species modulate Anopheles gambiae immunity against bacteria and Plasmodium.

    Alvaro Molina-Cruz;Randall J. DeJong;Bradley Charles;Lalita Gupta

  • Anopheles gambiae Ag-STAT, a new insect member of the STAT family, is activated in response to bacterial infection.

    Carolina Barillas‐Mury;Yeon‐Soo Han;Douglas Seeley;Fotis C. Kafatos

  • The Role of Hemocytes in Anopheles gambiae Antiplasmodial Immunity

    Jose Luis Ramirez;Lindsey S. Garver;Fábio André Brayner;Luiz Carlos Alves

  • The Human Malaria Parasite Pfs47 Gene Mediates Evasion of the Mosquito Immune System

    Alvaro Molina-Cruz;Lindsey S. Garver;Amy Alabaster;Lois Bangiolo

  • The STAT Pathway Mediates Late-Phase Immunity against Plasmodium in the Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Lalita Gupta;Alvaro Molina-Cruz;Sanjeev Kumar;Janneth Rodrigues

  • Epithelial nitration by a peroxidase/NOX5 system mediates mosquito antiplasmodial immunity.

    Giselle de Almeida Oliveira;Joshua Lieberman;Carolina Barillas-Mury

  • Reactive oxygen species detoxification by catalase is a major determinant of fecundity in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Randall J. DeJong;Lisa M. Miller;Alvaro Molina-Cruz;Lalita Gupta

Frequent Co-Authors

Fotis C. Kafatos
Fotis C. Kafatos Harvard University
George K. Christophides
George K. Christophides Imperial College London
Fotis C. Kafatos
Fotis C. Kafatos Imperial College London
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Oliver Billker
Oliver Billker Umeå University
José M. C. Ribeiro
José M. C. Ribeiro National Institutes of Health
Louis H. Miller
Louis H. Miller National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Jules A. Hoffmann
Jules A. Hoffmann University of Strasbourg
Sarah A. Teichmann
Sarah A. Teichmann University of Cambridge
Patrick E. Duffy
Patrick E. Duffy National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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