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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Roy Curtiss is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on subfields including Immunology, Food Science, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed to several main research topics such as Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Vibrio bacteria research studies, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, immune response and inflammation, as well as genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Roy Curtiss's recent published papers include:

  • Genomic diversity of Salmonella enterica -The UoWUCC 10K genomes project, 2020, Wellcome Open Research
  • Genomic diversity of Salmonella enterica -The UoWUCC 10K genomes project, 2021, Wellcome Open Research
  • Group 3 innate lymphoid cell pyroptosis represents a host defence mechanism against Salmonella infection, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Pathogenicity and immunogenicity of Edwardsiella piscicida ferric uptake regulator (fur) mutations in zebrafish, 2020, Fish & Shellfish Immunology
  • Uncoupling of invasive bacterial mucosal immunogenicity from pathogenicity, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roy Curtiss include:

  • Banikalyan Swain
  • Shifeng Wang
  • Cole T. Powell
  • Huoying Shi
  • Mark Achtman

Key venues in which Roy Curtiss has frequently published are:

  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Avian Diseases
  • Frontiers in Immunology

Recognition for their scientific contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Reversible Microbial Colonization of Germ-Free Mice Reveals the Dynamics of IgA Immune Responses

    Siegfried Hapfelmeier;Melissa A.E. Lawson;Emma Wetter Slack;Jorum K. Kirundi

  • Uniform nomenclature for bacterial plasmids: a proposal.

    Novick Rp;Clowes Rc;Cohen Sn;Curtiss R rd

  • Display of heterologous proteins on the surface of microorganisms: From the screening of combinatorial libraries to live recombinant vaccines

    George Georgiou;Christos Stathopoulos;Patrick S. Daugherty;Amiya R. Nayak

  • Fatty acid production in genetically modified cyanobacteria

    Xinyao Liu;Jie Sheng;Roy Curtiss

  • Construction of an ASD+ Expression-Cloning Vector: Stable Maintenance and High Level Expression of Cloned Genes in a Salmonella Vaccine Strain

    Koji Nakayama;Sandra M. Kelly;Roy Curtiss

  • Cloning and characterization of the asd gene of Salmonella typhimurium: use in stable maintenance of recombinant plasmids in Salmonella vaccine strains.

    Jorge E. Galán;Koji Nakayama;Roy Curtiss

  • Immune Responses to Recombinant Pneumococcal PspA Antigen Delivered by Live Attenuated Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Vaccine

    Ho Young Kang;Jay Srinivasan;Roy Curtiss

  • Chromosomal Aberrations Associated with Mutations to Bacteriophage Resistance in Escherichia coli

    Roy Curtiss

  • Relationship between the Tsh autotransporter and pathogenicity of avian Escherichia coli and localization and analysis of the Tsh genetic region.

    Charles M. Dozois;Maryvonne Dho-Moulin;Annie Brée;John M. Fairbrother

  • Identification of pathogen-specific and conserved genes expressed in vivo by an avian pathogenic Escherichia coli strain

    Charles M. Dozois;Roy Curtiss

  • Virulence and vaccine potential of phoP mutants of Salmonella typhimurium

    Jorge E. Galán;Roy Curtiss

  • Loss of pigmentation in Shigella flexneri 2a is correlated with loss of virulence and virulence-associated plasmid.

    A T Maurelli;B Blackmon;rd R Curtiss

  • Synthesis of Ribonucleic Acid and Protein in Plasmid-Containing Minicells of Escherichia coli K-12

    Kenneth J. Roozen;Raymond G. Fenwick;Roy Curtiss

  • Construction and evaluation of a delta cya delta crp Salmonella typhimurium strain expressing avian pathogenic Escherichia coli O78 LPS as a vaccine to prevent airsacculitis in chickens.

    Kenneth Roland;Roy Curtiss;Donata Sizemore

  • Molecular analysis of DNA and construction of genomic libraries of Mycobacterium leprae.

    J E Clark-Curtiss;W R Jacobs;M A Docherty;L R Ritchie

  • ORAL IMMUNISATION BY TRANSGENIC PLANTS CONTAINING DNA CODING FOR BACTERIAL OR VIRAL ANTIGENS AND COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THE SO PRODUCED ANTIGENS

    Curtiss Roy;Cardineau Guy A

  • An altered rpoS allele contributes to the avirulence of Salmonella typhimurium LT2.

    Mary R. Wilmes-Riesenberg;John W. Foster;Roy Curtiss

  • MlrA, a novel regulator of curli (AgF) and extracellular matrix synthesis by Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

    Peter K. Brown;Charles M. Dozois;Cheryl A. Nickerson;Cheryl A. Nickerson;Amy Zuppardo

  • Role of Virulence Factors in Resistance of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli to Serum and in Pathogenicity

    Melha Mellata;Maryvonne Dho-Moulin;Charles M. Dozois;Roy Curtiss

  • Secretion of virulence determinants by the general secretory pathway in gram-negative pathogens: an evolving story.

    Christos Stathopoulos;David R Hendrixson;David G Thanassi;David G Thanassi;Scott J Hultgren

  • Role of sigma factor RpoS in initial stages of Salmonella typhimurium infection.

    Cheryl A. Nickerson;Roy Curtiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles M. Dozois
Charles M. Dozois Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christian R. H. Raetz
Christian R. H. Raetz Duke University
Suzanne M. Michalek
Suzanne M. Michalek University of Alabama at Birmingham
John M. Fairbrother
John M. Fairbrother University of Montreal
James R. Johnson
James R. Johnson University of Minnesota
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan University of Cambridge
Jorge E. Galán
Jorge E. Galán Yale University
Richard A. Strugnell
Richard A. Strugnell University of Melbourne
Robert D. Perry
Robert D. Perry University of Kentucky
Mark C. Jenkins
Mark C. Jenkins United States Department of Agriculture

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