Wood, Heidi
Lecturer
所属大学: University of Manitoba
所属学院: Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
邮箱:
heidi.wood@phac-aspc.gc.ca
个人主页:
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/health_sciences/medicine/units/medical_microbiology/faculty/wood.html
个人简介
Lecturer, Department of Medical Microbiology Chief, Rabies, Rickettsia and Related Zoonotic Diseases, Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens, National Microbiology Laboratory Degrees: PhD ( Manitoba , 2004), BSc ( Manitoba , 1997)
研究领域
Applied and basic research involving rickettsial species and Coxiella burnetii ; molecular mechanisms of virulence of rickettsial species
近期论文
Tinmouth, J., M. W. Gilmour, C. Kovacs, R. Kropp, L. Mitterni, A. Rachlis, S. Richards, I. Salit, R. Sikri, G. R. Valencia, T. Wesson, T. Wong, and H. Wood. 2008. Is there a reservoir of sub-clinical lymphogranuloma venereum and non-LGV Chlamydia trachomatis infection in men who have sex with men? Int J STD AIDS 19: 805-9. Roshick, C., H. Wood, H. D. Caldwell, and G. McClarty. 2006. Comparison of gamma interferon-mediated antichlamydial defense mechanisms in human and mouse cells. Infect Immun 74: 225-38. Carlson, J. H., H. Wood, C. Roshick, H. D. Caldwell, and G. McClarty. 2006. In vivo and in vitro studies of Chlamydia trachomatis TrpR:DNA interactions. Mol Microbiol 59: 1678-91. Nelson, D. E., D. P. Virok, H. Wood, C. Roshick, R. M. Johnson, W. M. Whitmire, D. D. Crane, O. Steele-Mortimer, L. Kari, G. McClarty, and H. D. Caldwell. 2005. Chlamydial IFN-gamma immune evasion is linked to host infection tropism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102: 10658-63. Wood, H., C. Roshick, and G. McClarty. 2004. Tryptophan recycling is responsible for the interferon-gamma resistance of Chlamydia psittaci GPIC in indoleamine dioxygenase-expressing host cells. Mol Microbiol 52: 903-16. Wood, H., C. Fehlner-Gardner, J. Berry, E. Fischer, B. Graham, T. Hackstadt, C. Roshick, and G. McClarty. 2003. Regulation of tryptophan synthase gene expression in Chlamydia trachomatis. Mol Microbiol 49: 1347-59. Caldwell, H. D., H. Wood, D. Crane, R. Bailey, R. B. Jones, D. Mabey, I. Maclean, Z. Mohammed, R. Peeling, C. Roshick, J. Schachter, A. W. Solomon, W. E. Stamm, R. J. Suchland, L. Taylor, S. K. West, T. C. Quinn, R. J. Belland, and G. McClarty. 2003. Polymorphisms in Chlamydia trachomatis tryptophan synthase genes differentiate between genital and ocular isolates. J Clin Invest 111: 1757-69.