A. Wilkins

A nutritional immunity blockade controls extracellular bacterial replication in Legionella pneumophila infections.

This study shows that Legionella pneumophila can replicate extracellularly when host nutritional immunity is blocked, particularly through iron overload or absence of Transferrin.

The intracellular growth of the vacuolar pathogen Legionella pneumophila is dependent on the acyl chain composition of host membranes

This study shows that Legionella pneumophila replication depends on host membrane acyl chain composition, with palmitoleic acid promoting membrane disorder and enhancing bacterial growth.

Development of peptides for targeting cell ablation agents concurrently to the Sertoli and Leydig cell populations of the testes: an approach to non-surgical sterilization

This study develops peptides to target and ablate Sertoli and Leydig cells in testes, aiming to create a non-surgical sterilization method for cats and dogs.

Searching for a UV-filter in the eyes of high flying birds

The study investigates a UV-absorbing compound in high-flying birds' aqueous humor but fails to identify the UV-protective compound 'X' using spectroscopic methods.

Using phylogenomic data to explore the effects of relaxed clocks and calibration strategies on divergence time estimation: Primates as a test case

This study evaluates how fossil calibrations and molecular clock models affect primate divergence time estimates, finding that auto-correlated rates models provide better fits and more reliable time estimates.