J. Marie Hardwick

The paper introduces a heat-ramp method to study regulated cell death in Cryptococcus neoformans, revealing a protracted cell death process in pathogenic yeast.

The paper identifies mixed plates in a Cryptococcus neoformans knockout collection and proposes an authentication method to distinguish between different KO libraries.

The paper shows that environmental Cryptococcus neoformans strains undergo genomic and phenotypic changes during mammalian infection, suggesting animal virulence drives genetic adaptation.