Unisexual and heterosexual meiotic reproduction generate aneuploidy and phenotypic diversity de novo in the yeast Cryptococcus neoformans.

by Min Ni, Marianna Feretzaki, Wenjun Li, Anna Floyd-Averette, Piotr Mieczkowski, Fred S Dietrich, Joseph Heitman
Published 2013-09-01

Discovery of a modified tetrapolar sexual cycle in Cryptococcus amylolentus and the evolution of MAT in the Cryptococcus species complex.

by Keisha Findley, Sheng Sun, James A Fraser, Yen-Ping Hsueh, Anna Floyd Averette, Wenjun Li, Fred S Dietrich, Joseph Heitman
Published 2012-01-01

Elucidation of the calcineurin-Crz1 stress response transcriptional network in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.

by Eve W L Chow, Shelly A Clancey, R Blake Billmyre, Anna Floyd Averette, Joshua A Granek, Piotr Mieczkowski, Maria E Cardenas, Joseph Heitman
Published 2017-04-01

Genetic and Genomic Analyses Reveal Boundaries between Species Closely Related to Cryptococcus Pathogens

by Andrew Ryan Passer, Marco A. Coelho, Robert Blake Billmyre, Minou Nowrousian, Moritz Mittelbach, Andrey M. Yurkov, Anna Floyd Averette, Christina A. Cuomo, Sheng Sun, Joseph Heitman
Published 2019-06-01

Genus-Wide Comparative Genomics of Malassezia Delineates Its Phylogeny, Physiology, and Niche Adaptation on Human Skin.

by Guangxi Wu, He Zhao, Chenhao Li, Menaka Priyadarsani Rajapakse, Wing Cheong Wong, Jun Xu, Charles W Saunders, Nancy L Reeder, Raymond A Reilman, Annika Scheynius, Sheng Sun, Blake Robert Billmyre, Wenjun Li, Anna Floyd Averette, Piotr Mieczkowski, Joseph Heitman, Bart Theelen, Markus S Schröder, Paola Florez De Sessions, Geraldine Butler, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Teun Boekhout, Niranjan Nagarajan, Thomas L Dawson
Published 2015-11-01

Harnessing calcineurin-FK506-FKBP12 crystal structures from invasive fungal pathogens to develop antifungal agents

by Praveen R. Juvvadi, David Fox, Benjamin G. Bobay, Michael J. Hoy, Sophie M. C. Gobeil, Ronald A. Venters, Zanetta Chang, Jackie J. Lin, Anna Floyd Averette, D. Christopher Cole, Blake C. Barrington, Joshua D. Wheaton, Maria Ciofani, Michael Trzoss, Xiaoming Li, Soo Chan Lee, Ying-Lien Chen, Mitchell Mutz, Leonard D. Spicer, Maria A. Schumacher, Joseph Heitman, William J. Steinbach
Published 2019-09-01

Analysis of the genome and transcriptome of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii reveals complex RNA expression and microevolution leading to virulence attenuation.

by Guilhem Janbon, Kate L Ormerod, Damien Paulet, Edmond J Byrnes, Vikas Yadav, Gautam Chatterjee, Nandita Mullapudi, Chung-Chau Hon, R Blake Billmyre, François Brunel, Yong-Sun Bahn, Weidong Chen, Yuan Chen, Eve W L Chow, Jean-Yves Coppée, Anna Floyd-Averette, Claude Gaillardin, Kimberly J Gerik, Jonathan Goldberg, Sara Gonzalez-Hilarion, Sharvari Gujja, Joyce L Hamlin, Yen-Ping Hsueh, Giuseppe Ianiri, Steven Jones, Chinnappa D Kodira, Lukasz Kozubowski, Woei Lam, Marco Marra, Larry D Mesner, Piotr A Mieczkowski, Frédérique Moyrand, Kirsten Nielsen, Caroline Proux, Tristan Rossignol, Jacqueline E Schein, Sheng Sun, Carolin Wollschlaeger, Ian A Wood, Qiandong Zeng, Cécile Neuvéglise, Carol S Newlon, John R Perfect, Jennifer K Lodge, Alexander Idnurm, Jason E Stajich, James W Kronstad, Kaustuv Sanyal, Joseph Heitman, James A Fraser, Christina A Cuomo, Fred S Dietrich
Published 2014-04-01