Michael W Curtis, Ph.D.
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Michael W Curtis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Pediatrics-Tropical Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
Laboratory for Vector Biology and Bacterial Pathogens
- Research Fellow
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Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
Infection and Immunity NIH T32 Training Program
- Assistant Professor
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Pediatrics
Tropical Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
Education
- BS from North Central College
- 06/2012 - Naperville, Illinois United States
- Biology
- PhD from Medical College of Wisconsin
- 05/2018 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas United States
Professional Interests
- Tick-borne diseases
- Tick-borne relapsing fever
- Lyme disease
Selected Publications
- Clay D. Jackson-Litteken#, Michael W. Curtis# Brittany A. Armstrong, Aparna Krishnavajhala, Serhii Filatov, Jon S. Blevins, Job E. Lopez "Characterization of the arthropod associated lipoprotein (Alp) in the tick-mammalian transmission cycle of Borrelia turicatae." Ticks Tick Borne Dis.;In Press
- Michael W. Curtis†, Christa H. Fierros†, Beth L. Hahn, Matthew C. Surdel, Julie Kessler, Phillip N. Anderson, Marine Vandewalle-Capo, Mari Bonde, Jieqing Zhu, Sven Bergström, and Jenifer Coburn "Identification of amino acid domains of Borrelia burgdorferi P66 that are surface exposed and important for localization, oligomerization, and porin function of the protein." Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2022 Sep 23;
- Michael W Curtis, Aparna Krishnavajhala, Alexander R Kneubehl, Monica E Embers, Jenna R Gettings, Michael J Yabsley, Job E Lopez "Characterization of Immunological Responses to Borrelia Immunogenic Protein A (BipA), a Species-Specific Antigen for North American Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever." Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Jun 29;10(3):e0172221. Pubmed PMID: 35579456
- Michael W. Curtis, Beth L. Hahn, Kai Zhang, Chunhao Li, Richard T. Robinson, Jenifer Coburn "Characterization of Stress and Innate Immunity Resistance of Wild-Type and deltap66 Borrelia burgdorferi.." Infection and Immunity. 2018 Feb;86(2) Pubmed PMID: 29158430
- Monica E. Embers, Aparna Krishnavajhala, Brittany A. Armstrong, Michael W. Curtis, Bapi Pahar, Hannah K. Wilder, Michael S. Allen, Paul A. Beare, Nicole R. Hasenkampf, Job E. Lopez "Immunological Responses to the Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia turicatae in Infected Rhesus Macaques: Implications for Pathogenesis and Diagnosis.." Infection and Immunity. 2019 Apr;87(4) Pubmed PMID: 30642902
- Laura C. Ristow, Mari Bonde, Yi‐Pin Lin, Hiromi Sato, Michael Curtis, Erin Wesley, Beth L. Hahn, Juan Fang, David A. Wilcox, John M. Leong, Sven Bergström, and Jenifer Coburn "Integrin binding by Borrelia burgdorferi P66 facilitates dissemination but is not required for infectivity." Cellular Microbiology. 2015 Jul;17(7) Pubmed PMID: 25604835
- Beth L. Hahn, Lavinia J. Padmore, Laura C. Ristow, Michael W. Curtis, and Jenifer Coburn "Live Attenuated Borrelia burgdorferi Targeted Mutants in an Infectious Strain Background Protect Mice from Challenge Infection." Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 2016 Aug;23(8) Pubmed PMID: 27335385
- Lisa Ellis, Michael W Curtis, Sarah M Gunter, Job E Lopez "Relapsing Fever Infection Manifesting as Aseptic Meningitis, Texas, USA." Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Oct;27(10):2681-2685. Pubmed PMID: 34546167
Memberships
- American Society for Microbiology
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