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McFall-Ngai Lab: Current Members

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    Dr. Silvia Moriano Gutierrez

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Postdoctoral Associate - University of Lausanne, Switzerland 


    smoriano@hawaii.edu

Education

PhD in Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering 2020

Areas of Study

Animal-microbe interactions

Research Publications

  • Essock-Burns T, Bennett BD, Arencibia D, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Medeiros M, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2021) Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Regulation Induces Morphological Change in a Key Host Tissue during the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri Symbiosis. mBio :e0240221 · Pubmed · DOI

  • Moriano-Gutierrez S, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2021) MicroRNA-Mediated Regulation of Initial Host Responses in a Symbiotic Organ. mSystems 6((3)): PMC8125070 · Pubmed · DOI

  • Moriano-Gutierrez S, Bongrand C, Essock-Burns T, Wu L, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2020) The noncoding small RNA SsrA is released by Vibrio fischeri and modulates critical host responses. PLoS biology 18((11)):e3000934 PMC7665748 · Pubmed · DOI

  • Koch EJ, Bongrand C, Bennett BD, Lawhorn S, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Pende M, Vadiwala K, Dodt HU, Raible F, Goldman W, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai M (2020) The cytokine MIF controls daily rhythms of symbiont nutrition in an animal-bacterial association. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117((44)):27578-27586 PMC7959500 · Pubmed · DOI

  • Koch EJ, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai M, Liebeke M (2020) The impact of persistent colonization by on the metabolome of the host squid . The Journal of experimental biology 223((Pt 16)): PMC7473655 · Pubmed · DOI

  • Bongrand C, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Arevalo P, McFall-Ngai M, Visick KL, Polz M, Ruby EG (2020) Using Colonization Assays and Comparative Genomics To Discover Symbiosis Behaviors and Factors in Vibrio fischeri. mBio 11((2)): PMC7064787 · Pubmed · DOI

  • Koch EJ, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai M, Liebeke M (2020) The impact of persistent colonization by Vibrio fischeri on the metabolome of the host squid Euprymna scolopes. The Journal of experimental biology : · Pubmed · DOI

  • Moriano-Gutierrez S, Koch EJ, Bussan H, Romano K, Belcaid M, Rey FE, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2019) Critical symbiont signals drive both local and systemic changes in diel and developmental host gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116((16)):7990-7999 PMC6475425 · Pubmed

  • Belcaid M, Casaburi G, McAnulty SJ, Schmidbaur H, Suria AM, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Pankey MS, Oakley TH, Kremer N, Koch EJ, Collins AJ, Nguyen H, Lek S, Goncharenko-Foster I, Minx P, Sodergren E, Weinstock G, Rokhsar DS, McFall-Ngai M, Simakov O, Foster JS, Nyholm SV (2019) Symbiotic organs shaped by distinct modes of genome evolution in cephalopods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116((8)):3030-3035 PMC6386654 · Pubmed

  • Gosalbes MJ, Compte J, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Vallès Y, Jiménez-Hernández N, Pons X, Artacho A, Francino MP (2018) Metabolic adaptation in the human gut microbiota during pregnancy and the first year of life. EBioMedicine 39:497-509 PMC6354444 · Pubmed

  • Bongrand C, Koch EJ, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Cordero OX, McFall-Ngai M, Polz MF, Ruby EG (2016) A genomic comparison of 13 symbiotic Vibrio fischeri isolates from the perspective of their host source and colonization behavior. The ISME journal 10((12)):2907-2917 PMC5148191 · Pubmed · DOI

  • Nikolakakis K, Monfils K, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Brennan CA, Ruby EG (2015) Characterization of the Vibrio fischeri Fatty Acid Chemoreceptors, VfcB and VfcB2. Applied and environmental microbiology 82((2)):696-704 PMC4711111 · Pubmed

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