Interview with Santa Fe New Mexican on Host-Pathogen research, 11/3/2012
Featured in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, OMICs section “Embattled RNAi Technology Tries New Tack”, 1/15/2012
Los Alamos Award Program (LAAP) in Exceptional Mentoring, 2010
LANL/S&T Institutional Research Grant, 2003 - 2005
American Cancer Society Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1997 - 2000
NIH Post-doctoral Fellowship – National Research Service Award, 1997
Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Educational Foundation Award, 1997
NIH Graduate Traineeship, 1991 - 1997
Professional Societies
Editorial Review Board, Frontiers in Microbial Immunology, 2012 - current
Publications
Hong-Geller E. (2013) Small-RNA-mediated regulation of host-pathogen interactions. Virulence. In preparation.
Stubben CJ, Micheva-Viteva S, Shou Y, Dunbar JM, and Hong-Geller E. (2013) Differential expression of small RNAs from Burkholderia thailandensis in response to environmental and stressful growth conditions. In preparation.
Shepherd DP, Li N, Micheva-Viteva S, Munsky B, Hong-Geller E, and Werner J. (2013) Counting small RNA in pathogenic bacteria. Submitted.
Micheva-Viteva S, Shou Y, Nowak-Lovato K, Rector KD, and Hong-Geller E. (2013) c-KIT-EGR1 signaling is targeted by Yersinia during infection. Submitted.
Nowak-Lovato K, Alexandrov LB, Banisadr A, Bauer AL, Bishop AR, Usheva A, Mu F, Hong-Geller E, Rasmussen K, Hlavacek WS, and Alexandrov BS. (2013) Binding of Nucleoid-associated Protein Fis to DNA is Regulated by DNA Breathing Dynamics. PLoS Comp. Biol. Jan;9(1):e1002881. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002881.
Marti-Arbona R, Teshima M, Anderson PS, Nowak-Lovato K, Hong-Geller E, Unkefer C, and Unkefer P. (2012) Identification of new ligands for the methionine biosynthesis transcriptional regulator (MetJ) by FAC-MS. J. Mol Microbiol Biotech. 22: 205-214.
Novak-Lovato K, Hickmott AJ, Maity, TS, Bulyk ML, Dunbar J, and Hong-Geller E. (2012) DNA binding site analysis of Burkholderia thailandensis response regulators. J. Microbiol. Methods. 90:46-52.
Taylor-McCabe, K, Shou, Y, and Hong-Geller, E. (2012) Effects of Bacillus anthracis hydrophobicity and induction of host cell death on sample collection from environmental surfaces. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiology. 58: 113-119.
Maity, TS, Close, DW, Valdez, YE, Nowak-Lovato, K, Marti-Arbona, R, Nguyen, TT, Unkefer, PJ, Hong-Geller, E, Bradbury, AR, and Dunbar, JM (2012) Discovery of DNA operators for TetR and MarR family transcription factors from Burkholderia xenovorans. Microbiology. 158: 571-82.
Hong-Geller, E., Valdez, Y., Shou, Y., Yoshida, T., Marrone, B., and Dunbar, J. (2010) Evaluation of B. anthracis and Y. pestis sample collection from nonporous surfaces by quantitative real-time PCR. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 50: 431-7.
Hong-Geller, E. and Micheva-Viteva, S. (2010) Functional gene discovery using RNA interference-based genomic screens to combat pathogen infection. Curr. Drug Discov. Technol. 7: 86-94.
Hong-Geller, E. (2009) A role for cell adhesion in beryllium-mediated lung disease. J. Occup. Environ. Hyg. 6: 727-731.
Lauer, S., Kunde, YA, Apodaca, TA, Goldstein, B., and Hong-Geller, E. (2009) Soluble MD2 increases TLR4 levels on the epithelial cell surface. Cell. Immunol. 255: 8-16.
Rodriguez, S., Kunde, YA, McClesky, TM, and Hong-Geller, E. (2008) Upregulation of I-CAM1 in response to beryllium exposure in small airway epithelial cells. Toxicol. Lett. 179: 140-7.
Hong-Geller, E, Chaudhary, A. and Lauer, S. (2008) Targeting Toll-like receptor signaling pathways for design of novel immune therapeutics. Curr Drug Disc Tech. 5: 29-38.