Castillo Lab description coming soon..
Principal Investigator
Dr. Maria G. Castillo
Current Members
Past Members
Deblina Misra
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Jorge C. Galarza Prieto
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Tathagata Debnath
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Taylor Tuono
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Publications
- Marquez J, Dinguirard N, Gonzalez A, Kane AE, Joffe NR, Yoshino TP, Castillo MG. Molecular characterization of thioester-containing proteins in Biomphalaria glabrata and their differential gene expression upon Schistosoma mansoni exposure. Front Immunol. 2022 Jul 27;13:903158. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.903158. PMID: 35967434; PMCID: PMC9363628.
- Castillo MG, Humphries JE, Mourão MM, Marquez J, Gonzalez A, Montelongo CE. Biomphalaria glabrata immunity: Post-genome advances. Dev Comp Immunol. 2020 Mar;104:103557. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2019.103557. PMID: 31759924.
- Wheeler NJ, Dinguirard N, Marquez J, Gonzalez A, Zamanian M, Yoshino TP, Castillo MG. Sequence and structural variation in the genome of the Biomphalaria glabrata embryonic (Bge) cell line. Parasit Vectors. 2018 Sep 4;11(1):496. doi: 10.1186/s13071-018-3059-2. PMID: 30180879.
- Adema CM, Hillier LW, Jones CS, Loker ES, Knight M, Minx P, Oliveira G, Raghavan N, Shedlock A, do Amaral LR, Arican-Goktas HD, Assis JG, Baba EH, Baron OL, Bayne CJ, Bickham-Wright U, Biggar KK, Blouin M, Bonning BC, Botka C, Bridger JM, Buckley KM, Buddenborg SK, Lima Caldeira R, Carleton J, Carvalho OS, Castillo MG, Chalmers IW, Christensens M, Clifton S, Cosseau C, Coustau C, Cripps RM, Cuesta-Astroz Y, Cummins SF, di Stephano L, Dinguirard N, Duval D, Emrich S, Feschotte C, Feyereisen R, FitzGerald P, Fronick C, Fulton L, Galinier R, Gava SG, Geusz M, Geyer KK, Giraldo-Calderón GI, de Souza Gomes M, Gordy MA, Gourbal B, Grunau C, Hanington PC, Hoffmann KF, Hughes D, Humphries J, Jackson DJ, Jannotti-Passos LK, de Jesus Jeremias W, Jobling S, Kamel B, Kapusta A, Kaur S, Koene JM, Kohn AB, Lawson D, Lawton SP, Liang D, Limpanont Y, Liu S, Lockyer AE, Lovato TL, Ludolf F, Magrini V, McManus DP, Medina M, Misra M, Mitta G, Mkoji GM, Montague MJ, Montelongo C, Moroz LL, Munoz-Torres MC, Niazi U, Noble LR, Oliveira FS, Pais FS, Papenfuss AT, Peace R, Pena JJ, Pila EA, Quelais T, Raney BJ, Rast JP, Rollinson D, Rosse IC, Rotgans B, Routledge EJ, Ryan KM, Scholte LLS, Storey KB, Swain M, Tennessen JA, Tomlinson C, Trujillo DL, Volpi EV, Walker AJ, Wang T, Wannaporn I, Warren WC, Wu XJ, Yoshino TP, Yusuf M, Zhang SM, Zhao M, Wilson RK. Whole genome analysis of a schistosomiasis-transmitting freshwater snail. Nature Communications. 2017; May 16;8:15451. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15451.
- Yazzie N, Salazar KA, and Castillo MG. Identification, molecular characterization, and gene expression analysis of a CD109 molecule in the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 2015; 44(1): 342-355.
- Salazar KA, Joffe NR, Houde P, Dinguirard N, and Castillo MG. Transcriptome analysis of the white body of the squid Euprymna tasmanica with emphasis on immune and hematopoietic gene discovery. PLOS One, 2015; 10(3):e0119949.
- McFall-Ngai MJ, Nyholm SV, and Castillo MG. The role of the immune system in the initiation and persistence of the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri symbiosis. Seminars in Immunology, 2010; 22:48-53.
- Castillo MG, Wu XJ, Dinguirard N, Nyame AK, Cummings RD, and Yoshino TP. Surface membrane proteins of Biomphalaria glabrata embryonic cells bind fucosyl determinants on the tegumental surface of Schistosoma mansoni primary sporocysts. Journal of Parasitology, 2007; 93:832-40.
- Castillo MG and Yoshino TP. Carbohydrate inhibition of Biomphalaria glabrata embryonic (Bge) cell adhesion to primary sporocysts of Schistosoma mansoni. Parasitology, 2003; 125:513-525.
- Yoshino TP, Coustau C, Modat S, and Castillo MG. The Biomphalaria glabrata embryonic (Bge) molluscan cell line: Establishment of an in vitro cellular model for the study of snail host-parasite interactions. Malacologia, 1999; 41(2):331-343.
- Yoshino TP, Davids BJ, Castillo MG, and Johnston LA. Invertebrate cellular adhesion receptors: their structure and function as primordial recognition molecules in the immune system. Trends in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 1998; 5:49-65.