Mauricio Alvarez, Ph.D.

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2008 Yeshiva University, New York, NY, United States 
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Microbiology Biology
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Arturo Casadevall grad student 2008 Yeshiva University
 (Novel interactions between Cryptococcus neoformans and macrophages: Intracellular persistence of the yeast leads to phagosomal extrusion, host cell-to-cell spread, and micro-colony formation following extrusion.)
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Chrisman CJ, Alvarez M, Casadevall A. (2010) Phagocytosis of Cryptococcus neoformans by, and nonlytic exocytosis from, Acanthamoeba castellanii. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76: 6056-62
Alvarez M, Burn T, Luo Y, et al. (2009) The outcome of Cryptococcus neoformans intracellular pathogenesis in human monocytes. Bmc Microbiology. 9: 51
Luo Y, Alvarez M, Xia L, et al. (2008) The outcome of phagocytic cell division with infectious cargo depends on single phagosome formation. Plos One. 3: e3219
Alvarez M, Saylor C, Casadevall A. (2008) Antibody action after phagocytosis promotes Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii macrophage exocytosis with biofilm-like microcolony formation. Cellular Microbiology. 10: 1622-33
Rodrigues ML, Alvarez M, Fonseca FL, et al. (2008) Binding of the wheat germ lectin to Cryptococcus neoformans suggests an association of chitinlike structures with yeast budding and capsular glucuronoxylomannan. Eukaryotic Cell. 7: 602-9
Alvarez M, Casadevall A. (2007) Cell-to-cell spread and massive vacuole formation after Cryptococcus neoformans infection of murine macrophages. Bmc Immunology. 8: 16
Zaragoza O, Alvarez M, Telzak A, et al. (2007) The relative susceptibility of mouse strains to pulmonary Cryptococcus neoformans infection is associated with pleiotropic differences in the immune response. Infection and Immunity. 75: 2729-39
Rodrigues ML, Nimrichter L, Oliveira DL, et al. (2007) Vesicular polysaccharide export in Cryptococcus neoformans is a eukaryotic solution to the problem of fungal trans-cell wall transport. Eukaryotic Cell. 6: 48-59
Alvarez M, Casadevall A. (2006) Phagosome extrusion and host-cell survival after Cryptococcus neoformans phagocytosis by macrophages. Current Biology : Cb. 16: 2161-5
Wang F, Nakouzi A, Alvarez M, et al. (2006) Structural and functional characterization of glycosylation in an immunoglobulin G1 to Cryptococcus neoformans glucuronoxylomannan. Molecular Immunology. 43: 987-98
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