Jill R. Blankenship, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
1998-2005 Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University, Durham, NC 
 2005-2008 Microbiology Columbia University Medical Center, New York 
 2008-2012 Biology Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 
 2012- Biology University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, United States 
Area:
Sex in Fungi, Signaling, Pathogenesis, Cryptococcus, Candida albicans, filamentation, antifungal drug sensitivity
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Allen J. Moore research assistant 1993-1994 (Evolution Tree)
Joseph Heitman grad student 2004 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
 (Immunophilin -targeting drugs and the role of their target genes in the pathogenic fungi Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans.)
Aaron Mitchell post-doc 2005-2012 University of Georgia
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Creger PE, Blankenship JR. (2018) Analysis of gene expression in filamentous cells of grown on agar plates. Journal of Biological Methods. 5: e84
Azadmanesh J, Gowen AM, Creger PE, et al. (2017) Filamentation Involves Two Overlapping, but Distinct, Programs of Filamentation in the Pathogenic Fungus Candida albicans. G3 (Bethesda, Md.)
Blankenship JR, Cheng S, Woolford CA, et al. (2014) Mutational analysis of essential septins reveals a role for septin-mediated signaling in filamentation. Eukaryotic Cell. 13: 1403-10
Langford ML, Hargarten JC, Patefield KD, et al. (2013) Candida albicans Czf1 and Efg1 coordinate the response to farnesol during quorum sensing, white-opaque thermal dimorphism, and cell death. Eukaryotic Cell. 12: 1281-92
Badrane H, Nguyen MH, Blankenship JR, et al. (2012) Rapid redistribution of phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate and septins during the Candida albicans response to caspofungin. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 56: 4614-24
Thevissen K, de Mello Tavares P, Xu D, et al. (2012) The plant defensin RsAFP2 induces cell wall stress, septin mislocalization and accumulation of ceramides in Candida albicans. Molecular Microbiology. 84: 166-80
Blankenship JR, Mitchell AP. (2011) Candida albicans adds more weight to iron regulation. Cell Host & Microbe. 10: 93-4
Argimón S, Fanning S, Blankenship JR, et al. (2011) Interaction between the Candida albicans high-osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway and the response to human beta-defensins 2 and 3. Eukaryotic Cell. 10: 272-5
Blankenship JR, Fanning S, Hamaker JJ, et al. (2010) An extensive circuitry for cell wall regulation in Candida albicans. Plos Pathogens. 6: e1000752
Park H, Liu Y, Solis N, et al. (2009) Transcriptional responses of candida albicans to epithelial and endothelial cells. Eukaryotic Cell. 8: 1498-510
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