Maia Gower

PhD Student

Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Email: maia.serene.gower@ki.se

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Research Keywords:

TB, Myeloid cells, Innate memory, NTMs, Immunology

Biography:

Mycobacterial glycolipids are major components of the mycobacterial cell wall and play a key role in shaping the innate immune response upon infection, thereby influencing disease outcomes. We study how these glycolipids rewire the myeloid cell compartment via innate tolerization and its potential effect on the establishment of latent infection in Tuberculosis.

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Key Publications:

Lim FY, Kim SY, Kulkarni KN, Blazevic RL, Kimball LE, Lea HG, Haack AJ, Gower MS, Stevens-Ayers T, Starita LM, Boeckh M, Hyrien O, Schiffer JT, Theberge AB, Waghmare A. High-frequency home self-collection of capillary blood correlates IFI27 expression kinetics with SARS-CoV-2 viral clearance. J Clin Invest. 2023 Dec 1;133(23):e173715. doi: 10.1172/JCI173715. PMID: 38038134; PMCID: PMC10688975.

Berry SB, Gower MS, Su X, Seshadri C, Theberge AB. A Modular Microscale Granuloma Model for Immune-Microenvironment Signaling Studies in vitro. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2020 Aug 18;8:931. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00931. PMID: 32974300; PMCID: PMC7461927.