Geil Merana

Graduate Student
Biomedical Sciences
Publications: 

Intestinal inflammation alters the antigen-specific immune response to a skin commensal.

Cell reports

Merana GR, Dwyer LR, Dhariwala MO, Weckel A, Gonzalez JR, Okoro JN, Cohen JN, Tamaki CM, Han J, Tasoff P, Palacios-Calderon Y, Ha CWY, Lynch SV, Segre JA, Kong HH, Kattah MG, Ma A, Scharschmidt TC

Skin immunity: dissecting the complex biology of our body's outer barrier.

Mucosal immunology

Zhang C, Merana GR, Harris-Tryon T, Scharschmidt TC

Hair of the mouse: A skin bacteria "cocktail" gets follicles back on their feet.

Cell host & microbe

Gonzalez JR, Merana GR, Scharschmidt TC

Toxin-Triggered Interleukin-1 Receptor Signaling Enables Early-Life Discrimination of Pathogenic versus Commensal Skin Bacteria.

Cell host & microbe

Leech JM, Dhariwala MO, Lowe MM, Chu K, Merana GR, Cornuot C, Weckel A, Ma JM, Leitner EG, Gonzalez JR, Vasquez KS, Diep BA, Scharschmidt TC

Distinct nasal airway bacterial microbiotas differentially relate to exacerbation in pediatric patients with asthma.

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology

McCauley K, Durack J, Valladares R, Fadrosh DW, Lin DL, Calatroni A, LeBeau PK, Tran HT, Fujimura KE, LaMere B, Merana G, Lynch K, Cohen RT, Pongracic J, Khurana Hershey GK, Kercsmar CM, Gill M, Liu AH, Kim H, Kattan M, Teach SJ, Togias A, Boushey HA, Gern JE, Jackson DJ, Lynch SV, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases–sponsored Inner-City Asthma Consortium