Barbara Irene Kazmierczak, PhD, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Microbiology | Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Yale Medical Group
Microbial Pathogenesis
Internal Medicine: Infectious Diseases | Infectious Diseases (I)
Research Interests
Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Staphylococcus aureus; innate immunity; host-pathogen interactions; mucosal immunity more...
Education
- B.A., University of Chicago, 1986
- M.S., University of Chicago, 1986
- Ph.D., Rockefeller University, 1993
- M.D., Cornell University Medical College, 1994
Selected Publications
- Mijares LA, Wangdi T, Sokol C, Homer R, Medzhitov R, Kazmierczak BI. (2011) Airway epithelial MyD88 restores control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa murine infection via an interluekin-1 dependent pathway. J Immunol 186: 7080-7088
- Wangdi T, Mijares LA, Kazmierczak BI. (2010). In vivo discrimination of T3SS-positive and –negative Pseudomonas aeruginosa via a caspase-1-dependent pathway. Infect Immun 78:4744-53
- Murray TS, Kazmierczak BI. (2008) Pseudomonas aeruginosa exhibits sliding motility in the absence of type IV pili and flagella. J Bacteriol 190: 2700-2708
