Erica Lamkin, MD/PhD student at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine MSTP, shared on LinkedIn:
”Excited to share that my first-author paper has been published in PNAS!
This work stems from my master’s research in Nimrat Chatterjee’s lab at the University of Vermont, where I became interested in the epidemiological association between dengue virus infection and leukemia. That curiosity led us to investigate how dengue virus infection impacts host genome stability and the DNA damage response, demonstrating that infection suppresses the transcription of DNA repair genes and promotes host genome instability.
I’m incredibly grateful to Chatterjee for her unwavering support. A huge thank you to everyone in the Chatterjee Lab for all the support, guidance, and great memories along the way. I’m so grateful I got to be part of such an amazing team. Congrats, everyone!”
To which, Justin Taylor, Associate Professor, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, added:
”Congratulations Erica!
Great to see your undergraduate research work published! We’re very proud and glad to have you in our lab Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center!”
Title: DENV-4 infection suppresses transcription of DNA repair genes
Authors: Erica N. Lamkin, Jessica Reich, Josh A. Victor, Madison Guyette, Naveen Kothandaraman, Vihit Gupta, Alfred T. Harding, Tristan X. Jordan, Lee Gehrke, Pei Zhou, Benjamin tenOever and Nimrat Chatterjee.
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