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K. E. Roberts

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Evolutionary Biology· 6 Bioengineering· 2

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Organism:Drosophila· 6 Approach:experimental assay· 6 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 6 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 3 Organism:human· 3 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 2 Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2

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B. Longdon· 4 shared E. E. Bouhassira· 2 shared E. E. Olivier· 2 shared K. E. Wang· 2 shared A. B. Dennis· 1 shared B. E. Longdon· 1 shared D. J. Obbard· 1 shared E. Visher· 1 shared

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Investigating the outcomes of virus coinfection within and across host species

R. M. Imrie, S. K. Walsh, K. E. Roberts, J. Lello, B. Longdon

The paper examines virus coinfection outcomes in Drosophila species, finding genotype-specific viral load changes but no host genetic basis or systematic susceptibility shifts across species.

bioRxiv · Dec 5, 2022 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Heterogeneities in infection outcomes across species: sex and tissue differences in virus susceptibility

K. E. Roberts, B. Longdon

The paper examines sex and tissue differences in virus susceptibility across Drosophilidae species infected with Drosophila C Virus (DCV), finding no sex-specific susceptibility and no tissue-specific differences in viral load.

bioRxiv · Nov 1, 2022Evolutionary Biology

The evolution of host resistance to a virus is determined by resources, historical contingency, and time scale

E. Visher, H. Mahjoub, K. Soufi, N. Pascual, V. Hoang, L. J. Bartlett, K. E. Roberts, S. Meaden, M. Boots

This study shows that resource quality, historical contingency, and time scale influence the evolution of host resistance to a virus, affecting trade-offs and resistance strategies.

bioRxiv · Sep 8, 2022 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Between virus correlations in the outcome of infection across host species: evidence of virus genotype by host species interactions

R. Imrie, K. E. Roberts, B. Longdon

The paper investigates virus genotype by host species interactions in experimental infections across 45 Drosophilidae species, finding positive correlations between viruses and evidence of genotype-by-genotype interactions.

bioRxiv · Feb 16, 2021Evolutionary Biology

Viral susceptibility across host species is largely independent of dietary protein to carbohydrate ratios

K. E. Roberts, B. Longdon

This study investigates how dietary protein to carbohydrate ratios affect viral susceptibility across 27 Drosophilidae species, finding no significant interaction between diet and infection outcomes.

bioRxiv · Oct 21, 2020Evolutionary Biology

A new lineage of segmented RNA viruses infecting animals

D. J. Obbard, M. Shi, K. E. Roberts, B. E. Longdon, A. B. Dennis

The paper identifies a new lineage of segmented RNA viruses using small RNA data from Drosophila and meta-transcriptomic datasets, showing evidence of vertebrate infections.

bioRxiv · Dec 5, 2019Evolutionary Biology

PSC-RED, an Albumin-Free Robust Erythroid Differentiation Method to Produce Enucleated Red Blood Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

E. E. Olivier, S. Zhang, Z. Yan, S. Suzuka, K. E. Roberts, K. E. Wang, E. E. Bouhassira

This paper develops a chemically defined, albumin-free method to produce enucleated red blood cells from human iPSCs, achieving up to 50% enucleated cell yield.

bioRxiv · Apr 27, 2019Bioengineering

MNC-RED a Chemically Defined Method to Produce Enucleated Red Blood Cells from Adult Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

S. E. Zhang, E. E. Olivier, Z. E. Yan, S. E. Suzuka, K. E. Roberts, K. E. Wang, E. E. Bouhassira

The paper develops a cost-effective protocol, MNC-RED, to produce enucleated red blood cells from peripheral blood mononuclear cells using a chemically defined medium, R6, with reduced transferrin and iron chelator.

bioRxiv · Apr 25, 2019 · PreprintBioengineering