M. Valencia

Cultivating efficiency: High-throughput growth analysis of anaerobic bacteria in compact microplate readers.

This paper demonstrates the use of a small-footprint microplate reader for high-throughput growth analysis of anaerobic bacteria, showing comparable performance to a leading microplate reader and enabling dose-response studies of toxins.

Staphyloccocus aureus biofilm, in the absence of planktonic bacteria, produces factors that activate counterbalancing inflammatory and immune-suppressive genes in human monocytes

This study shows S. aureus biofilm produces soluble factors that activate inflammatory and immune-suppressive genes in human monocytes, suggesting a role for these factors in modulating immune responses in PJI.