Nayanna M. Mercado Soto

This paper identifies population-specific transcriptomic shifts in Aspergillus species, showing how transcriptomic reorganization drives secondary metabolic diversification and domestication in A. oryzae.

This study shows that GPR132b in zebrafish affects wound healing and infection resistance by modulating macrophage activity and lipid signaling pathways.

This paper establishes a zebrafish burn wound model to study fungal colonization and host immune responses, finding that macrophages and neutrophils control fungal infection with some redundancy.

The paper discovers co-zorbs, motile multispecies biofilms formed by Flavobacterium johnsoniae that transport other bacteria, revealing a new type of bacterial movement and cooperation.

The paper shows isotonic medium treatment reduces epithelial damage spread and microbial colonization in burn wounds in larval zebrafish and human skin.