Quigly Dragotakes

This study shows Cryptococcus spp. exhibit stochastic capsule size dynamics, with a bet hedging strategy that balances stress resistance and growth rate.

This study isolates and characterizes cryptococcal phagosomes from different host cells, revealing conserved fungal responses and suggesting host metabolism as a target for survival.

The paper identifies mixed plates in a Cryptococcus neoformans knockout collection and proposes an authentication method to distinguish between different KO libraries.

This study shows that peroxisomes in Cryptococcus neoformans regulate virulence and cell density sensing through metabolic pathways and mitochondrial retrograde signaling.

This paper investigates how salinity and polysaccharide rafts affect the buoyancy and persistence of Cryptococcus cells in water, with implications for their transport and pathogenic potential.

This paper develops a food color-based colorimetric assay to measure laccase activity in Cryptococcus neoformans strains, finding it to be cost-effective, irreversible, and not requiring constant monitoring.

The paper estimates the size of biomedical research fields by counting unique authors in PubMed publications, finding significant variation in subfield sizes and potential correlations with workforce strength and public health burden.

The paper shows that environmental Cryptococcus neoformans strains undergo genomic and phenotypic changes during mammalian infection, suggesting animal virulence drives genetic adaptation.