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Email: hilbertz@bc.edu
Host-fungal interactions, adaptive evolution of pathogenic fungi and their hosts, fungal pathogenesis, microbial recognition, immune evolution, pathogen evolution
Hilbert, Z.A., Bednarek, J.M., Chung, K.Y., Schwiesow, M.W., Brown, J.C.S., Elde, N.C. (2022). Distinct pathways of adaptive evolution in Cryptococcus neoformans reveal a point mutation in adenylate cyclase with drastic tradeoffs for pathogenicity. bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.27.509772v1
Hilbert, Z.A., Haffener, P., Young, H.J., Schwiesow, M., Leffler, E.M., Elde, N.C. (2022). Rapid evolution of glycan recognition receptors reveals an axis of host-microbe conflicts at carbohydrate-protein interfaces. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.07.507018v1