Analysis of Bacterial Uptake & Growth within Mammalian Cells

Irene Newton
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2008
B.A. Swarthmore College 2002

Current Research
I am investigating molecular interactions beween the alpha-proteobacterial parasite Wolbachia pipientis and its Drosophila host.

Publications

1. Newton, I.L.G., P.R. Girguis, C.M. Cavanaugh. 2008. Comparative genomics of vesicomyid endosymbionts. BMC Genomics 9: 585.
2. Newton, I.L.G., T. Woyke, T.A. Auchtung, G.F. Dilly, R.J. Dutton, M.C. Fisher, K.M. Fontanez, E. Lau, F.J. Stewart, P.M. Richardson, K.W. Barry, E. Saunders, J.C. Detter, D. Wu, J.A. Eisen, C.M. Cavanaugh. 2006. The Calyptogena magnifica chemoautotrophic symbiont genome. Science. 315: 998-1000.
3. Stewart, F., Newton, I.L.G. and C.M. Cavanaugh. 2005. Chemosynthetic endosymbioses: adaptations to oxic-anoxic interfaces. Trends in Microbiology 13: 439-448.
4. Cavanaugh, C.M. McKiness, Z., Newton, I.L.G. and F.Stewart. 2005. Marine Chemosynthetic Symbioses. The Prokaryotes, A handbook on the biology of bacteria, 3rd Edition, M. Dworkin et al., ed