Sr. Research Associate
Carolina obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Boston University. In 2009 she joined Dr. Sabine Ehrt’s Lab as a Postdoctoral Associate and has contributed to multiple projects in the lab including efforts to characterize mechanisms important for Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence, validation of new drug targets for tuberculosis, and identifying molecular processes required for paucibacillary persistence.
Publications:
Gengenbacher, M., M. D. Zimmerman, J. P. Sarathy, F. Kaya, H. Wang, M. Mina, C. Carter, M. A. Hossen, H. Su, C. Trujillo, S. Ehrt, D. Schnappinger and V. Dartois (2020). "Tissue Distribution of Doxycycline in Animal Models of Tuberculosis." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 64(5): e02479-02419.
Puckett, S., C. Trujillo, Z. Wang, H. Eoh, T. R. Ioerger, I. Krieger, J. Sacchettini, D. Schnappinger, K. Y. Rhee and S. Ehrt (2017). "Glyoxylate detoxification is an essential function of malate synthase required for carbon assimilation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114(11): E2225-E2232.
Trujillo, C., A. Blumenthal, J. Marrero, K. Y. Rhee, D. Schnappinger and S. Ehrt (2014). "Triosephosphate isomerase is dispensable in vitro yet essential for Mycobacterium tuberculosis to establish infection." mBio 5(2): e00085.
Johnson, E. O., E. LaVerriere, E. Office, M. Stanley, E. Meyer, T. Kawate, J. E. Gomez, R. E. Audette, N. Bandyopadhyay, N. Betancourt, K. Delano, I. Da Silva, J. Davis, C. Gallo, M. Gardner, A. J. Golas, K. M. Guinn, S. Kennedy, R. Korn, J. A. McConnell, C. E. Moss, K. C. Murphy, R. M. Nietupski, K. G. Papavinasasundaram, J. T. Pinkham, P. A. Pino, M. K. Proulx, N. Ruecker, N. Song, M. Thompson, C. Trujillo, S. Wakabayashi, J. B. Wallach, C. Watson, T. R. Ioerger, E. S. Lander, B. K. Hubbard, M. H. Serrano-Wu, S. Ehrt, M. Fitzgerald, E. J. Rubin, C. M. Sassetti, D. Schnappinger and D. T. Hung (2019). "Large-scale chemical-genetics yields new M. tuberculosis inhibitor classes." Nature 571(7763): 72-78
