Graduate Student
Thaís is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She completed her Bachelors in Biomedical Science at Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health. Before joining Weill Cornell, she has done research on the immune response againstLeishmania spp. and on mechanisms of T cell evasion by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. She joined the Ehrt lab in June 2019 because she loves infectious disease research and could not think of a better lab in the world to carry out her PhD. She is currently studying host determinants of sterilization in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Thaís also loves cycling, hiking and camping, but if the weather is bad, there is nothing like a cooperative-strategy board game session.
Publications:
Armache A, Yang S, Martínez de Paz A, Robbins LE, Durmaz C, Cheong JQ, Ravishankar A, Daman AW, Ahimovic DJ, Klevorn T, Yue Y, Arslan T, Lin S, Panchenko T, Hrit J, Wang M, Thudium S, Garcia BA, Korb E, Armache KJ, Rothbart SB, Hake SB, Allis CD, Li H, Josefowicz SZ. Histone H3.3 phosphorylation amplifies stimulation-induced transcription. Nature. 2020 Jul;583(7818):852-857.
Whitaker M, Ruecker N, Hartman T, Klevorn T, Andres J, Kim J, Rhee K, Ehrt S. Two interacting ATPases protect Mycobacterium tuberculosis from glycerol and nitric oxide toxicity. J Bacteriol. 2020 Jun 1:JB.00202-20.
Köster S, Klevorn T, Papavinasasundaram K, Sassetti CM, Portal-Celhay C, Philips JA. Consequence of enhanced LC3-trafficking for a live, attenuated M. tuberculosis vaccine. Vaccine. 2018 Feb 8;36(7):939-944.
Portal-Celhay C, Tufariello JM, Srivastava S, Zahra A, Klevorn T, Grace PS, Mehra A, Park HS, Ernst JD, Jacobs WR Jr, Philips JA. Mycobacterium tuberculosis EsxH inhibits ESCRT-dependent CD4+ T-cell activation. Nat Microbiol. 2016 Dec 5;2:16232.
Silva-O'Hare J, de Oliveira IS, Klevorn T, Almeida VA, Oliveira GG, Atta AM, de Freitas LA, Dos-Santos WL. Disruption of Splenic Lymphoid Tissue and Plasmacytosis in Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis: Changes in Homing and Survival of Plasma Cells. PLoS One. 2016 May 31;11(5):e0156733.
