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Jeffrey N. Weiser

Jeffrey N. Weiser, MD

Chair, Department of Microbiology

Jan T. Vilcek Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis, Department of Microbiology

Keywords
microbiology, immunology, bacterial infection of the respiratory tract, bacterial-viral co-infections
Summary

Our lab investigates the molecular basis of host–pathogen interactions in the human respiratory tract. Most of our studies focus on the pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae because of its prominence as a cause of acute respiratory tract infection. Other pathogens under investigation in our laboratory include Haemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, and influenza A virus.

Many of our research projects focus on colonization of the upper airway mucosa, the initial step in the disease process, with particular interest in both host and pathogen factors affecting colonization. We employ bacterial genetics to examine the effects of specific microbial genes, along with mouse models of colonization to study infection in genetically modified hosts.

Ongoing projects in our lab include examinations of the following:

  • mechanisms by which colonizing microbes stimulate and evade innate and adaptive immune responses

  • mechanisms that facilitate interspecies competition within a host

  • factors affecting competition between co-colonizing pneumococci

  • effects of influenza co-infection on bacterial colonization

  • pneumococcal interaction with neutrophils and macrophages and evasion of clearance by professional phagocytes

  • the role of phosphorylcholine, a surface constituent of many respiratory tract inhabitants, in pathogenesis

  • host and bacterial factors affecting shedding and host-to-host transmission

  • the systemic effects of colonizing flora (microbiota) on innate immunity 

Phone

212-263-1080

Academic office

430 East 29th Street, Alexandria – West Tower

5th Floor, Room 503

New York, NY 10016

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Jan T. Vilcek Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis, Department of Microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Chair, Department of Microbiology

MD from Harvard University

Fellowship, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, Lab of E.R. Moxon

Fellowship, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, Lab of E.C. Gotschlich

Residency, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Pediatrics

Ortigoza, Mila B; Mobini, Catherina L; Rocha, Hedy L; Bartlett, Stacey; Loomis, Cynthia A; Weiser, Jeffrey N

MBio. 2024 Feb 14; 15(2):e0220323

Rueff, Anne-Stéphanie; van Raaphorst, Renske; Aggarwal, Surya D; Santos-Moreno, Javier; Laloux, Géraldine; Schaerli, Yolanda; Weiser, Jeffrey N; Veening, Jan-Willem

Nature communications. 2023 Nov 17; 14(1):7454

Zhu, Jiaqi; Abruzzo, Annie R; Wu, Cindy; Bee, Gavyn Chern Wei; Pironti, Alejandro; Putzel, Gregory; Aggarwal, Surya D; Eichner, Hannes; Weiser, Jeffrey N

PLoS pathogens. 2023 Aug; 19(8):e1011509

Chen, Ying-Han; Yeung, Frank; Lacey, Keenan A; Zaldana, Kimberly; Lin, Jian-Da; Bee, Gavyn Chern Wei; McCauley, Caroline; Barre, Ramya S; Liang, Shen-Huan; Hansen, Christina B; Downie, Alexander E; Tio, Kyle; Weiser, Jeffrey N; Torres, Victor J; Bennett, Richard J; Loke, P'ng; Graham, Andrea L; Cadwell, Ken

Science immunology. 2023 Jun 23; 8(84):eadd6910

Bee, Gavyn Chern Wei; Lokken-Toyli, Kristen L; Yeung, Stephen T; Rodriguez, Lucie; Zangari, Tonia; Anderson, Exene E; Ghosh, Sourav; Rothlin, Carla V; Brodin, Petter; Khanna, Kamal M; Weiser, Jeffrey N

Immunity. 2023 Jun 13; 56(6):1255-1268.e5

Aggarwal, Surya D; Lees, John A; Jacobs, Nathan T; Bee, Gavyn Chern Wei; Abruzzo, Annie R; Weiser, Jeffrey N

Cell host & microbe. 2023 Jan 11; 31(1):124-134.e5

Alibayov, Babek; Scasny, Anna; Khan, Faidad; Creel, Aidan; Smith, Perriann; Vidal, Ana G Jop; Fitisemanu, Fa'alataitaua M; Padilla-Benavides, Teresita; Weiser, Jeffrey N; Vidal, Jorge E

Infection & immunity. 2022 Dec 15; 90(12):e0047122

Abruzzo, Annie R; Aggarwal, Surya D; Sharp, Molly E; Bee, Gavyn Chern Wei; Weiser, Jeffrey N

MBio. 2022 04 26; 13(2):e0015822