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Olayemi Akinyele
Graduate Student Researcher
OGA5@pitt.edu
Education
B.S. Microbiology, Obafemi Awolowo University
M.S. Cancer Biology, Prevention and Control, University of the District of Columbia in conjunction with Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center
Advisor
Michael J. Jurczak, PhD
Research Details
Publications
Journal Articles
Brignoli, T., Douglas, E., Duggan, S.,
Fagunloye, O. G
., Adhikari, R., Aman, M. J., & Massey, R. C. (2022). Wall Teichoic Acids Facilitate the Release of Toxins from the Surface of Staphylococcus aureus. Microbiology spectrum, e0101122. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01011-22
Smith, Michael and Yadav, Swara and Akinyele, Olayemi and Pels, Nana Adjoa and Horton, Daniel and Alsultan, Nashwah and Borns, Andrea and Cousin, Carolyn and Dixon, Freddie and Mann, Victoria H. and Lee, Clarence and Brindley, Paul J. and El-Sayed, Najib M. and Bridger, Joanna M. and Knight, Matty. PIWI silencing mechanism involving the retrotransposon nimbus orchestrates resistance to infection with Schistosoma mansoni in the snail vector, Biomphalaria glabrata. bioRxiv. 2021. doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.12.426235