Victor J. Torres

Victor J. Torres, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology

Keywords
immunology, microbiology, AMR, vaccines

Phone

212-263-9232

Academic office

430 East 29th Street

3rd Floor, 311

New York, NY 10016

Lab Website
Torres Lab
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Positions

Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Graduate Education

PhD from Vanderbilt University

Residency And Fellowship Training

Fellowship, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Understanding the mechanisms of heme utilization by Staphylococcus aureus

Fellowship, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Characterization of the immunosuppressive activities of the Heficobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin.

Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus with environmentally relevant concentrations of triclosan activates SaeRS-dependent virulence factor expression

Boyd, Jeffrey M; Price, Erin E; Roman Rodriguez, Franklin; Burchat, Natalie; Norambuena, Javiera; DuMont, Ashley L; Torres, Victor J; Sampath, Harini

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy. 2025 Jun 18; e0172824

Heterozygosity for Crohn's disease risk allele of ATG16L1 promotes unique protein interactions and protects against bacterial infection

Yao, Xiaomin; Rudensky, Eugene; Martin, Patricia K; Miller, Brittany M; Vargas, Isabel; Zwack, Erin E; Lacey, Keenan A; He, Zhengxiang; Furtado, Glaucia C; Lira, Sérgio A; Torres, Victor J; Shopsin, Bo; Cadwell, Ken

Immunity. 2025 May 09;

A SpA+LukAB vaccine targeting Staphylococcus aureus evasion factors restricts infection in two minipig infection models

Poolman, Jan T; Torres, Victor J; Missiakas, Dominique; Welten, Suzanne P M; Fernandez, Jeffrey; DuMont, Ashley L; O'Keeffe, Anna; Konstantinov, Sergey R; Morrow, Brian; Burghout, Peter; Grijpstra, Jan; van Beers, Miranda M C; Anish, Chakkumkal; Beurret, Michel; Geurtsen, Jeroen; Rood, Pauline M L; Koeberling, Oliver; Shi, Miaomiao; van den Dobbelsteen, Germie P J M

NPJ vaccines. 2025 Apr 20; 10(1):78

Sex-dependent gastrointestinal colonization resistance to MRSA is microbiota and Th17 dependent

Lejeune, Alannah; Zhou, Chunyi; Ercelen, Defne; Putzel, Gregory; Yao, Xiaomin; Guy, Alyson R; Pawline, Miranda; Podkowik, Magdalena; Pironti, Alejandro; Torres, Victor J; Shopsin, Bo; Cadwell, Ken

eLife. 2025 Apr 08; 13:

Enterobacter hormaechei replaces virulence with carbapenem resistance via porin loss

Perault, Andrew I; John, Amelia St; DuMont, Ashley L; Shopsin, Bo; Pironti, Alejandro; Torres, Victor J

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2025 Feb 25; 122(8):e2414315122

Does PCR-based pathogen identification reduce mortality in bloodstream infections? Insights from a difference-in-difference analysis

Gago, Juan; Renson, Audrey; Takats, Courtney; Torres, Victor J; Shopsin, Bo; Thorpe, Lorna E

Infection control & hospital epidemiology. 2025 Feb 14; 1-7

Histone H1 kills MRSA

Marsman, Gerben; Zheng, Xuhui; ÄŒerina, Dora; Lacey, Keenan A; Liu, Menghan; Humme, Daniel; Goosmann, Christian; Brinkmann, Volker; Harbort, C J; Torres, Victor J; Zychlinsky, Arturo

Cell reports. 2024 Nov 13; 43(11):114969

SARS-CoV-2 infection predisposes patients to coinfection with Staphylococcus aureus

Lubkin, Ashira; Bernard-Raichon, Lucie; DuMont, Ashley L; Valero Jimenez, Ana Mayela; Putzel, Gregory G; Gago, Juan; Zwack, Erin E; Olusanya, Olufolakemi; Boguslawski, Kristina M; Dallari, Simone; Dyzenhaus, Sophie; Herrmann, Christin; Ilmain, Juliana K; Isom, Georgia L; Pawline, Miranda; Perault, Andrew I; Perelman, Sofya; Sause, William E; Shahi, Ifrah; St John, Amelia; Tierce, Rebecca; Zheng, Xuhui; Zhou, Chunyi; Noval, Maria G; O'Keeffe, Anna; Podkowik, Magda; Gonzales, Sandra; Inglima, Kenneth; Desvignes, Ludovic; Hochman, Sarah E; Stapleford, Kenneth A; Thorpe, Lorna E; Pironti, Alejandro; Shopsin, Bo; Cadwell, Ken; Dittmann, Meike; Torres, Victor J

MBio. 2024 Aug 14; 15(8):e0166724

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