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Victor J. Torres

Victor J. Torres, PhD

C.V. Starr Associate Professor of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology

Keywords
immunology, microbiology

Phone

212-263-9232

Academic office

430 East 29th Street

3rd Floor, 311

New York, NY 10016

Lab Website
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Positions

C.V. Starr Associate Professor of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology

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.

Unbiased identification of immunogenic <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> leukotoxin B-cell epitopes

Hernandez, David N; Tam, Kayan; Shopsin, Bo; Radke, Emily; Kolahi, Pegah; Copin, Richard; Stubbe, François-Xavier; Cardozo, Timothy; Torres, Victor J; Silverman, Gregg J

Infection & immunity. 2020 Mar 23; 88(4):

Structure-based discovery of a small-molecule inhibitor of methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> virulence

Liu, Jie; Kozhaya, Lina; Torres, Victor J; Unutmaz, Derya; Lu, Min

Journal of biological chemistry. 2020 Mar 16;

Repurposed Drugs That Block the Gonococcus-Complement Receptor 3 Interaction Can Prevent and Cure Gonococcal Infection of Primary Human Cervical Epithelial Cells

Poole, Jessica; Day, Christopher J; Haselhorst, Thomas; Jen, Freda E-C; Torres, Victor J; Edwards, Jennifer L; Jennings, Michael P

MBio. 2020 Mar 03; 11(2):

Autophagy and microbial pathogenesis

Keller, Matthew D; Torres, Victor J; Cadwell, Ken

Cell death & differentiation. 2020 Mar; 27(3):872-886

Exploiting species specificity to understand the tropism of a human-specific toxin

Boguslawski, K M; McKeown, A N; Day, C J; Lacey, K A; Tam, K; Vozhilla, N; Kim, S Y; Jennings, M P; Koralov, S B; Elde, N C; Torres, V J

Science advances. 2020 Mar; 6(11):eaax7515

Decoy exosomes provide protection against bacterial toxins

Keller, Matthew D; Ching, Krystal L; Liang, Feng-Xia; Dhabaria, Avantika; Tam, Kayan; Ueberheide, Beatrix M; Unutmaz, Derya; Torres, Victor J; Cadwell, Ken

Nature. 2020 Mar; 579(7798):260-264

The purine biosynthesis regulator PurR moonlights as a virulence regulator in <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>

Sause, William E; Balasubramanian, Divya; Irnov, Irnov; Copin, Richard; Sullivan, Mitchell J; Sommerfield, Alexis; Chan, Rita; Dhabaria, Avantika; Askenazi, Manor; Ueberheide, Beatrix; Shopsin, Bo; van Bakel, Harm; Torres, Victor J

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2019 Jul 02; 116(27):13563-13572

Serologic Detection of Antibodies Targeting the Leukocidin LukAB Strongly Predicts Staphylococcus aureus in Children With Invasive Infection

Wood, James B; Jones, Lauren S; Soper, Nicole R; Xu, Meng; Torres, Victor J; Buddy Creech, C; Thomsen, Isaac P

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 2019 May 11; 8(2):128-135

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