Alyson M Hockenberry

Title/s:  <p><em>Assistant Professor </em></p> <p><em>Microbiology & Immunology</em></p> <p><strong>Research Interests:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Quantitative and systems biology of infectious disease; bacterial pathogenesis</li> </ul>

Email: ahockenberry@luc.edu

Degrees

Post-doc, ETH Zurich
PhD, University of Arizona

 

Research Interests

Selected Publications

References

  1. Hockenberry, A. M. et al. Microbiota-derived metabolites inhibit Salmonella virulent subpopulation development by acting on single-cell behaviors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 118, (2021).
  2. Micali, G., Hockenberry, A. M., Co, A. D. & Ackermann, M. Minorities drive growth resumption in cross-feeding microbial communities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 120, (2023).
  1. Burz, S. D. et al. From microbiome composition to functional engineering, one step at a time. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 87, (2023).
  2. Diard, M. et al. A rationally designed oral vaccine induces immunoglobulin A in the murine gut that directs the evolution of attenuated Salmonella variants. Nat Microbiol 6, 830–841 (2021).
  1. Hockenberry, A. et al. Nanoscale clustering by O-antigen-Secretory Immunoglobulin-A binding limits outer membrane diffusion by encaging individual Salmonella cells. bioRxiv 2023.07.13.548943 (2023) doi:10.1101/2023.07.13.548943.
  2. Hockenberry, A., Slack, E. & Stadtmueller, B. M. License to Clump: Secretory IgA Structure-Function Relationships Across Scales. Annu Rev Microbiol 77, 645–668 (2023).