MARY K. HONDALUS
Assistant Professor

Research interests include microbial genetics, pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Rhodococcus equi, and vaccine development.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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Darrah, P. A., Monaco, M. C., Jain, S., Hondalus, M. K., Golenbock, D. T. and Mosser, D. M. 2004. Innate immune responses to Rhodococcus equi. Journal of Immunology, 173(3):1914-24.

Sampson, S. L., Dascher, C. C., Sambandamurthy, V. K., Russell, R. G., Jacobs Jr., W. R., Bloom, B. R. and Hondalus M. K. 2004. Protection elicited by a double leucine and pantothenateauxotroph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in guinea pigs. Infection and Immunity, 72(5):3031-7.

Jain. S., Bloom, B. R. and Hondalus, M. K. 2003. Deletion of virulence associated protein A (vapA) attenuates the intracellular actinomycete Rhodococus equi. Molecular Microbiology, 50(1):115-28. Submitted.

Sikora, A. G., Suadicani S. O., Hondalus, M. K., Bloom, B. R., and Spray, D.C. An Essential Role for Purinergic Signaling in the macrophages Ca2+ Response to Mycobacterial Infection. Submitted.

Ashour J. and M. K. Hondalus. 2003. Phenotypic mutants of the intracellular actinomycete Rhodococcus equi created by in vivo Himar 1 transposon mutagenesis. Journal of Bacteriology, 185:2644-2652.

Steyn, A. J. C., Collins, D., Hondalus, M. K., Jacobs, W. R., Kawakami, R. P. and B. R. Bloom. 2002. M. tuberculosis WhiB3 interacts with RpoV to affect host survival, but is dispensable for in vivo growth. PNAS, 99:3147-3152.

Darrah, P. C., Hondalus, M. K. and D.M. Mosser. 2000. Cooperation between reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates in the killing of Rhodococcus equi by activated macrophages. Infection and Immunity, 68:3587-3593.

Hondalus, M. K., Bardarov, S., Russell, R., Chan, J., Jacobs Jr., W. R. and Bloom, B. R. 2000. Attenuation of and protection induced by a leucine auxotroph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infection and Immunity, 68:2888-2898.

Email
hondalus@vet.uga.edu

Office
356 Vet Med
706-542-5778

Degrees
BS, Michigan State University, 1982
DVM, Michigan State University, 1984
PhD, Temple University School of Medicine, 1995