Cristina Howard-Varona
Research Scientist
Room 932, Riffe Building
496 W 12th Ave,
Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Bacteriophages
- Phage-host interactions
- Multi-omics
Education
- B.S./M.S. in Biotechnology, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, 2011
- Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 2015
Lab: Matthew Sullivan
Awards:
- Staff Career Development Grant, The Ohio State University, 2020
- NIH/NIAID T32 Fellowship, 2016-2018
- Gordon Research Conferences Award, 2016
- American Society for Microbiology Student Award, 2015
Selected Publications
Howard-Varona C., Lindback M. L., Bastien G. E., Solonenko N., Zayed A. A., Jang H-B., Andreopoulos B., Brewer H. M., Glavina del Rio T., Adkins J. N., Paul S., Sullivan M. B. & Duhaime M. B. 2020. Phage-specific metabolic reprogramming of virocells. ISME J. 14: 881-895.
Zimmerman A. E., Howard-Varona C., Needham D. M., John S. G., Worden A. Z., Sullivan M. B., Waldbauer J. R., Coleman M. L. Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems. 2019. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 18: 21-34.
Howard-Varona C.* & Vik D. R.*, Solonenko N. E., Gazitua M. C., Hobbs Z., Honaker R. W., Kinkhabwala A. A., Sullivan M. B. 2018. Whole-genome sequence of phages p000v and p000y infecting the bacterial pathogen Shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli. Genome Announc, 7: e01400-18. *co-first authors.
Howard-Varona C.* & Vik D. R.*, Solonenko N. E., Gazitua M. C., Chittick L., Li Y-F., Samiec J. K., Anderson P., Jensen A. E., Howard-Varona A., Kinkhabwala A. A., Abedon S. T. & Sullivan M. B. 2018. Fighting fire with fire: phage potential for treatment of E. coli O157 infection. Antibiotics 7: 101 *co-first authors.
Howard-Varona C., Hargreaves K. R., Solonenko N., Markillie L. M., White III R. A., Brewer H. M., Ansong C., Adkins J. N., Orr G., Sullivan M. B. 2018. Multiple mechanisms drive phage infection efficiency in nearly-identical hosts. ISME J. 12: 1605-1618.