Jeremy and Patrick on trikes at APS
LATEST NEWS
02/27|Congrats to Michelle for winning a poster award at the Antimicrobial Resistance Conference!
02/17|Congrats to Shubham for winning the Student Research Achievement Award at BPS!
Shubham and other 36 students were selected from 150 participants to win this award for their outstanding poster presentation.
01/2|Congrats to Ashley on her admission to Georgetown University!
Ashley will be pursuing a M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. We wish her the best in her new endeavors!
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
2026
Dubey, S., Stoudenmire, J., Gheinani, P. T., Cornelissen, C. N., & Noinaj, N. (2026). Structural insight into the role of the periplasmic chaperone Skp in pathogenic Neisseria. Structure.
Dubey, S., Stoudenmire, J., Bury, G., Yang, L., Fan, Z., Li, P., ... & Noinaj, N. (2026). Structural insights into the mechanism underpinning iron piracy in pathogenic Neisseria. Science Advances, 12(14), eaea2470.
Gheinani, Pooneh Tavakoley, Aloke Bera, Julie Stoudenmire-Saylor, Yi Lien, Simone A. Harrison, Alison Criss, Walter J. Chazin, Nicholas Noinaj, and Cynthia Nau Cornelissen. "Structural insights into zinc piracy by Neisseria gonorrhoeae to overcome nutritional immunity." Structure 34, no. 2 (2026): 322-333.
Rodrigues CM, Lucidarme J, Exley R, Clark JL, Bai X, Bayliss C, Chand M, Clark SA, Cornelissen CN, Derrick JP, Green LR, Groves N, Vazquez YG, Harrison OB, Jolley KA, McKeand SA, Myers R, Noinaj N, Parfitt KM, Ribeca P, Borrow R, Maiden MC, Tang CM. Emergence of short-lived meningococci causing focal epidemics can be associated with gene transfer from carriage-associated Neisseria. bioRxiv. 2026 Sep 2026.09.17.752363. doi:10.64898/2026.09.17.752363. PMID: 42818138; PMCID: PMC13622092.
I.K. Liyayi, A.K. Bera, Y.R. Perera, N. Ferdausi, I. Bhatia, N. Noinaj, W.J. Chazin, C.N. Cornelissen, & A.K. Criss, A periplasmic zinc capture protein enhances the resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to nutritional immunity, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (47) e2426176122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426176122 (2025).