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Publications

 

Primary Research Focus 

  1. Szabo EK*, Bowhay C*, Forrester E*, Liu H, Dong B*, Coria AL, Perera S*, Fung B*, Badawadagi N*, Gaio C*, Bailey K*, Ritz M*, Bowron J*, Ariyaratne A* & Finney CAM. (2023). Heligmosomoides bakeri and Toxoplasma gondii co-infection leads to increased mortality associated with intestinal pathology. Plos One. Under revision. BioRxiv: 445631.

  2. Ariyaratne A*, Kim SY*, Pollo SMJ, Perera S*, Liu H, Nguyen WNT, Leon Coria A*, de Cassia Luzzi M*, Bowron J*, Szabo EK*, Patel KD, Wasmuth JD, Nair MG, Finney CAM. Trickle infection with Heligmosomoides polygyrus results in decreased worm burdens but increased intestinal inflammation and scarring. Frontiers in Immunology. 2022 Dec 8;13:1020056. 

  3. Bowron, J*, Ariyaratne A*, Luzzi M*, Szabo EK*, & Finney CA. The suppressive capacity of Tregs from C57Bl/6 mice does not explain their susceptibility to the parasitic worm Heligmosomoides polygyrus. European Journal of Immunology. 2020. 50(8):1167-1173.

  4. Ariyaratne A*, Szabo EK*, Bowron, J* & Finney CA. Increases in helminth-induced IL-21 protein levels disappear upon sample freezing. Cytokine. 2018 Aug;108:179-181.

  5. Finney C, Serghides L. An In Vitro Model for Measuring Immune Responses to Malaria in the Context of HIV Co-infection. Journal of Visual Experimentation. 2015 Oct 6;(104). 

  6. Finney CAM, Ayi K, Wasmuth JD, Sheth P, Kaul R, Loutfy M, Kain K & Serghides L. HIV interferes with malaria-induced increases in TIM-3+ innate immune cell. Journal of AIDS. 2013. 63(2):161-7.

  7. Finney CAM, Ayi K, Wasmuth JD, Sheth P, Kaul R, Loutfy M, Kain K & Serghides L. HIV infection deregulates innate immunity to malaria despite combination antiretroviral therapy. AIDS. 2013.27(3):325-35.

  8. Finney CAM, Hawkes C, Musoke C, Dhabangi A, Cserti C, Oravecz T, Liles W. C. & Kain K. S1P is associatedwith protection in human and experimental cerebral malaria. Molecular Medicine. 2011;17(7-8):717-25.

  9. Finney CAM, Lu Z, Erdman L, Hawkes M, Liles W & Kain K. A Critical Role for IRAK-4 in Mediating Divergent Outcomes in Experimental Models of Severe Malaria. AJTMH. 2010. 83(1):69-74.

  10. Finney CAM, Lu Z, LeBourhis L, Philpott D & Kain K. Disruption of Nod-like receptors alters inflammatoryresponse to infection but does not confer protection in experimental cerebral malaria. American Journal ofTropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2009.80(5):718-2.

  11. Finney CAM, Liles W & Kain K. Severe Malaria and Host Response: Time for a Paradigm Shift in TherapeuticStrategies to Improve Clinical Outcome. Drug Discovery Today Disease Mechanisms. 2008.4(4):207-214.

  12. Finney, CAM, Taylor M, Wilson M, Balic A & Maizels R. Expansion and Activation of CD4+CD25+ Regulatory Tcells in Heligmosomoides polygyrus infection. European Journal of Immunology. 2007.12;37(7):1874-1886.(Cover article and Cover photograph)

 

Collaborations

  1. Rajeev S, Li S, Coria AL, Wang A, Wang S, Flannigan K, Shute A, Baggio C, Callejas BE , Rocha LK, MacNaughton WK, Finney CAM & McKay DM. (2023). Enteric tuft cells coordinate timely expulsion of the tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta from the murine host by coordinating local but not systemic immunity. Plos Pathogens. Under Revision.

  2. Colomb F, Ogunkanbi A, Jamwal A, Dong B*, Maizels RM, Finney CAM, Wasmuth JD, Higgins M, McSorley HJ. IL-33-binding HpARI family homologues with divergent effects in suppressing or enhancing type 2 immune responses. Infection and Immunity. Accepted.

  3. Pollo SMJ, Leon Coria A*, Liu, H*, Cruces González DF*, Finney CAM, Wasmuth JD. Transcriptional patterns of sexual dimorphism and in host developmental programs in the model parasitic nematode Heligmosomoides bakeri. Parasite and Vectors. 2023. 16 (171). doi: 10.1186/s13071-023-05785-2.

  4. Burns A, Ross R, Kitner M, Castelli JMP, Volpatti JR, Vaidya AS, Puumala E, Palmeira BM, Redman EM, Snider J, Marwah S, Chung SW, MacDonald MH, Tiefenbach J, Hu C, Xiao L*, Finney CAM, Krause HM, MacParland SA, Stagljar I, Gilleard JS, Cowen LE, Meyer SLF, Cutler SR, Dowling JJ, Lautens M, Zasada I, Roy PJ. Selective Control of Parasitic Nematodes with Bioactivated Nematicides. Nature. (2023). 618, 102–109. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06105-5.

  5. Nguyen, W, Jacobsen, E, Finney, CA, Colarusso, P, & Patel, K. Intravital imaging of eosinophils: Unwrapping the enigma. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 2020. 108(1): 83-91.

  6. Ayi K, Lu Z, Serghides L, Ho JM, Finney C, Wang JC, Liles WC, Kain KC. CD47-SIRPa Interactions Regulate Macrophage Uptake of Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes and Clearance of Malaria In Vivo. Infection and Immunity. 2016 Jun 23;84(7):2002-11. 

  7. Serghides L, Finney CA, Ayi K, Loutfy M, Kain KC. Chronic HIV infection impairs nonopsonic phagocytosis of malaria parasites. AJTMH. 2015 Feb 1;68(2):128-32. 

  8. Hawkes M, Li X, Crockett M, Diassiti A, Finney C, Min-Oo G, Liles W, Liu J, and Kain K. CD36 deficiency attenuates experimentalmycobacterial infection. BMC Infectious Disease. 2010. 10(1):299.

  9. Labbe K, Miu J, Serghides L, Tam M, Finney CA, Erdman L, Goulet M, Kain K, Stevenson MM & Saleh M. Modulation of theimmune response to malaria by caspase-12 independently of the caspase-1 inflammasome. Journal of Immunology. 2010.185(9):5495-502.

  10. Grainger J, Smith K, Hewitson J, McSorley H, Harcus Y, Filbey K, Finney CAM, Greenwood E, Knox D, Wilson M, Belkaid Y,Rudensky A & Maizels R. Helminth secretions induce de novo T cell Foxp3+ expression and regulatory function through the TGF-bpathway. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2010. 207(11):2331-41.

  11. Wasmuth J, Daub J, Peregrín-Alvarez J, Finney CAM & Parkinson J. The origins of apicomplexan sequence innovation. GenomeResearch. 2009.19(7):1202-13.

  12. Conroy A, Serghides L, Finney C, Owino SO, Kumar S, Gowda D, Liles W, Moore J, Kain K. C5a enhances dysregulatedinflammatory and angiogenic responses to malaria in vitro: potential implications for placental malaria. PLoS One.2009.4(3):e4953.

  13. Wilson M, Taylor M, Balic A, Finney CAM, Lamb J & Maizels R. Suppression of Allergic Airway Inflammation by Helminth-InducedRegulatory T Cells. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2005.202(9): 1199-212. (Cover article and photograph)

 

Teaching

  1. Summers M, Kong N*, Nykyforuk, C*, Finney CAM. (2023). Collaborative parasitology: Student partnerships in open-education. Trends in Parasitology. 39(9): 711-715.

 

Reviews & Editorials

  1. Filbey K, Finney C, Giacomin P, Siracusa, M. Editorial: Recent advances in the immunology of helminth infection-protection, pathogenesis and panaceas. Frontiers in Immunology. 2021. 

  2. Ariyaratne A* & Finney CA. Eosinophils and Macrophages within the Th2-Induced Granuloma: Balancing Killing and Healing in a Tight Space. Infection and Immunity. 2019 Sept. 87(10).

  3. Szabo EK* & Finney CA. Toxoplasma gondii: One Organism, Multiple Models. Trends in Parasitology. 2017 Feb;33(2):113-127.

  4. Finney CA, Kamhawi S, Wasmuth JD. Does the arthropod microbiota impact the establishment of vector-borne diseases in mammalian hosts? PLoS Pathogens. 2015 Apr 9;11(4):e1004646.

  5. Erdman L, Finney CAM (joint first), Liles W & Kain K. Inflammatory pathways in malaria infection: TLRs sharethe stage with other components of innate immunity. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology.2008.162(2):105-11.

 

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