Celine Xia

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Sebla B. Kutluay, PhD

Undergraduate university: Huazhong Agricultural University, 2017

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary

Graduate publications
Zhang N, Venn B, Bailey CE, Xia M, Mattoon EM, Mühlhaus T, Zhang R. 2024 Moderate high temperature is beneficial or detrimental depending on carbon availability in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J Exp Bot, 75(3):979-1003. PMCID:

Xia M, Huang P, Vago F, Kawagishi T, Ding S, Greenberg HB, Jiang W, Tan M. 2024 A Viral Protein 4-Based Trivalent Nanoparticle Vaccine Elicited High and Broad Immune Responses and Protective Immunity against the Predominant Rotaviruses. ACS Nano, 18(8):6673-89. PMCID:

Puray-Chavez M, Eschbach JE, Xia M, LaPak KM, Zhou Q, Jasuja R, Pan J, Xu J, Zhou Z, Mohammed S, Wang Q, Lawson DQ, Djokic S, Hou G, Ding S, Brody SL, Major MB, Goldfarb D, Kutluay SB. 2024 A basally active cGAS-STING pathway limits SARS-CoV-2 replication in a subset of ACE2 positive airway cell models. Nat Commun, 15(1):8394. PMCID: PMC11437049

Eschbach JE, Puray-Chavez M, Mohammed S, Wang Q, Xia M, Huang L-C, Shan L, Kutluay S. 2024 HIV-1 capsid stability and reverse transcription are finely balanced to minimize sensing of reverse transcription products via the cGAS-STING pathway. mBio, 15(5):e0034824. PMCID: PMC11077976