Matt Ward

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Gary Patti, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2020

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary
Targeting bacterial nitrogen assimilation during infection of human macrophages by pathogenic Leptospira interrogans.

Graduate publications
Higgins CB, Adams JA, Ward MH, Greenberg ZJ, Milewska M, Sun J, Zhang Y, Chiquetto Paracatu L, Dong Q, Ballentine S, Li W, Wandzik I, Schuettpelz LG, DeBosch BJ. 2023 The tetraspanin transmembrane protein CD53 mediates dyslipidemia and integrates inflammatory and metabolic signaling in hepatocytes. J Biol Chem, 299(2):102835. PMCID: PMC9900517

Nwosu ZC, Ward MH, Sajjakulnukit P, Poudel P, Ragulan C, Kasperek S, Radyk M, Sutton D, Menjivar RE, Andren A, Apiz-Saab JJ, Tolstyka Z, Brown K, Lee HJ, Dzierozynski LN, He X, Ps H, Ugras J, Nyamundanda G, Zhang L, Halbrook CJ, Carpenter ES, Shi J, Shriver LP, Patti GJ, Muir A, Pasca di Magliano M, Sadanandam A, Lyssiotis CA. 2023 Uridine-derived ribose fuels glucose-restricted pancreatic cancer. Nature, 618(7963):151-58. PMCID: PMC10232363