Involved in:
- Systems biology analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Protein function and complexes
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases – host-bacteria interactions
Education and professional training:
- MSc – Master Degree on Microbiology, Warsaw University, Dept.of Microbiology and Dept. of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and
- Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 1998
- PhD – Veterinary Microbiology, Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland, 2001
- Post-doc – Steele Children’s Research Center, Dept. of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Arizona Health Sciences Center, The University of Arizona, 2007-2010
- Post-doc – Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, since 2010
Publications:
- Midura-Kiela MT, Radhakrishnan VM, Larmonier CB, Laubitz D, Ghishan FK, Kiela PR. Curcumin inhibits interferon-γ signaling in colonic epithelial cells. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2012 Jan;302(1):G85-96
- Larmonier CB*, Laubitz D*, Thurston RD, Bucknam AL, Hill FM, Midura-Kiela MT, Ramalingam R, Kiela PR, Ghishan FK. NHE3 modulates the severity of colitis in IL-10-deficient mice. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2011 Jun;300(6):G998-G1009
- Kiela PR*., Laubitz D*, Larmonier C., Midura-Kiela MT., Lipko MA., Janikashvili N., Bai A., Thurston RD., Ghishan FK. Changes in mucosal homeostasis predispose NHE3 knockout mice to increased susceptibility to DSS-induced epithelial injury. Gastroenterology 2009 137(3):965-75
- Laubitz D, Larmonier CB, Bai A, Midura-Kiela MT, Lipko MA, Thurston RD, Kiela PR, Ghishan FK. Colonic gene expression profile in NHE3-deficient mice: evidence for spontaneous distal colitis. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2008 Jul;295(1):G63-G77
- Jankowska A, Laubitz D, Antushevich H, Zabielski R, Grzesiuk E. Competition of Lactobacillus paracasei with Salmonella enterica for adhesion to Caco-2 cells. J Biomed Biotechnol. 2008;2008:357964