Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Kima Lab
Led by Peter E. Kima · Microbiology and Cell Science
What we study
The Kima Lab studies how Leishmania parasites evade immune detection by forming unique vacuoles and releasing small vesicles that alter tissue and immune responses. They explore mechanisms like SNAREs and ESCRT machinery to understand and control these processes.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Induction of DNA-mediated immune responses by bacterial extracellular vesicles results in control of murine norovirus infection
2026 · Gut Microbes
Shows bacterial extracellular vesicles trigger immune responses to fight norovirus.
- Macrophage Protein Disulfide Isomerase Increases Infection by Leishmania amazonensis
2025 · Cell Biology International
Finds macrophages' protein disulfide isomerase helps Leishmania amazonensis infect cells.
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- A non-canonical activation of the host’s ESCRT machinery is required for the scission of parasitophorous vacuoles and the replication of Leishmania donovani
2025 · PLoS Pathogens
Discovers ESCRT machinery helps Leishmania parasites divide inside cells.
- Non canonical activation of the ESCRT machinery is required for division of Leishmania donovani parasitophorous vacuoles and parasite persistence
2024
- The Sdp-SH3b2 domain contained in Lactobacillus johnsonii N6.2-derived extracellular vesicles inhibit murine norovirus replication
2024 · Frontiers in Immunology
Shows Lactobacillus EVs block norovirus by boosting antiviral genes.
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