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Ana Luisa Maldonado-Contreras PhD

TitleAssistant Professor
Endowed TitleMarcellette G. Williams Scholar
InstitutionUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School
DepartmentMicrobiology and Physiological Systems
AddressUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester MA 01655
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    DepartmentPopulation and Quantitative Health Sciences


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    University of Zulia, Maracaibo, , VenezuelaBAEducation
    Instituto Universitario de Tecnologia, Caracas, , VenezuelaMSMicrobiology
    University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, PR, United StatesPHDMicrobiology
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    2013 - 2015Charles A. King Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, The Medical Foundation Division
    2016 - 2019Research Scholar Award, American Gastroenterological Association
    2015 - 2020Faculty Diversity Scholar, Office of Faculty Affairs- UMMS

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    1. Maldonado-Contreras A, Noel SE, Ward DV, Velez M, Mangano KM. Associations between Diet, the Gut Microbiome, and Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production among Older Caribbean Latino Adults. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2020 Aug 11. PMID: 32798072.
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    2. Maldonado-Contreras A, Ferrer L, Cawley C, Crain S, Bhattarai S, Toscano J, Ward DV, Hoffman A. Dysbiosis in a canine model of human fistulizing Crohn's disease. Gut Microbes. 2020 Jul 30; 1-15. PMID: 32730134.
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    3. Peter I, Maldonado-Contreras A, Eisele C, Frisard C, Simpson S, Nair N, Rendon A, Hawkins K, Cawley C, Debebe A, Tarassishin L, White S, Dubinsky M, Stone J, Clemente JC, Sabino J, Torres J, Hu J, Columbel JF, Olendzki B. A dietary intervention to improve the microbiome composition of pregnant women with Crohn's disease and their offspring: The MELODY (Modulating Early Life Microbiome through Dietary Intervention in Pregnancy) trial design. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2020 Jun; 18:100573. PMID: 32617430.
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    4. Zhao M, Chiriboga D, Olendzki B, Xie B, Li Y, McGonigal LJ, Maldonado-Contreras A, Ma Y. Substantial Increase in Compliance with Saturated Fatty Acid Intake Recommendations after One Year Following the American Heart Association Diet. Nutrients. 2018 Oct 12; 10(10). PMID: 30322012.
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    5. Maldonado-Contreras A, Birtley JR, Boll E, Zhao Y, Mumy KL, Toscano J, Ayehunie S, Reinecker HC, Stern LJ, McCormick BA. Shigella Depends on SepA to Destabilize the Intestinal Epithelial Integrity via Cofilin Activation. Gut Microbes. 2017 Jun 09; 0. PMID: 28598765.
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    6. Maldonado-Contreras A, Gerstein RM. Editorial: No Trp, no B: surprising connectivity of diet, microbiome, aging, and adaptive immunity. J Leukoc Biol. 2017 Apr; 101(4):807-809. PMID: 28366880.
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    7. Maldonado-Contreras A, Mane SP, Zhang XS, Pericchi L, Alarcón T, Contreras M, Linz B, Blaser MJ, Domínguez-Bello MG. Phylogeographic evidence of cognate recognition site patterns and transformation efficiency differences in H. pylori: theory of strain dominance. BMC Microbiol. 2013 Sep 19; 13:211. PMID: 24050390.
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    8. Maldonado-Contreras AL, McCormick BA. Intestinal epithelial cells and their role in innate mucosal immunity. Cell Tissue Res. 2011 Jan; 343(1):5-12. PMID: 21104188.
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    9. Srikanth CV, Wall DM, Maldonado-Contreras A, Shi HN, Zhou D, Demma Z, Mumy KL, McCormick BA. Salmonella pathogenesis and processing of secreted effectors by caspase-3. Science. 2010 Oct 15; 330(6002):390-3. PMID: 20947770.
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    10. Maldonado-Contreras A, Goldfarb KC, Godoy-Vitorino F, Karaoz U, Contreras M, Blaser MJ, Brodie EL, Dominguez-Bello MG. Structure of the human gastric bacterial community in relation to Helicobacter pylori status. ISME J. 2011 Apr; 5(4):574-9. PMID: 20927139.
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    11. Mane SP, Dominguez-Bello MG, Blaser MJ, Sobral BW, Hontecillas R, Skoneczka J, Mohapatra SK, Crasta OR, Evans C, Modise T, Shallom S, Shukla M, Varon C, Mégraud F, Maldonado-Contreras AL, Williams KP, Bassaganya-Riera J. Host-interactive genes in Amerindian Helicobacter pylori diverge from their Old World homologs and mediate inflammatory responses. J Bacteriol. 2010 Jun; 192(12):3078-92. PMID: 20400544.
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    12. Marini E, Maldonado-Contreras AL, Cabras S, Hidalgo G, Buffa R, Marin A, Floris G, Racugno W, Pericchi LR, Castellanos ME, Gröschl M, Blaser MJ, Domínguez-Bello MG. Helicobacter pylori and intestinal parasites are not detrimental to the nutritional status of Amerindians. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2007 Mar; 76(3):534-40. PMID: 17360880.
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