Allison F. Carey

Allison F. Carey, MD, PhD

Languages spoken: English

  • Dr. Carey is a physician-scientist who received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale School of Medicine. She completed her doctoral training with John Carlson, gaining critical insights into how the olfactory system of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito detects human blood-meal hosts, a key step in the malaria transmission cycle. After a Roux fellowship at the Pasteur Institute, Dr. Carey completed her residency training in clinical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then joined Sarah Fortune’s research group at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she developed expertise in another globally significant pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. At the University of Utah, Dr. Carey runs a research group with a focus on mycobacterial genetics and is a pathologist at ARUP Laboratories.

    Specialties

    • Pathology, Clinical

    Board Certification

    American Board of Pathology (Clinical Path)

  • Dr. Carey is a physician-scientist who received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale School of Medicine. She completed her doctoral training with John Carlson, gaining critical insights into how the olfactory system of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito detects human blood-meal hosts, a key step in the malaria transmission cycle. After a Roux fellowship at the Pasteur Institute, Dr. Carey completed her residency training in clinical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then joined Sarah Fortune’s research group at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she developed expertise in another globally significant pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. At the University of Utah, Dr. Carey runs a research group with a focus on mycobacterial genetics and is a pathologist at ARUP Laboratories.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pathology -Primary
    Board Certification
    American Board of Pathology (Clinical Path)

    Education history

    Fellowship Clinical Pathology - Massachusetts General Hospital Research and Clinical Fellow
    Microbiology - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Postdoctoral Fellow
    Chief Resident Clinical Pathology - Massachusetts General Hospital Chief Resident
    Clinical Pathology - Massachusetts General Hospital Resident
    Postdoctoral Fellowship Parasitology - Pasteur Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
    Neuroscience - Yale University School of Medicine M.D., Ph.D.
    Undergraduate Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Animal Bioscience - Pennsylvania State University B.S.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Carey AF, Wang X, Cicchetti N, Spaulding CN, Liu Q, Hopkins F, Brown J, Sixsmith J, Sutiwisesak R, Behar SM, Ioerger TR, Fortune SM (2022). Multiplexed Strain Phenotyping Defines Consequences of Genetic Diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis for Infection and Vaccination Outcomes. mSystems, e0011022. (Read full article)
    2. Hicks ND, Carey AF, Yang J, Zhao Y, Fortune SM (2019). Bacterial Genome-Wide Association Identifies Novel Factors That Contribute to Ethionamide and Prothionamide Susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mBio, 10(2). (Read full article)
    3. Cadena AM, Hopkins FF, Maiello P, Carey AF, Wong EA, Martin CJ, Gideon HP, DiFazio RM, Andersen P, Lin PL, Fortune SM, Flynn JL (2018). Concurrent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis confers robust protection against secondary infection in macaques. PLoS Pathog, 14(10), e1007305. (Read full article)
    4. Carey AF, Rock JM, Krieger IV, Chase MR, Fernandez-Suarez M, Gagneux S, Sacchettini JC, Ioerger TR, Fortune SM (2018). TnSeq of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates reveals strain-specific antibiotic liabilities. PLoS Pathog, 14(3), e1006939. (Read full article)
    5. Bargieri DY, Thiberge S, Tay CL, Carey AF, Rantz A, Hischen F, Lorthiois A, Straschil U, Singh P, Singh S, Triglia T, Tsuboi T, Cowman A, Chitnis C, Alano P, Baum J, Pradel G, Lavazec C, Mnard R (2016). Plasmodium Merozoite TRAP Family Protein Is Essential for Vacuole Membrane Disruption and Gamete Egress from Erythrocytes. Cell Host Microbe, 20(5), 618-630. (Read full article)
    6. Martin CJ, Carey AF, Fortune SM (2015). A bug's life in the granuloma. Semin Immunopathol, 38(2), 213-20. (Read full article)
    7. Carey AF, Singer M, Bargieri D, Thiberge S, Frischknecht F, Mnard R, Amino R (2014). Calcium dynamics of Plasmodium berghei sporozoite motility. Cell Microbiol, 16(5), 768-83. (Read full article)
    8. Carey AF, Mnard R, Bargieri DY (2012). Scoring sporozoite motility. Methods Mol Biol, 923, 371-83. (Read full article)
    9. Carey AF, Carlson JR (2011). Insect olfaction from model systems to disease control. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 108(32), 12987-95. (Read full article)
    10. Carey AF, Wang G, Su CY, Zwiebel LJ, Carlson JR (2010). Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Nature, 464(7285), 66-71. (Read full article)
    11. Wang G, Carey AF, Carlson JR, Zwiebel LJ (2010). Molecular basis of odor coding in the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107(9), 4418-23. (Read full article)

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