Dr. Neal Silverman is an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
He is also affiliated with the Immunology and Virology Program, Molecular Genetics and
Microbiology, and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His expertise and research
interests include innate immune recognition, signal transduction, and gene expression,
especially in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. 

Articles

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NF-kappaB/Rel Proteins and the Humoral Immune Responses of Drosophila melanogaster (with Sandhya Ganesan, Kamna Aggarwal, and Nicholas Paul Paquette), Current topics in microbiology and immunology (2010)
 

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Identification of Drosophila Yin and PEPT2 as evolutionarily conserved phagosome-associated muramyl dipeptide transporters (with Guillaume M. Charriere, Wk Eddie Ip, Stephanie Dejardin, Laurent Boyer, Anna Sokolovska, Michael P. Cappillino, Bobby J. Cherayil, Daniel K. Podolsky, Koichi S. Kobayashi, Adam Lacy-Hulbert, and Lynda M. Stuart), The Journal of biological chemistry (2010)
 

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Caspase-Mediated Cleavage, IAP Binding, and Ubiquitination: Linking Three Mechanisms Crucial for Drosophila NF-κB Signaling (with Nicholas Paul Paquette, Meike Broemer, Kamna Aggarwal, Li Chen, Marie Husson, Deniz Erturk Hasdemir, Jean-Marc Reichhart, and Pascal Meier), Infectious Diseases and Immunology Publications and Presentations (2010)
 

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Taming the symbiont for coexistence: a host PGRP neutralizes a bacterial symbiont toxin (with Joshua V. Troll, Eric H. Bent, Nicholas Paul Paquette, Andrew M. Wier, William E. Goldman, and Margaret J. McFall-Ngai), Environmental microbiology (2010)
 

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NOD1 and NOD2 mediate sensing of periodontal pathogens (with T. Okugawa, Takashi Kaneko, A. Yoshimura, and Y. Hara), Journal of dental research (2009)
 

Contributions to Books

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Bug Versus Bug: Humoral Immune Responses in Drosophila melanogaster (with Deniz Erturk Hasdemir, Nicholas Paquette, and Kamna Aggarwal), Innate Immunity of Plants, Animals, and Humans (2007)
 
Acetylation, Activation and Toxicity: The Role of ADA/GCN5 Complex in Transcription (with Leonard Guarente), Mechanisms of Transcription (1997)