People

Jaclyn Smith

Jaclyn Smith

jsmit380@jhmi.edu

Publications

Smith JE, So J (DNA damage drives antigen diversification…)

Smith JE, Wang KJ, Kennedy EM, Munday JC, Singer L, Hakim JMC, So J, Beaver AK, Magesh A, Gilligan-Steinberg SD, Zheng J, Zhang B, Moorthy DN, Brown ZE, Akin EH, Mwakibete L, McCulloch R, Mugnier MR., 2026, DNA damage drives antigen diversification in Trypanosoma brucei, Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10337-6. PMID: 41951731  PubMed

Smith JE (Genomic determinants of antigen expression…)

Keneskhanova Z, McWilliam KR, Cosentino RO, Barcons-Simon A, Dobrynin A, Smith JE, Subota I, Mugnier MR, Colomé-Tatché M, Siegel TN., 2025, Genomic determinants of antigen expression hierarchy in African trypanosomes, Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-08720-w. PMID: 40074895  PubMed

Smith JE (Tissue spaces are reservoirs…)

Beaver AK, Keneskhanova Z, Cosentino RO, Weiss BL, Awuoche EO, Smallenberger GM, Buenconsejo GY, Crilly NP, Smith JE, Hakim JMC, Zhang B, Bobb B, Rijo-Ferreira F, Figueiredo LM, Aksoy S, Siegel TN, Mugnier MR., 2024, Tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for Trypanosoma brucei, Nature, 636(8042):430-437. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08151-z. PMCID: PMC11634766  PubMed

Smith JE (DNA damage drives…)

Smith JE, Wang KJ, Kennedy EM, Hakim JMC, So J, Beaver AK, Magesh A, Gilligan-Steinberg SD, Zheng J, Zhang B, Moorthy DN, Akin EH, Mwakibete L, Mugnier MR., 2024, DNA damage drives antigen diversification through mosaic Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) formation in Trypanosoma brucei, bioRxiv [Preprint], 2024.03.22.582209. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.22.582209. PMCID: PMC11383311  PubMed

2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship