Email

bomidi@bcm.edu

Positions

Senior Research Asst

Virol and Micro: Estes
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

MSc from Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN

BSc from Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Professional Interests

• Harnessing virus-host interactions for viral therapies.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Suksanpaisan L, Xu R, Tesfay MZ, Bomidi C, Hamm S, Vandergaast R, Jenks N, Steele MB, Ota-Setlik A, Akhtar H, Luckay A, Nowak R, Peng KW, Eldridge JH, Clarke DK, Russell SJ, Diaz RM. "Preclinical Development of Oncolytic Immunovirotherapy for Treatment of HPVPOS Cancers.." Mol Ther Oncolytics. 2018 Sep 5;10:1-13. Pubmed PMID: 29998190
• Thellman NM, Botting C, Madaj Z, Triezenberg SJ "An Immortalized Human Dorsal Root Ganglion Cell Line Provides a Novel Context To Study Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Latency and Reactivation." J Virol. 2017 Jun 26;91(12):e00080-17. Pubmed PMID: 28404842
• Botting C, Lu X, Triezenberg SJ "H2AX phosphorylation and DNA damage kinase activity are dispensable for herpes simplex virus replication." Virol J. 2016 Jan 27;13(15) Pubmed PMID: 26817608

Projects

Intestinal Niche in Homeostasis and Epithelium Regeneration

Rotavirus infects enterocytes at the tips of intestinal villi, yet infection prompts proliferation of distant stem cells located in intestinal crypts. My research focuses on identifying the signals from infected enterocytes that cause stem cell driven repair of the intestinal epithelium.