Email

job.lopez@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Pediatrics-Tropical Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Education

BA from La Sierra University

Riverside, CA

PhD from the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University

12/2006 - Pullman, WA, Washington, United States

Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH

07/2011 - Hamilton, MT, Montana, United States

Websites

Selected Publications

• Bermúdez SE, Gottdenker N, Krishnvajhala A, Fox A, Wilder HK, González K, Smith D, López M, Perea M, Rigg C, Montilla S, Calzada JE, Saldaña A, Caballero CM, Lopez JE. " Synanthropic Mammals as Potential Hosts of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Panama " ;
• Bermúdez SE, Castillo E, Pohlenz TD, Kneubehl A, Krishnavajhala A, Domínguez L, Suárez A, López JE. " New records of Ornithodoros puertoricensis Fox 1947 (Ixodida: Argasidae) parasitizing humans in rural and urban dwellings, Panama " ;
• Christensen AM, Pietralczyk E, Lopez JE, Brooks C, Schriefer ME, Wozniak E, Stermole B. " Diagnosis and Management of Borrelia turicatae Infection in Febrile Soldier, Texas, USA " ;
• Luo Z, Kelleher AJ, Darwiche R, Hudspeth EM, Shittu OK, Krishnavajhala A, Schneiter R, Lopez JE, Asojo OA. " Crystal Structure of Borrelia turicatae protein, BTA121, a differentially regulated gene in the tick-mammalian transmission cycle of relapsing fever spirochetes " ;
• Krishnavajhala A, Armstrong BA, Lopez JE. " Vector competence of geographical populations of Ornithodoros turicata for the tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia turicatae " ;
• Bissett JD, Ledet S, Krishnavajhala A, Armstrong BA, Klioueva A, Sexton C, Replogle A, Schriefer ME, Lopez JE. " Detection of tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete, Austin, Texas, USA " ;
• Lopez J.E.,* Vinet-Oliphant H., Wilder H.K., Brooks C.P., Grasperge B.J., Morgan T.W., Stuckey K.J., Embers M.E.. " Real-time monitoring of disease progression in rhesus macaques infected with Borrelia turicatae by tick bite " J Infect Dis. 2014 May 30;
  Pubmed PMID: 24879799.
• Boyle W., Wilder H.K., Lawrence A., and Lopez J.E.*. " Transmission dynamics of B. turicatae after tick bite " PLoS Neg Trop Dis. 2014 Apr 3;
  Pubmed PMID: 24699275.
• Safronetz D., Sogoba N., Lopez J.E., Maiga O., Dahlstrom E., Feldmann F., Haddock E., Fischer R., Munster V., Branco L., Garry R., Porcella S.F., Schwan T.G.,* Feldmann H.*. " Geographic distribution and genetic characterization of Lassa virus in Mali " PLoS Neg Trop Dis. 2013 Dec 5;
  Pubmed PMID: 24340119.
• Lopez J.E.,* Wilder H.K., Hargrove R.A., Brooks C.P., Peterson K.E., Beare P.A., Sturdevant D.E., Nagarajan V., Raffel S.J., Schwan T.G.. " Development of a genetic system to inactivate a Borrelia turicatae surface protein selectively produced within the salivary glands of the arthropod vector " PLoS Neg Trop Dis. 2013 Oct 31;
  Pubmed PMID: 24205425.
• Lopez J.E.,* Wilder H.K., Boyle W., Drumheller L.B, Thornton J.A., Willeford B., Morgan T.D., Varela-Stokes A.. " Sequence analysis and serological responses against Borrelia turicatae BipA, a putative species-specific antigen " PLoS Neg Trop Dis. 2013 Sep 19;
  Pubmed PMID: 24069498.
• Schwan T.G.,* Anderson J.M., Lopez J.E., Fischer R.F., Raffel S.J., McCoy B.N., Safronetz D., Sogoba N., Maiga O., Traore S.. " Endemic foci of the tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia crocidurae in Mali, West Africa, and the potential for human infection. " PLoS Neg Trop Dis. 2012 Nov 29;
  Pubmed PMID: 232099863.

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Memberships

American Society of Microbiology

2. Entomological Society of America

3. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Funding

Identification of essential factors contributing to vector colonization and transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes

NIAID, NIH

Understanding the ecology of tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes in Panama

NIAID, NIH

Identifying molecular events occurring during the life cycle of tick-born relapsing fever spirochetes

NIAID, NIH