Kevin Alby

Publications:

  1. Forche, A., K. Alby, D. Schaefer, A.D. Johnson, J. Bermen, and R.J. Bennett. (2008).  The Parasexual Cycle in Candida albicans Provides an Alternative Pathway to Meiosis for the Formation of Recombinant Strains. PLoS Biol. 6(5): e110
  2. Alby, K. and Bennett, R.J. (2009).  Stress-Induced Phenotypic Switching in Candida albicans. Mol. Biol. Cell. 20: 3178-91.
  3. Alby, K., Schaefer, D., and Bennett, R.J. (2009).  Homothallic and Heterothallic mating in the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans. Nature 460:890-893.
  4. Alby, K. and Bennett, R.J. (2009). To Switch or Not to Switch? Phenotypic switching is sensitive to multiple inputs in a pathogenic fungus. Commun Integr Biol. 2(6): 509-11.
  5. Alby, K. and Bennett, R.J. (2010). Sexual Reproduction in the Candida Clade:Cryptic Cycles, Diverse Mechanisms, and Alternative Functions.  Cell Mol Life Sci. 2010 Oct; 67(19):3275-85. Invited review
  6. Alby, K., Schaefer, D., Sherwood, R.K., Jones Jr., S.J., and Bennett, R.J. (2010). Identification of a cell death pathway in Candida albicans during the response to pheromones.Eukaryotic Cell. 2010 Nov;9(11):1690-701.
  7. Alby, K. and Bennett R.J.  Inter-species pheromone signaling promotes biofilm formation and same-sex mating in Candida albicans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Feb 8;108(6):2510-5.
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Awards/Funding:

  1. Eukaryotic Cell Outstanding Young Investigator Award - 9th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis (2008)
  2. Ruth Kirschstein NRSA Fellow (2009-Present)
  3. ASM Raymond W. Sarber Award Recipient (2011)
  4. Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (2011)
  5. John G. Peterson Pre-doctoral Fellow – Brown University (2011)