Debra Adair

Degree Information

• BS Biology University of New Mexico, 1993
• MS Biology Northern Arizona University, 1999
• Ph.D. Medical Microbiology Warsaw Medical University, 2005 

Courses Taught

• Microbiology
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Pathophysiology
• General Biology
• Human Biology

Primary Area of Expertise

• Microbiology
• Molecular Genetics 

Publications and Presentations 

• Tomasz Laskus, Marcin Chmielewski, Jeffrey Wilkinson, Debra Adair, Andrzej Horban, Grzegorz Stańczak, Marek Radkowski Effect of Hepatitis C Infection on HIV-Induced Apoptosis PLoS One. 2013 Oct 1;8(10):e75921.
• Adair DM, Radkowski M, Jablonska J, Pawelczyk A, Wilkinson J, Laskus T. Differential display analysis of gene expression in brain from hepatitis C infected patients. AIDS. 19 Suppl 3:S145-S150, October 2005.
• Laskus T, Radkowski M, Adair DM, Wilkinson J, Scheck AC, Rakela J. Emerging evidence of Hepatitis C neuroinvasion. AIDS. 19 Suppl 3:S140-S144, October 2005.
• Radkowski M, Horban A, Gallegos-Orozco JF, Pawelczyk A, Jablonska J, Wilkinson J, Adair DM, Laskus T. Evidence for viral persistence in anti-hepatitis C antibody positive patients with normal alanine aminotransferase levels. J Infectious Disease. 2005 May 15;191(10):1730-3
• D.M. Adair, P.L. Worsham, K.K. Hill, A.M. Klevytska, P.J. Jackson, A.M. Friedlander and P. Keim. 2000. Diversity in a Variable-Number Tandem Repeat from Yersinia pestis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 38:1516-1519.
• Jackson, P.J., M. Hugh-Jones, D.M. Adair, G. Green, K.K. Hill, C.R. Kuske, L.M. Grinberg, O. V. Yampolskaya and P. Keim. 1998. Molecular Analysis of Tissue Samples from the 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Victims: The Presence of Multiple Bacillus anthracis in Different Victims. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 95(3):1224-1229.

*Full list of publications available upon request

Grants Received

NIH, Hepatitis C Virus Brain Infection in HCV/HIV Coinfection 2005

Group Affiliations

American Society for Microbiology