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Publications

  1. Carolina Caloba, Alexandria J. Sturtz, Laney Thumser, Allen M. Minns, Scott E. Lindner, Tania H. Watts, Noah S. Butler, Vijay R. Critical role of 4-1BB:4-1BBL axis in humoral immune responses against Plasmodium infection. (manuscript in preparation).

2. Dos Santos B*, Malkina K*, Lyons TA, John L, Caloba C, Vijay R. Hypoxia reversal
enhances anti-Plasmodium humoral immunity. (manuscript in preparation).

3. Caloba C, Minns AM, Lindner SE, Vijay R. (2025) Protocol to identify and/or sort antigen-
specific B cells from Plasmodium infected mice. STAR protocol 2025.

4. Makanaboyina S, Yavari S, Yang Z, Vijay R, Ramaraj T. (2025) Enhancing Biomarker
Discovery Approach using fine-tuned large language models. RADL25 (Deep Learning
Applications) (submitted)

5. Caloba C, Sturtz AJ, Lyons TA, John L, Ramachandran A, Minns AM, Cannon AM, Whalley
JP, Watts TH, Kaplan MH, Lindner SE, Vijay R. (2025) Systemic 4-1BB stimulation
augments extrafollicular memory B cell formation and recall responses during
Plasmodium infection.
Cell Reports 2025. Doi  10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115528

6. Makanaboyina S, Yang Z, Vijay R, Ramaraj T. (2024) Application of Machine-learning
techniques to drive immunological insights towards malaria prognosis using
microarray data. International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications.

7. John L, and Vijay R. (2024) Role of TAM receptors in antimalarial humoral immune
response. Pathogens 2024, 13(4), 298; https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens13040298

8. Marques-da-Silva C, Peissig K, Walker MP, Shiau J, Kyle DE, Vijay R, Lindner SE, Kurup SP.
Direct type I interferon signaling in hepatocytes control malaria. Cell Reports 2022. doi
10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111098

9. Lefebvre MN, Surette FA, Anthony SM, Vijay R, Jensen IJ, Pewe LL, Hancox LS, Braeckel-
Budimir NV, van de Wall S, Urban SL, Mix MR, Kurup SP, Badovinac VP, Butler NS, Harty JT.
Expeditious recruitment of circulating memory CD8 T cells to the live facilitates
control of malaria. Cell Reports 2021.Doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109956

10. Anthony SM, Braeckel-Budimir NV, Moioffer SJ, van de Wall S, Shan Q, Vijay R, Sompallae
R, Hartwig SM, Jensen IJ, Varga SM, Butler NS, Xue HH, Badovinac VP and Harty JT.
Protective function and durability of mouse lymph-node resident memory CD8+ T
cells. Elife 2021. doi10.7554/eLife.68662

11. Rogers KJ, Vijay R and Butler NS. Anti-malarial humoral immunity: the long and short of
it. Microbes and Infection, 2021 May. doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2021.104807

12. Vijay R, Guthmiller JJ, Sturtz AJ, Crooks S, Johnson JT, Li L, Lan LY, Pope RL, Chen Y,
Rogers KJ, Dutta N, Toombs JE, Wilson ME, Wilson PC, Brekken RA and Butler NS.
Hemolysis-associated phosphatidylserine exposure promotes polyclonal plasmablast
differentiation. J Exp Med 2021 April. doi.org/10/1084/jem.2020359.

13. Vijay R, Guthmiller JJ, Sturtz AJ, Surette FA, Rogers KJ, Sompallae RR, Fengyin L, Pope
RL, Chan J, Rivera FL, Andrew D, Webb L, Maury WJ, Xue HH, Engwerda CR, McCarthy JS,
Boyle MJ, Butler NS. Plasmodium-induced early plasmablasts act as a nutrient sink that
delays humoral immunity. Nat Immunol 2020 July. doi:10.1038/s41590-020-0678-5.

14. Surette FA, Guthmiller JJ, Vijay R, Strutz A, McClellan BL, Pack AD, Stock MR, Zander RA
and Butler NS. Extra-follicular CD4 T cell-derived IL-10 functions rapidly and transiently
to support anti-Plasmodium humoral immunity PLos Path 2021
February.doi:10.1371/e1009288.

15. Rogers K, Shtanko O, Vijay R, Mallinger L, Butler NS and Maury W. Acute Plasmodium
infection promotes resistance to Ebola virus infection via type 1 immunity. Cell
Reports. 2020 March. doi:10.1016/j/celrep.2020.02.104

16. Kurup SP, Anthony SM, Hancox LS, Vijay R, Pewe LL, Moioffer, S, Sompallae R, Janse CJ,
Khan, SM and Harty JT. Dendritic cells acquire Plasmodium from hepatocytes to prime
CD8 T cell immunity to liver-stage malaria. Cell Host Microbe. 2019 April 10;25(4):565-
577.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.02.014. Epub 2019 Mar 21.

17. Hua X, Vijay R, Athmer J, Meyerholz D.K, Pagedar N, Tilley S and Perlman S. Nasal
Priming by a murine coronavirus provides protective immunity against lethal
heterogenous virus pneumonia. JCI Insight. 2018 Jun 7;3(11). pii: 99025. doi:
10.1172/jci.insight.99025.

18. Smith LK, Boukhaled GM, Condotta SA, Mazouz S, Guthmiller JJ, Vijay R, Butler NS,
Bruneau J, Shoukey NH, Krawczyk, CM and Richer MJ. Interleukin-10 directly inhibits
CD8 + T cells function by enhancing N-glycan branching to decreases antigen
sensitivity. Immunity. 2018 Feb 20;48(2):299-312.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2018.01.006.

19. Zander RA, Vijay R, Pack AD, Guthmiller JJ, Graham AC, Lindner SE, Vaughan AM, Kappe
SHI and Butler NS. Th1-like Plasmodium-specific memory CD4 T cells support humoral
immunity. Cell Rep. 2017 Nov 14;21(7):1839-1852. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.10.077.

20. Rivera-Correa J, Guthmiller JJ, Vijay R, Fernandez-Arias C, Pardo-Ruge MA, Gonzalez S,
Butler NS and Rodriguez A. Plasmodium DNA-mediated TLR9 activation of T-bet +  B cells
contributes to autoimmune anaemia during malaria. Nat Commun. 2017 Nov
3;8(1):1282. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01476-6.

21. Vijay R, Fehr AR, Janowski AM, Athmer J, Wheeler D, Grunewald, M, Kurup SP, Sompallae
R , Sutterwala F S , Narumiya S and Perlman S. Prostaglandin D2/DP1 signaling
suppresses virus-induced inflammasome activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jun
19. pii: 201704099. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1704099114.

22. Zhao J, Vijay R, Zhao J, Gale M Jr, Diamond MS and Perlman S. MAVS Expressed by
Hematopoietic Cells Is Critical for Control of West Nile Virus Infection and
Pathogenesis. J Virol. 2016 Jul 27;90(16):7098-108. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00707-16.

23. Perlman S and Vijay R. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Vaccines. Int J Infect Dis.
2016 Jun;47:23-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2016.04.008.

24. Channappanavar R, Fehr A.R, Vijay R, Mack M and Perlman S. Dysregulated type I IFN
and inflammatory monocyte-macrophage responses cause lethal pneumonia in SARS-
CoV infected mice. Cell Host Microbe. 2016 Feb 10;19(2):181-93. doi:
10.1016/j.chom.2016.01.007.

25. Vijay R and Perlman S. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome. 2015 Curr Opin Virol. 2016 Feb;16:70-6. doi:
10.1016/j.coviro.2016.01.011. Epub 2016 Feb 12.

26. Vijay R, Hua H, Meyerholz D.K, Miki Y, Yamamoto K, Gelb M, Murakami M and Perlman S.
2015.Critical role of Phospholipase A 2 group IID in age-related susceptibility to Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoV infection. J Exp Med. 2015. doi:
10.1084/jem.20150632. Epub 2015 Sep 21.

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