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Mollie Sweeney

Postdoctoral Associate
Basic Science Departments

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Recent Publications


Channeling kynurenine.

Journal Article Nat Chem Biol · December 2024 Full text Link to item Cite

Macrophage NFATC2 mediates angiogenic signaling during mycobacterial infection.

Journal Article Cell Rep · December 13, 2022 During mycobacterial infections, pathogenic mycobacteria manipulate both host immune and stromal cells to establish and maintain a productive infection. In humans, non-human primates, and zebrafish models of infection, pathogenic mycobacteria produce and m ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

An ancestral mycobacterial effector promotes dissemination of infection.

Journal Article Cell · November 23, 2022 The human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis typically causes lung disease but can also disseminate to other tissues. We identified a M. tuberculosis (Mtb) outbreak presenting with unusually high rates of extrapulmonary dissemination and bone disease. We ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


The Genetic Base of Bone Disease in Mycobacterial Infection

ResearchPostdoctoral Associate · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2023 - 2028

Roles of the WASH complex in macrophage migration

FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2024

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