Michael S. Costello

Tri-Counties Blood Bank Postdoctoral Fellow

Life Sciences 3109

B. S. in Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Ph. D. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara

6) Costello, M. S., Neumann, B. C., Raimondi, M. W., Cuthbert, B. J., Holubová, J., Garza-Sánchez, F., Samad, A., Bumba, L., Torres, J. A., Holznecht, N. Mendoza, J., Stanek, O., Prombhul, S., Weimbs, T., Morrissey, M. A., Acosta-Alvear, D., Low, D. A., Šebo, P., Goulding, C. W., Gonen, S. and C. S. Hayes (2026) Bacteria deliver a microtubule-binding protein into mammalian cells to promote colonization. Science 391:825-830

5) Zappa, F., Muniozguren, N. L., Wilson, M. Z., Costello, M. S., Ponce-Rojas, J. C. and D. Acosta-Alvear (2022) Signaling by the integrated stress response kinase PKR is fine-tuned by dynamic clustering. Journal of Cell Biology 221:e202111100

4) Rauch, J. N., Valois, E., Solley, S. C., Braig, F., Lach, R. S., Audouard, M., Ponce-Rojas, J. C., Costello, M. S., Baxter, N. J., Kosik, K. S., Arias, C., Acosta-Alvear, D. and M. Z. Wilson (2021) A Scalable, Easy-to-Deploy Protocol for Cas13-Based Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Genetic Material. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 59:e02402-20

3) Ponce-Rojas, J. C.*, Costello, M. S.*, Proctor, D. A., Kosik, K. S., Wilson, M. Z., Arias, C. and D. Acosta-Alvear (2021) A Fast and Accessible Method for the Isolation of RNA, DNA, and Protein To Facilitate the Detection of SARS-CoV-2. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 59:e02403-20

2) Rauch, J. N., Valois, E., Ponce-Rojas, J. C., ... Costello, M. S., ... et al. (2021) Comparison of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Screening Using Reverse Transcriptase–Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction or CRISPR-Based Assays in Asymptomatic College Students. JAMA Network Open 4:e2037129

1) Smith, A. M., Costello, M. S., Kettring, A. H., Wingo, R. J. and S. D. Moore (2019) Ribosome collisions alter frameshifting at translational reprogramming motifs in bacterial mRNAs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U. S. A. 116:21769-21779