Zo毛 Hilbert
Assistant Professor
Zo毛 Hilbert
Ph.D.
Contact
Higgins Hall 415
Telephone: 617-552-3103
Email: zoe.hilbert@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Host-fungal interactions, adaptive evolution of pathogenic fungi and their hosts, fungal pathogenesis, microbial recognition, immune evolution, pathogen evolution
Department
Selected Publications
Schwiesow, M.J.W., Elde, N.C., Hilbert, Z.A.* (2024) Distinct routes to thermotolerance in the fungal pathogen听Cryptococcus neoformans.听bioRxiv.听
Hilbert, Z.A., Bednarek, J.M., Chung, K.Y., Schwiesow, M.W., Brown, J.C.S., Elde, N.C. (2022). Distinct pathways of adaptive evolution in Cryptococcus neoformans reveal a point mutation in adenylate cyclase with drastic tradeoffs for pathogenicity. Current Biology 33 (19),听4136-4149. e9.听
Hilbert, Z.A., Haffener, P., Young, H.J., Schwiesow, M., Leffler, E.M., Elde, N.C. (2022). Rapid evolution of glycan recognition receptors reveals an axis of host-microbe conflicts at carbohydrate-protein interfaces. bioRxiv.
Carey, C.M., Apple, S. E., Hilbert, Z.A., Kay, M.S., and Elde, N.C.* (2021) Diarrheal pathogens trigger rapid evolution of the guanylate cyclase-C signaling axis in bats.听Cell Host and Microbe 29 (9),听1342-1350. e5.