My Work

Writing is one way I get to engage with the topics I care most about. In addition to my academic publishing in immunology and public health, I take interest in a wide variety of topics related to health, equity, nutrition, exercise physiology, climate and the natural world.

How Poverty Affects Diet to Shape the Microbiota and Chronic Disease

Nature Reviews Immunology – November 2017

Disappearance of the Human Microbiota: How We May Be Losing Our Oldest Allies

American Society for Microbiology – November 8, 2019

Career Development Grant for Postdoctoral Women

American Society for Microbiology – June 2019


Web Articles

Metro Microbes: Microbiomes of Public Transit & Urban Spaces
American Society for Microbiology // September 19, 2022

Microbiology of Endurance: The Microbiome’s Role in Fitness
American Society for Microbiology // March 4, 2022

What Makes a Microbiome Healthy?
American Society for Microbiology //
August 9, 2021

Broadening the Microbiome: Fungi in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)
American Society for Microbiology // July 14, 2021

Unearthing the Soil Microbiome, Climate Change, Carbon Storage Nexus
American Society for Microbiology // May 14, 2021

Microbes on the Mind: A Complex Role in Neurodegeneration
American Society for Microbiology // January 26, 2021

Conquering Latent HIV to End the AIDS Pandemic
American Society for Microbiology // November 30, 2020

Bee Alert: The Microscopic and Macroscopic Perils for Bees
American Society for Microbiology // August 7, 2020

The Biology and Immunology of COVID-19 Susceptibility
American Society for Microbiology // June 5, 2020

Of Microbes and Mental Health: Eating for Mental Wellness
American Society for Microbiology // February 14, 2020

Disappearance of the Human Microbiota: How We May Be Losing Our Oldest Allies
American Society for Microbiology // November 8, 2019


Academic Publications I’ve Been Part Of

(Maiden name: Harrison)

  • Bushman, D., Alroy, K. A., Greene, S. K., Keating, P., Wahnich, A., Weiss, D., … & Tong, S. (2020). Detection and Genetic Characterization of Community-Based SARS-CoV-2 Infections—New York City, March 2020. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report69(28), 918.
  • Jamwal, D. R., Laubitz, D., Harrison, C. A., da Paz, V. F., Cox, C. M., Wong, R., … & Lybarger, L. (2020). Intestinal Epithelial Expression of MHCII Determines Severity of Chemical, T-Cell–Induced, and Infectious Colitis in Mice. Gastroenterology.
  • Jamwal, D. R., Marati, R. V., Harrison, C. A., Midura-Kiela, M. T., Figliuolo Paz, V. R., Besselsen, D. G., … & Kiela, P. R. (2020). Total CD3 T Cells Are Necessary and Sufficient to Induce Colitis in Immunodeficient Mice With Dendritic Cell–Specific Deletion of TGFbR2: A Novel IBD Model to Study CD4 and CD8 T-Cell Interaction. Inflammatory bowel diseases26(2), 229-241.
  • Figliuolo da Paz, V., Jamwal, D. R., Gurney, M., Midura-Kiela, M., Harrison, C. A., Cox, C., … & Kiela, P. R. (2019). Rapid downregulation of DAB2 by toll-like receptor activation contributes to a pro-inflammatory switch in activated dendritic cells. Frontiers in immunology10, 304.

  • Harrison, C. A., Laubitz, D., Midura-Kiela, M. T., Jamwal, D. R., Besselsen, D. G., Ghishan, F. K., & Kiela, P. R. (2019). Sexual Dimorphism in the Response to Broad-spectrum Antibiotics During T Cell-mediated Colitis. Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis13(1), 115-126.
  • Harrison, C. A., Laubitz, D., Ohland, C. L., Midura-Kiela, M. T., Patil, K., Besselsen, D. G., … & Kiela, P. R. (2018). Microbial dysbiosis associated with impaired intestinal Na+/H+ exchange accelerates and exacerbates colitis in ex-germ free mice. Mucosal immunology11(5), 1329-1341.
  • Harrison, C. A., & Taren, D. (2018). How poverty affects diet to shape the microbiota and chronic disease. Nature Reviews Immunology18(4), 279.
  • Laubitz, D., Harrison, C. A., Midura-Kiela, M. T., Ramalingam, R., Larmonier, C. B., Chase, J. H., … & Kiela, P. R. (2016). Reduced epithelial Na+/H+ exchange drives gut microbial dysbiosis and promotes inflammatory response in T cell-mediated murine colitis. PloS one11(4), e0152044.
  • McFadden, R. M. T., Larmonier, C. B., Shehab, K. W., Midura-Kiela, M., Ramalingam, R., Harrison, C. A., … & Ghishan, F. K. (2015). The role of curcumin in modulating colonic microbiota during colitis and colon cancer prevention. Inflammatory bowel diseases21(11), 2483-2494.