James I. Mullins, PhD | Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Professor

Departments of Microbiology, Medicine and Laboratory Medicine University of Washington

Faculty Information

Biography

The Mullins laboratory uses the techniques of molecular, computational, and virus biology to provide basic insights into the HIV-human host relationship. Our goals are to assist the fight against AIDS by gaining insight into the establishment of infection and the development of the disease in order to assist creation of effective vaccines and to refine therapies. Current effort utilizes a variety of techniques to define and understand the implications of HIV's extraordinary evolutionary rate and ensuing genetic diversity as well as testing new approaches to vaccine immunogen and therapeutics design. These techniques include virology, molecular biological and statistical analysis of nucleotide sequences. Collaborators include Drs. McElrath, Collier, Horton, Mittler, Zhu, Gottlieb, Campbell, Lingappa, Corey and Celum.

Contact

Email:

jmullins@uw.edu

Phone:

(206) 732-6163

Mailing Address:

1959 NE Pacific St

Box 358070

Seattle, WA 98195

Publications

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PubMed Bibliography

Publications:

Mackelprang, R.D., Carrington, M., Thomas, K.K., Hughes, J.P., Baeten, J.M., Wald, A., Farquhar, C., Fife, K., Campbell, M.S., Kapiga, S., Gao, X., Mullins, J.I., and Lingappa, J.R., Host Genetic and Viral Determinants of Hiv-1 Rna Set Point among Hiv-1 Seroconverters from Sub-Saharan Africa, J Virol 89 (4), 2104-11 (2015)
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Edlefsen, P.T., Rolland, M., Hertz, T., Tovanabutra, S., Gartland, A.J., Decamp, A.C., Magaret, C.A., Ahmed, H., Gottardo, R., Juraska, M., Mccoy, C., Larsen, B.B., Sanders-Buell, E., Carrico, C., Menis, S., Bose, M., Team, R.V.S., Arroyo, M.A., O'connell, R.J., Nitayaphan, S., Pitisuttithum, P., Kaewkungwal, J., Rerks-Ngarm, S., Robb, M.L., Kirys, T., Georgiev, I.S., Kwong, P.D., Scheffler, K., Pond, S.L., Carlson, J.M., Michael, N.L., Schief, W.R., Mullins, J.I., Kim, J.H., and Gilbert, P.B., Comprehensive Sieve Analysis of Breakthrough Hiv-1 Sequences in the Rv144 Vaccine Efficacy Trial, PLoS Comput Biol 11 (2), e1003973 (2015) PMC4315437
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Wagner, T.A., Mclaughlin, S., Garg, K., Cheung, C.Y., Larsen, B.B., Styrchak, S., Huang, H.C., Edlefsen, P.T., Mullins, J.I., and Frenkel, L.M., Hiv Latency. Proliferation of Cells with Hiv Integrated into Cancer Genes Contributes to Persistent Infection, Science 345 (6196), 570-3 (2014) PMC4230336
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Sunshine, J., Kim, M., Carlson, J.M., Heckerman, D., Czartoski, J., Migueles, S.A., Maenza, J., Mcelrath, M.J., Mullins, J.I., and Frahm, N., Increased Sequence Coverage through Combined Targeting of Variant and Conserved Epitopes Correlates with Control of Hiv Replication, J Virol 88 (2), 1354-65 (2014) PMC391164
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Melhem, N.M., Smith, K.N., Huang, X.L., Colleton, B.A., Jiang, W., Mailliard, R.B., Mullins, J.I., and Rinaldo, C.R., The Impact of Viral Evolution and Frequency of Variant Epitopes on Primary and Memory Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Specific Cd8(+) T Cell Responses, Virology 450-451, 34-48 (2014) PMC4110927
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Manocheewa, S., Lanxon-Cookson, E.C., Liu, Y., Swain, J.V., Rao, U., Maust, B., Sunshine, J.E., Kim, M., Rolland, M., and Mullins, J.I., Pairwise Growth Competition Assay for Determining the Replication Fitness of Human Immunodeficiency Viruses, Journal of Visualized Experiments, In Press (2014)
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Liu, Y., Rao, U., Mcclure, J., Konopa, P., Manocheewa, S., Kim, M., Chen, L., Troyer, R.M., Tebit, D.M., Holte, S., Arts, E.J., and Mullins, J.I., Impact of Mutations in Highly Conserved Amino Acids of the Hiv-1 Gag-P24 and Env-Gp120 Proteins on Viral Replication in Different Genetic Backgrounds, PLoS One 9 (4), e94240 (2014) PMC3979772
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Kulkarni, V., Valentin, A., Rosati, M., Rolland, M., Mullins, J.I., Pavlakis, G.N., and Felber, B.K., Hiv-1 Conserved Elements P24ce DNA Vaccine Induces Humoral Immune Responses with Broad Epitope Recognition in Macaques, PLoS One 9 (10), e111085 (2014) PMC4206485
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Kulkarni, V., Valentin, A., Rosati, M., Alicea, C., Singh, A.K., Jalah, R., Broderick, K.E., Sardesai, N.Y., Le Gall, S., Mothe, B., Brander, C., Rolland, M., Mullins, J.I., Pavlakis, G.N., and Felber, B.K., Altered Response Hierarchy and Increased T-Cell Breadth Upon Hiv-1 Conserved Element DNA Vaccination in Macaques, PLoS One 9 (1), e86254 (2014) PMC3900501
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