Karol Bomsztyk, MD | Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Professor

Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Adjunct Professor

Department of Pharmacology

Joint Professor

Department of Nephrology

Faculty Information

Biography

Detrimental epigenetic processes are emerging as major pathophysiologic culprits of disease including inflammation, infection and organ injury. These processes involve signaling, transcription and epigenetic factors that regulate gene transcription in the chromatin environment, or the epigenome. To better define epigenetic processes in health and disease, our laboratory has been developing high throughput and sensitivity epigenetic platforms and computational tools and have applied them to study acute organ injury, including sepsis. Using these methods and computational tools we have also began series of studies to better understand epigenetic bases of HIV latency.

Current research projects available to trainees include epigenetic studies of inflammation as well as multiple organ injury in experimental sepsis, epigenetic bases of HIV latency, development of high throughput and sensitivity epigenetic methods, development of urine and blood epigenetic biomarkers, development of computational tools to acquire, analyze and visualize epigenetic data.

Research funding: NIH, Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) of Washington and The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).

Education & Training:

University of Rochester, School of Medicine

Rochester, NY

1977

Intern in Medicine

Yale-New Haven Hospital

New Haven, CT

1977-1978

Resident in Medicine

Yale-New Haven Hospital

New Haven, CT

1978-1980

Fellow in Nephrology, Department of Medicine

Yale University

New Haven, CT

1980-1983

Contact

Email:

karolb@u.washington.edu

Phone:

(206) 616-7949

Mailing Address:

815 Mercer Street

Seattle, WA 98109

Research & Clinical Interests

Research Interests:

Development of high thoughput sample preparation and epigenetics analytical platforms
Epigenetics of acute organ injury, inflammation, and infection
Epigenetics of HIV latency

Publications

PubMed:

PubMed Bibliography

Publications:

Heterogeneity of epigenetic changes at ischemia/reperfusion- and endotoxin-induced acute kidney injury genes. Mar,D., Gharib,S.A., Zager,R.A., Johnson,A., Denisenko,O., Bomsztyk,K. Kidney Int. 2015 (in press).

Experimental acute lung injury induces multi-organ epigenetic modifications in key angiogenic genes implicated in sepsis-associated endothelial dysfunction. Bomsztyk K, Mar D, An D, Sharifian R, Mikula M, Gharib SA, Altemeier WA, Liles WC, Denisenko O. Crit Care. 2015 May 11;19(1):225. PMID:25959381
• PubMed Abstract

Losartan reverses permissive epigenetic changes in renal glomeruli of diabetic db/db mice. Reddy MA, Sumanth P, Lanting L, Yuan H, Wang M, Mar D, Alpers CE, Bomsztyk K, Natarajan R. Kidney Int. 2014 Feb;85(2):362-73. PMID: 24088954
• PubMed Abstract

Synchronous recruitment of epigenetic modifiers to endotoxin synergistically activated Tnf-α gene in acute kidney injury. Bomsztyk K, Flanagin S, Mar D, Mikula M, Johnson A, Zager R, Denisenko O. PLoS One. 2013 Jul 30;8(7):e70322. PMID: 23936185
• PubMed Abstract

Epigenetic changes in renal genes dysregulated in mouse and rat models of type 1 diabetes. Komers R, Mar D, Denisenko O, Xu B, Oyama TT, Bomsztyk K. Lab Invest. 2013 May;93(5):543-52. PMID: 23508046
• PubMed Abstract

Yu J, Feng Q, Ruan Y, Komers R, Kiviat N, Bomsztyk K. Microplate-based platform for combined chromatin and DNA methylation immunoprecipitation assays. BMC Mol Biol. 2011; 12: 49.
PMID: 22098709 PMCID: PMC3247195.
• PubMed Abstract

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