Publications

Diet driven differences in host tolerance are linked to shifts in global gene expression in a common avian host-pathogen system

Published in bioRxiv, 2025

In this paper, we examine transcriptomic the effects of diet on the immune response of canaries

Recommended citation: **Sauer, E. L.***, **Stacy, C. L.***, Perrine, W., Love, A. C., Lewis, J. A., & DuRant, S. E. (2024). *Diet driven differences in host tolerance are linked to shifts in global gene expression in a common avian host-pathogen system.* **bioRxiv, 2024-08.** *Co-first authors.* https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.07.607042

Stability comparisons between natural versus engineered archaeal heat-shock proteins.

Published in Microorganisms, 2024

In this paper, I developed an analytical workflow and subsequently quantified weighted spectral differences between natural and engineeringed heat shock proteins.

Recommended citation: **Furr, M.**, Basha, S., Agrawal, S., Alraawi, Z., Ghosh, P., **Stacy, C. L.**, Kumar, T.K.S, & Ceballos, R. M. (2021). *Structural Stability Comparisons Between Natural and Engineered Group II Chaperonins: Are Crenarchaeal “Heat Shock” Proteins Also “pH Shock” Resistant?* **Microorganisms**, 12(11), 2348. hhttps://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12112348

Natural variation in yeast reveals multiple paths for acquiring higher stress resistance

Published in BMC Biology, 2024

In this paper, I introduce ordinal logistic regression of yeast survival data for analyzing changes in acquired stress resistatnce

Recommended citation: Scholes, Amanda N., Tara N. Stuecker, Stephanie E. Hood, Cader J. Locke, Carson L. Stacy, Qingyang Zhang, and Jeffrey A. Lewis. "Natural variation in yeast reveals multiple paths for acquiring higher stress resistance." BMC biology 22, no. 1 (2024): 149. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01945-7

Quantifying relative virulence: when $\mu$ max fails and AUC alone just is not enough

Published in Journal of General Virology, 2021

This paper is about a temporally weighted metric of differences in growth inhibition resulting from viral infection in microbial populations.

Recommended citation: Ceballos, Ruben Michael, and Carson Len Stacy. "Quantifying relative virulence: when μ max fails and AUC alone just is not enough." Journal of General Virology 102, no. 1 (2021): 001515. [https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001515](https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001515)

Host-dependent differences in replication strategy of the Sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus strain SSV9 (aka, SSVK1): infection profiles in hosts of the family Sulfolobaceae.

Published in Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020

In this paper, I quantified differential viral pathogen loads as determined by ESI/MS spectra assays and modelled inferred infection dynamics.

Recommended citation: Ceballos, Ruben Michael, Coyne Gareth Drummond, Carson Len Stacy, Elizabeth Padilla-Crespo, and Kenneth Mark Stedman. "Host-dependent differences in replication strategy of the Sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus strain SSV9 (aka, SSVK1): infection profiles in hosts of the family Sulfolobaceae." Frontiers in Microbiology 11 (2020): 1218. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01218