Hinnebusch, Bernard Joseph, Ph.D.
individual record
Senior Investigator
Positions:
- Senior Investigator, Plague Section
overview
Dr. Hinnebusch received his Ph.D. in microbiology in 1991 from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, studying the molecular structure and replication of linear plasmids of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterial agent of Lyme disease. He joined Rocky Mountain Laboratories as a postdoctoral fellow in 1992, where he developed model systems to study the transmission of Yersinia pestis, the bacterial agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague. He advanced to a tenure-track position in 2001 and is now a senior investigator and chief of the Plague Section in the Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens. From 2002 to 2006, he was the recipient of a New Scholar Award in Global Infectious Diseases from the Ellison Medical Foundation.
selected publications
Academic Articles84
- (2020). Transcriptomic profiling of the digestive tract of the rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, following blood feeding and infection with Yersinia pestis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 14(9),
- (2020). Human plague: An old scourge that needs new answers. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 14(8),
- (2020). Comparative Ability of Oropsylla montana and Xenopsylla cheopis Fleas to Transmit Yersinia pestis by Two Different Mechanisms (vol 11, e0005276, 2017). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 14(5),
- (2018). Infectious blood source alters early foregut infection and regurgitative transmission of Yersinia pestis by rodent fleas. PLoS Pathogens. 14(1),