Jessica Witchley
Lab Profile
Jessica graduated from MIT in 2010. Following graduation, she worked as a lab technician with Peter Reddien at the Whitehead Insititute for Biomedical Research from 2010-2012. She was accepted into the Tetrad PhD program at UCSF in 2012.
Jessica's interests in host-pathogen interactions led her to join the Noble lab in 2013. She is currently interested in investigating the transcriptional regulatory network that governs Candida albicans GI commensalism.
Witchley JN, Penumetcha P, Woolford CA, Abon NV, Mitchell AP, Noble SM. Candida albicans Morphogenesis Programs Control the Balance between Gut Commensalism and Invasive Infection. Cell Host and Microbe. 2019 Mar.
Brimacombe CA, Burke J, Parsa JY, Witchley JN, Burrack L, Madhani H, Noble SM. Chromatin rewiring mediates programmed evolvability via aneuploidy. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/407841
Noble SM, Gianetti BA, Witchley JN. Candida albicans cell-type switching and functional plasticity in the mammalian host. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2016 Nov 21. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro.2016.157
Ahyong V, Sheridan CM, Leon KE, Witchley JN, Diep J, DeRisi JL. Identification of Plasmodium falciparum specific translation inhibitors from the MMV Malaria Box using a high throughput in vitro translation screen. Malar J. 2016 Mar 17;15:173. doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1231-8.
Witchley JN, Mayer M, Wagner DE, Owen JH, Reddien PW. Muscle cells provide
instructions for planarian regeneration. Cell Rep. 2013 Aug 29;4(4):633-41