Ronald A . Shikiya, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
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School of Medicine
Med Microbiology & Immunology
CRISS II - Criss 2
Ronald A . Shikiya, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department
Med. Microbiology & Immunology
Position
Research Assistant Professor
Books
- Prions and Diseases
Shikiya Ronald A., Prion Strain Interference [Book Chapter] 2023 - Shikiya Ronald A, The Story of Prions’ Discovery 2014
- Prions and Diseases : Volume 1, Physiology and Pathophysiology
Schutt Charles R., Prion strain interference [Book Chapter] 2013
Publications
- PLoS pathogens
Gunnels Tess, Evidence for preexisting prion substrain diversity in a biologically cloned prion strain
19:9, p. e1011632 - e1011632 2023 - PLoS pathogens
Block Alyssa J., Efficient interspecies transmission of synthetic prions
17:July 2021 - mSphere
Shikiya Ronald A., Failure to detect prion infectivity in ticks following prion-Infected blood meal
5:5 2020 - Journal of Biological Chemistry
Bourkas Matthew E.C., Engineering a murine cell line for the stable propagation of hamster prions
294:13, p. 4911 - 4923 2019 - PLoS pathogens
Eckland Thomas E., Independent amplification of co-infected long incubation period low conversion efficiency prion strains
14:10 2018 - Plos Pathogens
Shikiya Ronald A., PrPSc Formation and Clearance as Determinants of Prion Tropism
13:3, p. e1006298 - e1006298 2017 - Journal of Virology
Langenfeld Katie A., Incongruity between Prion Conversion and Incubation Period Following CoInfection
90:12, p. 5715 - 5723 2016 - PLoS One
Clouse Melissa D., Nasal Associated Lymphoid Tissue of the Syrian Golden Hamster Expresses High Levels of PrPC
10:2, p. e0117935 (10 pages) 2015 - Prion
Shikiya Ronald A., Prion formation, but not clearance, is supported by protein misfolding cyclic amplification
8:6, p. 415 - 420 2014 - Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Saunders Samuel E., Protein misfolding cyclic amplification of prions. 2012 - Journal of Virology
Saunders Samuel E., Replication efficiency of soil-bound prions varies with soil type
85:11, p. 5476 - 5482 2011 - Journal of Virology
Shikiya R. A., In vitro generation of high titer prions
85:24, p. 13439 - 13442 2011 - PLoS Pathogens
Ayers J. I., The Strain-Encoded Relationship between PrP Replication, Stability and Processing in Neurons is Predictive of the Incubation Period of Disease
7:3, p. e1001317 2011 - Journal of Virology
Shikiya R. A., Co-infecting prion strains compete for a limiting cellular resource
84:11, p. 5706 - 5714 2010
Presentations
- "PrPSc formation and clearance as determinants of prion tropism" Prion 2018 Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2018
- NES 510 Neurophysiology Lab, Guest Speaker. Creighton University. Omaha, NE 2018
- "Persistence of high titer prion strain in a prion strain mixture". INBRE 2017. August 6-8, 2017. 2017
- "Incongruity between prion conversion and incubation period following co-infection". Prion 2017. May 23-26, 2017. Edinburgh, Scotland. 2017
- NES 510 Neurophysiology Lab, Guest Speaker. Creighton University. Omaha, NE 2017
- PHY 353 Introduction to Biological Physics, Guest Speaker. Creighton University. Omaha, NE 2017
- "Restricted propagation of sheep scrapie in hamsters" Prion 2016. May 10-13, 2016. Tokyo, Japan. 2016
- "Prion formation, but not clearance, is supported by PMCA" Prion 2015. May 26-29. Fort Collins, CO 2015
- "Abundance of prion proteins in Lymphoreticular tissue". 2014 Nebraska Neuroscience Symposium. September 24th, 2014. Omaha, NE 2014
- "Absence of PrPSc clearance in PMCA". Expanding Prion Horizons 2013. October 16th-18th, 2013. Fort Collins, CO. 2013
- "Investigation of conversion efficiency between natural and in vitro generated prions". Expanding Prion Horizons 2013. October 16th-18th, 2013. Fort Collins, CO. 2013
- "Endogenous PrPC Levels in Hamster Lymphoid Tissue". Expanding Prion Horizons 2013. October 16th-18th, 2013. Fort Collins, CO 2013
- "Prion Strain Emergence". Neuro-Prion 2013 Annual Conference. May 26th-29th, 2013. Banff, Canada 2013
- "In Vitro Generation of High-Titer Prions". Neuro-Prion 2012 Annual Conference. May 9th-12th, 2012. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2012
- "The Strain-encoded Relationship Between PrPSc Replication, Stability and Processing in Neurons is Predictive of the Incubation Period of Disease". Neuro-Prion 2011 Annual Conference. May 17th-19th, 2011. Montreal, Canada 2011
- PHY 353 Introduction to Biological Physics, Guest Speaker. Creighton University. Omaha, NE 2011
- "Amplification Coefficient of Hamster Prion Strains". Neuro-Prion 2010 Annual Conference. September 8th-11th, 2010. Salzburg, Austria 2010
- PHY 353 Introduction to Biological Physics, Guest Speaker. Creighton University. Omaha, NE 2010
- "In vitro Prion Strain Interference". Neuro-Prion 2008 Annual Conference. October 8th-10th, 2008. Madrid, Spain. 2008
- "In vitro Amplification of Prion Strains". Neuro-Prion 2007 Annual Conference. September 24th-28th, 2007. Edinburgh, Scotland 2007