Zoë Hilbert
Assistant Professor
Zoë Hilbert
Ph.D.
Contact
Higgins Hall 415
Telephone: 617-552-3103
Email: zoe.hilbert@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Host-fungal interactions, adaptive evolution of pathogenic fungi and their hosts, fungal pathogenesis, microbial recognition, immune evolution, pathogen evolution
Department
Selected Publications
Schwiesow, M.J.W., Elde, N.C., Hilbert, Z.A.* (2024) Distinct routes to thermotolerance in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.08.588590
Hilbert, Z.A., Bednarek, J.M., Chung, K.Y., Schwiesow, M.W., Brown, J.C.S., Elde, N.C. (2022). Distinct pathways of adaptive evolution in Cryptococcus neoformans reveal a point mutation in adenylate cyclase with drastic tradeoffs for pathogenicity. Current Biology 33 (19), 4136-4149. e9. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.27.509772v1
Hilbert, Z.A., Haffener, P., Young, H.J., Schwiesow, M., Leffler, E.M., Elde, N.C. (2022). Rapid evolution of glycan recognition receptors reveals an axis of host-microbe conflicts at carbohydrate-protein interfaces. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.07.507018v1
Carey, C.M., Apple, S. E., Hilbert, Z.A., Kay, M.S., and Elde, N.C.* (2021) Diarrheal pathogens trigger rapid evolution of the guanylate cyclase-C signaling axis in bats. Cell Host and Microbe 29 (9), 1342-1350. e5.