Graduate Student
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

PHONE: 415/476-5159
FAX: 415/502-4315
Email: eric.chow@gmail.com

Education
B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2003

Awards
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Research Interests
I am studying lipid virulence factors produced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Specifically, I am interested in the genetic requirements and mechanism of their synthesis

Recent Publications
Ouellet H, Guan S, Johnston JB, Chow ED, Burlingame AL, Cox JS, and Ortiz de Montellano PR. Mycobacterium tuberculosis CYP125A1, a steroid C27 monooxygenase that detoxifies intracellularly generated cholest-4-en-3-one. Mol Microbio. 2010 77(3):730-42.

Liu OW, Chun CD, Chow ED, Chen C, Madhani HD, Noble SM. Systematic genetic analysis of virulence in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Cell. 2008 Oct 3;135(1):174-88.

Jain M, Chow ED, Cox JS. The MmpL protein family.  The Mycobacterial Cell Envelope. Eds. Daffe M, Reyrat JM.  Washington D.C.: ASM Press, 2008. 201-210.

Liu OW, Kelly MJ, Chow ED, Madhani HD. Parallel beta-helix proteins required for accurate capsule polysaccharidesynthesis and virulence in the yeast Cryptococcus neoformans.
Eukaryot Cell. 2007 Apr;6(4):630-40.

Chow ED, Liu OW, O'Brien S, Madhani HD. Exploration of whole-genome responses of the human AIDS-associated yeast pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans var grubii: nitric oxide stress and body temperature. Curr Genet. 2007 Sep;52(3-4):137-48.

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