Katrina Traber, M.D. Ph.D

Faculty and Fellows

Assistant Professor of Medicine
katraber@bu.edu

BU Profile for Dr. Traber

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Medical School: New York University 
Doctor of Philosophy: New York University
Residency: Boston University
Fellowship: Boston University 

Special Interests

Research

  •  Innate immune response during pneumonia
  • Neutrophil biology during pneumonia
  •  IL-6 family cytokine signaling

Clinical

  • Critical Care Medicine
  •  Tuberculosis

 

Selected Publications

  1. Traber K.E., Symer E.M., Allen E., Kim Y., Hilliard K.L., Wasserman G.A., Stewart C.L., Jones M.R., Mizgerd J.P., Quinton L.J. Myeloid-epithelial crosstalk coordinates synthesis of the tissue protective cytokine leukemia inhibitory factor during pneumonia. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology. 2017; in press PMID: 28522567
  1. Hilliard, K.L., Allen, E., Traber, K.E., Kim, Y., Wasserman, G.A., Jones, M.R., Mizgerd, J.P., and Quinton, L.J. Activation of hepatic STAT3 maintains pulmonary defense during endotoxemia. Infection and Immunity. 2015; 83(10):4015-27 PMID: 26216424 PMCID: PMC4567648
  1. Traber, K.E., Hilliard, K.L., Allen, E., Wasserman, G.A., Yamamoto, K., Jones, M.R., Mizgerd, J.P., Quinton, L.J. Oncostatin M induces STAT3-dependent CXCL5 expression and neutrophil recruitment during pneumonia. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 2015; 53(4): 479-88. PMID: 25692402 PMCID: PMC4742898
  1. Hilliard, K.L., Allen, E., Traber, K.E., Yamamoto, K., Stauffer, N.M., Wasserman, G.A., Jones, M.R., Mizgerd, J.P., and Quinton, L.J. The lung-liver axis facilitates pulmonary innate immunity and hepatoprotection during pneumonia. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 2015; 53(3):378-90. PMID: 25607543 PMCID: PMC4566062
  1. Traber, K.E., Lee, R., Benson, S., Corrigan, R., Cantera, M., Novick, R.P. Agr function in clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates. Microbiology. 154 (8): 2265-74, Aug 2008. PMID: 18667559 PMCID: PMC4904715
  1. Traber, K.E., Novick, R.P. A slipped-mispairing mutation in AgrA of laboratory strains and clinical isolates results in delayed activation of agr and failure to translate delta- and alpha-hemolysins. Molecular Microbiology. 59(5): 1519-30, Mar 2006. PMID: 16468992

Links

Publication list:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/43663968/?sort=date&direction=ascending

BU Profile: http://profiles.bu.edu/Katrina.Traber

Pneumonia Biology: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/pneumonia/