Prasida Holla, PhD

Key Publications

1.    Ambegaonkar A*, Holla P*, Dizon B*, Sohn H and Pierce, SK. Atypical B cells in chronic infectious diseases and systemic autoimmunity: puzzles with many missing pieces. Curr Opin Immunol (in press) 
2.    Holla P, Dizon B, Ambegaonkar AA, Rogel N, Goldschmidt E, Boddapati AK, Sohn H, Sturdevant D, Austin JW, Kardava L, Yuesheng L, Liu P, Moir S, Pierce SK and Madi A. Shared transcriptional profiles of atypical B cells suggest common drivers of expansion and function in malaria, HIV, and autoimmunity. Sci Adv. 2021 May;7(22). PMID: 34039612
3.    Holla P*, Ambegaonkar A*, Sohn H, Pierce SK. Exhaustion may not be in the human B cell vocabulary, at least not in malaria. Immunol Rev. 2019 Nov;292(1):139-148. PubMed PMID: 31553065. 
4.    Holla P, Tran TM. Experience counts in the malaria response. Nat Immunol. 2021 May;22(5):537-539. PubMed PMID: 33888897. 
5.    Kwak K, Quizon N, Sohn H, Saniee A, Manzella-Lapeira J, Holla P, Brzostowski J, Lu J, Xie H, Xu C, Spillane KM, Tolar P, Pierce SK. Intrinsic properties of human germinal center B cells set antigen affinity thresholds. Sci Immunol. 2018 Nov 30;3(29) PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6314460. 
6.    Obeng-Adjei N, Portugal S, Holla P, Li S, Sohn H, Ambegaonkar A, Skinner J, Bowyer G, Doumbo OK, Traore B, Pierce SK, Crompton PD. Malaria-induced interferon-γ drives the expansion of Tbethi atypical memory B cells. PLoS Pathog. 2017 Sep 27;13(9):e1006576. PMID: 28953967; PMCID: PMC5633206.
*Shared first authorship