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Assistant Professor
Downers Grove, IL
Title
Assistant Professor
Campus
Downers Grove, IL
College
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
College of Dental Medicine-Illinois
College of Graduate Studies - IL
Department
Microbiology & Immunology
Program
Biomedical Sciences (M.A.)
Biomedical Sciences (M.B.S.)
Dental Medicine
Osteopathic Medicine
1. Wang SK, Gilchrist A, Loukitcheva A, Plotkin BJ, Sigar IM, Gross AE, O'Donnell JN, Pettit N, Buros A, O'Driscoll T, Rhodes NJ, Bethel C, Segreti J, Charnot-Katsikas A, Singh K, Scheetz MH. Prevalence of a Cefazolin Inoculum Effect Associated with blaZ Gene Types among Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Four Major Medical Centers in Chicago. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2018 Aug;62(8). doi: 10.1128/AAC.00382-18. PubMed PMID: 29891607; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6105856
2. Plotkin BJ, Sigar IM, Swartzendruber JA, Kaminski A. Anaerobic Growth and Maintenance of Mammalian Cell Lines. J Vis Exp. 2018 Jul 21;(137). doi: 10.3791/58049. PubMed PMID: 30080196; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6126527.
3. Plotkin BJ, Sigar IM, Swartzendruber JA, Kaminski A, Davis J. Differential expression of cytokines and receptor expression during anoxic growth. BMC Res Notes. 2018 Jun 25;11(1):406. doi: 10.1186/s13104-018-3520-5. PubMed PMID: 29941048; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6019713.
4. Sigar IM, Schripsema JH, Kelly KA, Murthy AK, Manam S, Ramsey KH. Elimination of Mycoplasma contamination in Chlamydia stocks as a result of in vivo passage or plaque isolation. BMC Res Notes. 2018 Jun 7;11(1):361. doi: 10.1186/s13104-018-3455-x. PubMed PMID: 29880030; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5992720.
5. Plotkin BJ, Davis JW, Strizzi L, Lee P, Christoffersen-Cebi J, Kacmar J, Rivero OJ, Elsayed N, Zanghi N, Ito B, Sigar IM. A method for the long-term cultivation of mammalian cells in the absence of oxygen: Characterization of cell replication, hypoxia-inducible factor expression and reactive oxygen species production. Tissue Cell. 2018 Feb;50:59-68. doi: 10.1016/j.tice.2017.12.004. Epub 2017 Dec 15. PubMed PMID: 29429519.