Emily Merritt

Research Professional

Emily

merritte@arizona.edu

Emily graduated from North Carolina State University with a degree in Biochemistry in 2010. After working in an environmental chemistry company in Wilmington, NC, and a subsequent stay in genetics lab of Dr. Ann Stapleton at UNC-Wilmington, Emily applied for graduate school at the University of Arizona. She joined the fun, yet stimulating Koshy lab in 2016. The focus of her research is to study how toxoplasma gondii infection modulates host pathways in Alzheimer's Disease.

Publications

Eberhard, Julia N, Shallberg, Lindsey A, Winn, Aaron, et al. Immune targeting and host-protective effects of the latent stage of Toxoplasma gondii. Nat Microbiol. 2025;10(4):992-1005. doi:10.1038/s41564-025-01967-z

Merritt, Emily F, Kochanowsky, Joshua A, Hervé, Perrine, Watson, Alison A, Koshy, Anita A. Toxoplasma type II effector GRA15 has limited influence in vivo. PLoS One. 2024;19(3):e0300764. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0300764

Merritt, Emily F, Johnson, Hannah J, Wong, Zhee Sheen, et al. Transcriptional Profiling Suggests T Cells Cluster around Neurons Injected with Toxoplasma gondii Proteins. mSphere. 2020;5(5). doi:10.1128/mSphere.00538-20