Zoë Hilbert
Assistant Professor
Zoë Hilbert
Ph.D.
Contact
Higgins Hall 415
Telephone: 617-552-3103
Email: hilbertz@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Host-fungal interactions, adaptive evolution of pathogenic fungi and their hosts, fungal pathogenesis, microbial recognition, immune evolution, pathogen evolution
Department
Selected Publications
Hilbert, Z.A., Bednarek, J.M., Chung, K.Y., Schwiesow, M.W., Brown, J.C.S., Elde, N.C. (2022). Distinct pathways of adaptive evolution in Cryptococcus neoformans reveal a point mutation in adenylate cyclase with drastic tradeoffs for pathogenicity. bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.27.509772v1
Hilbert, Z.A., Haffener, P., Young, H.J., Schwiesow, M., Leffler, E.M., Elde, N.C. (2022). Rapid evolution of glycan recognition receptors reveals an axis of host-microbe conflicts at carbohydrate-protein interfaces. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.07.507018v1