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Norma P. Tavakoli

Norma P. Tavakoli

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Human Genetics
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Biomedical Sciences

Ph.D. Bristol University, Bristol, England (1994)
Postdoctoral training: Wadsworth Center/NYSDOH

Email: norma.tavakoli@wadsworth.org

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  • Dupuis, M., Hull, R., Wang, H., Nattanmai, S., Glasheen, B., Fusco, H., Dzigua, L., Markey, K., Tavakoli, N.P. (2011) Molecular detection of viral causes of encephalitis and meningitis in New York State. Journal of Medical Virology. 83:2172-2181.
  • Kramer, L.D. and Tavakoli N.P. (2011) Viruses of Terrestrial Mammals. In: Studies in Viral Ecology. Christon Hurst (ed.). Wiley, Blackwell Publishing. pp273-307.
  • Tavakoli, N.P. , Kauffman, E.B., Kramer, L.D. (2011) Eastern and Western equine encephalitis viruses. In: Molecular detection of human viral pathogens. Dongyou Liu (ed.). Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL. pp335-348.
  • CDC (Including N.P. Tavakoli) (2010) Tick-borne encephalitis among U.S. travelers to Europe and Asia, 2000-2009. MMWR. 59:335-338.
  • Tavakoli, N.P. (2010) Laboratory diagnosis of chikungunya fever. Clinical Laboratory LabQ, Chicago, IL: ASCP Press: 129-135.
  • Wang, H., Nattanmai, S., Kramer, L.D., Bernard, K.A., Tavakoli, N.P. (2009) A duplex real-time RT-PCR assay for the detection of California serogroup and Cache Valley viruses. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 65:150-157.
  • McLaughlin K.A., Chitnis T., Newcombe J., Franz B., Kennedy J., McArdel S., Kuhle J., Kappos L., Rostasy K., Pohl D., Gagne D., Ness J.M., Tenembaum S., O'Connor K.C., V. Viglietta V., Wong S.J., Tavakoli N.P., de Seze J., Idrissova Z., Khoury S.J., Bar-Or A., Hafler D.A., Banwell B., Wucherpfennig K.W. (2009) Age-dependent B cell autoimmunity to a myelin surface antigen in pediatric multiple sclerosis. Journal of Immunology. 183: 4067-4076.
  • Tavakoli, N.P., Wang, H., Dupuis, M., Hull, R., Ebel, G., Gilmore, E., Faust, P.L. (2009) Fatal case of deer tick virus encephalitis. New England Journal of Medicine. 360:2099-2107.
  • Chaturvedi, S., Li, X., Tavakoli N.P., Chaturvedi, V. (2009) Evidence of cryptococcal antigen in archived cerebrospinal fluid samples that tested negative for agents of viral meningitis. Clinical Microbiology Newsletter. 31:44-45.
  • Hull, R., Nattanmai, S., Kramer, L.D., Bernard, K.A., Tavakoli, N.P. (2008) A duplex real-time RT-PCR assay for the detection of St. Louis encephalitis and Eastern equine encephalitis viruses. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 62:272-279.
  • Tavakoli, N.P., Wang, H., Nattanmai, S., Dupuis, M., Fusco, H., and Hull, R. (2008) Detection and typing of enteroviruses from CSF specimens from patients diagnosed with meningitis/encephalitis. Journal of Clinical Virology. 43:207-211.
  • Tavakoli, N.P. and Chaturvedi, V. (2008) Laboratory diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis. Clinical Laboratory LabQ, CL-1. Chicago, IL: ASCP Press:1-7.
  • Tavakoli N.P. (2008) Advanced Concepts: Molecular Diagnosis of Viral Agents of Encephalitis and Meningitis. Clinical Laboratory LabQ, CL-7. Chicago, IL: ASCP Press:45-56.
  • Tavakoli, N.P., Nattanmai, S., Hull, R., Fusco, H., Dzigua, L., Wang, H., Dupuis, M. (2007) Detection and typing of human herpes virus 6 by molecular methods in specimens from patients diagnosed with encephalitis/meningitis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 45:3972-3978.
  • Cirino, N., Tavakoli, N.P., Madison-Antenucci, S., and Egan, C. (2007) Real-time multiplex PCR. In Real-time PCR in Microbiology: from diagnosis to characterization. McKay, I.M. (ed). Norfolk, UK: Horizon Scientific Press, pp183-229.
  • Tavakoli, N.P., Tobin, E.H., Wong, S.J., Dupuis II, A.P., Glasheen, B., Kramer, L.D. and Bernard, K.A. (2007) Identification of dengue virus in respiratory specimens from a patient who had recently traveled from a region where dengue virus is endemic. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 45: 1523-1527.
  • O'Conner, K.C. et al. (including N.P. Tavakoli) (2007) Self-antigen tetramers discriminate between myelin autoantibodies to native or denatured protein. Nature Medicine. 13:211-217.
  • CDC (including N.P. Tavakoli)(2005) West Nile virus infections in organ transplant recipients - New York and Pennsylvania, August-September, 2005. MMWR. 54, 1021-1023.
  • Twiss, E., Coros, A.M., Tavakoli, N.P. and Derbyshire, K.M. (2005) Transposition is modulated by a diverse set of host factors in Escherichia coli and is stimulated by nutritional stress. Molecular Microbiology. 57, 1593-1607.
  • Tavakoli, N.P. and Taylor, J. (2005) Laboratory Diagnosis for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus. Tech Sample 2005, American Society for Clinical Pathology.
  • Coros, A.M., Twiss, E., Tavakoli, N.P. and Derbyshire, K.M. (2005) Genetic Evidence that GTP is required for Transposition of IS903 and Tn552 in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 187 (13) 4598-4606.
  • Tavakoli, N.P. and Derbyshire, K.M. (2001) Tipping the balance between replicative and simple transposition. EMBO Journal, 20, 2923-2930.
  • Tavakoli, N.P. and Derbyshire, K.M. (1999) IS903 transposase mutants that suppress defective inverted repeats. Molecular Microbiology. 31, 1183-1195.
  • Tavakoli, N.P., DeVost, J. and Derbyshire, K.M. (1997) Defining functional regions of the IS903 transposase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 274, 491-504.

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Phone: (518) 402-5210
FAX: (518) 486-2693
E-mail: norma.tavakoli@wadsworth.org