Investigators and Program Directors

Select Publications

• 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.
• Teperman, L.W. et al. (including N.P. Tavakoli)(2005) West Nile virus infections in organ transplant recipients - New York and Pennsylvania, August-September, 2005. MMWR Dispatch. 54, 1-3.
• 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.

Contact Information

Phone: (518) 474-3046
FAX: (518) 486-2693
E-mail: norma.tavakoli@wadsworth.org