Alexander Mohapatra, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Publications (14)

Top publication keywords:
PneumoniaReceptors, CCR2ChitinLungInterferon Regulatory FactorsMonocytesLymph NodesStrongylida InfectionsTuberculosis, PulmonaryEosinophilsCD11c AntigenLymphocytesInterleukin-9CX3C Chemokine Receptor 1Epithelial Cells

• The lung tissue environment in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection determines local monocyte differentiation.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026 Mohapatra A, Zheng W, Qiu L, Looney MR, Ernst JD
• Impaired IFN? responsiveness of monocyte-derived lung cells limits immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Nature communications 2026 Zheng W, Limberis JD, Howard ZP, Mohapatra A, Takagi E, Ernst JD
• CountFU: Ditching CFUs for qPCR enumeration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a call to join the revolution.
  Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2025 Limberis JD, Nalyvayko A, Mohapatra A, Bouzeyen R, Howard Z, Zheng W, Metcalfe JZ
• Impaired IFNγ responsiveness of monocyte-derived lung cells limits immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Zheng W, Limberis JD, Howard ZP, Mohapatra A, Takagi E, Ernst JD
• Plasma proteomics for biomarker discovery in childhood tuberculosis.
  Nature communications 2025 Fossati A, Wambi P, Jaganath D, Calderon R, Castro R, Mohapatra A, McKetney J, Luiz J, Nerurkar R, Nkereuwem E, Franke MF, Mousavian Z, Collins JM, Sigal GB, Segal MR, Kampman B, Wobudeya E, …

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• CCR2 recruits monocytes to the lung, while CX3CR1 modulates positioning of CD11cpos cells in the lymph node during pulmonary tuberculosis.
  mBio 2025 Mohapatra A, Norris BA, Howard Z, Ernst JD
• Plasma proteomics for novel biomarker discovery in childhood tuberculosis.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Fossati A, Wambi P, Jaganath D, Calderon R, Castro R, Mohapatra A, McKetney J, Luiz J, Nerurkar R, Nkereuwem E, Franke MF, Mousavian Z, Collins JM, Sigal GB, Segal MR, Kampman B, Wobudeya E, …
• CCR2 recruits monocytes to the lung, while CX3CR1 modulates positioning of monocyte-derived CD11c pos cells in the lymph node during pulmonary tuberculosis.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Mohapatra A, Howard Z, Ernst JD
• Embolic Hypodermic Needle Causing Traumatic Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report.
  Critical care explorations 2019 Yen AF, Homer CM, Mohapatra A, Langnas E, Gomez A, Hendrickson CM
• Group 2 innate lymphoid cells utilize the IRF4-IL-9 module to coordinate epithelial cell maintenance of lung homeostasis.
  Mucosal immunology 2015 Mohapatra A, Van Dyken SJ, Schneider C, Nussbaum JC, Liang HE, Locksley RM
• Chitin activates parallel immune modules that direct distinct inflammatory responses via innate lymphoid type 2 and γδ T cells.
  Immunity 2014 Van Dyken SJ, Mohapatra A, Nussbaum JC, Molofsky AB, Thornton EE, Ziegler SF, McKenzie AN, Krummel MF, Liang HE, Locksley RM
• Type 2 innate lymphoid cells control eosinophil homeostasis.
  Nature 2013 Nussbaum JC, Van Dyken SJ, von Moltke J, Cheng LE, Mohapatra A, Molofsky AB, Thornton EE, Krummel MF, Chawla A, Liang HE, Locksley RM
• 265 Cooperative activation of innate lymphoid type 2 cells (ILC2) by epithelial cytokines in response to chitin.
  Cytokine 2013 Steven J. Van Dyken, Alexander Mohapatra, Jesse C. Nussbaum, Hong-Erh Liang, Richard M. Locksley
• Innate lymphoid type 2 cells sustain visceral adipose tissue eosinophils and alternatively activated macrophages.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 2013 Molofsky AB, Nussbaum JC, Liang HE, Van Dyken SJ, Cheng LE, Mohapatra A, Chawla A, Locksley RM