Kelsey Zorn
Project Manager
Biochemistry and Biophysics
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MHS Social Factors in Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 04/2016
• BA Sociology Reed College 05/2010

Websites

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• UCSF Center for Next-Gen Precision Diagnostics (nextgendiagnostics.ucsf.edu)
• DeRisi Lab (derisilab.ucsf.edu)
• UCSF Center for Encephalitis & Meningitis (encephalitis.ucsf.edu)
• Wilson Lab (wilsonlab.ucsf.edu)

Publications (32)

Top publication keywords:
High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingParaneoplastic Syndromes, Nervous SystemMeningitis, AsepticParaneoplastic Cerebellar DegenerationAutoantibodiesComplement Factor IEncephalitis, ViralMetagenomicsBetacoronavirusMeningitisMyelitisClinical Laboratory TechniquesHypothalamic DiseasesEnterovirus InfectionsEncephalitis

• Unveiling the autoreactome: Proteome-wide immunological fingerprints reveal the promise of plasma cell depleting therapy.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Bodansky A, Yu DJ, Rallistan A, Kalaycioglu M, Boonyaratanakornkit J, Green DJ, Gauthier J, Turtle CJ, Zorn K, O'Donovan B, Mandel-Brehm C, Asaki J, Kortbawi H, Kung AF, Rackaityte E, Wang CY, Saxena …
• Clinical and Metagenomic Characterization of Neurological Infections of People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Peruvian Amazon.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2023 Steinberg HE, Ramachandran PS, Diestra A, Pinchi L, Ferradas C, Kirwan DE, Diaz MM, Sciaudone M, Wapniarski A, Zorn KC, Calderón M, Cabrera L, Pinedo-Cancino V, Wilson MR, Asayag CR, Gilman RH, Bowman…
• Detection of High-Risk Paraneoplastic Antibodies against TRIM9 and TRIM67 Proteins.
  Annals of neurology 2023 Bartley CM, Ngo TT, Do LD, Zekeridou A, Dandekar R, Muñiz-Castrillo S, Alvarenga BD, Zorn KC, Tubati A, Pinto AL, Browne WD, Hullett PW, Terrelonge M, Schubert RD, Piquet AL, Yang B, Montalvo M, Kung …
• Novel autoantibody targets identified in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) by PhIP-Seq reveals pathogenic insights.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Klepper A, Kung A, Vazquez SE, Mitchell A, Mann S, Zorn K, Avila-Vargas I, Kari S, Tekeste M, Castro J, Lee B, Duarte M, Khalili M, Yang M, Wolters P, Price J, Perito E, Feng S, Maher JJ, Lai J, …
• Complement Factor I Gene Variant as a Treatable Cause of Recurrent Aseptic Neutrophilic Meningitis: A Case Report.
  Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation 2023 Rolfes M, Harroud A, Zorn KC, Tubati A, Omura C, Kurtz K, Matloubian M, Berger A, Chiu CY, Wilson MR, Ramachandran PS

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• A Predictive Autoantibody Signature in Multiple Sclerosis.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Zamecnik CR, Sowa GM, Abdelhak A, Dandekar R, Bair RD, Wade KJ, Bartley CM, Tubati A, Gomez R, Fouassier C, Gerungan C, Alexander J, Wapniarski AE, Loudermilk RP, Eggers EL, Zorn KC, Ananth K, …
• Dual ankyrinG and subpial autoantibodies in a man with well-controlled HIV infection with steroid-responsive meningoencephalitis: A case report.
  Frontiers in neurology 2023 Bartley CM, Ngo TT, Cadwell CR, Harroud A, Schubert RD, Alvarenga BD, Hawes IA, Zorn KC, Hunyh T, Teliska LH, Kung AF, Shah S, Gelfand JM, Chow FC, Rasband MN, Dubey D, Pittock SJ, DeRisi JL, Wilson …
• Autoantibody discovery across monogenic, acquired, and COVID-19-associated autoimmunity with scalable PhIP-seq.
  eLife 2022 Vazquez SE, Mann SA, Bodansky A, Kung AF, Quandt Z, Ferré EMN, Landegren N, Eriksson D, Bastard P, Zhang SY, Liu J, Mitchell A, Proekt I, Yu D, Mandel-Brehm C, Wang CY, Miao B, Sowa G, Zorn K, Chan AY…
• SARS-CoV-2 Variant Exposures Elicit Antibody Responses With Differential Cross-Neutralization of Established and Emerging Strains Including Delta and Omicron.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2022 Laurie MT, Liu J, Sunshine S, Peng J, Black D, Mitchell AM, Mann SA, Pilarowski G, Zorn KC, Rubio L, Bravo S, Marquez C, Sabatino JJ, Mittl K, Petersen M, Havlir D, DeRisi J
• ZSCAN1 Autoantibodies Are Associated with Pediatric Paraneoplastic ROHHAD.
  Annals of neurology 2022 Mandel-Brehm C, Benson LA, Tran B, Kung AF, Mann SA, Vazquez SE, Retallack H, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Khan LM, Kerr LM, McAlpine PL, Zhang L, McCarthy F, Elias JE, Katwa U, Astley CM, Tomko S, Dalmau J, …
• Autoantibody discovery across monogenic, acquired, and COVID19-associated autoimmunity with scalable PhIP-Seq.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2022 Vazquez SE, Mann SA, Bodansky A, Kung AF, Quandt Z, Ferré EMN, Landegren N, Eriksson D, Bastard P, Zhang SY, Liu J, Mitchell A, Mandel-Brehm C, Miao B, Sowa G, Zorn K, Chan AY, Shimizu C, Tremoulet A,…
• Corrigendum: Case Report: A False Negative Case of Anti-Yo Paraneoplastic Myelopathy.
  Frontiers in neurology 2022 Bartley CM, Parikshak NN, Ngo TT, Alexander JA, Zorn KC, Alvarenga BD, Kang MK, Pedriali M, Pleasure SJ, Wilson MR
• Anti-SARS-CoV-2 and Autoantibody Profiles in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of 3 Teenaged Patients With COVID-19 and Subacute Neuropsychiatric Symptoms.
  JAMA neurology 2021 Bartley CM, Johns C, Ngo TT, Dandekar R, Loudermilk RL, Alvarenga BD, Hawes IA, Zamecnik CR, Zorn KC, Alexander JR, Wapniarski AE, DeRisi JL, Francisco C, Nash KB, Wietstock SO, Pleasure SJ, Wilson MR
• Long-term MRI changes in a patient with Kelch-like protein 11-associated paraneoplastic neurological syndrome.
  European journal of neurology 2021 Ishikawa H, Mandel-Brehm C, Shindo A, Cady MA, Mann SA, Niwa A, Miyashita K, Ii Y, Zorn KC, Taniguchi A, Maeda M, Wilson MR, DeRisi JL, Tomimoto H
• Detection of Neoplasms by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing of Cerebrospinal Fluid.
  JAMA neurology 2021 Gu W, Rauschecker AM, Hsu E, Zorn KC, Sucu Y, Federman S, Gopez A, Arevalo S, Sample HA, Talevich E, Nguyen ED, Gottschall M, Nourbakhsh B, Gold CA, Cree BAC, Douglas VC, Richie MB, Shah MP, Josephson…
• Case Report: A False Negative Case of Anti-Yo Paraneoplastic Myelopathy.
  Frontiers in neurology 2021 Bartley CM, Parikshak NN, Ngo TT, Alexander JA, Zorn KC, Alvarenga BA, Kang MK, Pedriali M, Pleasure SJ, Wilson MR
• Gut microbiota-specific IgA+ B cells traffic to the CNS in active multiple sclerosis.
  Science immunology 2020 Pröbstel AK, Zhou X, Baumann R, Wischnewski S, Kutza M, Rojas OL, Sellrie K, Bischof A, Kim K, Ramesh A, Dandekar R, Greenfield AL, Schubert RD, Bisanz JE, Vistnes S, Khaleghi K, Landefeld J, Kirkish …
• Rapid pathogen detection by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of infected body fluids.
  Nature medicine 2020 Gu W, Deng X, Lee M, Sucu YD, Arevalo S, Stryke D, Federman S, Gopez A, Reyes K, Zorn K, Sample H, Yu G, Ishpuniani G, Briggs B, Chow ED, Berger A, Wilson MR, Wang C, Hsu E, Miller S, DeRisi JL, Chiu …
• ReScan, a Multiplex Diagnostic Pipeline, Pans Human Sera for SARS-CoV-2 Antigens.
  Cell reports. Medicine 2020 Zamecnik CR, Rajan JV, Yamauchi KA, Mann SA, Loudermilk RP, Sowa GM, Zorn KC, Alvarenga BD, Gaebler C, Caskey M, Stone M, Norris PJ, Gu W, Chiu CY, Ng D, Byrnes JR, Zhou XX, Wells JA, Robbiani DF, …
• Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serology assays reveals a range of test performance.
  Nature biotechnology 2020 Whitman JD, Hiatt J, Mowery CT, Shy BR, Yu R, Yamamoto TN, Rathore U, Goldgof GM, Whitty C, Woo JM, Gallman AE, Miller TE, Levine AG, Nguyen DN, Bapat SP, Balcerek J, Bylsma SA, Lyons AM, Li S, Wong …
• Genomic surveillance reveals multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into Northern California.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020 Deng X, Gu W, Federman S, du Plessis L, Pybus OG, Faria NR, Wang C, Yu G, Bushnell B, Pan CY, Guevara H, Sotomayor-Gonzalez A, Zorn K, Gopez A, Servellita V, Hsu E, Miller S, Bedford T, Greninger AL, …
• CRISPR-Cas12-based detection of SARS-CoV-2.
  Nature biotechnology 2020 Broughton JP, Deng X, Yu G, Fasching CL, Servellita V, Singh J, Miao X, Streithorst JA, Granados A, Sotomayor-Gonzalez A, Zorn K, Gopez A, Hsu E, Gu W, Miller S, Pan CY, Guevara H, Wadford DA, Chen JS…
• Genomic and serologic characterization of enterovirus A71 brainstem encephalitis.
  Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation 2020 Leon KE, Schubert RD, Casas-Alba D, Hawes IA, Ramachandran PS, Ramesh A, Pak JE, Wu W, Cheung CK, Crawford ED, Khan LM, Launes C, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Cabrerizo M, Valero-Rello A, Langelier C, Muñoz-…
• Pan-viral serology implicates enteroviruses in acute flaccid myelitis.
  Nature medicine 2019 Schubert RD, Hawes IA, Ramachandran PS, Ramesh A, Crawford ED, Pak JE, Wu W, Cheung CK, O'Donovan BD, Tato CM, Lyden A, Tan M, Sit R, Sowa GM, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Banerji D, Khan LM, Bove R, Hauser SL…
• Kelch-like Protein 11 Antibodies in Seminoma-Associated Paraneoplastic Encephalitis.
  The New England journal of medicine 2019 Mandel-Brehm C, Dubey D, Kryzer TJ, O'Donovan BD, Tran B, Vazquez SE, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Khan LM, Bledsoe IO, McKeon A, Pleasure SJ, Lennon VA, DeRisi JL, Wilson MR, Pittock SJ
• Exploratory proteomic analysis implicates the alternative complement cascade in primary CNS vasculitis.
  Neurology 2019 Mandel-Brehm C, Retallack H, Knudsen GM, Yamana A, Hajj-Ali RA, Calabrese LH, Tihan T, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Gorman MP, Madan Cohen J, Sreih AG, Marcus JF, Josephson SA, Douglas VC, Gelfand JM, Wilson …
• Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis.
  The New England journal of medicine 2019 Wilson MR, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Arevalo S, Yu G, Neuhaus J, Federman S, Stryke D, Briggs B, Langelier C, Berger A, Douglas V, Josephson SA, Chow FC, Fulton BD, DeRisi JL, Gelfand JM, Naccache SN, …
• Clinicopathology conference: 41-year-old woman with chronic relapsing meningitis.
  Annals of neurology 2019 Beck ES, Ramachandran PS, Khan LM, Sample HA, Zorn KC, O'Connell EM, Nash T, Reich DS, Venkatesan A, DeRisi JL, Nath A, Wilson MR
• Multiple sclerosis relapse: Qualitative findings from clinician and patient interviews.
  Multiple sclerosis and related disorders 2018 Matza LS, Kim K, Phillips G, Zorn K, Chan KS, Smith KC, Mowry EM
• Chronic Meningitis Investigated via Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing.
  JAMA neurology 2018 Wilson MR, O'Donovan BD, Gelfand JM, Sample HA, Chow FC, Betjemann JP, Shah MP, Richie MB, Gorman MP, Hajj-Ali RA, Calabrese LH, Zorn KC, Chow ED, Greenlee JE, Blum JH, Green G, Khan LM, Banerji D, …
• A novel cause of chronic viral meningoencephalitis: Cache Valley virus.
  Annals of neurology 2017 Wilson MR, Suan D, Duggins A, Schubert RD, Khan LM, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Rodrigues Hoffman A, Blick A, Shingde M, DeRisi JL
• Comparing Web-Based Provider-Initiated and Patient-Initiated Survivorship Care Planning for Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  JMIR cancer 2016 Smith KC, Tolbert E, Hannum SM, Radhakrishnan A, Zorn K, Blackford A, Greco S, Smith K, Snyder CF