Dustyn Levenson
Dustyn Levenson
Biography
Education B.Sc. in Microbiology from the University of Rochester
Year in Program G2
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, PhD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Publications:
Levenson, D., Romero, R., Garcia-Flores, V., Miller, D., Xu, Y., Sahi, A., Hassan, S. S., & Gomez-Lopez, N. (2020). The effects of advanced maternal age on T-cell subsets at the maternal-fetal interface prior to term labor and in the offspring: a mouse study. Clinical and experimental immunology, 201(1), 58–75. https://doi.org/10.1111/cei.13437
Garcia-Flores, V., Romero, R., Xu, Y., Theis, K.R., Arenas-Hernandez, M., Miller, D., Peyvandipour, A., Bhatti, G., Galaz, J., Gershater, M. and Levenson, D., 2022. Maternal-fetal immune responses in pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2. Nature Communications, 13(1), pp.1-20.
Galaz, J., Romero, R., Xu, Y., Miller, D., Levenson, D., Para, R., Varrey, A., Hsu, R., Tong, A., Hassan, S.S. and Hsu, C.D., 2020. Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with a sonographic short cervix. Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 1(ahead-of-print).
Motomura, K., Romero, R., Tarca, A.L., Galaz, J., Bhatti, G., Done, B., Arenas-Hernandez, M., Levenson, D., Slutsky, R., Hsu, C.D. and Gomez-Lopez, N., 2020. Pregnancy-specific transcriptional changes upon endotoxin exposure in mice. Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 1(ahead-of-print).
Motomura, K., Romero, R., Garcia-Flores, V., Leng, Y., Xu, Y., Galaz, J., Slutsky, R., Levenson, D., & Gomez-Lopez, N. (2020). The alarmin interleukin-1α causes preterm birth through the NLRP3 inflammasome. Molecular human reproduction, gaaa054. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/molehr/gaaa054
Motomura, K., Romero, R., Xu, Y., Theis, K. R., Galaz, J., Winters, A. D., Slutsky, R., Garcia-Flores, V., Zou, C., Levenson, D., Para, R., Ahmad, M. M., Miller, D., Hsu, C. D., & Gomez-Lopez, N. (2020). Intra-Amniotic Infection with Ureaplasma parvum Causes Preterm Birth and Neonatal Mortality That Are Prevented by Treatment with Clarithromycin. mBio, 11(3), e00797-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00797-20
Garcia-Flores, V., Romero, R., Furcron, A. E., Levenson, D., Galaz, J., Zou, C., Hassan, S. S., Hsu, C. D., Olson, D., Metz, G., & Gomez-Lopez, N. (2020). Prenatal Maternal Stress Causes Preterm Birth and Affects Neonatal Adaptive Immunity in Mice. Frontiers in immunology, 11, 254. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.00254
Theis, K. R., Romero, R., Motomura, K., Galaz, J., Winters, A. D., Pacora, P., Miller, D., Slutsky, R., Florova, V., Levenson, D., Para, R., Varrey, A., Kacerovsky, M., Hsu, C. D., & Gomez-Lopez, N. (2020). Microbial burden and inflammasome activation in amniotic fluid of patients with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes. Journal of perinatal medicine, 48(2), 115–131. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2019-0398
Galaz, J., Romero, R., Xu, Y., Miller, D., Slutsky, R., Levenson, D., Hsu, C. D., & Gomez-Lopez, N. (2020). Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with preterm clinical chorioamnionitis. Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.], 69(2), 203–216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00011-019-01308-x
Gomez-Lopez, N., Romero, R., Leng, Y., Xu, Y., Slutsky, R., Levenson, D., Pacora, P., Jung, E., Panaitescu, B., & Hsu, C. D. (2019). The origin of amniotic fluid monocytes/macrophages in women with intra-amniotic inflammation or infection. Journal of perinatal medicine, 47(8), 822–840. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2019-0262
Cox, A., Schmierer, J., D’Angelo, J., Smith, A., Levenson, D., Treanor, J., Kim, B. and Dewhurst, S., 2020. A Mutated PB1 Residue 319 Synergizes with the PB2 N265S Mutation of the Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine to Convey Temperature Sensitivity. Viruses, 12(11), p.1246.
Conferences Attended:
Society for Student-Run Free Clinics (2021-2022), International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (2021)
Research Interests
Reproductive immunology and maternal-fetal health disparities