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Name: Juliet Fuhrman
Title: Associate Professor of Biology; Graduate Program Advisor
Departmental Affiliation: Biology Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University; A.B. Princeton University
Expertise: Immunology and Infectious Disease
E-mail: juliet.fuhrman@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/faculty/fuhrman
Scholarship & Research: Harris MT and Fuhrman JA. 2002. Structure and expression of chitin synthase in the parasitic nematode Dirofilaria immitis. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol., 122: 231-234.

Panilaitis B, Johri A, Blank W, Kaplan D, and Fuhrman JA.2002. Adjuvant activity of emulsan, a secreted lipopolysaccharide from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Clin. Diag. Lab. Immunol., 9: 1240-1247.

Pfarr KM, Qazi S, and Fuhrman JA. 2001. Nitric oxide synthase in filariae: demonstration of nitric oxide production by embryos in Brugia malayi and Acanthocheilonema viteae. Exp. Parasitol., 97:205-214.

Pfarr K, and Fuhrman JA. 2000. Brugia malayi: Localization of nitric oxide synthase in a lymphatic filariid. Exp. Parasitol. 94: 92-98.

Harris MT, Lai K, Arnold K, Martinez HF, Specht CA, and Fuhrman JA. 2000. Chitin Synthase Expression in the filarial parasite, Brugia malayi. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol., 11: 351-362.

Venegas, A., Goldstein, J.C., Beauregard, K., Oles, A., Abdulhayoglu, N., and Fuhrman, J.A. (1996) Expression of recombinant microfilarial chitinase and analysis of domain function. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 78:149-159.

Arnold, K., Venegas, A., Houseweart, C., and Fuhrman, J.A. (1996) Discrete transcripts encode multiple chitinase isoforms in Brugian microfilariae. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 80:149-158.

Fuhrman, J.A., Lee, J., and Dalamagas, D. (1995) Structure and function of a family of chitinase isozymes from Brugian microfilariae. Experimental Parasitology 80:672-680.

Fuhrman, J.A. (1995) Filariasis: the role of chitinase in larval development and transmission. In: Molecular Approaches to Parasitology (J. Booth-royd and R. Komuniecki, eds.). New York: Wiley-Liss, Inc., 77-87.

Fuhrman, J.A., Lane, W.S., Smith, R.F., Piessens, W.F., and Perler, F.B. (1992) Transmission-blocking antibodies recognize microfilarial chitinase in Brugian lymphatic filariasis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 89:1548-1552.

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