Rachel Wierzbicki, BS
Research Assistant
I graduated from Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, VT, with a B.S. in Biology and joined Dr. Rigby’s lab in summer of 2017 as a research assistant. My research focus is the development of autoantibodies in disease in the context of bacterial infection.
Selected Publications
Low-Avidity Autoantibodies against Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein Occur in Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteremia.
Theprungsirikul J, Thaden JT, Wierzbicki RM, Burns AS, Skopelja-Gardner S, Fowler VG Jr, Winthrop KL, Martin IW, Rigby WFC
Infect Immun. 2020 Sep 18;88(10) doi: 10.1128/IAI.00444-20. Epub 2020 Sep 18.
PMID: 32747603
Dissociation of systemic and mucosal autoimmunity in cystic fibrosis.
Theprungsirikul J, Skopelja-Gardner S, Meagher RE, Clancy JP, Zemanick ET, Ashare A, Rigby WFC
J Cyst Fibros. 2020 Mar;19(2):196-202. doi: 10.1016/j.jcf.2019.06.006. Epub 2019 Jun 28.
PMID: 31262645
Autoimmunity to bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein in bronchiectasis exhibits a requirement for Pseudomonas aeruginosa IgG response.
Skopelja-Gardner S, Theprungsirikul J, Meagher RE, Beliveau CM, Bradley KE, Avery M, Henkle E, Siegel S, Gifford AH, Winthrop KL, Rigby WFC
Eur Respir J. 2019 Feb;53(2) pii: 1801891. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01891-2018. Epub 2019 Feb 7.
PMID: 30385530