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Nikolina Walas, PhD, MPH

Title(s)	Postdoctoral Scholar, Proctor Foundation
School	Chancellor/EVC/FAS
Address	95 Kirkham Street, #218 San Francisco CA 94122
ORCID	0000-0002-6137-9275
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Biography

education and training

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley	PhD	05/2025	Environmental Health Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley	MPH	05/2022	Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles	BS	06/2018	Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

Overview

keywords

Antimicrobial resistance, Seroepidemiology, Phylodynamics, E. coli, Enteric pathogens, Immune dynamics

Bibliographic

selected publications

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Reconstructing pathogen-specific antibody binding epitopes and age-dependent immune signatures from proteomic-scale peptide libraries. medRxiv. 2025 Sep 22. Kamau E, Walas N, Zhang M, Kamath K, Reifert J, Shon J, Ali S, Rahman MZ, Shoab AK, Famida SL, Akther S, Hossen MS, Mutsuddi P, Rahman M, Mertens AN, Charles RC, Leung DT, Luby S, Lin A, Arnold BF. PMID: 41040718; PMCID: PMC12486044.

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Multiplex PCR Detection of Enteric Pathogens in a Community-based Birth Cohort in Ecuador: Comparison of xTAG-GPP and TaqMan Array Card Assays. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2025 Feb; 12(2):ofaf027. Ayala ST, Simbaña Vivanco L, Walas N, Jesser K, Zhou NA, Fagnant-Sperati CS, Burroughs HR, Lee GO, Eisenberg JNS, Trueba G, Levy K, Arnold BF. PMID: 39917334; PMCID: PMC11800474.

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Lack of wastewater treatment in a small town drives the spread of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli in irrigation waters. J Environ Qual. 2024; 53(6):1116-1126. VanderYacht T, Salinas L, Remerleitch T, Walas N, Ho T, Trueba G, Graham JP. PMID: 39428701.

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Env Environmental Health
Translation:Cells PHPublic Health
Multiplex PCR detection of enteric pathogens in a community-based birth cohort in Ecuador: comparison of xTAG-GPP and TaqMan array card assays. medRxiv. 2024 Oct 18. Ayala ST, Vivanco LS, Walas N, Jesser K, Zhou NA, Fagnant-Sperati CS, Burroughs HR, Lee GO, Eisenberg JNS, Trueba G, Levy K, Arnold BF. PMID: 39417121; PMCID: PMC11482970.

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Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs) across Diverse Bacterial Species in Shrimp Aquaculture. Antibiotics (Basel). 2024 Aug 30; 13(9). Mitchell TM, Ho T, Salinas L, VanderYacht T, Walas N, Trueba G, Graham JP. PMID: 39334999; PMCID: PMC11429446.

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Application of phylodynamics to identify spread of antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli between humans and canines in an urban environment. Sci Total Environ. 2024 Mar 15; 916:170139. Walas N, Müller NF, Parker E, Henderson A, Capone D, Brown J, Barker T, Graham JP. PMID: 38242459.

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Env Environmental Health
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Phylodynamics Uncovers the Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli between Canines and Humans in an Urban Environment. bioRxiv. 2023 Jun 01. Walas N, Müller NF, Parker E, Henderson A, Capone D, Brown J, Barker T, Graham JP. PMID: 37398411; PMCID: PMC10312604.

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The role of plasmids in carbapenem resistant E. coli in Alameda County, California. BMC Microbiol. 2023 May 22; 23(1):147. Walas N, Slown S, Amato HK, Lloyd T, Bender M, Varghese V, Pandori M, Graham JP. PMID: 37217873; PMCID: PMC10201492.

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Mic Microbiology
Translation:Humans Cells
Clonal Lineages and Virulence Factors of Carbapenem Resistant E. coli in Alameda County, California, 2017-2019. Antibiotics (Basel). 2022 Dec 10; 11(12). Slown S, Walas N, Amato HK, Lloyd T, Varghese V, Bender M, Pandori M, Graham J. PMID: 36551451; PMCID: PMC9774732.

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Genome Sequences of Cluster K Mycobacteriophages Deby, LaterM, LilPharaoh, Paola, SgtBeansprout, and Sulley. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jan; 8(2). Gaballa JM, Dabrian K, Desai R, Ngo R, Park D, Sakaji E, Sun Y, Tan B, Brinck M, Brobst O, Fernando R, Kim H, McCarthy S, Murphy M, Sarkis A, Sevier P, Singh A, Wu D, Wu MY, Ennis HA, Luhar R, Miller JE, Orchanian SB, Salbato AN, Alam S, Brenner L, Kailani Z, Laskow J, Ma X, Miikeda A, Nol-Bernardino P, Sukhina A, Walas N, Wei W, Do NP, Fournier CT, Kim CJ, Mosier SF, Pierson C, Romero IG, Sanchez M, Sawyerr O, Wang J, Watanabe R, Wu S, Chen A, Kazane K, Kettoola Y, Goodwin EC, Lund AJ, Villella W, Williams D, Freise A, Moberg Parker J. PMID: 30643892; PMCID: PMC6328665.

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