Search for Staff

Projects:

Co-PI:Phylogenetic Diversity of Bacterial Communities and Pharmacological Activity of Culturable Actinomycetes at the Momela Soda Lakes in Arusha National Park”

Publications:

1. Koch S, Damas M, Freise A, et al. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus vIRF2 protein utilizes an IFN-dependent pathway to regulate viral early gene expression. PLoSPathog. 2019;15(5).
2. Donath Damian, RubenMagembe, Modester Damas, Jonas Wensman, Mickel Berg. Application of viral metagenomics for study of emerging and re-emerginng tick-borne viruses. (Vector-Born and Zoonotic diseases 2019;20 (8).
3. Darya A. Haas, Kiran Bala, GuntramBüsche, Magdalena Weidner-Glunde, Susann Santag, Semra Kati, Silvia Gramolelli, Modester Damas, Oliver Dittrich-Breiholz, Michael Kracht, Jessica Rückert, Zoltan Varga, György Keri, Thomas F. Schulz. The Inflammatory Kinase MAP4K4 Promotes Reactivation of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus and Enhances the Invasiveness of Infected Endothelial Cells. Plos pathogens 2013
4. Donath Damian, Modester Damas, Jonas Johansson Wensman, Mikael Berg. Molecular survey of hard tick collected from domestic animals in wildlife-livestock interface of Mikumi National Park, Tanzania” (Manuscript under revision, submitted to Infection Ecology and Epidemiology; May 2020)
5. Donath Damian, Modester Damas, Jonas Johansson Wensman, Mikael Berg. Phylogeny and genetic distance of hard ticks collected from cattle in selected areas of wildlife-livestock interface of Mikumi National park, Tanzania” (Manuscript submitted to Vector-borne and zoobotic diseases; August 2020)
6. Sadikiel E. Kaale, Ally Mahadhy, Modester Damas, Clarence A. Mgina, and Thomas J. Lyimo.Phylogenetic Diversity of Actinomycetes from Momela Soda Lakes, Arusha National Park, Tanzania” (Manuscript submitted to East African Journal of Science and Technology, Sept 2020)