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Rodolfo Urbano

Rodolfo Urbano

Assistant Professor and Assistant Agronomist

Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology


Education
2009, BS, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2010, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Honors and Awards
2010 Top Scholar Award, awarded by the Graduate School at the University of Washington to fund graduate education in the first year of a PhD program
2012 GRFP Honorable Mention, awarded by the National Science Foundation for a scientific research proposal in a national competition
2013 Stanley Falkow Graduate Student Travel Award, awarded by the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington to travel to a laboratory to learn a scientific technique
2015 Wind River Conference Graduate Student Travel Award, awarded by the Wind River Committee to travel to a national conference to present scientific research
2016 American Society for Microbiology Microbe Graduate Student Travel Award, awarded by the American Society for Microbiology to fund travel to a national conference to deliver an oral presentation on my scientific research
2020 From the Lab to the World: Award-Winning Researchers, awarded by the Yale School of Medicine (Exhibit)
2024 UC Davis CAMPOS Faculty Scholar. CAMPOS Faculty Scholars are selected for their academic excellence and their commitment to transform the STEMM disciplines to become more inclusive, diverse and engaged with under-served communities.
Ten Recent Publications

2018
Urbano R, Karlinsey JE, Libby SJ, Doulias PT, Ischiropoulos H, Warheit-Niemi HI, Liggitt DH, Horswill AR, Fang FC
Host Nitric Oxide Disrupts Microbial Cell-to-Cell Communication to Inhibit Staphylococcal Virulence

2015
Lin AE, Beasley FC, Keller N, Hollands A, Urbano R, Troemel ER, Hoffman HM, Nizet V
A group A Streptococcus ADP-ribosyltransferase toxin stimulates a protective interleukin 1ß-dependent macrophage immune response

2012
Karlinsey JE, Bang IS, Becker LA, Frawley ER, Porwollik S, Robbins HF, Thomas VC, Urbano R, McClelland M, Fang FC
The NsrR regulon in nitrosative stress resistance of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

2012
Colvin KM, Irie Y, Tart CS, Urbano R, Whitney JC, Ryder C, Howell PL, Wozniak DJ, Parsek MR
The Pel and Psl polysaccharides provide Pseudomonas aeruginosa structural redundancy within the biofilm matrix

2011
Talukdar I, Sen S, Urbano R, Thompson J, Yates JR 3rd, Webster NJ
hnRNP A1 and hnRNP F modulate the alternative splicing of exon 11 of the insulin receptor gene

2011
Urbano R, Palenik B, Gaston CJ, Prather KA
Detection and phylogenetic analysis of coastal bioaerosols using culture dependent and independent techniques