Vladimir Emiliano Diaz-Ochoa

Vladimir Emiliano Diaz-Ochoa

Assistant Agronomist

Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology


Honors and Awards
2011-2012 Graduate Fellow Award, conferred by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UC Irvine. Fellowship to train in college level instruction.
2012 Oral Presentation Competition, 2nd place, UCI Immunology Fair. Recognition for excellence in immunological research.
2014 ASM Richard and Mary Finkelstein Travel Award and Oral Presentation, ASM General Meeting. Recognition for excellence in microbiology research and travel award to attend scientific conference.
2014-2015 President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship. UC Irvine fellowship awarded to support GSR salary, benefits, tuition, and fees.
2015 Keystone Symposia Scholarship to attend symposium on Gut Microbiota Modulation of Host Physiology.
2015 Student Speaker Graduate Hooding Ceremony, UC Irvine. Selected to address attendees at the Graduate Hooding Ceremony.
2016 Judge’s Travel Award to attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. Travel award to participate in the conference as a poster judge.
2016 Travel Award to attend the ASCB MAC 2016 11th Annual Junior Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellows Career Development Workshop, Chapel Hill NC. Travel award sponsored by the American Society for Cell Biology Minority Affairs Committee to attend a multi-day workshop on career development.
2017-2018 Professors for the Future Fellow, UC Davis. Selected to participate in a year-long professional development program that aims to prepare trainees for the professoriate.
2018 Outstanding Poster Research Award at the 12th Annual UC Davis Host Microbe Interactions Retreat. Recognition for excellence in host-pathogen interactions research.
2019 Postdoctoral Travel Award to attend ASM Microbe 2019, San Francisco CA.
2019 Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship for the Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Adhesions and Signal Transduction. Travel award to attend scientific conference.
2020-2022 UC Davis Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Fellowship helped fund 2 years of my post doc salary, benefits and $10,000 towards research funds.
2022 Fellowship to participate in the Short Course in Systems Biology through the Center for Complex Biological Systems, UC Irvine
Ten Recent Publications

2023
English BC, Savage HP, Mahan SP, Diaz-Ochoa VE, Young BM, Abuaita BH, Sule G, Knight JS, O'Riordan MX, Bäumler AJ, Tsolis RM
The IRE1a-XBP1 Signaling Axis Promotes Glycolytic Reprogramming in Response to Inflammatory Stimuli

2022
Hiyoshi H, English BC, Diaz-Ochoa VE, Wangdi T, Zhang LF, Sakaguchi M, Haneda T, Tsolis RM, Bäumler AJ
Virulence factors perforate the pathogen-containing vacuole to signal efferocytosis

2020
Stull-Lane AR, Lokken-Toyli KL, Diaz-Ochoa VE, Walker GT, Cevallos SA, Winter ALN, Muñoz ADH, Yang GG, Velazquez EM, Wu CY, Tsolis RM
Vitamin A supplementation boosts control of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella infection in malnourished mice

2018
Kerrinnes T, Winter MG, Young BM, Diaz-Ochoa VE, Winter SE, Tsolis RM
Utilization of Host Polyamines in Alternatively Activated Macrophages Promotes Chronic Infection by Brucella abortus

2018
Yokoyama CC, Baldridge MT, Leung DW, Zhao G, Desai C, Liu TC, Diaz-Ochoa VE, Huynh JP, Kimmey JM, Sennott EL, Hole CR, Idol RA, Park S, Storek KM, Wang C, Hwang S, Viehmann Milam A, Chen E, Kerrinnes T, Starnbach MN, Handley SA, Mysorekar IU, Allen PM, Monack DM, Dinauer MC, Doering TL, Tsolis RM, Dworkin JE, Stallings CL, Amarasinghe GK, Micchelli CA, Virgin HW
LysMD3 is a type II membrane protein without an in vivo role in the response to a range of pathogens

2016
Diaz-Ochoa VE, Lam D, Lee CS, Klaus S, Behnsen J, Liu JZ, Chim N, Nuccio SP, Rathi SG, Mastroianni JR, Edwards RA, Jacobo CM, Cerasi M, Battistoni A, Ouellette AJ, Goulding CW, Chazin WJ, Skaar EP, Raffatellu M
Salmonella Mitigates Oxidative Stress and Thrives in the Inflamed Gut by Evading Calprotectin-Mediated Manganese Sequestration

2014
Gerns Storey HL, Richardson BA, Singa B, Naulikha J, Prindle VC, Diaz-Ochoa VE, Felgner PL, Camerini D, Horton H, John-Stewart G, Walson JL
Use of principal components analysis and protein microarray to explore the association of HIV-1-specific IgG responses with disease progression

2014
Diaz-Ochoa VE, Jellbauer S, Klaus S, Raffatellu M
Transition metal ions at the crossroads of mucosal immunity and microbial pathogenesis