Mireille Kamariza*
Email Address:
kamariza@g.ucla.edu
Office Phone Number:
(310) 267-5244
Lab website
Lab website
Office Address:
Engineering V 5121
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
We conduct research at the intersection of chemistry, biology, and molecular engineering to unlock new possibilities for research, diagnostics, therapeutics, and precision medicine in resource constrained environments.
A selected list of publications:
D.A. Barr, C.Schutz, A. Balfour, M. Shey, M. Kamariza, C. R. Bertozzi, T. de Wet, R.
Dinkele, A. Ward, K. A. Haigh, J.-P. Kanyik, V. Mizrahi, M. P. Nicol, R. J. Wilkinson, D.
G. Lalloo, D. F. Warner, G. Meintjes, G. Davies. Serial Measurement of M.
Tuberculosis in Blood from Critically-Ill Patients with HIV-Associated Tuberculosis.
eBioMedicine. 2022, 78:103949.
a. Preprint: The Lancet. 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4000567
M. Kamariza, L. Crawford, D. S. Jones, H. Finucane. Misuse of the term ‘trans-ethnic’ in
genomics research. Nature Genetics. 2021, 53(11), 1520–1521.
M. Kamariza, S. G. L. Keyser, A. Utz, B. D. Knapp, G. Ahn, C. J. Cambier, K. C. Huang,
C. R. Bertozzi. Towards Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection at the point-of-care: a
brighter solvatochromic probe permits the detection of mycobacteria within minutes.”
JACS Au. 2021, 1(9), 1368-1379.
a. Preprint: BioRxiv. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.29.124008
Dinkele R, Gessner R, Koch AS, Morrow C, Gqada M, Kamariza M., Bertozzi CR, Smith
B, McLoud C, Kamholz A, Bryden W, Call C, Mizrahi V, Wood R, Warner DF. Capture
and visualization of live Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli from tuberculosis
bioaerosols. PLoSPathogens. 2021, 17(2), e1009262.
a. Preprint: BioRxiv. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.23.887729
J. Stenger-Smith, M. Kamariza, I. Chakraborty, R. Ouattara, C. R. Bertozzi, and P. K.
Mascharak. Enhanced Bactericidal Effects of Pyrazinamide Toward Mycobacterium
smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis upon Conjugation to a {Au(I)-
triphenylphosphine}+ Moiety. ACS Omega. 2020, 5(12), 6826-6833.
B. J. Patterson, R. Dinkele, S. Gessner, C. Morrow, M. Kamariza, C. R. Bertozzi, A.
Kamholz, W. Bryden, C. Call, D. F. Warner, and R. Wood. Sensitivity Optimisation of
Tuberculosis Bioaerosol Sampling. PLoSOne. 2020, 15(9), e0238193.
a. Preprint: MedRxiv. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.03.20089425
T. Dai, J. Xie, Q. Zhu, M. Kamariza, K. Jiang, C. R Bertozzi and J. Rao. A Fluorogenic
Trehalose Probe for Tracking Phagocytosed Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Am. Chem.
Soc. 2020, 142(36), 15259-15264.
W.E. Allen, H. Altae-Tran, J. Briggs, X. Jin, G. McGee, A. Shi, R. Raghavan, M.
Kamariza, N. Nova, A. Pereta, et. al., Population-scale longitudinal mapping of COVID-
19 symptoms, behaviour and testing. Nat. Hum. Behav. 2020, 4(9), 972-982.
a. Preprint: MedRxiv. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.09.20126813
M. Kamariza, P. Shieh, et al., Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum
with a solvatochromic trehalose probe. Sci. Transl. Med. 2018, 10(430), eaam6310.
a. Preprint: BioRxiv. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1101/171553
M. Kamariza, P. Shieh, C. R. Bertozzi, Imaging Mycobacterial Trehalose Glycolipids.
Methods in Enzymology. 2018, 598, 355-369.
