Bianca D Morejon Viteri

Biography

Education and Training

• PhD, Microbiology
  Kansas State University

Awards and Honors

• Sarachek Predoctoral Honors Fellowship in Molecular Biology, 2024
  Kansas State University
• Young Investigator Travel Award- Graduate, 2023
  The American Committee of Medical Entomology (ACME)
• L Evans Roth Award for Excellence in Graduate Research in MCDB, 2023
  Kansas State University
• Kathy and Dan Richardson Graduate Student Award , 2019
  Kansas State University

Publications

• The expanded immunoregulatory protease network in mosquitoes is governed by gene co-expression [Preprint]

  Morejon, B., Michel, K. bioRxiv 2025

• The transcriptional response in mosquitoes distinguishes between fungi and bacteria but not Gram types

  Hixson, B., Huot, L.*, Morejon, B.*, Yang, X.*, Nagy, P., Michel, K. & Buchon, N. BMC Genomics 2025

• Insight into the structural hierarchy of the protease cascade that regulates the mosquito melanization response

  Saab, S. A., Zhang, X., Morejon, B., Michel, K., & Osta, M. A. Microbes and Infection 2025

• Journal of Innate Immunity

  Zhang, X., Zhang, S., Kuang, J., Sellens, K. A., Morejon, B., Saab, S. A., Li, M., Metto, E. C., An, C., Culbertson, C. T., Osta, M. A., Scoglio, C., & Michel, K. CLIPB4 is a central node in the protease network that regulates humoral immunity in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes 2025

• A zone-of-inhibition assay to screen for humoral antimicrobial activity in mosquito hemolymph

  Morejon, B. and Michel, K. Frontiers in Cellular Infection and Microbiology 2025