Tyler Lewy

Curriculum vitae

Tyler Lewy · Ph.D. Virology · Postdoctoral Fellow, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID

Hamilton, Montana
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Education

2025
Ph.D., VirologyThe Rockefeller University, New York, NY
2015
B.S., MicrobiologyUniversity of California, Davis, CA

Research Experience

2025 – present
Rocky-Bethesda Postdoctoral Fellow Laboratory of Neurological Infections and Immunity, Neurovirology Unit, NIAID, Hamilton, MT · Co-mentors: Rahul K. Suryawanshi and Hao Jin
2018 – 2025
Graduate Fellow Laboratory of Virology & Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY · PI: Charles M. Rice
2016 – 2017
Post-Baccalaureate Fellow Laboratory of Biology of Vector-Borne Viruses, NIAID, Hamilton, MT · PI: Marshall E. Bloom
2014 – 2016
Undergraduate / Post-Baccalaureate Researcher NeuroMab (PI: James S. Trimmer) and Medical Microbiology & Immunology (PI: Michael D. George), University of California, Davis, CA
2012 – 2013
Quality Assurance / Quality Control Intern PCAS-Nanosyn LLC, Santa Rosa, CA

Peer-Reviewed Research Articles

  1. Brain endothelial cells orchestrate a neuroprotective antiviral state in the central nervous system in response to peripheral viral pattern sensing (opens in a new tab).
    Lewy T, Sierra MA, Pourshadi N, Hoffmann HH, Dinnon KH, Gola A, Wang W, Chen HA, Quirk C, Zhang H, Doyle MP, Mason CE, Diehl GE, Hohl TM, Fuchs E, MacDonald MR, Wu Z, Crowe JE, Rice CM, Lercher A.
    Immunity 2026;59(7):1825–1842.e11. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2026.06.009
  2. An immunocompetent murine model of virus-elicited liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (opens in a new tab).
    Batista MN, Bordignon J, Pamplona Mosimann AL, Bobrowski T, Chen HA, Tobin-Xet G, Barrall EA, Prokhnevska N, Vaidya AB, Lewy T, Dinnon KH, Seifert LL, Zeck B, Quirk C, Ho YJ, Filliol A, Wolfisberg R, Jiang C, Cogliati B, Chiriboga L, Theise N, MacDonald MR, Kamphorst AO, Scheel TK, Sheahan TP, Billerbeck E, Lowe SW, Rosenberg BR, Rice CM.
    Journal of Hepatology 2026. doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2026.02.020
  3. Antiviral innate immune memory in alveolar macrophages following SARS-CoV-2 infection ameliorates secondary influenza A virus disease (opens in a new tab).
    Lercher A, Cheong JG, Bale MJ, Jiang C, Hoffmann HH, Ashbrook AW, Lewy T, Yin YS, Quirk C, DeGrace EJ, Chiriboga L, Rosenberg BR, Josefowicz SZ, Rice CM.
    Immunity 2024;57(11):2530–2546.e13. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2024.08.018
  4. A genome-wide arrayed CRISPR screen identifies PLSCR1 as an intrinsic barrier to SARS-CoV-2 entry that recent virus variants have evolved to resist (opens in a new tab).
    Le Pen J, Paniccia G, Bauer M, Hoffmann HH, Kinast V, Moncada-Velez M, Pinharanda A, Ricardo-Lax I, Stenzel AF, Rosado-Olivieri EA, Ashbrook AW, Dinnon KH, Doyle WC, Freije CA, Hong SH, Lee D, Lewy T, Luna JM, Peace A, Schmidt C, Schneider WM, Winkler R, Larson C, McGinn T, Menezes MR, Ramos-Espiritu L, Banerjee P, Poirier JT, Sánchez-Rivera FJ, Zhang Q, Casanova JL, Carroll TS, Glickman FJ, Michailidis E, Razooky B, MacDonald MR, Rice CM.
    PLoS Biology 2024;22(9). doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002767
  5. PERK-mediated unfolded protein response signaling restricts replication of the tick-borne flavivirus Langat virus (opens in a new tab).
    Lewy TG, Offerdahl DK, Grabowski JM, Kellman E, Mlera L, Chiramel A, Bloom ME.
    Viruses 2020;12(3):328. doi:10.3390/v12030328
  6. Oral microbiome in HIV-infected women: shifts in the abundance of pathogenic and beneficial bacteria are associated with aging, HIV load, CD4 count, and antiretroviral therapy (opens in a new tab).
    Lewy T, Hong BY, Weiser B, Burger H, Tremain A, Weinstock G, Anastos K, George MD.
    AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 2019;35(3):276–286. doi:10.1089/AID.2017.0200

Reviews

  1. Spatial omics technologies at multimodal and single cell/subcellular level (opens in a new tab).
    Park J, Kim J, Lewy T, Rice CM, Elemento O, Rendeiro AF, Mason CE.
    Genome Biology 2022;23(1):256. doi:10.1186/s13059-022-02824-6
  2. BiP: master regulator of the unfolded protein response and crucial factor in flavivirus biology (opens in a new tab).
    Lewy TG, Grabowski JM, Bloom ME.
    Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2017;90(2):291–300. PMID 28656015

Writing for General Audiences

  1. Misuse of antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistant bacteria (opens in a new tab).
    Lewy TG.
    Prized Writing, University of California, Davis. 2014;25:113–119

Selected Presentations

2025
BMECs orchestrate a neuroprotective antiviral state in the CNS in response to peripheral viral pattern sensing Poster · Cell Symposia: Neuro-immune axis — Charting the periphery, New York, NY
2024
CNS-immune dialogues: how early peripheral immune sensing dictates encephalitic outcome Oral · Kavli Internal Seminar Series, New York, NY
2017
BiP: regulator of the unfolded protein response and proviral factor in tick-borne flavivirus infection Oral · American Society for Virology Annual Meeting, Madison, WI
2016
The role of BiP in Langat virus infection Oral · RML Summer Student Symposium; Poster · Metabolism and Pathogens Symposium, Hamilton, MT
2015
Effect of aging on viral co-infection in HIV-infected patients Oral · UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference, Davis, CA

Teaching & Mentoring

2026 – present
Post-Baccalaureate AdvisorZachary Jaffrey · Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT
2026
Summer Student AdvisorColten Danelski · Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT
2022 – 2023
Rotation Student AdvisorMaria Sierra · The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
2017 – 2018
Lecturer, Biomedical Research After-School Scholars (BRASS) Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT

Honors & Distinctions

2026
Rocky Mountain Laboratories–Bethesda Postdoctoral Fellowship
2015
Provost Undergraduate Fellowship Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis
2015
College of Biological Sciences Microbiology Departmental Citation University of California, Davis

References available on request.

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