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
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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).
Immunity 2026;59(7):1825–1842.e11. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2026.06.009 -
An immunocompetent murine model of virus-elicited liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (opens in a new tab).
Journal of Hepatology 2026. doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2026.02.020 -
Antiviral innate immune memory in alveolar macrophages following SARS-CoV-2 infection ameliorates secondary influenza A virus disease (opens in a new tab).
Immunity 2024;57(11):2530–2546.e13. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2024.08.018 -
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).
PLoS Biology 2024;22(9). doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002767 -
PERK-mediated unfolded protein response signaling restricts replication of the tick-borne flavivirus Langat virus (opens in a new tab).
Viruses 2020;12(3):328. doi:10.3390/v12030328 -
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).
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 2019;35(3):276–286. doi:10.1089/AID.2017.0200
Reviews
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Spatial omics technologies at multimodal and single cell/subcellular level (opens in a new tab).
Genome Biology 2022;23(1):256. doi:10.1186/s13059-022-02824-6 -
BiP: master regulator of the unfolded protein response and crucial factor in flavivirus biology (opens in a new tab).
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2017;90(2):291–300. PMID 28656015
Writing for General Audiences
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Misuse of antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistant bacteria (opens in a new tab).
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.