Thao Vo

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Thao Vo (Graduate Student, Comparative Biomedical Sciences)

Thao is originally from Vietnam. She got her BS in Chemical engineering from LSU. She joined the lab in 2018 and currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Biomedical Sciences.

Major focus: Effects of airborne pollutants on muco-obstructive lung diseases.

Publications:

Thao Vo and Yogesh Saini. Mafb promoter activity may define the alveolar macrophage dichotomy. Frontiers in Immunology; 2022 Dec 12;13:1050494.

Thao Vo, Kshitiz Paudel, Ishita Choudhary, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Ozone exposure upregulates the expression of host susceptibility protein TMPRSS2 to SARS-CoV-2 (2022). Scientific Reports;2022 Jan 25;12(1):1357. 

Ishita Choudhary, Thao Vo, Kshitiz Paudel, Radha Yadav, Richa Gupta, Mehmet Kesimer,  Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Vesicular and extravesicular protein signatures from the airspaces of ozone-exposed mice reflect muco-inflammatory lung disease. Scientific Reports. 2021 Dec 1;11(1):23203.

Sonika Patial, Brandon W Lewis, Thao Vo, Ishita Choudhary, Kshitiz Paudel, Yun Mao, Dhruthi Singamsetty, Frank Brombacher, and Yogesh Saini. Myeloid IL-4Ra is an indispensable link in IL-33-ILCs-IL-13-IL4Ra axis of eosinophil recruitment in murine lungs. Sci Rep. 2021 Jul 29;11(1):15465.

Ishita Choudhary, Thao Vo, Kshitiz Paudel, Radha Yadav, Yun Mao,  Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Postnatal ozone exposure disrupts alveolar development, exaggerates mucoinflammatory responses, and suppresses bacterial clearance in developing Scnn1b-Tg+ mice lungs. J Immunol. 2021 Aug 15;207(4):1165-1179.

Ishita Choudhary, Thao Vo, Chandra Bathula, Richa Lamichhane, Brandon Lewis, Jayme Looper, Samithamby Jeyaseelan, Yogesh Saini, and Sonika Patial. TTP overexpression in non-hematopoietic cells protects against acute lung injury in mice (2020). Front Immunol. 2020 Sep 2;11:2164.

Ishita Choudhary, Thao Vo, Kshitiz Paudel, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Compartment-specific transcriptomics of ozone-exposed murine lungs reveals sex and cell type-associated perturbations relevant to mucoinflammatory lung diseases (2020). American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 2021 Jan 1;320(1):L99-L125. 

Brandon W Lewis, Thao Vo, Ishita Choudhary, Allison Kidder, Chandra Bathula, Camille Ehre, Nobuko Wakamatsu, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Ablation of IL-33 suppresses Th2 responses but is accompanied by sustained mucus obstruction in the Scnn1b transgenic mouse model (2020). The Journal of Immunology. 204(6): 1650-1660.

Poster Presentation:

  • Thao Vo, Sonika Patial, Yogesh Saini. Characterization of a novel mouse model for deletion of a floxed gene in alternatively activated macrophages. American Association of Immunology. May
  • Thao Vo and Yogesh Saini. Characterization of a novel mouse model for deletion of floxed gene in alternatively activated macrophages (M2). Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day. LSU-SVM. February 2022.
  • Thao Vo, Ishita Choudhary, Kshitiz Paudel, Richa Gupta, Mehmet Kesimer, Sonika Patial, Yogesh Saini. Vesicular and extravesicular protein signatures from the airspaces of ozone-exposed mice reflect muco-inflammatory disturbances. Society of Toxicology. Mar 2021.
  • Thao Vo and Yogesh Saini. Characterization of a novel mouse model for deletion of floxed gene in alternatively activated macrophages (M2). Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day. LSU-SVM. Feb 2021.
  • Thao Vo, Brandon Lewis, Allison Kidder, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Ozone Exposure Exaggerates Lung Inflammation in Mice with Muco-obstructive Airway Disease. Society of Toxicology. Mar 2020.
  • Thao Vo, Brandon Lewis, Allison Kidder, Sonika Patial and Yogesh Saini. Ozone Exposure Exaggerates Lung Inflammation in Mice with Muco-Obstructive Airway Disease. Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day. LSU-SVM. Feb 2019.
  • Thao Vo, Brandon Lewis, Ishita Choudhary, Allison Kidder, Chandra Bathula, Sonika Patial and Yogesh Saini. Ozone Exposure Exaggerates Lung Inflammation in Mice with Muco-Obstructive Airway Disease. Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day. LSU-SVM. Feb 2020.

Honors and Awards:

  • Heidi Lott Scholarship and Award. Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine. December 2022
  • Graduate Student Meeting Attendance Grant. Thao Vo, Sonika Patial, Yogesh Saini. “Sub-chronic ozone exposure disrupts IL-10 production, results in persistent inflammation in Scnn1b-Tg+ mice lung. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. June 2022
  • First Prize. Thao Vo and Yogesh Saini. Characterization of a novel mouse model for deletion of floxed gene in alternatively activated macrophages (M2)”. Comparative Biomedical Sciences Departmental Retreat. Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine. January 2022
  • Graduate Student Support Award. Thao Vo, Ishita Choudhary, Kshitiz Paudel, Richa Gupta, Mehmet Kesimer, Sonika Patial, Yogesh Saini. “Vesicular and extravesicular protein signatures from the airspaces of ozone-exposed mice reflect muco-inflammatory disturbances”. Society of Toxicology. March 2021
  • Third prize-Poster Presentation. Thao Vo, Brandon Lewis, Ishita Choudhary, Kshitiz Paudel, Dhruthi Singamsetty, Richa Lamichhane, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. “Characterization of a novel mouse model for deletion of floxed gene in alternatively activated macrophages (M2)”. Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day. LSU-SVM. February 2021.
  • First Prize-Junior Category. Thao Vo, Brandon Lewis, Ishita Choudhary, Allison Kidder, Sonika Patial, Yogesh Saini. “Ozone Exposure Exaggerates Lung Inflammation in Mice with Muco-obstructive Airway Disease”. Comparative Biomedical Sciences Departmental Retreat. LSU-SVM. January 2021.

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