Honors and Awards

• Truman Graves Blocker Scholarship (2008)
• T32 Training Grant in Emerging and Infectious Tropical Disease (2010)
• James W. McLaughlin Travel Award (2012)
• Edward S. Reynolds Award (2012)

Publications:

• Heinze DM, Wikel SK, Thangamani S, Alarcon-Chaidez FJ. Transcriptional profiling of the murine cutaneous response during initial and subsequent infestations with Ixodes scapularis nymphs. Parasit Vectors. 2012 Feb 6;5:26.  PubMed PMID: 22309607; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3293053.
• Heinze DM, Gould EA, Forrester NL. Revisiting the clinal concept of evolution and dispersal for the tick-borne flaviviruses by using phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses. J Virol. 2012 Aug;86(16):8663-71. Epub 2012 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 22674986; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3421761.
• Heinze DM, Carmical JR, Aronson JF, Thangamani S. Early immunologic events at the tick-host interface. PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e47301. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047301. Epub 2012 Oct 15. PubMed PMID:23077588; PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC3471850.

Presentations:

• Heinze D, Alarcon-Chaidez F, Wikel S. Gene expression profiling of the host response to Ixodes scapularis. Presented at the IHII/McLaughlin Colloquium, UTMB, 2011.
• Heinze D, Alarcon-Chaidez F, Boppana V, and Wikel S. Gene expression profiling of the host immune response to Dermacentor andersoni. Presented at Department of Pathology's Research Trainee Poster Session 2010.