Xiao, Y-P., Al-Khedery, B., and Allred, D.R.. 2010. The Babesia bovis VESA1 virulence factor subunit b is encoded by the 1b branch of the ves multigene family. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 171: 81-88. Allred, D.R., Barbet, A.F., Barry, J.D., and Deitsch, K.W. 2009. varDB: Common ground for a shifting landscape. Trends in Parasitology 25: 249-252. Zupanska, A.K., Drummond, P.B., Swetnam, D., Al-Khedery, B., and Allred, D.R. 2009. Universal primers suitable to assess population dynamics reveal apparent mutually exclusive transcription of the Babesia bovis ves1a gene. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 166: 47-53. Allred, D.R. 2007. Dynamics of anemia progression and recovery in Babesia bigemina infection is unrelated to initiating parasite burden. Veterinary Parasitology 146: 170-174. Canto, G.J., Figueroa, J.V., Ramos, J.A., Rojas, E.E., Garcia-Tapia, D., Alvarez, J.A., Allred, D.R., and Carson, C.A. 2006. Evaluation of cattle inoculated with Babesia bovis clones adhesive in vitro to bovine brain endothelial cells. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1081: 397- 404. Allred, D.R. and Al-Khedery, B. 2006. Antigenic variation as an exploitable weakness of babesial parasites. Veterinary Parasitology 138: 50-60. Al-Khedery, B. and Allred, D.R. 2006. Antigenic variation in Babesia bovis occurs through segmental gene conversion of the ves multigene family, within a bidirectional site of transcription. Molecular Microbiology 59: 402-414.

Memberships

American Society for Microbiology, Member; 2012 - present

American Society for Cell Biology, Member; 1981 - present

Peer Review Positions

PLoS Pathogens, Guest Associate Editor; 2016 - 2016

International Scholarly Research Notices, Editorial Board; 2014 - 2018

ISRN Microbiology, Editorial Board; 2011 - 2014

Eukaryotic Cell, Editorial Board; 2008 - 2011

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Editorial Board; 2007 - 2018

The Open Parasitology Journal, Editorial Board; 2007 - 2018

Professional Presentations

Babesia: don’t blink or you’ll miss it. Or, why we do what we’re doing; Health-Oriented Professional Engineering Society, U.F.; 2011

Molecular underpinnings of long-term persistence by Babesia bovis; Apicowplexa: Apicomplexa in Farm Animals; Lisbon, Portugal; Apicoplexa; 2012

Mechanisms underlying antigenic variation in Babesia bovis”; Seminar; UF Genetics Institute; 2008

The artful dodger existence of babesial and malarial parasites; Invited Seminar; University of California- Riverside; 2006

Survival of babesial parasites in the immune host; Invited Seminar; University of Arizona; 2006

Antigenic variation as an exploitable weakness of babesial parasites; International Forum on Babesiosis I; Intervet and Fondation Merieux; 2004

Gene conversion in Babesia bovis antigenic variation and its implications for vaccine development; Antigenic Variation Symposium; Fondation Merieux; 2009