Andrew (Drew) Skidmore, PhD

ASERT Fellow

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

Dept. Internal Medicine, Global Health Program

Email (as a link) amskidmore@salud.unm.edu

Education

• ASERT Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 2021 - Present
• PhD, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2021
• M.S., Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2018
• BS, Biology, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, 2015

 

Teaching

 

Teaching Mentor:  Todd Nims

 

Courses Taught: Introductory Biology for Health Sciences Majors. I taught all labs and lectures as instructor of record.

 

 

Research

 

Current Research (One sentence synopsis): I am investigating the potential relationship between Sin Nombre hantavirus and the microbiomes of its primary rodent host, Peromyscus maniculatus.

 

Research Mentors:  

• Steven Bradfute, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UNM Center for Global Health,

    Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

• Joseph Cook, Ph.D., Curator of Mammals Museum of Southwestern Biology, Distinguished Professor of Biology

 

Publications:

 

1: Skidmore AM, Bradfute SB. The life cycle of the alphaviruses: From an

antiviral perspective. Antiviral Res. 2023 Jan;209:105476. doi:

10.1016/j.antiviral.2022.105476. Epub 2022 Nov 25. PMID: 36436722; PMCID:

PMC9840710.

 

2: Behnia M, Baer A, Skidmore AM, Lehman CW, Bracci N, Kehn-Hall K, Bradfute SB.

Inactivation of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Genome Using Two Methods.

Viruses. 2022 Jan 28;14(2):272. doi: 10.3390/v14020272. PMID: 35215864; PMCID:

PMC8878209.

 

3: Skidmore AM, Adcock RS, Jonsson CB, Golden JE, Chung DH. Benzamidine ML336

inhibits plus and minus strand RNA synthesis of Venezuelan equine encephalitis

virus without affecting host RNA production. Antiviral Res. 2020 Feb;174:104674.

doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2019.104674. Epub 2019 Dec 6. PMID: 31816348; PMCID:

PMC6935354.

 

4:Wongsurawat T, Jenjaroenpun P, Taylor MK, Lee J, Tolardo AL, Parvathareddy J, Kandel S, Wadley TD, Kaewnapan B, Athipanyasilp N, Skidmore A, Chung D, Chaimayo C, Whitt M, Kantakamalakul W, Sutthent R, Horthongkham N, Ussery DW, Jonsson CB, Nookaew I. Rapid Sequencing of Multiple RNA Viruses in Their Native Form. Front Microbiol. 2019 Feb 25;10:260. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00260. PMID: 30858830; PMCID: PMC6398364.