Publications
Peer-reviewed work on HIV, tuberculosis, coinfection & beyond.
Google Scholar ↗- 012025First authorPreprintPartially-functional exhausted CD8+ T cells can contribute to short-term viral suppression: a computational prediction for children with perinatal HIV.Hoerter A, Petrucciani A, Khaitan A, Pienaar E.bioRxiv preprint

- 022025Local traveling waves of cytosolic calcium elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis.Zhang W, Kumar N, Helwig JR, Hoerter A, Iyer-Pascuzzi AS, Umulis DM, Pienaar E, Staiger CJ.Science Signaling 18(915):eadw2270
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- 032025First authorTiming matters in Macrophage / CD4+ T-cell interactions: an agent-based model comparing Mtb host-pathogen interactions between latently infected and Mtb-naive individuals.Hoerter A, Petrucciani A, Bonifacio J, Arnett E, Schlesinger LS, Pienaar E.mSystems 10:e01290-24

- 042024Agent-based model predicts that layered structure and 3D movement work synergistically to reduce bacterial load in 3D in vitro models of tuberculosis granuloma.Petrucciani A, Hoerter A, Kotze L, Du Plessis N, Pienaar E.PLoS Computational Biology 20(7): e1012266

- 052024First authorDissertationAgent-Based Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics: Insights into Tuberculosis, Pediatric HIV, and Tuberculosis-HIV Coinfection.Hoerter A.Purdue University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- 062024In silico agent-based modeling approach to characterize multiple in vitro tuberculosis infection models.Petrucciani A, Hoerter A, Kotze L, Du Plessis N, Pienaar E.PLoS ONE 19(3): e0299107

- 072022First authorSystems biology approaches to investigate the role of granulomas in TB-HIV coinfection.Hoerter A, Arnett E, Schlesinger LS, Pienaar E.Frontiers in Immunology 13:1014515
