Soumba Traore

Education:  
Swarthmore College
Biology major, Psychology minor
B.A., 2018

Soumba is currently in the first year of Medical School training and is rotating through labs while preparing to select a thesis advisor.

Publications:

For work prior to the UMN MSTP

Cooney AL, Brommel CM, Traore S, Newby GA, Liu DR, McCray PB Jr, Sinn PL. Reciprocal mutations of lung-tropic AAV capsids lead to improved transduction properties. Front Genome Ed. 2023 Nov 22;5:1271813. PMCID: PMC10702583

Kulhankova K, Traore S, Cheng X, Benk-Fortin H, Hallée S, Harvey M, Roberge J, Couture F, Kohli S, Gross TJ, Meyerholz DK, Rettig GR, Thommandru B, Kurgan G, Wohlford-Lenane C, Hartigan-O'Connor DJ, Yates BP, Newby GA, Liu DR, Tarantal AF, Guay D, McCray PB Jr. Shuttle peptide delivers base editor RNPs to rhesus monkey airway epithelial cells in vivo. Nat Commun. 2023 Dec 5;14(1):8051. PMCID: PMC10698009

Lei L, Traore S, Romano Ibarra GS, Karp PH, Rehman T, Meyerholz DK, Zabner J, Stoltz DA, Sinn PL, Welsh MJ, McCray PB Jr, Thornell IM.CFTR-rich ionocytes mediate chloride absorption across airway epithelia. J Clin Invest. 2023 Oct 16;133(20):e171268. PMCID: PMC37581935

Kulhankova K, Traore S, Cheng X, Benk-Fortin H, Hallée S, Harvey M, Roberge J, Couture F, Gross T, Newby G, Liu D, Tarantal A, Guay D, McCray P Jr. Shuttle Peptide Delivers Base Editor RNPs to Rhesus Monkey Airway Epithelial Cells In Vivo. Res Sq [Preprint]. 2023 Feb 17:rs.3.rs-2540755. PMCID: PMC9949254

Krishnamurthy S, Traore S, Cooney AL, Brommel CM, Kulhankova K, Sinn PL, Newby GA, Liu DR, McCray PB. Functional correction of CFTR mutations in human airway epithelial cells using adenine base editors. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Oct 11;49(18):10558-10572. PMCID: PMC8501978