Liang Ma, MD, PhD - LSUHSC School of Medicine

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	Liang Ma, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Research Section of Infectious Diseases 2020 Gravier Street 7th Floor, Suite D New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: (504) 568-7281 Fax: (504) 568-5553 LMA1@lsuhsc.edu
Degrees	MD – 1991 Chongqing University of Medical Sciences Chongqing, P. R. China PhD – 1996 Infectious Diseases Institute of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences Chongqing, P. R. China
Bio	After receiving his PhD, Dr. Ma was a guest researcher in the Department of Parasitology at Gifu University School of Medicine in Japan. From 1997 to 2002, he was a Visiting Scientist in the Critical Care Medicine Department of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He then spent a year doing research in the Department of Biology at Loyola University in Chicago before moving to New Orleans to become Assistant Professor of Research in the Section of Infectious Diseases at LSU School of Medicine. Dr. Ma is a member of the Korean Society for Parasitology, the American Society for Microbiology, and the International Organization for Mycoplasmology. He also serves on the boards of the International Association of Chinese Medical Specialists & Psychologists and the World Association of Chinese Sexologists.
Research Interests	Genomics and proteomics approaches to the pathogenesis of sexually transmitted pathogens (Mycoplasma genitalium, Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma spp. etc.). Drug resistance and immunopathogenesis of Pneumocystis.
Committees & Administrative Responsibilities	LSUHSC Scholarship and Student Award Committee LSUHSC Research Enhancement Fund Review Panel
Selected Publications	McGowin CL, Ma L, Martin DH, Pyles. Mycoplasma genitalium-encoded MG309 activates NF-kB via Toll-like receptor2/6 to elicit pro-inflammatory cytokine elaboration from human genital epithelial cells. Infection and Immunity 2008; in press. Ficarra M, Ibana JSA, Poretta C, Ma L, Myers L, Taylor S, Greene S, Smith B, Hagensee M, Martin DH, Quayle AJ. A distinct cellular profile is seen in the human endocervix during Chlamydia trachomatis infection. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology 2008 Sep 16 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 18798835 Ma L, Taylor S, Jensen JS, Myers L, Lillis, Martin DH. Short tandom repeat sequences in the Mycoplasma genitalium genome and their use in a multilocus genotyping system. BioMed Central Microbiology 2008; 8:130. Ma L, Jensen JS, Myers L, Burnett J, Welch M, Jia Q, Martin DH. Mycoplasma genitalium: An efficient strategy to generate genetic variation from a minimal genome. Molecular Microbiology 2007; 66:220-236. Ma L, Martin DH. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the rRNA operon and variable number of tandem repeats in the lipoprotein gene among Mycoplasma genitalium strains from clinical specimens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2004; 42:4876-4878. Ma L, Kutty G, Jia QY, Imamichi H, Huang L, Aztori C, Beckers P, Groner G, Beard CB, Kovacs JA. Analysis of variation in tandem repeats in the intron of the major surface glycoprotein expression site of the human form of Pneumocystis carinii. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2002; 186:1647-1654. Ma L, Imamichi H, Sukura A, Kovacs JA. Genetic divergence of the dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthase genes in Pneumocystis carinii from seven different host species. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2001;184:1358–1362.