Professor and Laboratory Head
Gene Expression Laboratory
Molecular and Systems Physiology Laboratory
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Salk Institute Legacy Chair
Ayres, J.S. Host-encoded antivirulence defenses: host physiologies teach pathogens to play nice. (2024) Current Opinion in Immunology. 91:102472. DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2024.102472
Gallant, R.M., Snyder, J.M., Ayres, J.S. Fluoxetine promotes immunometabolic defenses to mediate host-pathogen cooperation during sepsis. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.18.567681
Fu, T., Huan, T., Rahman, G., Zhi, H., Xu, Z., Oh, T.G., Guo, J., Coulter, S., Tripathi, A., Martino, C., McCarville, J.L., Zhu, Q., Cayabyab, F., Low, B., He, M., Xing, S., Vargas, F., Yu, R.T., Atkins, A., Liddle, C., Ayres, J., Raffatellu, M., Dorrestein, P.C., Downes, M., Knight, R., Evans, R.M. Paired microbiome and metabolome analyses associate bile acid changes with colorectal cancer progression. (2023) Cell Reports.:112997 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112997
Redford, S.E., Varanasi, S.K., Sanchez, K.K., Thorup, N.R., Ayres, J.S. CD4+ T cells regulate sickness-induced anorexia and fat wasting during a chronic parasitic infection. (2023) Cell Reports.:112814 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112814
Chen, G.Y., Thorup, N.R., Miller, A.J., Li, Y.C., Ayres, J.S. Cooperation between physiological defenses and immune resistance produces asymptomatic carriage of a lethal bacterial pathogen. (2023) Science Advances. 9(25):eadg8719. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg8719
Ferrer, M., Anthony, T.G., Ayres, J.S., Biffi, G., Brown, J.C., Caan, B.J., Cespedes Feliciano, E.M., Coll, A.P., Dunne, R.F., Goncalves, M.D., Grethlein, J., Heymsfield, S.B., Hui, S., Jamal-Hanjani, M., Lam, J.M., Lewis, D.Y., McCandlish, D., Mustian, K.M., O'Rahilly, S., Perrimon, N., White, E.P., Janowitz, T. Cachexia: A systemic consequence of progressive, unresolved disease. (2023) Cell. 186(9):1824-1845. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.03.028
Sanchez, K.K., McCarville, J.L., Stengel, S.J., Snyder, J.M., Williams, A.E., Ayres, J.S. Preprint - Age-dependent roles of cardiac remodeling in sepsis defense and pathogenesis. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.14.532695
Chen, G.Y., Thorup, N.R., Miller, A.J., Li, Y.C., Ayres, J.S. Cooperation between physiological defenses and immune resistance produces asymptomatic carriage of a lethal bacterial pathogen. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.22.525099
Sanchez, K.K., Troha, K., Mu, A., Redford, S.E., McCarville, J.L., Insenga, A., Stengel, S., Lee, Y.M., Ayres, J.S. Chronic Leptin Deficiency Improves Tolerance of Physiological Damage and Host-Pathogen Cooperation during Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infection. (2022) Infect Immun.:e0024222 DOI: 10.1128/iai.00242-22
McCarville, J.L., Ayres, J.S. Virulence triggered allergies: Pseudomonas gets the Las laugh. (2022) Immunity. 55(5):824-826. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2022.04.011
Romero, A.R., Mu, A., Ayres, J.S. Adipose triglyceride lipase mediates lipolysis and lipid mobilization in response to iron-mediated negative energy balance. (2022) iScience. 25(3):103941. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103941
Troha, K., Ayres, J.S. Cooperative defenses during enteropathogenic infection. (2021) Current Opinion in Microbiology. 65:123-130. DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2021.11.003
Lee, Y.M., Mu, A., Wallace, M., Gengatharan, J.M., Furst, A.J., Bode, L., Metallo, C.M., Ayres, J.S. Microbiota control of maternal behavior regulates early postnatal growth of offspring. (2021) Science Advances. 7(5). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe6563
Chen, G.Y., Ayres, J.S. Beyond tug-of-war: Iron metabolism in cooperative host-microbe interactions. (2020) PLOS pathogens. 16(8):e1008698. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008698
Ayres, J.S. A metabolic handbook for the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020) Nat Metab. 2(7):572-585. DOI: 10.1038/s42255-020-0237-2
Ayres, J.S. Surviving COVID-19: A disease tolerance perspective. (2020) Science Advances. 6(18):eabc1518. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc1518
Ayres, J.S. The Biology of Physiological Health. (2020) Cell. 181(2):250-269. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.036
McCarville, J.L., Chen, G.Y., Cuevas, V.D., Troha, K., Ayres, J.S. Microbiota Metabolites in Health and Disease. (2020) Annual Review of Immunology. 38:147-170. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-071219-125715
Troha, K., Ayres, J.S. Metabolic Adaptations to Infections at the Organismal Level. (2020) Trends in Immunology. DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2019.12.001
Ayres, J.S. Immunometabolism of infections. (2019) Nature Reviews Immunology. DOI: 10.1038/s41577-019-0266-9
McCarville, J.L., Ayres, J.S. Host-Pathogen Relationship Advice: Fat Protects against a Broken Heart. (2019) Cell Metabolism. 30(3):409-411. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2019.08.007
Wallace, M., Green, C.R., Roberts, L.S., Lee, Y.M., McCarville, J.L., Sanchez-Gurmaches, J., Meurs, N., Gengatharan, J.M., Hover, J.D., Phillips, S.A., Ciaraldi, T.P., Guertin, D.A., Cabrales, P., Ayres, J.S., Nomura, D.K., Loomba, R., Metallo, C.M. Enzyme promiscuity drives branched-chain fatty acid synthesis in adipose tissues. (2018) Nature Chemical Biology. 14(11):1021-1031. DOI: 10.1038/s41589-018-0132-2
Sanchez, K.K., Chen, G.Y., Schieber, A.M.P., Redford, S.E., Shokhirev, M.N., Leblanc, M., Lee, Y.M., Ayres, J.S. Cooperative Metabolic Adaptations in the Host Can Favor Asymptomatic Infection and Select for Attenuated Virulence in an Enteric Pathogen. (2018) Cell. 175(1):146-158. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.07.016
Chen, G.Y., Ayres, J.S. When the Gut Gets Tough, the Enterocytes Get Going. (2018) Immunity. 48(5):837-839. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2018.04.036
McCarville, J.L., Ayres, J.S. Disease tolerance: concept and mechanisms. (2018) Current Opinion in Immunology. 50:88-93. DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2017.12.003
Lee, Y.M., Ayres, J.S. Decoding the intestinal epithelium cell by cell. (2018) Nature Immunology. 19(1):7-9. DOI: 10.1038/s41590-017-0011-0
Rao, S., Ayres, J.S. Resistance and tolerance defenses in cancer: Lessons from infectious diseases. (2017) Seminars in Immunology. 32:54-61. DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2017.08.004
Rauch, I., Deets, K.A., Ji, D.X., von Moltke, J., Tenthorey, J.L., Lee, A.Y., Philip, N.H., Ayres, J.S., Brodsky, I.E., Gronert, K., Vance, R.E. NAIP-NLRC4 Inflammasomes Coordinate Intestinal Epithelial Cell Expulsion with Eicosanoid and IL-18 Release via Activation of Caspase-1 and -8. (2017) Immunity. 46(4):649-659. DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2017.03.016
Rao, S., Schieber, A.M., O'Connor, C.P., Leblanc, M., Michel, D., Ayres, J.S. Pathogen-Mediated Inhibition of Anorexia Promotes Host Survival and Transmission. (2017) Cell. 168(3):503-516.e12. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.01.006
Ayres, J.S. Microbes Dress for Success: Tolerance or Resistance? (2017) Trends in Microbiology. 25(1):1-3. DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.11.006
Schieber, A.M., Ayres, J.S. Thermoregulation as a disease tolerance defense strategy. (2016) Pathog Dis. 74(9). DOI: 10.1093/femspd/ftw106
Ayres, J.S. Disease Tolerance Trick or Treat: Give Your Brain Something Good to Eat. (2016) Cell. 166(6):1368-70. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.034
Ayres, J.S. Cooperative Microbial Tolerance Behaviors in Host-Microbiota Mutualism. (2016) Cell. 165(6):1323-1331. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.049
Shen, R., Wang, B., Giribaldi, M.G., Ayres, J., Thomas, J.B., Montminy, M. Neuronal energy-sensing pathway promotes energy balance by modulating disease tolerance. (2016) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113(23):E3307-14. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606106113
Schieber, A.M., Lee, Y.M., Chang, M.W., Leblanc, M., Collins, B., Downes, M., Evans, R.M., Ayres, J.S. Disease tolerance mediated by microbiome E. coli involves inflammasome and IGF-1 signaling. (2015) Science. 350(6260):558-63. DOI: 10.1126/science.aac6468
Ayres, J.S. Inflammasome-microbiota interplay in host physiologies. (2013) Cell Host & Microbe. 14(5):491-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2013.10.013
Manzanillo, P.S., Ayres, J.S., Watson, R.O., Collins, A.C., Souza, G., Rae, C.S., Schneider, D.S., Nakamura, K., Shiloh, M.U., Cox, J.S. The ubiquitin ligase parkin mediates resistance to intracellular pathogens. (2013) Nature. 501(7468):512-6. DOI: 10.1038/nature12566
von Moltke, J., Ayres, J.S., Kofoed, E.M., Chavarría-Smith, J., Vance, R.E. Recognition of bacteria by inflammasomes. (2013) Annual Review of Immunology. 31:73-106. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-032712-095944
Ayres, J.S., Trinidad, N.J., Vance, R.E. Lethal inflammasome activation by a multidrug-resistant pathobiont upon antibiotic disruption of the microbiota. (2012) Nature Medicine. 18(5):799-806. DOI: 10.1038/nm.2729
Ayres, J.S., Vance, R.E. Cellular teamwork in antibacterial innate immunity. (2012) Nature Immunology. 13(2):115-7. DOI: 10.1038/ni.2212
Stone, E.F., Fulton, B.O., Ayres, J.S., Pham, L.N., Ziauddin, J., Shirasu-Hiza, M.M. The circadian clock protein timeless regulates phagocytosis of bacteria in Drosophila. (2012) PLOS pathogens. 8(1):e1002445. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002445
Ayres, J.S., Schneider, D.S. Tolerance of infections. (2012) Annual Review of Immunology. 30:271-94. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-020711-075030
Ayres, J.S., Schneider, D.S. The role of anorexia in resistance and tolerance to infections in Drosophila. (2009) PLOS Biology. 7(7):e1000150. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000150
Ayres, J.S., Schneider, D.S. A signaling protease required for melanization in Drosophila affects resistance and tolerance of infections. (2008) PLOS Biology. 6(12):2764-73. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060305
Schneider, D.S., Ayres, J.S. Two ways to survive infection: what resistance and tolerance can teach us about treating infectious diseases. (2008) Nature Reviews. Immunology. 8(11):889-95. DOI: 10.1038/nri2432
Gordon, M.D., Ayres, J.S., Schneider, D.S., Nusse, R. Pathogenesis of listeria-infected Drosophila wntD mutants is associated with elevated levels of the novel immunity gene edin. (2008) PLOS pathogens. 4(7):e1000111. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000111
Ayres, J.S., Freitag, N., Schneider, D.S. Identification of Drosophila mutants altering defense of and endurance to Listeria monocytogenes infection. (2008) Genetics. 178(3):1807-15. DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.083782
Shirasu-Hiza, M.M., Dionne, M.S., Pham, L.N., Ayres, J.S., Schneider, D.S. Interactions between circadian rhythm and immunity in Drosophila melanogaster. (2007) Current Biology. 17(10):R353-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.049
Schneider, D.S., Ayres, J.S., Brandt, S.M., Costa, A., Dionne, M.S., Gordon, M.D., Mabery, E.M., Moule, M.G., Pham, L.N., Shirasu-Hiza, M.M. Drosophila eiger mutants are sensitive to extracellular pathogens. (2007) PLOS pathogens. 3(3):e41. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0030041
Ayres, J.S., Schneider, D.S. Genomic dissection of microbial pathogenesis in cultured Drosophila cells. (2006) Trends in Microbiology. 14(3):101-4. DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.01.008
BA, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley