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Current Fellow

Kai Rogers, MD, PhD

C272 GH
1-319-356-3996, pager #2400
Kai-Rogers@uiowa.edu

Education and Training:

BS, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2010-2014
MD and PhD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 2014-2021
Residency, CP, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 2021-2023 and will continue after Fellowship

Publications:

Rogers KJ, Jones-Burrage S, Maury W, Mukhopadhyay S. (2020) TF protein of Sindbis virus antagonizes host type I interferon responses in a palmitoylation-dependent manner. Virology. 2020;542:63-70. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2020.01.001

Rogers KJ, Shtanko O, Vijay R, Mallinger LN, Joyner CJ, Galinski MR, Butler NS, Maury W. (2020) Acute Plasmodium Infection Promotes Interferon-Gamma-Dependent Resistance to Ebola Virus Infection. Cell Rep. 2020;30(12):4041-4051.e4. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.104

Rogers KJ, Shtanko O, Stunz LL, Malinger LN, Arkee T, Schmidt ME, Bohan D, Brunton B, White JM, Varga SM, Butler NS, Bishop GA, Maury W. (2020) Frontline Science: CD40 signaling restricts RNA virus replication in Mϕs, leading to rapid innate immune control of acute virus infection [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 22]. J Leukoc Biol. 2020;10.1002/JLB.4HI0420-285RR. doi:10.1002/JLB.4HI0420-285RR

Vijay R, Guthmiller JJ, Sturtz AJ, Surette FA, Rogers KJ, Sompallae RR, Li F, Pope RL, Chan J, Rivera F, Andrew D, Webb L, Maury WJ, Xue H, Engwerda CR, McCarthy JS, Boyle MJ, Butler NS. (2020) Infection-induced plasmablasts are a nutrient sink that impairs humoral immunity to malaria. Nat Immunol. 2020;21(7):790-801. doi:10.1038/s41590-020-0678-5

Rogers KJ and Schlueter AJ. (2021) Two cases of brand-specific albumin sensitivity in patients receiving regular therapeutic plasma exchange. Transfus Apher Sci. 2021 Jan 2:103047. doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2020.103047

Kai J Rogers, Rahul Vijay, and Noah S. Butler. (2021) Anti-malarial humoral immunity: the long and short of it. Microbes and Infection. 2021, 104807, ISSN 1286-4579. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2021.104807

Rahul Vijay, Jenna J. Guthmiller, Alexandria J. Sturtz, Sequoia Crooks, Jordan T. Johnson, Lei Li, Linda Yu-Ling Lan, Rosemary L. Pope, Yani Chen, Kai J. Rogers, Nirmal Dutta, Jason E. Toombs, Mary E. Wilson, Patrick C. Wilson, Wendy Maury, Rolf A. Brekken, Noah S. Butler. Hemolysis-associated phosphatidylserine exposure promotes polyclonal plasmablast differentiation. J Exp Med 7 June 2021; 218 (6): e20202359. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20202359

Dana Bohan, Hanorah Van Ert, Natalie Ruggio, Kai J Rogers, Mohammad Badreddine, José A Aguilar Briseño, Jonah M Elliff, Roberth Anthony Rojas Chavez, Boning Gao, Tomasz Stokowy, Eleni Christakou, Petri Kursula, David Micklem, Gro Gausdal, Hillel Haim, John Minna, James B Lorens, Wendy Maury. Phosphatidylserine receptors enhance SARS-CoV-2 infection. PLoS Pathog 2021 Nov 19;17(11):e1009743. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009743. eCollection 2021 Nov.

Judith Leon, Anna E Merrill, Kai Rogers, Julie Kurt, Spencer Dempewolf, Alexandra Ehlers, J Brooks Jackson, C Michael Knudson. SARS-CoV-2 antibody changes in patients receiving COVID-19 convalescent plasma from normal and vaccinated donors. Transfus Apher Sci 2021 Nov 23;103326. doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2021.103326.

Van Ert HA, Bohan DW, Rogers K, Fili M, Rojas Chávez RA, Qing E, Han C, Dempewolf S, Hu G, Schwery N, Sevcik K, Ruggio N, Boyt D, Pentella MA, Gallagher T, Jackson JB, Merrill AE, Knudson CM, Brown GD, Maury W, Haim H. Limited Variation between SARS-CoV-2-Infected Individuals in Domain Specificity and Relative Potency of the Antibody Response against the Spike Glycoprotein. Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Feb 23;10(1):e0267621. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02676-21. Epub 2022 Jan 26.

Rogers KJ, Merrill AE. Pain, Pain, Go Away: Exploring the Role of the Immune System in Regulating Chronic Pain. Clin Chem. 2022 Jun 1;68(6):863. doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvac013.

Kai J Rogers, and Sharathkumar Bhagavathi. A case of secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis presenting with severe dyserythropoiesis in a patient with autoimmune hemolysis. Case Reports in Hematology, vol. 2022, Article ID 8505823, 4 pages, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8505823.

Rogers KJ, Halvorson TS, Krasowski MD, Merrill AE. Evaluating the utility of a two-assay serological algorithm for hepatitis C screening in a low prevalence population. J Clin Lab Anal. 2023 Apr;37(7):e24887. doi: 10.1002/jcla.24887. Epub 2023 Apr 27. PMID: 37106580; PMCID: PMC10220299.

Kai J Rogers, Ibrahim M Abukhiran, Sergei Syrbu, Michael Tomasson, Melissa Bates, Prajwal Dhakal, and Sharathkumar Bhagavathi. Utilizing digital pathology and immunohistochemistry of p53 as an adjunct to molecular testing in myeloid disorders. Academic Pathology. 2023;10(1). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acpath.2022.100064.

Kai J Rogers, Meredith G Parsons, Christopher S Strouse, Umar Farooq, and Annette J Schlueter. A tale of two peripheral blood CD34+ cell counts: Evaluation of unexpectedly high values prior to peripheral stem cell collection. Transfusion and Apheresis Science : official journal of the World Apheresis Association : official journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis, 103624. 14 Dec. 2022, doi:10.1016/j.transci.2022.103624

Udhayvir S Grewal; Kai J Rogers; Usha Perepu. Macrothrombocytopenia in DiGeorge Syndrome (del 22q11.2). ASH Image Bank. Published 03/16/2023.

Rogers KJ, Krasowski MD. A dataset examining the impact of direct electronic medical record interfacing on the accuracy of point-of-care urinalysis results. Data Brief. 2023 Mar 1;47:109012. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109012.

Rogers KJ, Richards PT, Zacharias ZR, Stunz LL, Vijay R, Butler NS, Legge KL, Bishop GA, Maury W. CD40 Signaling in Mice Elicits a Broad Antiviral Response Early during Acute Infection with RNA Viruses. Viruses. 2023 Jun 12;15(6):1353. doi: 10.3390/v15061353. PMID: 37376652.

Kai J. Rogers, Sarah L. Mott, Meredith G. Parsons, Annette J. Schlueter. Use of subgroup-specific hematopoietic stem cell collection efficiencies to improve truncation calculations for large volume leukapheresis procedures. Journal of Clinical Apheresis. https://doi.org/10.1002/jca.22077.