Journal Publications


Prevalence and impact of the KIT M541L variant in patients with mastocytosis
L.N. Dominguez Aldama, E. Karlins, X. Sun, D. Veltri, H.D. Komarow, I. Maric, D.D. Metcalfe, and M.C. Carter
Oncotarget, 15:521-531, 2024.

Chromosomal microarray analysis supplements exome sequencing to diagnose children with suspected inborn errors of immunity
B. Beers, M. Similuk, R. Ghosh, B. Seifert, L. Jamal, M. Kamen, M. Setzer, C. Jodarski, R. Duncan, D. Hunt, M. Mixer, W. Cao, W. Bi, D. Veltri, E. Karlins, L. Zhang, Z. Li, A. Oler, K. Jevtich, Y. Yu, H. Hullfish, B. Bielekova, P. Frischmeyer-Guerrerio, A. Do, L. Huryn, K. Olivier, H. Su, J. Lyons, C. Zerbe, V. Rao, M. Keller, A. Freeman, S. Holland, L. Franco, M. Walkiewicz, J. Yan
Frontiers in Immunology, 14:1172004, 2023.

Clinical exome sequencing of 1000 families with complex immune phenotypes: Toward comprehensive genomic evaluations
M. Similuk, J. Yan, R. Ghosh, A. Oler, L. Franco, M. Setzer, M. Kamen, C. Jodarski, T. DiMaggio, J. Davis, R. Gore, L. Jamal, A. Borges, N. Gentile, J. Niemela, C. Lowe, K. Jevtich, Y. Yu, H. Hullfish, A. Hsu, C. Hong, P. Littel, B. Seifert, J. Milner, J. Johnston, X. Cheng, Z. Li, D. Veltri, K. Huang, K. Kaladi, J. Barnett, L. Zhang, N. Vlasenko, Y. Fan, E. Karlins, S.R. Ganakammal, R. Gilmore, E. Tran, A. Yun, J. Mackey, S. Yazhuk, J. Lack, V. Kuram, W. Cao, S. Huse, K. Frank, G. Fahle, S. Rosenzweig, Y. Su, S. Hwang, W. Bi, J. Bennett, I. Myles, S. De Ravin, I. Fuss, W. Strober, B. Bielekova, A. Almeida de Jesus, R. Goldbach-Mansky, P. Williamson, K. Kumar, C. Dempsy, P. Frischmeyer-Guerrerio, R. Fisch, H. Bolan, D. Metcalfe, H. Komarow, M. Carter, K. Druey, I. Sereti, L. Dropulic, A. Klion, P. Khoury, E. O'Connell, N. Holland-Thomas, T. Brown, D. McDermott, P. Murphy, V. Bundy, M. Keller, C. Peng, H. Kim, S. Norman, O. Delmonte, E. Kang, H. Su, H. Malech, A. Freeman, C. Zerbe, G. Uzel, J. Bergerson, V.K. Rao, K. Olivier, J. Lyons, A. Lisco, J. Cohen, M. Lionakis, L. Biesecker, S. Xirasagar, L. Notarangelo, S. Holland, M. Walkiewicz
J. of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 150(4):947-954, 2022.

PhenoRerank: A re-ranking model for phenotypic concept recognition pre-trained on human phenotype ontology
S. Yan, L. Luo, PT. Lai, D. Veltri, A. Oler, S. Xirasagar, R. Ghosh, M. Similuk, P.N. Robinson, Z. Lu.
J. of Biomedical Informatics, 129:104059, 2022.

PhenoTagger: A Hybrid Method for Phenotype Concept Recognition using Human Phenotype Ontology
L. Luo, S. Yan, PT. Lai, D. Veltri, A. Oler, S. Xirasagar, R. Ghosh, M. Similuk, P.N. Robinson, Z. Lu.
Bioinformatics, btab019:1-7, 2021.

Structure and function of a malaria transmission blocking vaccine targeting Pfs230 and Pfs230-Pfs48/45 proteins
K. Singh, M. Burkhardt, S. Nakuchima, R. Herrera, O. Muratova, A.G. Gittis, E. Kelnhofer, K. Reiter, M. Smelkinson, D. Veltri, B.J. Swihart, R. Shimp Jr., V. Nguyen, B. Zhang, N.J. MacDonald, P.E. Duffy, D.N. Garboczi, D.L. Narum
Communications Biology, 3:395, 2020.

Genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals cancer cell resistance to NK cells induced by NK-derived IFN-gamma
Xiaoxuan Zhuang, Daniel P. Veltri, and Eric O. Long.
Frontiers Immunology, 10:2879, 2019.

Global distribution of mating types shows limited opportunities for mating across populations of fungi causing boxwood blight disease
Jo Anne Crouch, Björn Gehesquière, Catalina Salgado-Salazar, Daniel Veltri, Kurt Heungens, Martha Malapi-Wight, and Yazmín Rivera.
Fungal Genetics and Biology, Vol. 131 Article: 103246, 2019.

Hypomorphic CARD11 mutations associated with diverse immunologic phenotypes with or without atopic disease
B. Dorjbal, J.R. Stinson, C.A. Ma, M.A. Weinreich, B. Miraghazadeh, J.M. Hartberger, S. Frey-Jakobs, S. Weidinger, L. Moebus, A. Franke, A.A. Schäffer, A. Bulashevska, S. Fuchs, S. Ehl, S. Limaye, P.D. Arkwright, T.A. Briggs, C. Langley, C. Bethune, A.F. Whyte, Hana Alachkar, S. Nejentsev, T. DiMaggio, C.G. Nelson, K.D. Stone, M. Nason, E.H. Brittain, A.J. Oler, D.P. Veltri, T.R. Leahy, N. Conlon, M.C. Poli, A. Borzutzky, J.I. Cohen, J. Davis, M.P. Lambert, N. Romberg, K.E. Sullivan, K. Paris, A.F. Freeman, L. Lucas, S. Chandrasakan, S. Savic, S. Hambleton, S.Y. Patel, M.B. Jordan, A. Theos, J. Lebensburger, T.P. Atkinson, T.R. Torgerson, I.K. Chinn, J.D. Milner, B. Grimbacher, M.C. Cook, and A.L. Snow.
J. of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 143(4):1482-1495, 2019.

Genome analysis of the ubiquitous boxwood pathogen Pseudonectria foliicola
Yazmín Rivera, Catalina Salgado-Salazar, Daniel Veltri, Martha Malapi-Wight and Jo Anne Crouch.
PeerJ 6:e5401, 2018.

Genome wide analysis of the transition to pathogenic lifestyles in Magnaporthales fungi
Ning Zhang, Guohong Cai, Dana C. Price, Huan Qiu, Pierre Gladieux, Yong-Hwan Lee, Chang-Hyun Khang, Jie Zhu, Jo Anne Crouch, Daniel Veltri, Jennifer H. Wisecaver, Marc-Henri LeBrun, Jing Luo, Bradley Hillman and Debashish Bhattacharya.
Scientific Reports 8 Article number: 5862, 2018.

Deep learning improves antimicrobial peptide recognition
Daniel Veltri, Uday Kamath and Amarda Shehu.
Bioinformatics 34(16):2740–2747, 2018.

Improving Recognition of Antimicrobial Peptides and their Target Selectivity through Machine Learning and Genetic Programming
Daniel Veltri, Uday Kamath and Amarda Shehu.
Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 14(2):300-313, 2017.

SimpleSynteny: a web-based tool for visualization of microsynteny across multiple species
Daniel Veltri, Martha Malapi-Wight, and Jo Anne Crouch.
Nucleic Acids Research 44(W1):W41-W45, 2016.

LAMP Detection Assays for Boxwood Blight Pathogens: A Comparative Genomics Approach
Martha Malapi-Wight, Jill E. Demers, Daniel Veltri, Robert E. Marra and Jo Anne Crouch.
Scientific Reports 6 Article number: 26140, 2016.

Polymorphic SSR markers for Plasmopara obducens (Peronosporaceae), the newly emergent downy mildew pathogen of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae)
Catalina Salgado-Salazar, Yazmín Rivera, Daniel Veltri, and Jo Anne Crouch.
Applications in Plant Sciences 3(11):apps.1500073, 2015.

Draft genome sequences of Chrysoporthe austroafricana, Diplodia scrobiculata, Fusarium nygamai, Leptographium lundbergii, Limonomyces culmigenus, Stagonosporopsis tanaceti and Thielaviopsis punctulata
B.D. Wingfield, P.K. Ades, F.A. Al-Naemi, L.A. Beirn, W. Bihon, J.A. Crouch, Z. Wilhelm de Beer, L. De Vos, T.A. Duong, C.J. Fields, G. Fourie, A.M. Kanzi, M. Malapi-Wight, S.J. Pethybridge, O. Radwan, G. Rendon, B. Slippers, Q.C. Santana, E.T. Steenkamp, P.W.J. Taylor, N. Vaghefi, N.A. van der Merwe, D. Veltri, and M.J. Wingfield.
IMA Fungus 6(1):231-246, 2015.

Draft genome sequence of Dactylonectria macrodidyma, a plant pathogenic fungus in the Nectriaceae
Martha Malapi-Wight, Catalina Salgado-Salazar, Jill Demers, Daniel Veltri, and Jo Anne Crouch.
ASM Genome Announcements 3(2):e00278-15, 2015.

Are Nicotinic Receptors Coupled to G Proteins?
Nadine Kabbani, Jacob C. Nordman, Brian Corgiat, Daniel Veltri, Amarda Shehu and David J. Adams.
BioEssays 35(12):1025-1034, 2013.

Menthol Inhibits 5-HT3 Receptor-Mediated Currents
Abrar Ashoor, Jacob C. Nordman, Daniel Veltri, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Lina Al Kury, Yaroslav Shuba, Mohamed Mahgoub, Frank C. Howarth, Carl Lupica, Amarda Shehu, Nadine Kabbani and Murat Oz.
J. of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 347(2):398-402, 2013.

Menthol Binding and Inhibition of Alpha7-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
Abrar Ashoor, Jacob C. Nordman, Daniel Veltri, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Lina Al Kury, Yaroslav Shuba, Mohamed Mahgoub, Frank C. Howarth, Carl Lupica, Amarda Shehu, Nadine Kabbani and Murat Oz.
PLoS ONE 8(7):e67674, 2013.

Peer-Reviewed Conference/Workshop Papers


Guiding Exploration of Antimicrobial Peptide Space with a Deep Neural Network
Manpriya Dua, Daniel Veltri, Barney Bishop and Amarda Shehu.
Artificial Intelligence Techniques for BioMedicine and HealthCare Workshop (AIBH2018). Madrid, Spain, 2018.

A Novel Method to Improve Recognition of Antimicrobial Peptides through Distal Sequence-based Features
Daniel Veltri, Uday Kamath and Amarda Shehu.
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM2014). Belfast, UK, 2014.

Knowledge-based Search and Multi-objective Filters: Proposed Structural Models of GPCR Dimerization
Irina Hashmi, Daniel Veltri, Nadine Kabbani and Amarda Shehu.
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (BCB2014). Newport Beach, CA, 2014.

Binary Response Models for Recognition of Antimicrobial Peptides
Elena G. Randou, Daniel Veltri and Amarda Shehu.
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (BCB2013). Washington DC, 2013.

Systematic Analysis of Global Features and Model Building for Recognition of Antimicrobial Peptides
Elena G. Randou, Daniel Veltri and Amarda Shehu.
IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS2013). New Orleans, LA, 2013.

Physicochemical Determinants of Antimicrobial Activity
Daniel Veltri and Amarda Shehu.
5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB2013). Honolulu, HI, 2013.

Extended Abstracts and Posters


Chromosomal microarray analysis reveals copy number variants contribute to disease in children with suspected inborn errors of immunity
B. Beers, M. Similuk, R. Ghosh, B. Seifert, W. Cao, D. Veltri, S. Holland, L. Franco, M. Walkiewicz, J. Yan
Clinical Immunology, 250:109449, 2023.

Exploring Target Specificity of Antimicrobial Peptides Through Deep Learning Embeddings
L. Losin, D. Veltri
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (BCB2021). Gainesville, FL, 2021.

The NIAID clinical genomics data repository, Genomic Research Integration System (GRIS): Streamlined data capture, standardization, integration, and analysis to enable identification of immune-related genetic variants for clinical reporting and genomics research
S. Xirasagar, AJ. Oler, Z. Li, X. Cheng, K. Huang, D. Veltri, M. Similuk, Y. Zhang, C. Hong, M. Walkiewicz, J. Johnson, J. Barnett, L. Zhang, Y. Fan, O. Juarez-Espinoza, M. Lenardo, and JD. Milner
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG2018). San Diego, CA, 2018.

Balancing Confidentiality and Sharing of Genomic and Phenotypic Data in a Clinical Research System
D. Veltri, Z. Li, S. Xirasagar, A.J. Oler, Z. Cheng, K. Huang, J. Barnett, L. Zhang, O. Juarez-Espinosa, Y. Fan, M. Similuk, M. Walkiewicz, C. Hong, J. Johnson, and J.D. Milner.
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (BCB2018). Washington, DC, 2018.

Genomic Research Integration System (GRIS): From recording to reporting, a comprehensive solution for clinical genomics research.
A.J. Oler, S. Xirasagar, Z. Li, Z. Cheng, K. Huang, D. Veltri, D. Kaminsky, M. Similuk, Y. Zhang, J. Johnson, C. Hong, and J. Milner.
2017 NIH Research Festival. Bethesda, MD, 2017.

Predicting Robust Candidates for a Boxwood Blight Immunoassay: An Automated Computational Workflow with Broad Applications for Phytopathology
D. Veltri, D. Zhang, D. Luster, M. McMahon, and J.A. Crouch.
2016 APS Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL, 2016.

Performing Genomic Comparison with Tools from the SimpleSynteny Server
D. Veltri, M. Malapi-Wight, and J.A. Crouch.
2016 APS Potomac Division Meeting. Richmond, VA, 2016.

A Computational and Statistical Framework for Screening Novel Antimicrobial Peptides
Daniel Veltri.
George Mason University School of Systems Biology Student Research Day. Manassas, VA, 2015.

SimpleSynteny: A web-based tool for genome comparison
D. Veltri, M. Malapi-Wight, and J.A. Crouch.
Phytobiomes 2015: Designing a New Paradigm for Crop Improvement. Washington D.C., 2015.

Intra-miR-ExploreR, a novel bioinformatics platform for integrated discovery of miRNA:mRNA gene regulatory networks
Surajit Bhattacharya, Daniel Veltri, Atit Patel and Daniel Cox
11th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications. Norfolk, VA, 2015.

SimpleSynteny: An accessible tool for genome comparison
D. Veltri, M. Malapi-Wight, and J.A. Crouch.
28th Fungal Genetics Conference. Pacific Grove, CA, 2015.

Rearrangements of the MAT1 gene cluster architecture in the genus Calonectria
M. Malapi-Wight, D. Veltri, Y. Rivera and J.A. Crouch.
28th Fungal Genetics Conference. Pacific Grove, CA, 2015.

Comparative Genomics of the Boxwood Blight System: Insights into the Global Diversity of the Mating-Type Locus
M. Malapi-Wight, E. Ismaiel, N. Saied, Y. Rivera, D. Veltri, B. Gehesquiere, K. Heungens, and J.A. Crouch.
APS-CPS Joint Meeting. Minneapolis, MN, 2014.

Physicochemical Features for Recognition of Antimicrobial Peptides
Daniel Veltri and Amarda Shehu.
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW2012). Philadelphia, PA, 2012.

Dissertation / Thesis


A Computational and Statistical Framework for Screening Novel Antimicrobial Peptides
Daniel Veltri
Ph.D. Dissertation
Committee: Amarda Shehu (adviser), Jeff Solka (co-adviser), Iosif Vaisman and Ben Matthews.
George Mason University, Fall 2015.

Physicochemical Feature Selection for Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptides
Daniel Veltri
M.S. Thesis
Committee: Amarda Shehu (adviser), Barney Bishop and Iosif Vaisman.
George Mason University, Spring 2013.