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CURRICULUM VITAE

Macy Wood PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Division of Administration

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Froedtert Hospital
9200 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
2009 - 2013 B.S., Microbiology, , University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
2013 - 2015 M.S., Biology (Clinical Microbiology), University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
2015 - 2020 Ph.D., Immunology, Pathology, and Infectious Disease, . Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
2012 Summer research fellow, Microbiology Research and Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI
2012 - 2015 Medical technologist, Microbiology Research and Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI
2014 - 2015 Internship, Microbiological identification techniques, Microbiological identification, Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI
2014 - 2015 Internship molecular diagnostics and epidemiology, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI
2015 - 2020 Graduate research assistant, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
2018 Poster presentation: Macy G. Olson, Scot P. Ouellette, and Elizabeth A. Rucks. Development of a Proximity Labeling System to Map the Chlamydial Inclusion, Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference, Iowa City, IA
2019 Oral presentation: Macy G. Olson, Scot P. Ouellette, and Elizabeth A. Rucks. Identifying Novel C. trachomatis Inclusion Membrane Protein Interactions Using the APEX2 Proximity Labeling System, American Society for Microbiology-Missouri Valley Branch meeting, Omaha, NE
2019 Oral presentation: Macy G. Olson, Scot P. Ouellette, and Elizabeth A. Rucks. Identifying Novel C. trachomatis Inclusion Membrane Protein Interactions Using the APEX2 Proximity Labeling System, International Chlamydia, Basic Research Society, Seattle, WI
2020 - 2022 ASM CPEP Clinical Microbiology Fellowship, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
2020 Dissertation Defense: Macy G. (Olson) Wood, Ouellette, and Elizabeth A. Rucks. Insights into the chlamydial niche: the dynamic roles of inclusion membrane (Inc) proteins in Chlamydia trachomatis development., University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
2022 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, , Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226
2022 - Present Associate Medical Director, Microbiology Laboratory, Froedtert Health and Wisconsin Diagnostics Laboratory, Milwaukee, WI., Milwaukee, WI

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Certificates
Issued By Issue DateExpiration
Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM)
American Board of Medical Microbiology
2022
None
    

AWARDS AND HONORS:
2015 • 3rd place poster presentation; North Central Branch-ASM 2015 meeting
2016 • 2nd place oral presentation: North Central Branch-ASM 2016 meeting
2018 • 2nd place oral presentation: Missouri Valley Branch-ASM 2018 meeting
2019 - 2020 • Program of Excellence Assistantship, IGPBS, Immunology, Pathology & Infectious Disease Graduate Program

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
2016 - Present • American Society for Microbiology
2017 - 2020 Chlamydia Basic Research Society

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
2023 - Present Interim Wisconsin State Director, Interim Wisconsin State Director, South Central Association for Clinical Microbiology (SCACM)
2023 - Present Exam Validation subcommittee, American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM)
2024 - Present External advisory committee, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
Regional
It is normal flora, isn’t it?”, Regional SCACM spring meeting, 2024
 
Local
“An evaluation of the utility of Gastrointestinal pathogen panels”,, Wisconsin/Illinois SCACM fall meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 2023
“Hospital-acquired infections”,, Froedtert Health, Phlebotomy Training program, Milwaukee, WI, 2023
“Mycobacterium mucogenicum outbreak investigation”,, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene annual Mycobacterium tuberculosis meeting., Madison, WI, 2023
 

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Medical College of Wisconsin
2023 - Present Exam Validation subcommittee, American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM)
2023 - Present Interim Wisconsin State Director, South Central Association for Clinical Microbiology (SCACM)
2024 - Present Laboratory Technical Advisory Group (LabTAG)
2024 - Present External advisory committee, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
 

OTHER MENTORING ACTIVITIES:
2017 - 2019 Megan Goldammer, USD undergraduate honors student, Spring 2016-2017, Honors Thesis defended spring 2017. Alyssa Lawrence, High School Alliance student, 2018-2019 academic year, Research experience analyzing the function of a novel eukaryotic protein at the chlamydial inclusion
 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS :
2012 - 2020 CPEP Clinical Microbiology Fellow, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. Graduate research assistant, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. Medical technologist, Microbiology Research and Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI.


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Smy L, Ledeboer NA, Wood MG. 2024. At-home testing for respiratory viruses: a minireview of the current landscape. J Clin Microbiol 62:e00312-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00312-23
2. Aaron Nathan Barksdale, Macy G. Wood, Chad E. Branecki, Brooklin Zimmerman, Elizabeth Lyden, Thang T. Nguyen, Andrew Hatfield, Scott Koepsell, Jason Langenfeld, Wesley G. Zeger, Michael C. Wadman, Incidence of unknown COVID-19 infection in a cohort of emergency physicians and advance practice providers, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 64, 2023, Pages 155-160, ISSN 0735-6757, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2022.12.012. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675722007537) PMID: 36563499
3. Ryder, J., Van Schooneveld, T., Abdalhamid, B., Wood, M. Starlin, R., Gillett, G., Balfour, T., Pflueger L., Rupp, M. (2022). Nosocomial Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Amongst Vaccinated Healthcare Workers and Immunocompromised Patients on a Solid Organ Transplant Unit: Complexities of an Epidemiologic and Genomic Investigation. Infection control and Hospital Epidemiology. (Accepted 08-29-2022). PMID: 36082695
4. Musa. A*, Wood, M*, Rorie, A., May, S.A., Van De Graaff, J., Walenz, R., Nelson, A.J., Starlin, R., Fey, P.D., Poole, J.A. (2022). Split-Dosing of COVID-19 Vaccines Provides Non-Inferior Antibody Responsiveness to Conventional Vaccine Dosing. Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. (Accepted 08-21-2022; *equally contributing first authors)
5. Brailita, D. M., Cushman-Vokoun, A. M., Wood, M. G., Crowley, A. M., Rapp, S. A., Fey, P. D., Rupp, M. E., & Hewlett, A. L. (2022). Prolonged severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral shedding in lower-respiratory specimens of critically ill patients does not correlate with nasopharyngeal swab results. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 1–2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2022.139
6. Selby, L. M., Hewlett, A. L., Cawcutt, K. A., Wood, M. G., Balfour, T. L., Rupp, M. E., & Starlin, R. C. (2021). Effect of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mRNA vaccination in healthcare workers with high-risk coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) exposure. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 42(10), 1281–1282. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.193.
7. Jorgenson, L.M., Olson-Wood, M.G., Rucks, E.A. Shifting proteomes: limitations in using the BioID proximity labeling system to study SNARE protein trafficking during infection with intracellular pathogens. Pathogens and Disease 79(7), October 2021, ftab039, https://doi.org/10.1093/femspd/ftab039
8. Olson-Wood, M.G., Jorgenson, L.M., Rucks, E.A., and Ouellette, S.P. Inclusion membrane growth and composition is altered by overexpression of specific Incs from Chlamydia trachomatis L2 transformed strains. Infection and Immunity, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00094-21.
9. Olson, M.G., Ouellette, S.P., and Rucks, E.A., A meta-analysis of affinity purification-mass spectrometry experimental systems used to identify eukaryotic and chlamydial proteins at the Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion membrane. Journal of Proteomics, 2020. PMID: 31760040. DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2019.103595.
10. Olson, M.G., Widner, R.E., Jorgenson, L.M., Lawrence, A., Lagundzin, D., Woods, N.T., Ouellette, S.P., and Rucks, E.A., Proximity Labeling to Map Host-Pathogen Interactions at the Membrane of a Bacteria Containing Vacuole in Chlamydia trachomatis Infected Human Cells. Infection and Immunity, 2019. PMID: 31405957. DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00537-19.
11. Olson*, M. G., Jorgenson*, L.M., Widner, R.E., Rucks, E.A., (2019). Proximity Labeling of the Chlamydia trachomatis Inclusion Membrane. In A. Brown (Ed.), Chlamydia trachomatis: Methods and Protocols. (pp. 245-278) New York, NY: Springer New York. IN PRINT. *Equally contributing first authors. PMID: 31385281. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9694-0_17.
12. Olson, M. G., Goldammer, M., Gauliard, E., Ladant, D., and Ouellette, S. P. (2018). A Bacterial Adenylate Cyclase-Based Two-Hybrid System Compatible with Gateway® Cloning. In L. Oñate-Sánchez (Ed.), Two-Hybrid Systems: Methods and Protocols (pp. 75-96). New York, NY: Springer New York. PMID: 29855952. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7871-7_6.
13. Rucks, E.A., Olson, M.G., Jorgenson, L.M. Srinivasan, R.R., and Ouellette, S.P., Development of a Proximity Labeling System to Map the Chlamydia trachomatis Inclusion Membrane. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2017. 7: p. 40. PMID: 28261569. DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00040.