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Patents 

Jeanette Anthea Richards, Thomas Larry Dawson, Mary Jane Combs, Olga Dueva-Koganov, Michael Koganov
Compositions and methods for treating skin
Patent US Office, Application number: 8,790,720

Thomas Larry Dawson, Yvonne Marie Deangelis, Kevin Robert Johnstone, Joseph Robert Kaczvinsky Jr, Charles Winston Saunders, Richard Lee Walter Jr
Fungal Lipase
Patent US Office, Application number: 6,897,033

Malassezia research 

2020

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Sundar Ram Sankaranarayanan1, Giuseppe Ianiri2†, Marco A Coelho2,
Md Hashim Reza1, Bhagya C Thimmappa1‡, Promit Ganguly1,
Rakesh Netha Vadnala3, Sheng Sun2, Rahul Siddharthan3, Christian Tellgren-Roth4,
Thomas L Dawson Jnr5,6, Joseph Heitman2*, Kaustuv Sanyal1*​

Loss of centromere function drives karyotype evolution in closely related Malassezia species
bioRxiv

2019

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S Ramasamy, E Barnard, TL Dawson Jr, H Li
The role of the skin microbiota in acne pathophysiology
British Journal of Dermatology

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Cheryl Kit Mun Leong, Bettina Schmid, Min Jet Toi, Joleen Goh, Philipp P Bosshard, Martin Glatz, Thomas Dawson
Geographical and ethnic differences influence culturable commensal yeast diversity on healthy skin
Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 1891

Thomas L Dawson Jr
Malassezia: The forbidden kingdom opens
Cell host & microbe 25 (3), 345-347

2018

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Sundar Ram Sankaranarayanan, Giuseppe Ianiri, Md Hashim Reza, Bhagya C Thimmappa, Promit Ganguly, Marco A Coelho, Sheng Sun, Rahul Siddharthan, Christian Tellgren-Roth, Thomas L Dawson, Joseph Heitman, Kaustuv Sanyal
Centromere-mediated chromosome break drives karyotype evolution in closely related Malassezia species
bioRxiv, 533794

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Kevin D Hyde, Abdullah MS Al-Hatmi, Birgitte Andersen, Teun Boekhout, Walter Buzina, Thomas L Dawson, Dan C Eastwood, EB Gareth Jones, Sybren de Hoog, Yingqian Kang, Joyce E Longcore, Eric HC McKenzie, Jacques F Meis, Laetitia Pinson-Gadais, Achala R Rathnayaka, Florence Richard-Forget, Marc Stadler, Bart Theelen, Benjarong Thongbai, Clement KM Tsui
The world’s ten most feared fungi
Fungal diversity 93 (1), 161-194

Hao Li, Bee Na Goh, Wooi Keong Teh, Zhenze Jiang, Joleen Pei Zhen Goh, Amelia Goh, Guangxi Wu, Shawn S Hoon, Manfred Raida, Andrea Camattari, Liang Yang, Anthony J O’Donoghue, Thomas L Dawson Jr
Skin commensal Malassezia globosa secreted protease attenuates Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation
Journal of Investigative Dermatology 138 (5), 1137-1145

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Thomas L Dawson Jr
The Forbidden Kingdom: Fungi and the Skin Microbiome
한국미생물학회 학술대회논문집, 75-75

Bart Theelen, Claudia Cafarchia, Georgios Gaitanis, Ioannis Dimitrios Bassukas, Teun Boekhout, Thomas L Dawson Jr
Malassezia ecology, pathophysiology, and treatment
Medical mycology 56 (suppl_1), S10-S25

2017

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EA Grice, TL Dawson
Host–microbe interactions: Malassezia and human skin
Current opinion in microbiology 40, 81-87

S de Hoog, M Monod, T Dawson, T Boekhout, P Mayser, Y Graeser
Skin Fungi from Colonization to Infection.
The Fungal Kingdom, Chapter 41

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Yafeng Zhu, Pär G Engström, Christian Tellgren-Roth, Charles D Baudo, John C Kennell, Sheng Sun, R Blake Billmyre, Markus S Schröder, Anna Andersson, Tina Holm, Benjamin Sigurgeirsson, Guangxi Wu, Sundar Ram Sankaranarayanan, Rahul Siddharthan, Kaustuv Sanyal, Joakim Lundeberg, Björn Nystedt, Teun Boekhout, Thomas L Dawson Jr, Joseph Heitman, Annika Scheynius, Janne Lehtiö
Proteogenomics produces comprehensive and highly accurate protein-coding gene annotation in a complete genome assembly of Malassezia sympodialis
Nucleic acids research 45 (5), 2629-2643

Teun Boekhout, Anna Kolecka, Bart Theelen, Claudia Cafarchia, Thomas L Dawson, Malassezia Genome Consortium
Skin Inhabiting Malassezia Yeasts: Biodiversity, Identification, Epidemiology and Clinical 
한국미생물학회 학술대회논문집, 136-136

2015

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Guangxi Wu, He Zhao, Chenhao Li, Menaka Priyadarsani Rajapakse, Wing Cheong Wong, Jun Xu, Charles W Saunders, Nancy L Reeder, Raymond A Reilman, Annika Scheynius, Sheng Sun, Blake Robert Billmyre, Wenjun Li, Anna Floyd Averette, Piotr Mieczkowski, Joseph Heitman, Bart Theelen, Markus S Schröder, Paola Florez De Sessions, Geraldine Butler, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Teun Boekhout, Niranjan Nagarajan, Thomas L Dawson Jr
Genus-wide comparative genomics of Malassezia delineates its phylogeny, physiology, and niche adaptation on human skin
PLoS genetics 11 (11), e1005614

JR Schwartz, ES Johnson, TL Dawson Jr
Shampoos for Normal Scalp Hygiene and Dandruff​
Cosmetic Dermatology: Products and Procedures 2, 124-131

2014

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Theodore C White, Keisha Findley, Thomas L Dawson, Annika Scheynius, Teun Boekhout, Christina A Cuomo, Jun Xu, Charles W Saunders
Fungi on the Skin: Dermatophytes and Malassezia
Cold spring harbor perspectives in medicine 4 (8), a019802

Sheng Sun, Ferry Hagen, Jun Xu, Tom Dawson, Joseph Heitman, James Kronstad, Charles Saunders, Teun Boekhout
10 Ecogenomics of Human and Animal Basidiomycetous Yeast Pathogens
The ecological genomics of fungi, 215

2013

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Anastasia Gioti, Björn Nystedt, Wenjun Li, Jun Xu, Anna Andersson, Anna F Averette, Karin Münch, Xuying Wang, Catharine Kappauf, Joanne M Kingsbury, Bart Kraak, Louise A Walker, Henrik J Johansson, Tina Holm, Janne Lehtiö, Jason E Stajich, Piotr Mieczkowski, Regine Kahmann, John C Kennell, Maria E Cardenas, Joakim Lundeberg, Charles W Saunders, Teun Boekhout, Thomas L Dawson, Carol A Munro, Piet WJ de Groot, Geraldine Butler, Joseph Heitman, Annika Scheynius
Genomic Insights into the Atopic Eczema-Associated Skin Commensal Yeast Malassezia sympodialis​
MBio 4 (1), e00572-12

2010

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J Xu, T Boekhout, Y DeAngelis, T Dawson, CW Saunders
Genomics and Pathophysiology: Dandruff as a Paradigm
Malassezia and the Skin, 253-269

2010

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​James R. Schwartz, Caroline W. Cardin, Yvonne M. DeAngelis, and Thomas L. Dawson, Jr.
Textbook of Cosmetic Dermatology, Fourth Edition, 
CRC Press, Textbook of Cosmetic Dermatology, 14-26

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Rodney D Sinclair, James R Schwartz, Heather L Rocchetta, Thomas L Dawson Jr, Brian K Fisher, Knut Meinert, Elizabeth A Wilder
Genomics and Pathophysiology: Dandruff as a Paradigm​
Malassezia and the Skin, 253-269

2009

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Rodney D Sinclair, James R Schwartz, Heather L Rocchetta, Thomas L Dawson Jr, Brian K Fisher, Knut Meinert, Elizabeth A Wilder
Dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis adversely affect hair quality
European Journal of Dermatology 19 (4), 410-411

2007

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TL Dawson Jr
Malassezia globosa and restricta: breakthrough understanding of the etiology and treatment of dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis through whole-genome analysis
Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings 12 (2), 15-19

Jun Xu, Charles W Saunders, Ping Hu, Raymond A Grant, Teun Boekhout, Eiko E Kuramae, James W Kronstad, Yvonne M DeAngelis, Nancy L Reeder, Kevin R Johnstone, Meredith Leland, Angela M Fieno, William M Begley, Yiping Sun, Martin P Lacey, Tanuja Chaudhary, Thomas Keough, Lien Chu, Russell Sears, Bo Yuan, Thomas L Dawson
Dandruff-associated Malassezia genomes reveal convergent and divergent virulence traits shared with plant and human fungal pathogens
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (47), 18730-18735

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Yvonne DeAngelis, James Schwartz, Ying Biossy, Thomas Dawson
The structure and function of stratum corneum and scalp barrier in dandruff genesis
International Journal of Cosmetic Science 29 (3)

Yvonne M DeAngelis, Charles W Saunders, Kevin R Johnstone, Nancy L Reeder, Christal G Coleman, Joseph R Kaczvinsky Jr, Celeste Gale, Richard Walter, Marlene Mekel, Martin P Lacey, Thomas W Keough, Angela Fieno, Raymond A Grant, Bill Begley, Yiping Sun, Gary Fuentes, R Scott Youngquist, Jun Xu, Thomas L Dawson Jr
Isolation and expression of a Malassezia globosa lipase gene, LIP1s
Journal of Investigative Dermatology 127 (9), 2138-2146

2006

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FAN Wei-xin, DAI Ye-qin, JR Schwartz, TL Dawson Jr, Dianna Kenneally, Eileen Wang
Pityriasis capitis and zinc pyridinethione
Journal of Clinical Dermatology, 36

TL Dawson Jr
Malassezia and seborrheic dermatitis: etiology and treatment.
Journal of cosmetic science 57 (2), 181

2005

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Byung In Ro, Thomas L Dawson
The role of sebaceous gland activity and scalp microfloral metabolism in the etiology of seborrheic dermatitis and dandruff
Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings 10 (3), 194-197

Yvonne M DeAngelis, Christina M Gemmer, Joseph R Kaczvinsky, Dianna C Kenneally, James R Schwartz, Thomas L Dawson Jr
Three etiologic facets of dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis: Malassezia fungi, sebaceous lipids, and individual sensitivity
Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings 10 (3), 295-297

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R Batra, T Boekhout, E Guého, FJ Cabañes, TL Dawson Jr, AK Gupta
Malassezia Baillon, emerging clinical yeasts
FEMS yeast research 5 (12), 1101-1113

S Shiel, T Dawson
Malassezia globosa consumes saturated, not unsaturated, fatty acids–role of lipid metabolism in seborrheic dermatitis (dandruff)
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology 19

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T Dawson, C Gemmer, Y DeAngelis, J Kaczvinsky
DANDRUFF AND SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS LIKELY RESULT FROM SCALP BARRIER BREACH AND IRRITATION INDUCED BY MALASSEZIA METABOLITES, PARTICULARLY FREE FATTY ACIDS: P533
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 52 (3)

2004

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AK Gupta, R Batra, R Bluhm, T Boekhout, TL Dawson Jr
Skin diseases associated with Malassezia species
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 51 (5), 785-798

Yvonne DeAngelis, Meredith Leland, Teun Boekhout, Joseph Kaczvinsky, Shane Whitaker, Dianna Keanneally, James Schwartz, Thomas Dawson
THREE ETIOLOGIC FACETS OF DANDRUFF AND SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS
Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft 2 (6)

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Thomas L Dawson, Yvonne DeAngelis, Joseph Kaczsvinsky, James Schwartz
Broad-spectrum anti-fungal activity of pyrithione zinc and its effect on the causes of dandruff and associated itch 1
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 50 (3), P36

JR Schwartz, C Cardin, TL Dawson
Dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis
Textbook of cosmetic dermatology, 259-72

2002

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CM Gemmer, YM DeAngelis, B Theelan, T Boekhout, TL Dawson Jr
Fast, non-invasive method for molecular detection and speciation of Malassezia on human skin and application to dandruff microbiology
J. Clin. Microbiol 40, 3350-3357

2001

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Ronald R Warner, James R Schwartz, Ying Boissy, Thomas L Dawson Jr
​Dandruff has an altered stratum corneum ultrastructure that is improved with zinc pyrithione shampoo
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 45 (6), 897-903

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