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“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”

- Isaac Newton-

Recent Publications

August 2022. Cu-Catalyzed Chan-Evans-Lam Coupling reactions of 2-Nitroimidazole with Aryl boronic acids: An effort toward new bioactive agents against S. pneumoniae

Sept 2022. The Group B Streptococcal Adhesin BspC Interacts with Host Cytokeratin 19 To Promote Colonization of the Female Reproductive Tract

May 2022. Contribution of Puma to Inflammatory Resolution during Early Pneumococcal Pneumonia

Sept 2021. Role of Glucose-6-Phosphate in Metabolic Adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus in Diabetes

January 2021. Pneumococcal surface adhesion A protein (PsaA) interacts with human Annexin A2 on airway epithelial cells

July 2020. Streptococcus pneumoniae metal homeostasis alters cellular metabolism

August 2019. Polyamine Synthesis Effects Capsule Expression by Reduction of Precursors in Streptococcus pneumoniae

June 2019. The Group B Streptococcal surface antigen I/II protein, BspC, interacts with host vimentin 

July 2018. SP1433-1438 operon of Streptococcus pneumoniae regulates metal homeostasis and cellular metabolism during zinc-stress

Jun 2017. Increased Zinc Availability Enhances Initial Aggregation and Biofilm Formation of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

March 2017. Genetic Engineering of a Temperature Phage-based Delivery System for Efficacious CRISPR/Cas9 Antimicrobials against Staphylococcus aureus.

Nov 2016. Pyruvate Oxidase of Streptococcus pneumoniae contributes to pneumolysin release.

Jun 2016. Polyamine transporter in Streptococcus pneumoniae is essential for evading early innate immune responses in pneumococcal pneumonia.

Jan 2016. PLoS One. AdcAII of Streptococcus pneumoniae Affects Pneumococcal Invasiveness.

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