Levy Laboratory [Faculty & Research]

Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance

Principal Investigator
Stuart Levy
Professor
 
Contact Information
Department of Microbiology
Tufts University
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
Office (617) 636-6764
Lab (617) 636-6765
Fax (617) 636-0337
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Director
Stuart B. Levy
B.A., Williams College
M.D., University of Pennsylvania

Administrative Assistant
John Salerno

Research Staff
Laura McMurry, Research associate
B.S., Reed College
Ph.D., Harvard University
Mechanism of repression of transcription by regulator protein MarA from Escherichia coli
Studies on the bacterial tetracycline efflux pump TetA

Bonnie Marshall, Research associate
B.A., University of New Hampshire
M.T., Framingham State College
Tracking antibiotic resistance in human and environmental bacteria

Guiqing Huang, Research associate
B.S.
Masters, Jilin University
Ph.D., Peking University
Purification and crystallization of the tetracycline efflux protein TetA

Mark Silby, Research associate
B.Sc., Ph.D., University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Characterization of environmentally-induced antisense genes in Pseudomonas fluorescens

Francis Domain, Postdoctoral associate
B.S., M.A., Ph.D., University of South-Paris, France
Characterization of Mar-R interacting proteins

Wook Kim, Postdoctoral associate
B.Sc., M.Sc., University of Guelph, Guelph ON, Canada
Ph.D., University of Calgary, Calgary AB, Canada
Genetic adaptation and evolution of Pseudomonas fluorescens communities

Ida Lister, Postdoctoral associate
B.Sc., Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK.
Ph.D., Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University, UK.
Regulation of drug resistance and virulence in Yersinia pestis

Cristian Ruiz-Rueda, Postdoctoral associate
B.Sc., Ph.D., University of Barcelona, Spain
Molecular mechanisms of MarA-mediated repression of the acid resistance gene hdeA in Escherichia coli.

Valerie Duval, Postdoctoral associate
M. Sc., Ph. D., University of Liège, Belgium
Control of MarR repression of the mar operon

Julie Nicoll, Senior research technician
B.S., M.S., University of  Massachusetts – Amherst
Genetic studies of soil fitness and cryptic genes in Pseudomonas fluorescens

 

 

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