Melody Mills

 

EDUCATION:

B.S.
Ph.D. (Microbiology), University of Texas, Austin, 1996

PRESENT LOCATION:

Posdoctoral Fellow at Alison O'Brien's Lab. Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. 4301 Jones Bridge Road. Bethesda, MD.

PUBLICATIONS:

Wyckoff, E.E., Duncan, D., Torres, A.G., Mills, M., Maase, K. and S.M. Payne, 1998. Structure of the Shigella dysenteriae haem transport locus and its phylogenetic distribution in enteric bacteria. Molecular Microbiology. 28(6):1139-1152.(Abstract)

Mills, M., and Payne, S.M. 1997. Identification of shuA, the gene encoding the heme receptor of Shigella dysenteriae, and analysis of invasion and intracellular multiplication of a shuA mutant. Infection and Immunity. 65(12):5358-5363.(Abstract)

Mills, M., and Payne, S.M. 1995. Genetics and regulation of heme iron transport in Shigella dysenteriae and detection of an analogous system in Escherichia coli O157:H7. Journal of Bacteriology. 177(11):3004-9.(Abstract)

Torres, A.G., Mills, M., Wyckoff, E.E., Maase, K., and S.M.Payne. 1997. Utilization of Heme Iron compounds by Escherichia cold 0157:H7 and Other Enteropathogenic E.coli Serogroups. Abstract. 97th. ASM General Meeting.

Wyckoff, E.E., Duncan, D., Mills, M., Masse, K., and S.M.Payne. 1997. Structure and map location of the Shigella dysenteriae heme transport island. Abstract. 97th. ASM General Meeting.

Mills, M., and S.M.Payne. 1995. Characterization of Shigella dysenteriae Heme Iron Transport. Abstract. 95th. ASM General Meeting.

EMAIL ADDRESS: melmills@mx3.usuhs.mil

 

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