Mobley Lab, February 2023
October 2023: Dr. Melanie Pearson and Madison Fitzgerald attend the Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
"Investigating the role of sugar cleavage in uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis MR/P fimbrial adherence"
UROP Student Mandy Chu and Research Mentor Dr. Melanie Pearson
"Genetic conservation of the Proteus mirabilis urease promoter"
UROP Student Chaitra Moolaveesala and Research Mentor Madison Fitzgerald
Panel A of Figure 7 from Shea and Frick-Cheng, et al. 2022 summarizing the correlation between bladder or urine colonization in mice by 13 clinical strains of uropathogenic E. coli and a series of phenotypic assays used to characterize the strains.
Figure 1 from Pearson, et al. 2022 mapping the insertion sites of
the transposon library for Proteus mirabilis HI4320.
(Left to Right) Drs. Allyson Shea, Melanie Pearson, and Geoffrey Severin at MMPC in Madison, Wisconsin
Dr. Allyson Shea
Figure 1A from Frick-Cheng et al., 2022 depicting the heme receptors, siderophores, and siderophore receptors that have been found in uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) overall and specifically in the clinical strains CFT073 and HM7.
Figure 1 from Brown et al., 2022 overviewing the activation and function of the two-component regulatory system ArcAB found in facultatively anaerobic bacteria, including many pathogens studied in the Mobley lab.
