2020 Grad Lab Updates
Dec 2020 Congratulations to Tatum, Kyra, and Jess, along with collaborators and colleagues at Allegheny General Hospital, on the publication of a case report of disseminated gonococcal infection in OFID, in which we also present the genome sequence and an analysis of the phylogenetics and loci associated with invasiveness.
Nov 2020 Scott’s last post-doc paper, on quantifying the extent of spillover of antibiotic resistance across communities and considers the impact this has on assessing the success of antibiotic stewardship and other local efforts to control antibiotic resistance, is now published in PNAS! Congratulations, Scott!
Oct 2020 Congratulations to Kevin and team on the publication of his paper, Increased power from conditional bacterial genome-wide association identifies macrolide resistance mutations in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Nature Communications!
Oct 2020 Welcome to Jillian Silbert, rotating with the lab from the SSQB (SysBio) graduate program this fall!
Sept 2020 Our paper, “Reductions in commuting mobility correlate with geographic differences in SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in New York City” has now been published in Nature Communications! Congratulations to Stephen and all the colleagues and collaborators on this project!
Sept 2020 Congratulations to our NSURP summer student Michelle Alvarado for winning an NSURP presentation award! Well done, Michelle!
Aug 2020 New paper from Kevin and Tatum in mBio further defining the mutations in clinical N. gonorrhoeae isolates that lead to azithromycin resistance. Well done, Tatum and Kevin!
Aug 2020 Tatum’s paper, in collaboration with colleagues at the New York City Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene, the NYC Public Health Labs, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute is now published at Clinical Infectious Diseases — congratulations, Tatum!
Aug 2020 Congratulations to Kevin and Tatum and team on publication of their paper, Adaptation to the cervical environment is associated with increased antibiotic susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, in Nature Communications!
Aug 2020 Thanks to Michelle Alvarado, who joined the lab as an undergraduate summer student through the NSURP program and did a great job!
July 2020 Welcome to Maia Meysinger and Sam Zinga, incoming MD-PhD students rotating with the lab this summer. Delighted that you’ll be with us this summer (at least by zoom!).
Jun 2020 Allie’s last PhD paper is now published in eLife! And there’s an accompanying commentary, too!
Jun 2020 Congratulations to Dan on passing his PQE!
May 2020 Welcome to Ellie Rand, SSQB graduate student, doing a rotation with the lab. We’re excited to have you, really and virtually!
Apr 2020 Hurray for Allie! Allie delivered an amazing thesis seminar by zoom, attended by family, friends, and colleagues from around the globe, and excelled in the exam portion of the proceedings. Dr. Hicks, we’re all so delighted and proud. Here’s to all the great work you’ve done and to your future successes!
Apr 2020 Congratulations to Stephen on the publication of his paper, Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period, in Science.
Apr 2020 Yonatan gave a webinar on COVID-19 via the Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program at the Broad Institute. Also Yonatan and colleagues published opinion pieces on what we need to know before we can end social distancing and on paths to getting to the end of the pandemic.
Mar 2020 Congratulations to Stephen, whose paper, Distinguishing the roles of antibiotic stewardship and reductions in outpatient visits in generating a five-year decline in antibiotic prescribing, has now been published in Clinical Infectious Diseases! Way to go, Stephen!
Feb 2020 Yonatan had a wonderful time giving a talk and visiting with colleagues at the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital — lots of shared interests!
Feb 2020 Dan’s review on the frontiers of addressing antibiotic resistance in N. gonorrhoeae is published! Congrats, Dan!
Feb 2020 Congratulations to Sam on the publication of her paper in eLife, showing that ceftriaxone resistance in clinical isolates of N. gonorrhoeae can arise through mutations in components of RNA polymerase. Work that extends from genomics to muropeptide analysis and has implications for surveillance, diagnostics, and disease control.
