Karen Dodson

This study designs miniprotein inhibitors targeting bacterial adhesins to prevent and treat urinary tract infections.

This study identifies metabolic cross-talk between Enterococcus faecalis and Klebsiella pneumoniae that promotes their persistence in catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

This study shows that the lac operon in uropathogenic E. coli enables host glycan utilization, enhancing intracellular growth and infection dissemination.

This study identifies two monoclonal antibodies against FimH adhesin that protect mice from E. coli UTI by sterically blocking FimH function, offering an antibiotic-sparing treatment strategy.

ChronoStrain tracks low-abundance microbial strains over time with uncertainty quantification, outperforming existing methods on real and synthetic data.

This study identifies distinct E. coli transcriptional profiles in the guts of recurrent UTI sufferers using a novel pangenome hybrid selection method.

This study develops and tests GmPcides, dihydrothiazolo ring-fused 2-pyridone compounds, showing efficacy against Streptococcus pyogenes SSTI and biofilm formation.