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  • Graduate Student, Smith Lab
  • President, BioGSA

Research Interests

  • Antibiotics
  • Antifungals
  • Dental caries
  • Lantibiotics
  • Occidiofungin

Educational Background

  • B.S. Molecular & Cell Biology, Texas A&M University, 2020
  • Ph.D. Microbiology, Texas A&M University, in progress

Selected Publications

  • Publications:

    Previously Uncharacterized variants, OCF-E–OCF-J, of the antifungal occidiofungin produced by Burkholderia contaminans MS14. (2024). Hansanant, N., Cao, K., Tenorio, A., Joseph, T., Ju, M., McNally, N., Kummari, E., Williams, M., Cothrell, A., Buhrow, A.R., Shin, R., Orugunty, R., & Smith, L. Journal of Natural Products, 87(2), 186-194. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.3c00777

    Presentations:

    Poster: Recombineering a lactate deficient strain of Streptococcus mutans JH1140 utilizing imporved variants of the lantibiotic mutacin 1140. (2024). Buhrow, A.R., Archuleta-Ochoa, A., Joseph, T., Phadke, R., Williams, E.G., Patel, K.K., Majmundar, A.N., & Smith, L. Student Post-Doc Research Conference, Texas A&M University, Department of Biology.