Students
Beyond Reed
Thesis students from my lab have gone on to the following:
Graduate Programs
Emory University, University of California at Davis, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, University of California, San Francisco, Dartmouth College, Rockefeller University, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Stanford University
Medical Schools
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health, George Washington University School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, University of Arizona College of Medicine, The University of Oklahoma, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Biotechnology
MedImmune, Inc., Silver Lake Research Corporation, Biovest International, and Twist Biosciences
Law School
Santa Clara University, Duke University School of Law
Public Health
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
Veterinary Schools
Tufts University and Massey University
Pharma and Health Care
Pfizer and Verily
Awards
Eliotte Garling ('18)
NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2022
Jossef Osborn ('15)
The Reed President's Winter Fellowship to visit the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, 2014-2015
Rosie Lawrence-Pine ('11)
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2010-2011
Jeannette Tenthorey ('09)
NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2012
Anna Carmona ('06)
Best Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation at the Northwest Branch
Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Seattle, Washington,
March 10-12, 2006.
Alex Barron ('05)
Student Travel Award - ASM General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2005
Derek Galligan ('05)
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
Kristin Harper ('02)
Student Travel Award - ASM General Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2002
NSF Graduate Fellowship ('03) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellowship ('03)
Leslie Hoover ('01)
NIH Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellowship, Bethesda, Maryland, 2001-2003
Presentations
Lindner, J, Roberts, C, Sacksteder, R, and Mellies, J. Uncovering the Genetic Basis for Synergistic Bacterial Degradation of PET. Presented at the Northwest Branch Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Seattle, Washington, Nov 15-16, 2019.
Roberts, C, Léon Zayas, R, Swartz, N, and J. Mellies. Biodegradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) by Pseudomonasand Bacillus consortium. Presented at the Microbe Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, San Francisco, June 20-24, 2019.
Novy, B, Ellermann, M, Sperandio, V, and J Mellies. Cannabidiol (CBD) Downregulates Virulence Factors in EHEC O157:H7. Presented at the Microbe Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, San Francisco, June 20-24, 2019.
Garling, E, Cepko, L, Dinsdale, M, Bandy, L and J Mellies. Turning a New Phage: A Myoviridae Isolate as a Potential Therapeutic Against EAEC and EPEC. Presented at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 6-10, 2018.
Platenkamp, A, Rader, J, and JL Mellies. Mechanism of PerC Regulation in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. Presented at the 10th International Symposium on Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia coli Infections, Florence, Italy, May 6-9, 2018.
Miller, G, and JL Mellies. perABC-mediated niche adaptation in EPEC. Presented at the Northwest Branch Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Pullman, Washington, Oct 13-14, 2017.
McPherson, K, Zhang, Y, Nan, X and JL Mellies. Creating a genetic tool for visualization of H-NS in vivo. Presented at the Northwest Branch Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Pullman, Washington, Oct 13-14, 2017.
Hirata, K, Zhang , Y, Nan, X and J Mellies. Ler’s In Vivo Oligomerization in Pathogenic Escherichia coli. Presented General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, New Orleans, June 1-5, 2017.
Cepko, L, Garling, E, and J Mellies. The Age of Phage in Portlandia: Allopatric Isolation and Genomic Characterization of Siphoviridae Phage that kill E.coli pathotypes. Presented at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 8-12, 2016.
Mellies, J, Platenkamp, A, Ben-Avi, L, and J Osborn. PerC Manipulates Metabolism and Surface Antigens in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. Presented at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 8-12, 2016.
Weinstein, J, Yan, J, and JL Mellies. I48R substitution in the Ler linker of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli diminishes in vivo activity. Presented General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, New Orleans, May 30 – June 2, 2015.
Xue, Y, Osborn, J and JL Mellies. Molecular mechanism of zinc disruption of Enteropathogenic Escherichia colipathogenesis. Presented at The Microbial Toxins & Pathogenicity Gordon Research Conference, Waterville Valley, NH, July 20-25, 2014.
Mellies, JL, Lawrence-Pine, R, Gilbert, M, and R Strominger. The plasmid-encoded regulator PerC stimulates central metabolism in enteropathogenic E. coli. Presented at the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Denver, May 18-21, 2013.
Selected Senior Theses
It Always Rains but it Never Spores: Defining Sporulation Patterns in PET Degrading Bacterial Consortium
By Audrey Hinchliff, May 2023
Closing the Loop: TPA Recovery from a Plastic Degrading Bacterial Consortium
By Helen Laster, May 2023
Full-length 16S rRNA Sequencing Reveals Perturbations to Gut Microbiome Composition in Response to in vitro Treatment with Tamoxifen and 17β-Estradiol
Carli Newman, May 2023
Characterizing the Effect of CBD on Salmonella Pathogenicity
By Mila Trank-Greene, May 2022
Expression and Purification of Novel PETase EstB from Plastic Degrading Bacterial Consortium
By Riyaz Ditter, May 2022
Towards an Understanding of Bacteriophage Therapy: Bridging Biological and Anthropological Approaches
By Loralee Bandy, May 2020
Synergistic Biodegradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate by Pseudomonas and Bacillus
By Jamie Lindner, May 2020
Different Strains for Different Pains: Cannabidiol Attenuates Virulence in Attaching and Effacing Pathogens
By Maddox Zhang, May 2020
Computationally Analyzing the Effect of Cannabidiol on Enterohemorrhagic E. coli Using Transcriptomic Data
By Sol Taylor-Brill; co-advised with Anna Ritz
Biodegradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic by Pseudomonas and Bacillus Species Consortia
By Cameron Roberts, May 2019
Mellow Microbes: Cannabidiol Downregulates Pathogenesis in Type-Three Secretion System Pathogens
By Brandon Novy, May 2019
Phage against the disease: An in vitro and in vivo investigation of phage therapy against pathogenic Escherichia coli
By William Scott, May 2019
Turning a New Phage
By Eliotte Garling, May 2018
How I (fluorescently) quenched my thirst for Ler-ning
By Katie McPherson, May 2018
Plastic Pollution and Bacterial Solutions
By Morgan Vague, December 2018