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Tiffany Williams

Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine

Undergraduate Institution: George Washington University

Year: Fifth-Year Graduate Student

Mentors: George Weinstock, Ph.D., and Wendy Keitel, M.D.

Thesis Title: Comparative genomics and phylogeography of global isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1

Publications:

Highlander SK, Hulté n KG, Qin X, Jiang H, Yerrapragada S, Mason Jr EO, Shang Y, Williams TM, Fortunov RM, Liu Y, Igboeli O, Petrosino J, Tirumalai M, Uzman A, Fox GE, Cardenas AM, Muzny DM, Hemphill L, Ding Y, Dugan S, Blyth PR, Buhay CJ, Dinh HH, Hawes AC, Holder M, Kovar CL, Lee SL, Liu W, Nazareth LV, Wang Q, Zhou J, Kaplan SL, and Weinstock GM. Subtle genetic changes enhance virulence of methicillin resistant and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. BMC Microbiology. 2007 Nov 6; 7:99.