Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, Ph.D.
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Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor
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Pediatric-Infectious Diseases
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
- Associate Professor
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Molecular Virology & Microbiology
Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
- Faculty Member
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Immunology and Microbiology (IY)
Graduate Program
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
- Faculty Member
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Development, Disease Models & Therapeutics
Graduate Program
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
Education
- Postdoctoral Training at Harvard Medical School
- Boston, Massachusetts United States
- Laboratory of Dr. Roberto Kolter
- Clinical Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital
- Boston, Massachusetts United States
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
- Residency at Boston Children's Hospital
- Boston, Massachusetts United States
- Boston Combined Residency in Pediatrics
- MD from Harvard Medical School
- Boston, Massachusetts United States
- PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cambridge, Massachusetts United States
- Biology, Laboratory of Dr. Alan Grossman
- AB from Harvard University
- Cambridge, Massachusetts United States
- Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Certifications
- Board Certified in Pediatrics
- American Board of Pediatrics
- 2005 - present
- Board Certified in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- American Board of Pediatrics
- 2007 - present
Professional Interests
- Human Nasal Microbiome
- Microbe-Microbe Interactions
Websites
Selected Publications
- Escapa IF, Huang Y, Chen T, Lin M, Kokaras A, Dewhirst FE, Lemon KP "Construction of habitat-specific training sets to achieve species-level assignment in 16S rRNA gene datasets." Microbiome. 2020 May;8(65) Pubmed PMID: 32414415
- Bomar L, Brugger SD, Yost BH, Davies SS and Lemon KP "Corynebacterium accolens Releases Antipneumococcal Free Fatty Acids from Human Nostril and Skin Surface Triacylglycerols." mBio. 2016; Pubmed PMID: 26733066
- Escapa IF, Chen T, Huang Y, Gajare P, Dewhirst FE, Lemon KP "New Insights into Human Nostril Microbiome from the Expanded Human Oral Microbiome Database (eHOMD): a Resource for the Microbiome of the Human Aerodigestive Tract." mSystems. 2018; Pubmed PMID: 30534599
- Ramsey MR, Friere MO, Gabrilska RA, Rumbaugh KP, Lemon KP "Staphylococcus aureus Shifts toward Commensalism in Response to Corynebacterium Species." Front Microbiol. 2016; Pubmed PMID: 27582729
- Johnston CD, Cotton S, Rittling SR, Starr JR, Borisy G, Dewhirst FE, Lemon KP "Systematic evasion of the restriction-modification barrier in bacteria." PNAS. 2019; Pubmed PMID: 31097593
- Claesen J, Spagnolo JB, Flores Ramos S, Kurita KL, Byrd AB, Aksenov AA, Melnik AV, Wong WR, Wang S, Hernandez RD, Donia MS, Dorrestein PC, Kong HH, Segre JA, Linington RG, Fischbach MA, Lemon KP "A Cutibacterium acnes antibiotic modulates human skin microbiota composition in hair follicles." Sci Transl Med .. 2020 Nov 18;12(570):eaay5445
- Brugger SD, Eslami SM, Pettigrew MM, Escapa IF, Henke MT, Kong Y, Lemon KP "Dolosigranulum pigrum Cooperation and Competition in Human Nasal Microbiota." mSphere. 2020 Sep;5:e00852-20. Pubmed PMID: 32907957
- Wollenberg MS, Claesen J, Escapa IF, Aldridge KL, Fischbach MA, Lemon KP "Propionibacterium-produced coproporphyrin III induces Staphylococcus aureus aggregation and biofilm formation." mBio. 2014; Pubmed PMID: 25053784
- Flores Ramos S, Brugger SD, Escapa IF, Skeete CA, Cotton SL, Eslami SM, Gao W, Bomar L, Tran TH, Jones DS, Minot S, Roberts RJ, Johnston CD, Lemon KP. "Genomic Stability and Genetic Defense Systems in Dolosigranulum pigrum, a Candidate Beneficial Bacterium from the Human Microbiome." mSystems. 2021 Sep 21;6(5) Pubmed PMID: 34546072
Funding
- Mechanisms of Corynebacterium-Dolosigranulum Interactions that Shape Human Nasal Microbiota - #R35 GM141806
- ( 04/01/2021 - 03/31/2026 ) National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Microbiome Discovery and Mechanisms to Combat Antibiotic Resistance at Mucosal Surfaces - #U19 AI157981
- ( 03/01/2021 - 02/28/2026 ) Grant funding from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Subproject: Nasal Microbial Consortia Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
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