Anna Hooppaw

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Mario F. Feldman, PhD

Undergraduate university: Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2016

Enrollment year: 2017

Research summary
Investigating the role of phenylacetic acid metabolism in the stress response and antibiotic tolerance of Acinetobacter baumannii

Graduate publications
Hooppaw AJ, McGuffey JC, Di Venanzio G, Ortiz-Marquez JC, Weber BS, Lightly TJ, van Opijnen T, Scott NE, Cardona ST, Feldman MF. 2022 The Phenylacetic Acid Catabolic Pathway Regulates Antibiotic and Oxidative Stress Responses in Acinetobacter. mBio, 13(3):e0186321.

Mann KM, Huang DL, Hooppaw AJ, Logsdon MM, Richardson K, Lee HJ, Kimmey JM, Aldridge BB, Stallings CL. 2017 Rv0004 is a new essential member of the mycobacterial DNA replication machinery. PLoS Genet, 13(11):e1007115.