Vincent Gillespie

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Gautam Dantas, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2014

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary

Graduate publications
Xue YP, Li R, Gillespie VJ, Yang Z, Tang WK, Tolia NH, Wencewicz TA, Dantas G. 2026 Evolution, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Implications of Mobile Tetracycline Destructases. BioEssays, 48(9):e70183

Blake KS, Xue YP, Gillespie VJ, Fishbein SRS, Tolia NH, Wencewicz TA, Dantas G. 2025 The tetracycline resistome is shaped by selection for specific resistance mechanisms by each antibiotic generation. Nat Commun, 16(1):1452. PMCID: PMC11806011