Education
Post Doctorate, Plasmid Biology, Mass. General Hospital-Harvard Medical School, 1977
Post Doctorate, Membrane Biochemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1975
Ph. D. Molecular Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO., 1973
M.S. Microbiology, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1965
B.S. Chemistry, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1964
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
1981-85 NIH Career Development Award
1986-87 Fellow, J.S.Guggenheim Foundation,
1986-87 Fellow, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute,
1990-present Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
1994-present Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Research Interests
Metal Toxicity and Resistance in Bacterial Cells and Microbiomes
Selected Publications
Polacco, BJ, Purvine, SO, Zink, EM, LaVoie, SP, Lipton, MS, Summers, AO, Miller, SM (2011) Discovering mercury protein modifications in whole proteomes using natural isotope distributions in liquid chromatography- tandem mass spectrometry. Mol Cell Proteomics10(8):M110.004853 PMID:21532010
Riccardi, D, Guo, H-B, Parks, JM, Gu, B, Summers, AO, Miller, SM, Liang, L, Smith, JC (2013) Why mercury prefers soft ligands. J Phys Chem Lett4:2317-22. DOI: 10.1021/jz401075b
LaVoie, SP, Mapolelo, DT, Cowart, DM, Polacco, BJ, Johnson, MK, Scott, RA, Miller, SM, Summers, AO (2015) Organic and inorganic mercurials have distinct effects on cellular thiols, metal homeostasis, and Fe- binding proteins in Escherichia coli. J Biol Inorg Chem 20(8)1239-51 PMID:26498643
LaVoie, SP & Summers, AO (2017) Transcriptional responses of Escherichia coli during recovery from inorganic or organic mercury exposure. BMC Genomics (2018) 19:52, DOI:10.1186/s12864-017-4413
