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Overview

Timothy D. Read is a researcher affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their work spans across the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with notable contributions in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Epidemiology, and Clinical Biochemistry.

The main areas of their research include antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus, reproductive tract infections, gut microbiota and health, genomics and phylogenetic studies, bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, urinary tract infections management, and bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Robert A. Petit, Vishnu Raghuram, Deborah Dean, Yi-Juan Hu, and Brooke M. Talbot.

Timothy D. Read has published regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Microbiology Spectrum, and PeerJ.

Recent papers by Timothy D. Read include:

  • Bactopia: a Flexible Pipeline for Complete Analysis of Bacterial Genomes, 2020, mSystems
  • Vaginal Microbiome Composition in Early Pregnancy and Risk of Spontaneous Preterm and Early Term Birth Among African American Women, 2021, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis Patient Lung Infections and Their Interactions with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 2020, mBio
  • Genes Influencing Phage Host Range in Staphylococcus aureus on a Species-Wide Scale, 2021, mSphere
  • Comparing whole-genome shotgun sequencing and DNA metabarcoding approaches for species identification and quantification of pollen species mixtures, 2021, Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Circulating microRNAs in sera correlate with soluble biomarkers of immune activation but do not predict mortality in ART treated individuals with HIV-1 infection : a case control study

    Daniel D. Murray;Kazuo Suzuki;Matthew Law;Jonel Trebicka

  • DNA sequence of both chromosomes of the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae

    John F. Heidelberg;Jonathan A. Eisen;William C. Nelson;Rebecca A. Clayton

  • Complete Genome Sequence of a Virulent Isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae

    H. Tettelin;K. E. Nelson;I. T. Paulsen;Jonathan A Eisen

  • Role of Mobile DNA in the Evolution of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis

    I. T. Paulsen;L. Banerjei;G. S. A. Myers;K. E. Nelson

  • Genome sequence of the dissimilatory metal ion-reducing bacterium Shewanella oneidensis.

    John F. Heidelberg;Ian T. Paulsen;Karen E. Nelson;Eric J. Gaidos;Eric J. Gaidos

  • The genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis Ames and comparison to closely related bacteria

    Timothy D. Read;Timothy D. Read;Scott N. Peterson;Scott N. Peterson;Nicolas Tourasse;Les W. Baillie;Les W. Baillie

  • Genome sequences of Chlamydia trachomatis MoPn and Chlamydia pneumoniae AR39

    T. D. Read;R. C. Brunham;C. Shen;S. R. Gill

  • Therapeutic RNAi targeting PCSK9 acutely lowers plasma cholesterol in rodents and LDL cholesterol in nonhuman primates

    Maria Frank-Kamenetsky;Aldo Grefhorst;Norma N. Anderson;Timothy S. Racie

  • Complete genome sequence of the Q-fever pathogen Coxiella burnetii

    Rekha Seshadri;Ian T. Paulsen;Ian T. Paulsen;Jonathan A. Eisen;Jonathan A. Eisen;Timothy D. Read

  • The Brucella suis genome reveals fundamental similarities between animal and plant pathogens and symbionts

    Ian T. Paulsen;Ian T. Paulsen;Rekha Seshadri;Karen E. Nelson;Jonathan A. Eisen;Jonathan A. Eisen

  • Direct Comparisons of Illumina vs. Roche 454 Sequencing Technologies on the Same Microbial Community DNA Sample

    Chengwei Luo;Despina Tsementzi;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Timothy Read

  • Complete genome sequence and comparative genomic analysis of an emerging human pathogen, serotype V Streptococcus agalactiae

    Hervé Tettelin;Vega Masignani;Michael J. Cieslewicz;Jonathan A. Eisen;Jonathan A. Eisen

  • Identification of anthrax toxin genes in a Bacillus cereus associated with an illness resembling inhalation anthrax

    Alex R. Hoffmaster;Jacques Ravel;David A. Rasko;Gail D. Chapman

  • Comparative Genome Sequencing for Discovery of Novel Polymorphisms in Bacillus anthracis

    Timothy D. Read;Steven L. Salzberg;Mihai Pop;Martin Shumway

  • Genome Project Standards in a New Era of Sequencing

    P. S. G. Chain;D. V. Grafham;R. S. Fulton;M. G. FitzGerald

  • Genomic Insights into Methanotrophy: The Complete Genome Sequence of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

    Naomi Ward;Øivind Larsen;James Sakwa;Live Bruseth

  • The genome sequence of Bacillus cereus ATCC 10987 reveals metabolic adaptations and a large plasmid related to Bacillus anthracis pXO1

    David A. Rasko;Jacques Ravel;Ole Andreas Økstad;Erlendur Helgason

  • Genome sequence of Chlamydophila caviae (Chlamydia psittaci GPIC): examining the role of niche‐specific genes in the evolution of the Chlamydiaceae

    T. D. Read;G. S. A. Myers;R. C. Brunham;W. C. Nelson

  • Genome-Based Prediction of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance.

    Michelle Su;Sarah W. Satola;Timothy D. Read

  • Phylogenetic discovery bias in Bacillus anthracis using single-nucleotide polymorphisms from whole-genome sequencing.

    Talima Pearson;Joseph D. Busch;Jacques Ravel;Timothy D. Read

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah Dean
Deborah Dean University of California, San Francisco
Claire M. Fraser
Claire M. Fraser University of Maryland, Baltimore
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Ian T. Paulsen
Ian T. Paulsen Macquarie University
Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University
Jacques Ravel
Jacques Ravel University of Maryland, Baltimore
John F. Heidelberg
John F. Heidelberg University of Southern California
Paul Keim
Paul Keim Northern Arizona University
William M. Shafer
William M. Shafer Emory University
William C. Nelson
William C. Nelson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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