Usha Srinivasan, PhD

Research Investigator, Epidemiology

5606 SPH I
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029

Office: (734) 615-8098; Fax: (734) 936-6732

E-mail: usha@umich.edu

Website(s): MacEpid

Education

Ph.D., Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH,
M.Sc., Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Chenai, India,
B.Sc., Chemistry, University of Delhi, India,

Selected Publications

Srinivasan, U., Zhang, L., France, A.M., Ghosh, D., Shalaby, W., Xie, J., Marrs, C.F., Foxman, B. (2007). Probe hybridization array typing: a binary typing method for Escherichia coli. Journal of Clinical Microbiology., 45(1), 206-14.

Srinivasan, U., Bala, A., Jao, S.C., Starke, D.W., Jordan, T.W., Mieyal, J.J. (2006). Selective inactivation of glutaredoxin by sporidesmin and other epidithiopiperazinediones. Biochemistry, 45, 8978-87.

Zhang, L., Srinivasan, U., Marrs, C.F., Ghosh, D., Gilsdorf, J.R., Foxman, B. (2004). Library on a Slide for Bacterial Comparative Genomics BMC Microbiology, 4, 12.

Parham, N.J., U. Srinivasan, M. Desvaux, B. Foxman, C.F. Marrs and I.R. Henderson. (2004). PicU, a second serine protease autotransporter of uropathogenic Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 230, 73-83.

Srinivasan, U., Foxman, B., Marrs, C.F. (2003). Identification of a gene encoding heat-resistant agglutinin in Escherichia coli as a putative virulence factor in Urinary Tract infection. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41, 285-289.

Srinivasan, U., Mieyal, P.A., Mieyal, J.J. (1997). pH profiles indicative of rate-limiting nucleophilic displacement in thioltransferase catalysis. Biochemistry, 36(11), 3199-206.

Mieyal, J.J., Gravina, S.A, Mieyal, P.A., Srinivasan, U., and Starke, D.W., Glutathionyl. (1995). Specificity of thioltransferases: mechanistic and physiological implications, in Biothiols in Health and Disease. In L. Packer & E.Cadenas, Eds., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, (Chapter 14, 305-372).