17 ROBERT P. SMITH, PH.D. Associate Professor of Biology, Farquhar Honors College and Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine LEAD RESEARCHER Related Specialty | Systems biology to understand antibiotic resistance Collaborators | Allison Lopatkin, University of Rochester, and two students who started as NSU undergrads and are now both pursuing Master of Biological Sciences degrees. Grant | $462k Grantmaker | National Institutes of Health Hope | Help tackle one of the greatest threats to public health. Hook | Disrupting bacteria could help us treat infections better. Line | Understanding the mechanisms that increase resistance could help enhance the efficacy of existing antibiotics or spur development of new drugs. Sinker | The ongoing evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continually renders treatments ineffective. NSU students Gabriela Diaz Tang and Estefania Marin prepare to study interactions between growth efficiency and metabolism in opportunistic pathogens. Recent Coauthored Article Results Top Three Molecular Systems Biology Journal most-downloaded list (within one week of publication) Editor’s Choice Science magazine for microbiology ALEXANDER SOLOVIEV, PH.D. Professor, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center LEAD RESEARCHER Related Specialty | Physical Oceanography Grant | $1.2M Grantmaker | U.S. Department of Defense—Office of Naval Research Hope | Help protect marine life, mitigate hurricane destruction, and predict the impact of oil spills. Hook | Understanding currents can propel myriad interventions, but they are surprisingly complex to study. Line | Developing a 3D model to predict water circulation is key. Sinker | The three-dimensional forces that redistribute water properties are hard to observe and analyze. (Currents shift buoyancy, momentum, temperature, salinity, density, pressure, connectivity, and electromagnetic fields.)
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