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Theresa Barrett, MD, PhD
- Resident, PGY-3
Theresa is a physician scientist who studied bacterial persistence to antibiotics and antibiotic resistance for her doctorate degree in Molecular Biology. During residency, she has investigated biomarkers for vesicoureteral reflux. Moving forward, she intends to leverage her basic and translational science skills to study the microbiome during and after acute, critical illnesses. Theresa will begin a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine in July 2022. In addition to honing critical care skills and continuing research, her other interests include early childhood literacy and breastfeeding support.
Resident Biographical Details
- Hometown
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Palmer, Pennsylvania
- College or Medical School
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Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Education & Training
- BA, Theology, summa cum laude, Villanova University, 2010
- BA, Biology, summa cum laude, Villanova University, 2010
- MA, Molecular Biology, Princeton University, 2014
- PhD, Molecular Biology, Princeton University, 2017
- MD, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2019
Selected Publications
Barrett TC, Mok WWK, Murawski AM, and Brynildsen MP. Enhanced antibiotic resistance development from fluoroquinolone persisters after a single exposure to antibiotic. Nature Communications. 2019. 10:1177.
Henry TC and Brynildsen MP. Development of Persister-FACSeq: a method to massively parallelize quantification of persister physiology and its heterogeneity. Scientific Reports. 2016. 6:25100.
Sandvik EL, Fazen CH, Henry TC, Mok WWK, and Brynildsen MP. Non-monotonic survival of Staphylococcus aureus with respect to ciprofloxacin concentration arises from prophage-dependent killing of persisters. Pharmaceuticals. 2015. 8(4):778-792.
Amato SM*, Fazen CH*, Henry TC*, Mok WWK*, Orman MA*, Sandvik EL*, Volzing KG*, and Brynildsen MP. The role of metabolism in bacterial persistence. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2014. 5:70. [*First authorship shared]
Henry TC, Power JE, Kerwin CL, Mohammed A, Weissman JS, Cameron DM, and Wykoff DD. Systematic screen of Schizosaccharomyces pombe deletion collection uncovers parallel evolution of the phosphate signal transduction pathway in yeasts. Eukaryotic Cell. 2011. 10(2):198-206.