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Professor Julie Morrissey
Director of Leicester Microbial Sciences and Infectious Disease Research Centre
School/Department: Genetics and Genome Biology Department of
Telephone: +44 (0)112 252 2272
Email: jam26@leicester.ac.uk
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Publications
Ramsheh et al. Lung microbiome composition and bronchial epithelial gene expression in patients with COPD vs healthy individuals: a bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing and host transcriptomic analysis. (2020) Lancet Microbe under review
Almebairik, N., Zamudio, R., Joshi, C., Ironside, C., Ralph, JD., Roberts, AP., Gould, IM., Morrissey, JA., Hijazi, K. Oggioni, MR. Genomic stability of composite SCCmec COMER-like and ACME genetic elements in Staphylococcus epidermidis correlates with rate of excision. Accepted January 2020 Frontiers in Microbiology.
Purves J, Thomas J, Riboldi GP, Zapotoczna M, Tarrant E, Andrew PW, Londoño A., Planet PJ, Geoghegan JA, Waldron KJ, Morrissey JA. A horizontally gene transferred copper resistance locus confers hyper-resistance to antibacterial copper toxicity and enables survival of community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 in macrophages. (2018) Environ Microbiol. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14088.
Zapotoczna M., Pelicioli-Riboldi G., Moustafa AM, Dickson E., Narechania A., Morrissey J A., Planet PJ., Holden MTG., Waldron KJ., Geoghegan JA. Mobile genetic element-encoded hypertolerance to copper protects Staphylococcus aureus from killing by host phagocytes (2018) MBio. 2018 9(5). pii: e00550-18.
Glanville DG, Han L, Maule AF, Woodacre A, Thanki D, Abdullah IT, Morrissey JA, Clarke TB, Yesilkaya H, Silvaggi NR, Ulijasz AT. (2018). RitR is an archetype for a novel family of redox sensors in the streptococci that has evolved from two-component response regulators and is required for pneumococcal colonization. PLoS Pathog. 14(5):e1007052.
Hussey S. J. K., Purves J., Allcock N., Fernandes V. E., Monks P. S., Ketley J. M., Andrew P. W., Morrissey J. A. Air pollution alters Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae biofilms, antibiotic tolerance, and colonisation. (2017) Environmental Microbiology 19:1868-1880.
Bayliss C, Morrissey JA, Borrow R. (2016) Lack of coverage or vaccine failure? A difficult question for monitoring of Bexsero®, the new meningococcal vaccine. The Lancet 387:531-532.
Richards RL, Haigh RD, Pascoe B, Sheppard SK, Price F, Jenkins D, Rajakumar K, Morrissey JA. (2015) Persistent Staphylococcus aureus isolates from two independent cases of bacteraemia display increased bacterial fitness and novel immune evasion phenotypes. Infect Immun. 83(8):3311-24.
Purves, J, Blades, M, Arafat, Y, Malik, SA, Bayliss, CD, and Morrissey JA. (2012) Variation in the genomic locations and sequence conservation of STAR elements among staphylococcal species provides insight into DNA repeat evolution. BMC Genomics. 13:515.
Shafeeq, S, Yesilkaya, H, Kloosterman, T. G., Narayanan, G., Andrew, P. W., Kuipers, O. P., and Morrissey, J. A. (2011) The cop operon is required for copper homeostasis and contributes to virulence in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Molecular Microbiology 81:1255-1270.