Dr. Mohamed O. Elasri

The University of Southern Mississippi, USA

Email: mohamed.elasri@usm.edu

Qualifications

1998  Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, USA

1993  B.Sc., Oklahoma State University, USA

Publications (selected)

1. James T. Riordan, JoAnne M. Dupre, Stephanie A. Cantore-Matyi, Atul Kumar-Singh, Yang Song, Shahrear Zaman, Sonia Horan, Nada S. Helal, Vijayaraj Nagarajan, Mohamed O. Elasri, Brian J. Wilkinson, and John E. Gustafson. 2011. Alterations in the transcriptome and antibiotic susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus grown in the presence of diclofenac. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials. 10:30. PMID: 21774834
2. Stacey L Kolar, Vijayaraj Nagarajan, Anna Oszmiana, Frances E Rivera, Halie K Miller, Jessica E Davenport, James T Riordan, Jan Potempa, David S Barber, Joanna Koziel, Mohamed O. Elasri, and Lindsey Neil Shaw. 2011. NsaRS is a Cell-Envelope-Stress Sensing Two-Component System of Staphylococcus aureus. Microbiology. In Press. PMID: 21565927
3. Arun Rawat, Kurt Gust, Mohamed Elasri, and Edward Perkins. 2010. Quail Genomics: a knowledgebase for Northern bobwhite. BMC Bioinformatics. Suppl 6:S13. PMCID: PMC3026360
4. Arun Rawat, Kurt Gust, Youping Deng, Natalia Garcia-Reyero, Michael Quinn, Mark Johnson, Karl Indest, Mohamed Elasri, and Edward Perkins. 2010. From raw materials to validated system: The construction of a genomic library and microarray to interpret systemic perturbations in Northern bobwhite. Physiological Genomics. 42(2): 219-35. PMCID: PMC3032282
5. Vijayaraj Nagarajan, Mark S. Smeltzer, Mohamed O. Elasri. 2009. Genome-scale transcriptional profiling in Staphylococcus aureus: Bringing order out of chaos. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 295: 204–210. PMCID: PMC2753426
6. Karthik Sambanthamoorthy, Antony Schwartz, Vijayaraj Nagarajan, and Mohamed O. Elasri. 2008. The Role of msa in Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Formation. BMC Microbiology. 8:221. PMCID: PMC2648981
7. Alejandro Delgado, Arunachalam Muthaiyan, Vijayaraj Nagarajan, Mohamed O. Elasri, Brian J. Wilkinson and John E. Gustafson. 2008. The Fusidic acid Stimulon of Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 62 (6):1207-14. PMCID: PMC2583067
8. Nagarajan, Vijayaraj and Mohamed O Elasri. 2007. SAMMD: Staphylococcus aureus Microarray Meta-Database. BMC Genomics. 8:351. PMCID: PMC2117023
9. Dizman, Bekir; Jonathan C. Badger; Mohamed O. Elasri; Lon J. Mathias. 2007. Antibacterial Fluoromicas: A Novel Delivery Medium. Applied Clay Science. 38:57-63.
10. Nagarajan, Vijayaraj and Mohamed O. Elasri. 2007. Structure and Function Predictions of the Msa Protein in Staphylococcus aureus. BMC Bioinformatics. 8:S5. PMCID: PMC2099497
11. Kuan Yang, Youping Deng, Chaoyang Zhang, Mohamed Elasri. 2006. Identification of new members of hydrophobin family using primary structure analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. 7:S16. PMCID: PMC1780129
12. Nagarajan, Vijayaraj; Navodit Kaushik; Beddhu Murali; Chaoyang Zhang; Sanyogita Lakhera; Mohamed O. Elasri; and Youping Deng. 2006. A Fourier Transformation based Method to Mine Peptide Space for Antimicrobial Activity. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(2): 1-8. PMCID: PMC1683563
13. Sambanthamoorthy, Karthik, Mark S. Smeltzer and Mohamed O. Elasri. 2006. Identification and characterization of msa (SA1233), a gene involved in expression of SarA and several virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus. Microbiology. 152: 2559-2572. PMID: 16946251
14. Dizman, Bekir, Mohamed O. Elasri, Lon J. Mathias. 2006. Synthesis and Antibacterial Activities of Water-Soluble Methacrylate Polymers Containing Quaternary Ammonium Compounds. Journal of Polymer Science. 44(20): 5965-5973.
15. Dizman, Bekir, Mohamed O. Elasri, Lon J. Mathias. 2006. Synthesis and Characterization of Antibacterial and Temperature Responsive Methacrylamide Polymers. Macromolecules. 39(17): 5738-5746. PMID: 15638560
16. Ward, Marty, Melissa Sanchez, Mohamed O. Elasri and Andrew B. Lowe. 2006. Antimicrobial Activity of Statistical Polymethacrylic Sulfobetaines Against Gram Positive and Gram Negative Bacteria. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 101: 1036–1041.
17. Ayfer, Burcu, Bekir Dizman, Mohamed O. Elasri, Lon J. Mathias and Duygu Avci. 2005. Synthesis and Antibacterial Activities of New Quaternary Ammonium Monomers and Polymers. Designed Monomers and Polymers, 8(5), 437-451.