Paul Keim
Professor and Director
Pathogen and Microbiome Division
Translational Genomics Research Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. paul Keim is the professor and director in pathogen and microbiome division of TGen. He is also regents Professor of Biology and Cowden Endowed Chair in Microbiology in northern Arizona University.
Research Interest
forensics and genomics analysis of bacterial pathogens, interactions between man and microbe to develop new therapeutics and diagnostics, interaction between the pathogen and its environment (ecology).
Publications
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Complete genomic characterization of a pathogenic A.II strain of francisella tularensis subspecies tularensis. PLoS ONE 2(9): e947 2007
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Community analysis of chronic wound bacteria using a 16S rRNA gene-based pyrosequencing approach: impact of diabetes and antibiotics on chronic wound microbiota PLoS One ul 31;4(7):e6462 2009
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Comparative Genome Sequencing for Discovery of Novel Polymorphisms in Bacillus anthracis Science 296:2028-2033 2002
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Epidemiological and Laboratory Investigation of a Bacillus anthracis Bioterrorism Incident, Kameido, Tokyo, 1993. Emerging Infectious Disease 10:117-120 2004
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Anthrax Molecular Epidemiology and Forensics: Using Different Markers for the Appropriate Evolutionary Scales Infection, Genetics and Evolution 4:205-213 2004
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Plague Population Genetic Structure is Determined by Transmission Dynamics Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 101:8409-8413 2004
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World-Wide Genetic Relationships Among Francisella tularensis Isolates Using Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA) J. Bacteriology 186:5808-5818 2004
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Phylogenetic discovery bias in Bacillus anthracis using single nucleotide polymorphisms from whole genome sequencing Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 101: 13536-13541 2004
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Microevolution and history of the plague bacillus,Yersinia pestis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101:17837Â17842 2004
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Next-generation sequencing of Coccidioides immitis isolated during cluster investigation Emerg Infect Dis, 17(2):227-32 2011
