Medical Microbiology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
• Adjunct Professor, Global Health
• Adjunct Professor, Pediatric Dentistry

EDUCATION:
Professor Roberts received her PhD with Dr S Falkow at the University of Washington on plasmids and conjugation in N. gonorrhoeae. She was a Research Associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory with Dr J Setlow. She did a postdoctoral Fellowship in the Dividion of Infectious Diseases Childrens Hospital on antibiotic resistance in H. influenzae with Dr AL Smith. Dr Roberts was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Leicester, England working on chloramphenicol acetyltransferases from H. influenzae with Dr W Shaw.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Her main interests including tetracycline, macrolide, lincosamide and stregtogramin antibioitc resistances and S. mutans biology as well as examining whether silver amalgams influnece the carriage of antibiotic and/or Hg resistant genes in the normal oral flora.