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Cushion, Melanie T. PhD
Division: Infectious Diseases
Title: Professor, Associate Chair for Research
Education: BS, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, IN, Biology-Chemistry 1977, (magna cum laude) PhD, St. Thomas Institute, Cincinnati, OH, 1981
Training: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and VAMC, 1981-1985
Clinical Interests: Rapid diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia; drug development
Research Interests: Fungal genomics, bioinformatics and annotation; basic biology, epidemiology,and life cycle of Pneumocystis; new approaches for drug development targeting Pneumocystis; fungal systematics.
Recent Publications:
Beck JM, Cushion MT. Pneumocystis workshop: 10th anniversary summary. Eukaryot Cell. 2009 Apr;8(4):446-60.
Cushion MT, Collins MS, Linke MJ. Biofilm formation by Pneumocystis. Eukaryot Cell. 2009 Feb;8(2):197-206.
Liu Y, Leigh J, Brinkmann H, Cushion MT, Rodriguez-Ezpeleta N, Philippe H, and Lang BF. Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Taphrinomycotina. Mol Biol Evol. Mol Biol Evol. 2009 Jan;26(1):27-34.
Vale N, Collins MS, Gute J, Ferraz R, Rosenthal PJ, Cushion MT, Moreira R and Gomes P. Anti-Pneumocystis carinii and antiplasmodial activities of primaquine-derived imidazolidin-4-ones. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2008 Jan 15;18(2):485-8.
Cushion MT, Smulian AG, Slaven BE, Sesterhenn T, Arnold J, Staben C, Porollo A, Adamczak R, Meller J. Transcriptome of Pneumocystis carinii during fulminate infection: carbohydrate metabolism and the concept of a compatible parasite. PLoSOne, May 9, 2007. 10.1371.
Notes: Dr. Cushion is a prominent investigator in the basic biology of P. carinii. Her research interests include in vitro cultivation, life cycle, drug susceptibility testing, transmission of the organism and genomics. She recently received a Research Career Scientist Award from the Veterans Administration in recognition of her research and service. Dr. Cushion was recently appointed as the Associate Chair for Research for the Department of Internal Medicine. Her published works include over 100 original publications and over 100 abstracts and presented papers. She currently serves as an associate editor for The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology and as ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Infection and Immunity, and the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Cushion has been elected to membership in the Genetics Society of America, Society of Protistology, and the American Society for Microbiology. She directs the Pneumocystis Genome Project which can be viewed at: http://pneumocystis.cchmc.org/
Email: Melanie.Cushion@uc.edu
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