Carli Roush
About Carli
I grew up on a small farm in Kentucky, where I enjoyed riding horses and bottle-feeding calves. I received my B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University in 2022. At Yale, I was a member of the Paul Turner Lab, studying evolutionary trade-offs between antibiotic resistance and bacteriophage resistance in E. coli. I began at Georgia Tech in the Fall of 2022. When I’m not in the lab, I enjoy knitting, crocheting, sewing, and making music!
About Carli
I grew up on a small farm in Kentucky, where I enjoyed riding horses and bottle-feeding calves. I received my B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University in 2022. At Yale, I was a member of the Paul Turner Lab, studying evolutionary trade-offs between antibiotic resistance and bacteriophage resistance in E. coli. I began at Georgia Tech in the Fall of 2022. When I’m not in the lab, I enjoy knitting, crocheting, sewing, and making music!
Research Interests
I am interested in all things bacteriophage! In the Whiteley Lab, I am aiming to find, classify, and modify bacteriophages that infect the oral bacteria Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg). Pg has been implicated not only in periodontal disease, but in dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and heart disease. Therefore, it is a potential candidate for treatment using phage therapy. However, not much is currently understood about phages that infect Pg; I am seeking to fill that gap.
Research Interests
I am interested in all things bacteriophage! In the Whiteley Lab, I am aiming to find, classify, and modify bacteriophages that infect the oral bacteria Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg). Pg has been implicated not only in periodontal disease, but in dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and heart disease. Therefore, it is a potential candidate for treatment using phage therapy. However, not much is currently understood about phages that infect Pg; I am seeking to fill that gap.
Publications
Ellinor O. Alseth, Carli Roush, Iris Irby, Mykhailo Kopylov, Daija Bobe, Monneh W. Diggs, Kristy Nguyen, Huaijin Xu, Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey, Anton V. Bryksin, Philip N. Rather. Mystique, a broad host range Acinetobacter phage, reveals the impact of culturing conditions on phage isolation and infectivity. PLOS Pathogens, April 2025, 21(4); DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012986
Alita R. Burmeister, Eddy Tzintzun-Tapia, Carli Roush, Ivan Mangal, Roxanna Barahman, Robert D. Bjornsen, Paul E. Turner. Experimental evolution of the TolC-receptor phage U136B functionally identifies tail fiber proteins involved in adsorption through strong parallel adaptation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2023, 89(6); DOI: 10.1128/aem.00079-23
Carli Roush, Benjamin K. Chan, Paul E. Turner, Alita R. Burmeister. Assembly and Annotation of the Complete Genome Sequence of T4-Like Bacteriophage 132. Microbiology Resource Announcements, September 2021, 10(39); DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00649-21
Carli Roush, Alita R. Burmeister. COVID-19 and The Central Dogma: An Activity to Improve Student Learning and Engagement, Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education November 2020, 21 (3); DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v21i3.2145
Alita R. Burmeister, Abigail Fortier, Carli Roush, Adam J. Lessing, Rose G. Bender, Roxanna Barahman, Raeven Grant, Benjamin K. Chan, Paul E. Turner Pleiotropy complicates a trade-off between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2020, 117 (21) 11207-11216; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919888117
Publications
Ellinor O. Alseth, Carli Roush, Iris Irby, Mykhailo Kopylov, Daija Bobe, Monneh W. Diggs, Kristy Nguyen, Huaijin Xu, Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey, Anton V. Bryksin, Philip N. Rather. Mystique, a broad host range Acinetobacter phage, reveals the impact of culturing conditions on phage isolation and infectivity. PLOS Pathogens, April 2025, 21(4); DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012986
Alita R. Burmeister, Eddy Tzintzun-Tapia, Carli Roush, Ivan Mangal, Roxanna Barahman, Robert D. Bjornsen, Paul E. Turner. Experimental evolution of the TolC-receptor phage U136B functionally identifies tail fiber proteins involved in adsorption through strong parallel adaptation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2023, 89(6); DOI: 10.1128/aem.00079-23
Carli Roush, Benjamin K. Chan, Paul E. Turner, Alita R. Burmeister. Assembly and Annotation of the Complete Genome Sequence of T4-Like Bacteriophage 132. Microbiology Resource Announcements, September 2021, 10(39); DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00649-21
Carli Roush, Alita R. Burmeister. COVID-19 and The Central Dogma: An Activity to Improve Student Learning and Engagement, Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education November 2020, 21 (3); DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v21i3.2145
Alita R. Burmeister, Abigail Fortier, Carli Roush, Adam J. Lessing, Rose G. Bender, Roxanna Barahman, Raeven Grant, Benjamin K. Chan, Paul E. Turner Pleiotropy complicates a trade-off between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2020, 117 (21) 11207-11216; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919888117
Publications
Ellinor O. Alseth, Carli Roush, Iris Irby, Mykhailo Kopylov, Daija Bobe, Monneh W. Diggs, Kristy Nguyen, Huaijin Xu, Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey, Anton V. Bryksin, Philip N. Rather. Mystique, a broad host range Acinetobacter phage, reveals the impact of culturing conditions on phage isolation and infectivity. PLOS Pathogens, April 2025, 21(4); DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012986
Alita R. Burmeister, Eddy Tzintzun-Tapia, Carli Roush, Ivan Mangal, Roxanna Barahman, Robert D. Bjornsen, Paul E. Turner. Experimental evolution of the TolC-receptor phage U136B functionally identifies tail fiber proteins involved in adsorption through strong parallel adaptation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2023, 89(6); DOI: 10.1128/aem.00079-23
Carli Roush, Benjamin K. Chan, Paul E. Turner, Alita R. Burmeister. Assembly and Annotation of the Complete Genome Sequence of T4-Like Bacteriophage 132. Microbiology Resource Announcements, September 2021, 10(39); DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00649-21
Carli Roush, Alita R. Burmeister. COVID-19 and The Central Dogma: An Activity to Improve Student Learning and Engagement, Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education November 2020, 21 (3); DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v21i3.2145
Alita R. Burmeister, Abigail Fortier, Carli Roush, Adam J. Lessing, Rose G. Bender, Roxanna Barahman, Raeven Grant, Benjamin K. Chan, Paul E. Turner Pleiotropy complicates a trade-off between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2020, 117 (21) 11207-11216; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919888117
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This website was developed by members of the Whiteley Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It is not an official Georgia Tech website.
This website was developed by members of the Whiteley Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It is not an official Georgia Tech website.
This website was developed by members of the Whiteley Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It is not an official Georgia Tech website.