Craig M. Stephens
B.S. – Biology, Roanoke College
Ph.D. – Molecular Biology, University of Virginia
Postdoctoral research – Stanford University
My research is focused on genomic analysis of the acquisition and evolution of antibiotic resistance in commensal and pathogenic bacteria associated with humans, particularly E. coli. Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem, and understanding how potential pathogens acquire resistance is of biological, epidemiological, and medical significance.
2018 - 2021 - Principle Investigator, National Institutes of Health R15 grant: Exploring genomic diversity in commensal Escherichia coli.
2008 - 2013 - Principle Investigator, National Science Foundation RUI grant: Function of LacI-type transcription factors in Caulobacter crescentus.
- BIOL 1C Systems
- BIOL 113 Microbiology (with lab)
- PHSC 1 Introduction to Public Health
- HNRS 20 Difficult Dialogs - Infectious Diseases and Society
- C. Stephens, M. Martinez, V. Leonardi, J. Jaing, Anna Miller (2024). Frontiers in Microbiology 15, 1409295.
- R. Robertson, K. Conrad, B. Ahuja, M. Göker, R. Hahnke, A. Spunde, N. Ivanova, R. Seshadri, C. Stephens (2023). . Microbiology Resource Announcements 12 (10): e00548-23.
- J. Lumpe, L. Gumbleton, A. Gorzalski, K. Libuit, V. Varghese, T. Lloyd, F. Tadros, T. Arsimendi, E. Wagner, C. Stephens, J. Sevinsky, D. Hess, M, Pandori (2022). . PLOS One 18 (2), e0277575.
- C. Stephens, T. Arismendi, M. Wright, A. Hartman, A. Gonzalez, M. Gill, M. Pandori, D. Hess (2020). . mSphere 5(4): e00709-20.
- C. Stephens, M. Wright, A. Hartman, A. Gonzales, G. Sensabaugh, P. Robinson, D. Hess (2020). . Microbiology Resource Announcements 9(35): e00722-20.
- Kikuchi N, May M, Zweber M, Madamba J, Stephens C, Kim U, Mobed-Miremadi M. (2020). . Sensors 20(4):1145.
- C. Stephens, S. Adams-Sapper, M. Sekhon, J. Johnson, L. Riley (2017). . mSphere 2(2): e00390-16.
- C. Stephens, P. Cho, V. de Araujo, I. Gomes, S. de Azevedo Sias, C. Cardoso, L. Riley, F. Aguiar-Alves (2015). . Genome Announcements 3(4). pii: e00907-15.
- K. Ash, T. Brown, T. Watford, L. Scott, C. Stephens, and B. Ely (2014). . Open Biology 4: 140128. (open access)
- A. Sheikh*, D. Caswell*, C. Dick*, S. Gang*, J. Jarrell*, A. Kohli*, A. Lieu*, J. Lumpe*, M. Garrett*, J. Parker* and C. Stephens (2013). . Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 4(10B): 63-74. (open access)
- C. Stephens, B. Christen, K. Watanabe*, T. Fuchs, and U. Jenal. (2008) Journal of Bacteriology 189: 8828-8834.
- C. Stephens, B. Christen, T. Fuchs, V. Sundaram*, K. Watanabe*, and U. Jenal. (2007) . Journal of Bacteriology 89:2181-2185.