pavan silva
@kptsilva
Postdoc at NCI
Important research out now in @NatureComms from @AnuKhareLab et al. 💫 Efflux pump SdrM underpins the evolution of #resistance to fourth-generation fluoroquinolone antibiotic delafloxacin in Staphylococcus aureus 🧩💊🦠 (🧵 1/5) nature.com/articles/s4146…
Check out our new work on identifying the genes involved in the formation and maintenance of gene amplifications in Staphylococcus aureus. @AnuKhareLab
Genetic determinants of gene amplifications alter frequency and evolutionary trajectory of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio
Antibiotic resistance mediated by gene amplifications🧬 This review is available open-access to read @npjAMR! @kptsilva @AnuKhareLab (1/5) nature.com/articles/s4425…
Publication alert 🚨: Our new review article on antibiotic resistance via distinct gene amplifications is out now in npj antimicrobials and resistance!!! Here is the link: nature.com/articles/s4425… #antibioticresistance #geneamplification

Phenotypic heterogeneity is generated by passive mechanisms like noise in gene expression, right? Not always! Check out an ACTIVE mechanism for generating diversity in a clonal bacterial population: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…
Super cool research out in @NatureComms 🤩 Multicopy plasmids, often carrying antibiotic #resistance genes, can rapidly amplify genes, leading to transient antibiotic resistance 🦠💊 nature.com/articles/s4146…
Fun fact: #Staphylococcus aureus divides using alternating division planes that are orthogonal to the previous one. But how? But why? @felixrl_, @braf_phd and collabs may have cracked this 50-y.o. mystery! #MRSA Our preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
‘By 2050, not only will AMR perhaps be responsible for 10 million deaths annually it will cost the global economy over $100 trillion—this dwarfs the impact of COVID-19 and emphasize the urgent threat of AMR’ journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
Happy to see out hard work finally getting published!
Our work @NCIResearchCtr on the evolution of antibiotic resistance in #MRSA, led by postdoc @kptsilva is now out in @NatureComms! nature.com/articles/s4146…