Dana E. Harmon, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology
dharmon@callutheran.edu
SSC 104
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Microbiology, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
Dissertation title: Characterization of Translocation Inhibition on Needle/Complex Assembly in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis January 2012
Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY May 2004
Publications
McCarley, A., Espejo, M. L., Harmon, D. E., and Ruiz, C. (2024). Freshwater and marine environments in California are a reservoir of carbapenem-resistant bacteria. Microorganisms. 2024 Apr; 12(4): 802. [Link]
Maldonado, J., Czarnecka, B., Harmon, D. E., and Ruiz, C. (2023). The multidrug efflux pump regulatory AcrR directly regulates motility in Escherichia coli. mSphere. 8(5):e0043023. [Link]
Harmon, D. E., and Ruiz, C. (2022). The multidrug resistance regulator AcrR of Escherichia coli responds to exogenous and endogenous ligands to directly regulate multidrug efflux and detoxification. mSphere 7(6):e0047422. [Link]
Lopez, N., Farsar, C., Harmon, D.E., and Ruiz, C. (2020). Urban and agricultural soils in Southern California are a reservoir of carbapenem-resistant bacteria. MicrobiologyOpen 00:e1034. [Link].
Ruiz, C., McCarley, A., Espejo, M.L., Cooper, K.K., Harmon, D.E. (2019) Comparative genomics reveals a well-conserved intrinsic resistome in the emerging multidrug resistant pathogen Cupriavidus gilardii. mSphere 4:e00631-19. [Link].
Cauilan, A., Ramos, K., Harmon, D.E., and Ruiz, C. (2019). Global effect of the AcrAB-TolC multidrug efflux pump of Escherichia coli in cell metabolism revealed by untargeted metabolomics. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 54(1):105-107. [Link]
Harmon, D.E., Miranda, O.A., McCarley, A., Eshaghian, M., Carlson, N., and Ruiz, C. (2018). Prevalence and characterization of carbapenem-resistant bacteria in water bodies in the Los Angeles-Southern California area. MicrobiologyOpen e692. [Link]
Harmon, D. E., Murphy J. L., Davis, A. J., Mecsas, J. (2013). A mutant with aberrant extracellular LcrV-YscF interactions fails to form pores and translocate Yop effector proteins but retains the ability to trigger Yop secretion in response to host cell contact. J. Bacteriology 195(10):2244-54. [Link]
Harmon, D. E., Davis, A. J., Castillo, C., Mecsas, J. (2010). Identification and Characterization of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Yop Translocation in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 54(8):3241-54. [Link]