Gordon Churchward PhD
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor
- (404) 712-9943
- gordon.churchward@emory.edu
- Pubmed
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Emory University School of Medicine
Microbiology and Immunology
JB Williams School Of Medicine Building Suite 453
Overview
Gordon Churchward received his training in bacterial genetics and microbial physiology at the Universities of Leicester and Texas. Following a period as a post-doctoral fellow and junior faculty member at the University of Geneva he joined the Department faculty in 1985. As Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs in the School of Medicine his focus is mainly on medical student education. He also directs Emorys NIH-funded post-baccalaureate PREP program whose goal is to prepare underrepresented minority students for entry into doctoral programs.
Research:
Transmissible antibody resistance and pathogenesis of group A streptococcus; mechanisms of transposition.
Academic Appointment
- Assistant Dean of Medical Education and Student Affairs, Emory University School of Medicine
- Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine
Education
Degrees
- PhD from University of Leicester
- BS from University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Research
Focus
- Maintenance and dissemination of genes conferring antibiotic resistance and bacterial pathogenesis; regulation of replication of bacterial plasmids and chromosomes; transposition of conjugative transposons; genetics of drug resistance in Mycobacteria; virulence gene expression in Streptococcus pyogenes.
Publications
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Interweaving Curriculum Committees: A New Structure to Facilitate Oversight and Sustain Innovation.
Acad Med Volume: 91 Page(s): 48 - 53
01/01/2016 Authors: Stoddard HA; Brownfield ED; Churchward G; Eley JW -
Regulation of streptokinase expression by CovR/S in Streptococcus pyogenes: CovR acts through a single high-affinity binding site.
Microbiology (Reading) Volume: 155 Page(s): 566 - 575
02/01/2009 Authors: Churchward G; Bates C; Gusa AA; Stringer V; Scott JR -
The 52nd Annual Wind River Conference On Prokaryotic Biology--2008.
J Bacteriol Volume: 190 Page(s): 7871 - 7875
12/01/2008 Authors: Mann E; Zaunbrecher MA; Hitz K; Churchward G -
Back to the future: the new ICE age.
Mol Microbiol Volume: 70 Page(s): 554 - 556
11/01/2008 Authors: Churchward G -
Control of Streptococcus pyogenes virulence: modeling of the CovR/S signal transduction system.
J Theor Biol Volume: 246 Page(s): 113 - 128
05/07/2007 Authors: Mitrophanov AY; Churchward G; Borodovsky M -
The two faces of Janus: virulence gene regulation by CovR/S in group A streptococci.
Mol Microbiol Volume: 64 Page(s): 34 - 41
04/01/2007 Authors: Churchward G -
Unraveling the regulatory network in Streptococcus pyogenes: the global response regulator CovR represses rivR directly.
J Bacteriol Volume: 189 Page(s): 1459 - 1463
02/01/2007 Authors: Roberts SA; Churchward GG; Scott JR -
Phosphorylation of the group A Streptococcal CovR response regulator causes dimerization and promoter-specific recruitment by RNA polymerase.
J Bacteriol Volume: 188 Page(s): 4620 - 4626
07/01/2006 Authors: Gusa AA; Gao J; Stringer V; Churchward G; Scott JR -
The integrase of the conjugative transposon Tn916 directs strand- and sequence-specific cleavage of the origin of conjugal transfer, oriT, by the endonuclease Orf20.
J Bacteriol Volume: 188 Page(s): 2207 - 2213
03/01/2006 Authors: Rocco JM; Churchward G -
Binding of the global response regulator protein CovR to the sag promoter of Streptococcus pyogenes reveals a new mode of CovR-DNA interaction.
J Biol Chem Volume: 280 Page(s): 38948 - 38956
11/25/2005 Authors: Gao J; Gusa AA; Scott JR; Churchward G