Evan Pepper

@e-pepper.bsky.social

PhD Candidate in Molecular Engineering at the University of Washington and the Institute for Systems Biology with the Baliga Lab. Researching evolution of antimicrobial resistance in tuberculosis. #AMR #TB

Reposting because I'm still so thrilled to have this work out and open access for anyone to view. Still so much work to do to combat #AMR – identifying the evolutionary mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens acquire drug resistance will prove to be an important step toward this effort!

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Evan Pepper@e-pepper.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m excited to share our research published today with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com! Here, we find that oxidative stress generated by the host immune system can prime tuberculosis to rapidly evolve antibiotic resistance, revealing how resistance may emerge before treatment #TB #AMR