Dr. Timothy C. Meredith

Tim Meredith attended Villanova University for his undergraduate degree in chemistry and biochemistry, before joining the University of Michigan graduate program to work with Professor Ronald Woodard on studying lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Gram-negative bacteria. He then did post doctoral study at Harvard Medical School with Professor Suzanne Walker in the Microbiology and Immunobiology department studying wall teichoic acid biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus, before joining Merck Research Laboratories as a research scientist in the infectious diseases department. After a second position as an antimicrobial laboratory head at Novartis Institutes of Research, Dr. Meredith returned to Harvard as an instructor before starting his own laboratory at Pennsylvania State University in the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2014.

Honors and Awards :


2018: Daniel R. Tershak Memorial Teaching Award, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University
2018: Ecocyc/Metacyc Steering Committee, Stanford Research Institute
2013: Top 10 Innovation of the Year Award (ClearColi™), “The Scientist” Magazine
2007: Postdoctoral Training Grant Recipient, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2003: Pfizer Fellowship, University of Michigan
2000: College of LSA Medallion Recipient for Academic Excellence in Biochemistry, Villanova University

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Our Team

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    Dr. Gloria Komazin-Meredith

    Research Professor

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  • Aditi Ranade. A young woman with long dark hair smiling, wearing a light-colored button-up shirt, against a dark background.

    Aditi Ranade

    MCIBS Graduate Student

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    LPS modifications and antimicrobial resistance in E.coli

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    Amena Rizk

    BMMB Graduate Student

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    Role of lipoprotein modifications in immune evasion and metal resistance

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    Rachel Wigmore

    BMMB Graduate student

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    N-terminal acetylation of lipoproteins

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    Brianna Watts

    BMMB Graduate Student

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    Impact of transposition events in E.coli on antibiotic resistance

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    Francisco da Silva

    Visiting Researcher

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    Antimicrobial response of novel Cyanobacteria compounds

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    Sam Carrillo

    BMB Undergraduate Student

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    Characterization of Bifidobacterium spp. lipoprotein profile

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  • Kevin Lowen

    Microbiology Undergraduate Student

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    Mechanisms of AMR in Escherichia coli

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    Biotechnology Undergraduate Student

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    Insertion sequence elements and polymyxin B resistance in E.coli

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    Julia Benjamin

    Microbiology Undergraduate Student

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    Characterization of Streptococcus mitis lipoprotein profile

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Graduate Students

  • Krista Armbuster, PhD (2019):  Research Lab Specialist Senior- University of Michigan, USA

  • Kelvin Kho, PhD (2021):  Post Doctoral Researcher- Institut Pasteur, France

  • Michael Maybin, PhD (2023)

  • John (G4) Gardiner,PhD (2025)

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