Michael H Norris

Michael H Norris,

AST PROF

Department: LS-GEOGRAPHY
Business Phone: (352) 273-8445
Business Email: mhnorris@ufl.edu

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2022-2023
GEO6938 Selected Topics in Geography
2023
GEO3930 Special Topics
2023
GEO4911 Undergraduate Research in Geography

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0002-5285-0432

Publications

2023
Beyond the spore, the exosporium sugar anthrose impacts vegetative Bacillus anthracis gene regulation in cis and trans.
Scientific reports. 13(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41598-023-32162-x. [PMID] 36977718.
2022
An Investigation of Burkholderia pseudomallei Seroprevalence in Market Pigs Slaughtered at Selected Pig Abattoirs in Uganda
Pathogens. 11(11) [DOI] 10.3390/pathogens11111363. [PMID] 36422614.
2022
Characterization of Bacillus anthracis replication and persistence on environmental substrates associated with wildlife anthrax outbreaks
PLOS ONE. 17(9) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0274645. [PMID] 36129912.
2022
Genome-scale CRISPR screens identify host factors that promote human coronavirus infection.
Genome medicine. 14(1) [DOI] 10.1186/s13073-022-01013-1. [PMID] 35086559.
2022
Low-frequency variants in mildly symptomatic vaccine breakthrough infections presents a doubled-edged sword.
Journal of medical virology. 94(7):3192-3202 [DOI] 10.1002/jmv.27726. [PMID] 35307848.
2021
Combating Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria by Integrating a Novel Target Site Penetration and Receptor Binding Assay Platform Into Translational Modeling.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. 109(4):1000-1020 [DOI] 10.1002/cpt.2205. [PMID] 33576025.
2021
Correction: Convergent evolution of diverse Bacillus anthracis outbreak strains toward altered surface oligosaccharides that modulate anthrax pathogenesis.
PLoS biology. 19(2) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001112. [PMID] 33556066.
2021
Highly Specific Sigma Receptor Ligands Exhibit Anti-Viral Properties in SARS-CoV-2 Infected Cells
Pathogens. 10(11) [DOI] 10.3390/pathogens10111514. [PMID] 34832669.
2021
Identification of a PadR-type regulator essential for intracellular pathogenesis of Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Scientific reports. 11(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41598-021-89852-7. [PMID] 34001967.
2021
Identification of antiviral antihistamines for COVID-19 repurposing
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 538:173-179 [DOI] 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.11.095. [PMID] 33309272.
2021
The Burkholderia pseudomallei intracellular ‘TRANSITome’
Nature Communications. 12(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41467-021-22169-1. [PMID] 33772012.
2020
Convergent evolution of diverse Bacillus anthracis outbreak strains toward altered surface oligosaccharides that modulate anthrax pathogenesis
PLOS Biology. 18(12) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001052. [PMID] 33370274.
2020
Distribution of Serological Response to Burkholderia pseudomallei in Swine from Three Provinces of Vietnam
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(14) [DOI] 10.3390/ijerph17145203. [PMID] 32708490.
2020
Humoral Immune Responses to Burkholderia pseudomallei Antigens in Captive and Wild Macaques in the Western Part of Java, Indonesia
Veterinary Sciences. 7(4) [DOI] 10.3390/vetsci7040153. [PMID] 33050516.
2020
Laboratory strains of Bacillus anthracis lose their ability to rapidly grow and sporulate compared to wildlife outbreak strains
PLOS ONE. 15(1) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0228270. [PMID] 31978128.
2020
Nucleotide polymorphism assay for the identification of west African group Bacillus anthracis: a lineage lacking anthrose.
BMC microbiology. 20(1) [DOI] 10.1186/s12866-019-1693-2. [PMID] 31910798.
2020
Raxibacumab: a panacea for anthrax disease?
The Lancet. Infectious diseases. 20(8):886-887 [DOI] 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30164-X. [PMID] 32333846.
2020
TaqMan Assays for Simultaneous Detection of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis
Pathogens. 9(12) [DOI] 10.3390/pathogens9121074. [PMID] 33371332.
2019
An in situ high-throughput screen identifies inhibitors of intracellular Burkholderia pseudomallei with therapeutic efficacy.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116(37):18597-18606 [DOI] 10.1073/pnas.1906388116. [PMID] 31439817.
2019
Burkholderia pseudomallei acquired ceftazidime resistance due to gene duplication and amplification
International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 53(5):582-588 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2019.01.003.
2019
Linking Geospatial and Laboratory Sciences to Define Mechanisms behind Landscape Level Drivers of Anthrax Outbreaks
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(19) [DOI] 10.3390/ijerph16193747. [PMID] 31590291.
2018
Lipid A Remodeling Is a Pathoadaptive Mechanism That Impacts Lipopolysaccharide Recognition and Intracellular Survival of Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Infection and immunity. 86(10) [DOI] 10.1128/IAI.00360-18. [PMID] 30037795.
2018
Outer Membrane Vesicle Vaccines from Biosafe Surrogates Prevent Acute Lethal Glanders in Mice.
Vaccines. 6(1) [DOI] 10.3390/vaccines6010005. [PMID] 29320408.
2018
Seroepidemiology of Burkholderia pseudomallei, Etiologic Agent of Melioidosis, in the Ouest and Sud-Est Departments of Haiti.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 99(5):1222-1228 [DOI] 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0352. [PMID] 30226137.
2018
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of PenA β-lactamase in acquired Burkholderia pseudomallei β-lactam resistance.
Scientific reports. 8(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41598-018-28843-7. [PMID] 30006637.
2017
An avirulent Burkholderia pseudomallei ∆purM strain with atypical type B LPS: expansion of the toolkit for biosafe studies of melioidosis.
BMC microbiology. 17(1) [DOI] 10.1186/s12866-017-1040-4. [PMID] 28592242.
2017
Burkholderia pseudomallei natural competency and DNA catabolism: Identification and characterization of relevant genes from a constructed fosmid library.
PloS one. 12(12) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0189018. [PMID] 29253888.
2017
Development of Immunoassays for Burkholderia pseudomallei Typical and Atypical Lipopolysaccharide Strain Typing.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 96(2):358-367 [DOI] 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0308. [PMID] 27994103.
2017
Spatial transcriptomes within the Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm architecture.
Molecular microbiology. 106(6):976-985 [DOI] 10.1111/mmi.13863. [PMID] 29030956.
2017
Structural diversity of Burkholderia pseudomallei lipopolysaccharides affects innate immune signaling.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(4) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005571. [PMID] 28453531.
2015
Single prokaryotic cell isolation and total transcript amplification protocol for transcriptomic analysis.
Nature protocols. 10(7):974-84 [DOI] 10.1038/nprot.2015.058. [PMID] 26042386.
2014
Blocking phosphatidylcholine utilization in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, via mutagenesis of fatty acid, glycerol and choline degradation pathways, confirms the importance of this nutrient source in vivo.
PloS one. 9(7) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0103778. [PMID] 25068317.
2013
Elucidating the Pseudomonas aeruginosa fatty acid degradation pathway: identification of additional fatty acyl-CoA synthetase homologues.
PloS one. 8(5) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0064554. [PMID] 23737986.
2011
Knockout and pullout recombineering for naturally transformable Burkholderia thailandensis and Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Nature protocols. 6(8):1085-104 [DOI] 10.1038/nprot.2011.346. [PMID] 21738123.
2011
The Burkholderia pseudomallei Δasd mutant exhibits attenuated intracellular infectivity and imparts protection against acute inhalation melioidosis in mice.
Infection and immunity. 79(10):4010-8 [DOI] 10.1128/IAI.05044-11. [PMID] 21807903.
2011
Transcript amplification from single bacterium for transcriptome analysis.
Genome research. 21(6):925-35 [DOI] 10.1101/gr.116103.110. [PMID] 21536723.
2010
Multiple FadD acyl-CoA synthetases contribute to differential fatty acid degradation and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
PloS one. 5(10) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0013557. [PMID] 21042406.
2010
Stable, site-specific fluorescent tagging constructs optimized for burkholderia species.
Applied and environmental microbiology. 76(22):7635-40 [DOI] 10.1128/AEM.01188-10. [PMID] 20851961.
2009
Engineering of tellurite-resistant genetic tools for single-copy chromosomal analysis of Burkholderia spp. and characterization of the Burkholderia thailandensis betBA operon.
Applied and environmental microbiology. 75(12):4015-27 [DOI] 10.1128/AEM.02733-08. [PMID] 19376905.
2009
Glyphosate resistance as a novel select-agent-compliant, non-antibiotic-selectable marker in chromosomal mutagenesis of the essential genes asd and dapB of Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Applied and environmental microbiology. 75(19):6062-75 [DOI] 10.1128/AEM.00820-09. [PMID] 19648360.

Grants

Sep 2022 ACTIVE
Estimating and modeling melioidosis risk and prevalence in Vietnam
Role: Co-Project Director/Principal Investigator
Funding: DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
Nov 2021 – Dec 2022
PIADC 257 Decontamination Planning & Strategy
Role: Co-Project Director/Principal Investigator
Funding: MERRICK & COMPANY via US DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Sep 2021 ACTIVE
Virulence and Protective Efficacy of Vaccines Against Antigenically Novel Bacillus anthracis Strains
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
Jun 2021 – Jun 2022
An investigation of Burkholderia pseudomallei seroprevalence in market swine slaughtered at selected pig slaughterhouses in Uganda
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: CORNELL UNIV
Aug 2020 – Nov 2022
TD-O4-013 Anthrax Surveillance in The Northern Philippines (Twin)
Role: Other
Funding: LEIDOS via DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
Jul 2019 – Feb 2021
STEP IDIQ Technical Directive TD-O2-003 Vietnam Melioidosis Research Preparedness Part II
Role: Project Manager
Funding: LEIDOS via DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
Sep 2018 – May 2019
Technical Directive TD-O1-011: Vietnam Melioidosis Research Preparedness
Role: Project Manager
Funding: LEIDOS via DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 273-8445
Emails:
Business:
mhnorris@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 117315
GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Business Street:
3414 Turlington Hall
GAINESVILLE FL 32611