Ph.D., University of Michigan, Microbiology and Immunology
M.S., University of Chicago, Immunology
B.S., University of Washington, Microbiology
Courses
Microbiology for Allied Health
Biology of Microorganisms
Immunology
STEM Colloquium
First-Year Seminar
Research Interests
Bacterial communication in pathogenesis and communities
Antibiotic resistance and population fitness
Comparative Immunology
Microbiomes and host diet
Recent Publications
Gray, B., P. Hall, and H. Gresham. 2013. Targeting agr- and agr-like quorum sensing systems for the development of common therapeutics to treat multiple gram-positive bacterial infections. Sensors 13:5130-66 PMC3673130
Sully, E. K., N. Malachowa, B. O. Elmore, S. M. Alexander, J. K. Femling, B. M. Gray, F. R. DeLeo, A. R. Horswill, M. Otto, A. L. Cheung, B. S. Edwards, L. A. Sklar, P. R. Hall, and H. D. Gresham. 2014. Selective chemical inhibition of agr quorum sensing in Staphylococcus aureus promotes host defense with minimal impact on resistance. PLoS Pathogens vol. 10, iss. 6, DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004174. PMC4055767
Qiao, Y., B. M. Gray, M. H. Sofi, L. D. Bauler, K. A. Eaton, M. X. D. O’Riordan, and C-H Chang. 2012. Innate-like CD4 T cells selected by thymocytes suppress adaptive immune responses against bacterial infections. Open Journal of Immunology 2:25-39. PMC3525959
Gray, B. M. and K. A. Eaton. 2012. Necropsy, blood, tissue collection, and mRNA isolation for detection of host cytokine gene expression. Methods in Molecular Biology 921:119-29
Recent Presentations
November 12, 2014: Bacterial Communication: What Quorum Sensing does for Microbes and How it Affects Us, Richard Clark Lecture series, York College of Pennsylvania
November 5, 2013: Targeting Pathogenic Quorum Sensing to Treat Disease and Limit Resistance, NIH-RISE Seminar Series, University of Puerto-Rico at Humacao