Sean Rollins, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology
School
School of Arts and Sciences
Department
School of Arts and Sciences
About
Education
- B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Featured Affiliations
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant of Microbiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Education
- B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Publications
- S.M. Rollins and R. Schuch. 2010. Crowd control: Bacillus anthracis and quorum sensing. Virulence 1:2:57-59.
- Rollins, S.M., A. Peppercorn, L. Hang, J.D. Hillman, S.B. Calderwood, M. Handfield and E.T. Ryan. 2005. In vivo induced antigen technology (IVIAT). Cell Microbiol. 7:1-9.
- Rollins, S.E., S.M. Rollins and E.T. Ryan. 2003. Yersinia pestis and the plague. Am. J. Clinical Pathol. 119:(Supplement1) S1-S8.
Awards and Honors
- Career Development Fellowship Award from the New England Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Denholm, E.M., and S.M. Rollins. 1993. Expression and secretion of transforming growth factor-? by bleomycin-stimulated rat alveolar macrophages. Am. J. Physiol. 264(1 Pt 1):L36-L42.
- Grundy, F.J., S.M. Rollins, and T.M. Henkin. 1994. Interaction between the acceptor end of tRNA and the T box stimulates antitermination in the Bacillus subtilis tyrS gene: a new role for the discriminator base. J. Bacteriol. 176:4518-4526.
- Grundy, F.J., S.E. Hodil, S.M. Rollins, and T.M. Henkin. 1997. Specificity of tRNA-mRNA interactions in Bacillus subtilis tyrS antitermination. J. Bacteriol. 179:2587-2594.
- Rollins, S.M., F.J. Grundy, and T.M. Henkin. 1997. Analysis of cis-acting sequence and structural elements required for antitermination of the Bacillus subtilis tyrS gene. Mol. Microbiol. 25:411-421.
- Grundy, F.J., J.A. Collins, S.M. Rollins, and T.M. Henkin. 2000. tRNA determinants for transcription antitermination of the Bacillus subtilis tyrS gene. RNA 6:1-11.
- Harris, J.B., A. Baresch-Bernal, S.M. Rollins, A. Alam, R.C. LaRocque, M. Bikowski, A.F. Peppercorn, M. Handfield, J.D. Hillman, F. Qadri, S.B. Calderwood, E. Hohmann, R.F. Breiman, W.A Brooks and E.T. Ryan. 2006. Identification of in vivo-induced bacterial protein antigens during human infection with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. Infect Immun. 74:5161-5168.
- Ghose, C., A. Kalsy, A. Sheikh, J. Rollenhagen, M. John, J. Young, S.M. Rollins, F. Qadri, S.B. Calderwood, C.P. Kelly and E.T. Ryan. 2007. Transcutaneous immunization with Clostridium difficile toxoid A induces systemic and mucosal immune responses and toxin A-neutralizing antibodies in mice. Infect Immun. 75:2826-2832.
- Rollins, S.M., A. Peppercorn, J.S. Young, M. Drysdale, A. Baresch, M.V. Bikowski, D. Ashford, C.P. Quinn, J.D. Hillman, M. Handfield, C.R. Lyons, T.M. Koehler, S.B. Calderwood, E.T. Ryan. 2008. Application of In Vivo Induced Antigen Technology (IVIAT) to Bacillus anthracis. PLoS ONE 3:e1824.
- Charles, R.C., J.B. Harris, M.R. Chase, L.M. Lebrun, A. Sheikh, R.C. LaRocque, T. Logvinenko, S.M. Rollins, A. Tarique, E.L. Hohmann, I. Rosenberg, B. Krastins, D.A. Sarracino, F. Qadri, S.B. Calderwood, E.T. Ryan ET. 2009. Comparative proteomic analysis of the PhoP regulon in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi versus Typhimurium. PLoS One. 4:e6994.
- Sheikh, A., R.C. Charles, S.M. Rollins, J.B. Harris, M.S. Bhuiyan, F. Khanam, A. Bukka, A. Kalsy, S. Porwollik, W.A. Brooks, R.C. LaRocque, E.L. Hohmann, A. Cravioto, T. Logvinenko, S.B. Calderwood, M. McClelland, J.E. Graham, F. Qadri and E.T. Ryan. 2010. Analysis of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi A gene expression in the blood of bacteremic patients in Bangladesh. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 7 :4(12):e908.