Prospective Students

Daniel A Russell

  • Research Instructor

Contact

dar78@pitt.edu
Office: (412) 624-4313
304A Clapp Hall
4249 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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Dan does sequencing and finishing of bacteriophage genomes, using a variety of platforms, including Sanger, 454, and Illumina sequencing, as well as now using our lab's own Illumina MiSeq sequencer.

He also created and maintains the websites PhagesDB.org to collect and share the data generated by phage hunters around the world, as well as the program website seaphages.org for HHMI's SEA-PHAGES course-based undergradute research program.

Dedrick, R. M., Guerrero-Bustamante, C. A., Gar

Dedrick, R. M., Guerrero-Bustamante, C. A., Garlena, R. A., Russell, D. A., Ford, K., Harris, K., Gilmour, K. C., Soothill, J., Jacobs-Sera, D., Schooley, R. R., Hatfull, G. F. and Spencer, H.  (2019).  Use of engineered bacteriophages for personalized treatment of a patient with a disseminated drug resistant Mycobacterium abscessus infection.  Nature Med. 25, 730-733. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0437-z.  PMID: 31068712

Pope, W.H., Ferreira, C.M., Jacobs-Sera, D., Benjamin, R.C., Davis, A.J., DeJong, R.J., Elgin, S.

Pope, W.H., Ferreira, C.M., Jacobs-Sera, D., Benjamin, R.C., Davis, A.J., DeJong, R.J., Elgin, S.C.R., Guilfoile, F.R., Forsyth, M.H., Harris, A.D., Harvey, S.E., Hughes, L.E., Hynes, P.M., Jackson, A.S., Jalal, M.D., MacMurray, E.A., Manley, C.M., McDonough, M.J., Mosier, J.L., Osterbann, L.J., Rabinowitz, H.S., Rhyan, C.N., Russell, D.A., Saha, M.S., Shaffer, C.D., Simon, S.E., Sims, E.F., Tovar, I.G., Weisser, E.G., Wertz, J.T., Weston-Hafer, K.A., Williamson, K.E., Zhang, B., Cresawn, S.G., Jain, P., Piuri, M., Jacobs, W.R., Jr., Hendrix, R.W. and Hatfull, G.F. (2011) Cluster K Mycobacteriophages: Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of Mycobacteriophage TM4. PLoS ONE 6:e26750.

Pope, W.H., D. Jacobs-Sera, D.A. Russell, C.L. Peebles, Z. Al-Atrache, T.A. Alcoser, L.M. Alexand

Pope, W.H., D. Jacobs-Sera, D.A. Russell, C.L. Peebles, Z. Al-Atrache, T.A. Alcoser, L.M. Alexander, M.B. Alfano, S.T. Alford, N.E. Amy, M.D. Anderson, A.G. Anderson, A.A. Ang, J.r Ares M, A.J. Barber, L.P. Barker, J.M. Barrett, W.D. Barshop, C.M. Bauerle, I.M. Bayles, K.L. Belfield, A.A. Best, J.r Borjon A, C.A. Bowman, C.A. Boyer, K.W. Bradley, V.A. Bradley, L.N. Broadway, K. Budwal, K.N. Busby, I.W. Campbell, A.M. Campbell, A. Carey, S.M. Caruso, R.D. Chew, C.L. Cockburn, L.B. Cohen, J.M. Corajod, S.G. Cresawn, K.R. Davis, L. Deng, D.R. Denver, B.R. Dixon, S. Ekram, S.C. Elgin, A.E. Engelsen, B.E. English, M.L. Erb, C. Estrada, L.Z. Filliger, A.M. Findley, L. Forbes, M.H. Forsyth, T.M. Fox, M.J. Fritz, R. Garcia, Z.D. George, A.E. Georges, C.R. Gissendanner, S. Goff, R. Goldstein, K.C. Gordon, R.D. Green, S.L. Guerra, K.R. Guiney-Olsen, B.G. Guiza, L. Haghighat, G.V. Hagopian, C.J. Harmon, J.S. Harmson, G.A. Hartzog, S.E. Harvey, S. He, K.J. He, K.E. Healy, E.R. Higinbotham, E.N. Hildebrandt, J.H. Ho, G.M. Hogan, V.G. Hohenstein, N.A. Holz, V.J. Huang, E.L. Hufford, P.M. Hynes, A.S. Jackson, E.C. Jansen, J. Jarvik, P.G. Jasinto, T.C. Jordan, T. Kasza, M.A. Katelyn, J.S. Kelsey, L.A. Kerrigan, D. Khaw, J. Kim, J.Z. Knutter, C.C. Ko, G.V. Larkin, J.R. Laroche, A. Latif, K.D. Leuba, S.I. Leuba, L.O. Lewis, K.E. Loesser-Casey, C.A. Long, A.J. Lopez, N. Lowery, T.Q. Lu, V. Mac, I.R. Masters, J.J. McCloud, M.J. McDonough, A.J. Medenbach, A. Menon, R. Miller, B.K. Morgan, P.C. Ng, E. Nguyen, K.T. Nguyen, E.T. Nguyen, K.M. Nicholson, L.A. Parnell, C.E. Peirce, A.M. Perz, L.J. Peterson, R.E. Pferdehirt, S.V. Philip, K. Pogliano, J. Pogliano, T. Polley, E.J. Puopolo, H.S. Rabinowitz, M.J. Resiss, C.N. Rhyan, Y.M. Robinson, L.L. Rodriguez, A.C. Rose, J.D. Rubin, J.A. Ruby, M.S. Saha, J.W. Sandoz, J. Savitskaya, D.J. Schipper, C.E. Schnitzler, A.R. Schott, J.B. Segal, C.D. Shaffer, K.E. Sheldon, E.M. Shepard, J.W. Shepardson, M.K. Shroff, J.M. Simmons, E.F. Simms, B.M. Simpson, K.M. Sinclair, R.L. Sjoholm, I.J. Slette, B.C. Spaulding, C.L. Straub, J. Stukey, T. Sughrue, T.Y. Tang, L.M. Tatyana, S.B. Taylor, B.J. Taylor, L.M. Temple, J.V. Thompson, M.P. Tokarz, S.E. Trapani, A.P. Troum, J. Tsay, A.T. Tubbs, J.M. Walton, D.H. Wang, H. Wang, J.R. Warner, E.G. Weisser, S.C. Wendler, K.A. Weston-Hafer, H.M. Whelan, K.E. Williamson, A.N. Willis, H.S. Wirtshafter, T.W. Wong, P. Wu, Y. Yang, B.C. Yee, D.A. Zaidins, B. Zhang, M.Y. Zuniga, R.W. Hendrix, and G.F. Hatfull (2011) Expanding the diversity of mycobacteriophages: insights into genome architecture and evolution. PLoS One 6:e16329e16329

Marine, R., Polson, S.W., Ravel, J., Hatfull, G., Russell, D., Sullivan, M., Syed, F., Dumas, M.

Marine, R., Polson, S.W., Ravel, J., Hatfull, G., Russell, D., Sullivan, M., Syed, F., Dumas, M. and Wommack, K.E. (2011) Evaluation of a transposase protocol for rapid generation of shotgun high-throughput sequencing libraries from nanogram quantities of DNA. Appl Environ Microbiol 77:  8071-9.

Sampson, T., G.W. Broussard, L.J. Marinelli, D. Jacobs-Sera, M. Ray, C.C. Ko, D. Russell, R.W. He

Sampson, T., G.W. Broussard, L.J. Marinelli, D. Jacobs-Sera, M. Ray, C.C. Ko, D. Russell, R.W. Hendrix, and G.F. Hatfull (2009) Mycobacteriophages BPs, Angel and Halo: comparative genomics reveals a novel class of ultra-small mobile genetic elements. Microbiology 155:2962-2977

Dan earned a B.A. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Cornell University in 2000, and followed that with several years of sequencing work at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR, now part of J. Craig Venter Institute).  He then re-routed slightly and earned a Master's in Science Education from the University of Missouri and taught high school Biology, Earth Science, and Oceanography for 3 years.  Thereafter, he returned to his hometown and found a balance between academia and education at the University of Pittsburgh with Graham Hatfull's PHIRE (Phage Hunters Integrating Research and Education) program, and with HHMI's SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) program.