Faculty Bio
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
Affiliated Appointments
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant of Microbiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Areas of Teaching
Microbiology
Infectious
Diseases Biology
Editorials
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.
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.