College/University
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Medical School
University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN
What additional degrees do you have and from what institution?
PhD Biochemistry, University of Kent, UK
Residency
Duke University
Dao, Tina H., Ramzi Alsallaq, Joshua B. Parsons, Jose Ferrolino, Randall T. Hayden, Jeffrey E. Rubnitz, Iftekhar M. Rafiqullah, et al. “Vancomycin Heteroresistance and Clinical Outcomes in Bloodstream Infections Caused by Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci.” Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 64, no. 11 (October 20, 2020): e00944–e00920. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.00944-20.
Parsons, Joshua B., Matthew W. Frank, Marc J. Eleveld, Joost Schalkwijk, Tyler C. Broussard, Marien I. de Jonge, and Charles O. Rock. “A thioesterase bypasses the requirement for exogenous fatty acids in the plsX deletion of Streptococcus pneumoniae.” Molecular Microbiology 96, no. 1 (April 2015): 28–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.12916.
Parsons, Joshua B., Jiangwei Yao, Matthew W. Frank, and Charles O. Rock. “FabH mutations confer resistance to FabF-directed antibiotics in Staphylococcus aureus.” Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 59, no. 2 (February 2015): 849–58. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.04179-14.
Parsons, Joshua B., Tyler C. Broussard, Jeffrey L. Bose, Jason W. Rosch, Pamela Jackson, Chitra Subramanian, and Charles O. Rock. “Identification of a two-component fatty acid kinase responsible for host fatty acid incorporation by Staphylococcus aureus.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111, no. 29 (July 7, 2014): 10532–37. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1408797111.
Zheng, Zhong, Joshua B. Parsons, Rajendra Tangallapally, Weixing Zhang, Charles O. Rock, and Richard E. Lee. “Discovery of novel bacterial elongation condensing enzyme inhibitors by virtual screening.” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 24, no. 11 (June 2014): 2585–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.03.033.
Parsons, Joshua B., Matthew W. Frank, Pamela Jackson, Chitra Subramanian, and Charles O. Rock. “Incorporation of extracellular fatty acids by a fatty acid kinase-dependent pathway in Staphylococcus aureus.” Molecular Microbiology 92, no. 2 (April 2014): 234–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.12556.
Parsons, Joshua B., Jiangwei Yao, Pamela Jackson, Matthew Frank, and Charles O. Rock. “Phosphatidylglycerol homeostasis in glycerol-phosphate auxotrophs of Staphylococcus aureus.” Bmc Microbiology 13 (November 16, 2013): 260. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-13-260.
Parsons, Joshua B., Matthew W. Frank, Jason W. Rosch, and Charles O. Rock. “Staphylococcus aureus fatty acid auxotrophs do not proliferate in mice.” Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 57, no. 11 (November 2013): 5729–32. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.01038-13.
Parsons, Joshua B., and Charles O. Rock. “Bacterial lipids: metabolism and membrane homeostasis.” Progress in Lipid Research 52, no. 3 (July 2013): 249–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plipres.2013.02.002.
Parsons, Joshua B., Maciej Kukula, Pamela Jackson, Mark Pulse, Jerry W. Simecka, David Valtierra, William J. Weiss, Nachum Kaplan, and Charles O. Rock. “Perturbation of Staphylococcus aureus gene expression by the enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase inhibitor AFN-1252.” Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 57, no. 5 (May 2013): 2182–90. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.02307-12.