- Adjunct Professor, Global Health
- Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
- Adjunct Professor, Pediatric Dentistry
1959 NE Pacific St
DEOHS School of Public Health
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
United States
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Dr. Roberts' research interests include identification of vancomycin resistant enterococci [VRE] and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA] in humans, animals and the environment and the relationship among these three in a variety of settings [One Health], the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance and their distribution in various microbiomes and how resistance spreads through bacterial populations and ultimately, how these genes affect therapy. The laboratory has an ongoing project to isolate and characterize MRSA from primates, personnel and the environment from the Washington National Primate Research Center. Dr. Roberts is also working with people from the Indonesian primate center. Future work will look for MRSA in primate populations outside the USA, both in Primate centers and wild populations. The laboratory is also interested in antibiotic resistance in oral and urogenital bacteria in general. Another focus is on the oral pathogen Streptococcus mutants and how treatments affect the organism's cariogenic potential, as well as, levels in health and disease within the USA and in other countries.
- PhD (University of Washington)
- MS (University of Washington)
- BS (University of Washington)
- Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR)
- Disease Surveillance
- Environmental Health (incl. Climate Change)
- Epidemiology
- Genomics
- Infectious Diseases (other than STDs)
- One Health
- Pathobiology
- A One Health Approach to Antimicrobial Resistance in the Salish Sea
- E. coli characterization from orca whales and river otters
- Microbiome of killer whale feces as a sentinel for health in Puget Sound and a point source for antibiotic resistance genes in the marine environment
- MRSA from WaNPRC in Seattle
- MRSA in captive colonies and wild populations using a One Health approach
- Shrines and parks: Hotspots for staphylococcal exchange between primates and humans
Roberts, M.C., J. Sutcliffe, P. Courvalin, L.B. Jensen, J. Rood, and H. Seppala. Nomenclature for macrolide and macrolide-lincosamide streptogramin B antibiotic resistance determinants. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 43:2823-2830, 1999. PMID 10582867
Roberts, M.C. Update on macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin, ketolide and oxazolidinone (MLSKO) resistance genes. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 282: 147-159, 2008. PMID 1839999
Lin, J., Nishino, K., M.C. Roberts, M. Tolmasky, R. Aminov, and L. Zhang. Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. 2015. Frontier in Microbiol: Antimicrobials Resistance & Chemotherapy. 6:34. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00034 PMID:25699027
Roberts, M.C., G. Garland-Lewis, S. Trufan, J.S. Meschke, H. Fowler, R. Shean, A.L. Greninger and P.M. Rabinowitz. Distribution of Staphylococcus species in workers, cows, and shared diary farm environments. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 365, 2018 fny146 PMID: 29912375
Melendez, D., M.C. Roberts, A.L. Greninger, S. Weissman, D. No, P.M. Rabinowitz, S. Wasser. Whole genome analysis of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) multidrug resistant ST73 and ST127 isolated from endangered Southern Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca). PMID: 29668933