The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

• Ph.D., Universsity of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Microbiology
• M.S., University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Microbiology
• Pharm.D., University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, Pharmacy
• B.S., University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, Biology

Management of infections due to C. albicans.

1. Barker, KS, Park, H, Phan, QT, Xu, L, Homayouni, R, Rogers, PD, Filler, SG. Transcriptome profile of the vascular endothelial cell response to Candida albicans. J Infect Dis, 198 (2), 193-202, 2008.
2. Liu, TT, Znaidi, S, Barker, KS, Xu, L, Homayouni, R, Saidane, S, Morschhäuser, J, Nantel, A, Raymond, M, Rogers, PD. Genome-wide expression and location analyses of the Candida albicans Tac1p regulon. Eukaryot Cell, 6 (11), 2122-38, 2007.
3. Rogers, PD, Liu, TT, Barker, KS, Hilliard, GM, English, BK, Thornton, J, Swiatlo, E, McDaniel, LS. Gene expression profiling of the response of Streptococcus pneumoniae to penicillin. J Antimicrob Chemother, 59 (4), 616-26, 2007.
4. Barker, KS, Rogers, PD. Recent Insights into the Mechanisms of Antifungal Resistance. Curr Infect Dis Rep, 8 (6), 449-456, 2006.
5. Rogers, PD, Vermitsky, JP, Edlind, TD, Hilliard, GM. Proteomic analysis of experimentally induced azole resistance in Candida glabrata. J Antimicrob Chemother, 58 (2), 434-8, 2006.
6. Barker, KS, Liu, T, Rogers, PD. Coculture of THP-1 human mononuclear cells with Candida albicans results in pronounced changes in host gene expression. J Infect Dis, 192 (5), 901-12, 2005.
7. Liu, TT, Lee, RE, Barker, KS, Lee, RE, Wei, L, Homayouni, R, Rogers, PD. Genome-wide expression profiling of the response to azole, polyene, echinocandin, and pyrimidine antifungal agents in Candida albicans. Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 49 (6), 2226-36, 2005.
8. Hooshdaran, MZ, Hilliard, GM, Rogers, PD. Application of proteomic analysis to the study of azole antifungal resistance in Candida albicans. Methods Mol Med, 118, 57-70, 2005.
9. Barker, KS, Rogers, PD. Application of deoxyribonucleic acid microarray analysis to the study of azole antifungal resistance in Candida albicans. Methods Mol Med, 118, 45-56, 2005.
10. Lee, RE, Liu, TT, Barker, KS, Lee, RE, Rogers, PD. Genome-wide expression profiling of the response to ciclopirox olamine in Candida albicans. J Antimicrob Chemother, 55 (5), 655-62, 2005.
11. Barker, KS, Crisp, S, Wiederhold, N, Lewis, RE, Bareither, B, Eckstein, J, Barbuch, R, Bard, M, Rogers, PD. Genome-wide expression profiling reveals genes associated with amphotericin B and fluconazole resistance in experimentally induced antifungal resistant isolates of Candida albicans. J Antimicrob Chemother, 54 (2), 376-85, 2004.
12. Hooshdaran, MZ, Barker, KS, Hilliard, GM, Kusch, H, Morschhäuser, J, Rogers, PD. Proteomic analysis of azole resistance in Candida albicans clinical isolates. Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 48 (7), 2733-5, 2004.
13. Barker, KS, Pearson, MM, Rogers, PD. Identification of genes differentially expressed in association with reduced azole susceptibility in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Antimicrob Chemother, 51 (5), 1131-40, 2003.
14. Rogers, PD, Barker, KS. Genome-wide expression profile analysis reveals coordinately regulated genes associated with stepwise acquisition of azole resistance in Candida albicans clinical isolates. Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 47 (4), 1220-7, 2003.
15. Rogers, PD, Thornton, J, Barker, KS, McDaniel, DO, Sacks, GS, Swiatlo, E, McDaniel, LS. Pneumolysin-dependent and -independent gene expression identified by cDNA microarray analysis of THP-1 human mononuclear cells stimulated by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Infect Immun, 71 (4), 2087-94, 2003.
16. Rogers, PD, Barker, KS, Herring, V, Jacob, M. Heat-induced superaggregation of amphotericin B attenuates its ability to induce cytokine and chemokine production in the human monocytic cell line THP-1. J Antimicrob Chemother, 51 (2), 405-8, 2003.
17. Rogers, PD, Barker, KS. Evaluation of differential gene expression in fluconazole-susceptible and -resistant isolates of Candida albicans by cDNA microarray analysis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 46 (11), 3412-7, 2002.