Global InformationHoura Merrikh information
Houra Merrikh is an Iranian-American microbiologist.[1][2] She is a full professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Biochemistry. Her field of work is antibiotic resistance and bacterial evolvability.[2][3][4]
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- ^ "How head-on collisions of DNA protein machines stop replication: The collisions promote mutations that may help bacteria adapt to stress". ScienceDaily. August 15, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
- ^ "It's In the Genes w/ Houra Merrikh". Everything You Know Is Wrong. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
Her research into the mutagenic nature of co-directional gene collisions were revolutionary in the field and won her the 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.