Health Consequences of Microbial Interactions with Hydrocarbons, Oils, and Lipids

Dr. Howard Goldfine received his B.S. degree from the City College of the City University of New York and his PhD. from the University of Chicago. After postdoctoral fellowships with Earl Stadtman at the NIH and Konrad Bloch at Harvard University, he joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Harvard Medical School. In 1968 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine and became Professor Emeritus of Microbiology in 2011. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bacterial Adherence to Plant and Animal Surfaces Via Adhesin-Lipid Interactions.- Lipid Rafts in Bacteria: Structure and Function.- Lipids and Legionella Virulence.- Lipids of Clinically Significant Mycobacteria.- Mycobacterial Lipid Bodies and the Chemosensitivity and Transmission of Tuberculosis.- Role of Sphingolipids in Bacterial Infections.- Participation of Bacterial Lipases, Sphingomyelinases, and Phospholipases in Gram-negative Bacterial Pathogenesis.- Participation of Bacterial Lipases, Sphingomyelinases, and Phospholipases in Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogenesis.- Methanotrophy, Methylotrophy, the Human Body, and Disease.- Skin: Cutibacterium (formerly Propionibacterium) acnes and Acne Vulgaris.- Hydrocarbon Degraders as Pathogens.- Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils.- Infection Prevention: Oil- and Lipid-Containing Products in Vaccinology.- Tuning Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides by Lipidation.- Gastrointestinal Tract: Fat Metabolism in the Colon.- Gastrointestinal Tract: Intestinal Fatty Acid Metabolism and Implications for Health.- Gastrointestinal Tract: Microbial Metabolism of Steroids.- Microbial Oils as Nutraceuticals and Animal Feeds.- Microbiome Metabolic Potency Towards Plant Bioactives and Consequences for Health Effects.- Poly-Beta-Hydroxybutyrate (PHB) and Infection Reduction in Farmed Aquatic Animals.