Professional Experience

• Molecular Microbiologist/Institution Research Coordinator/Cannon Research Center/Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, 2007- present
• Senior Scientist/Director Research Laboratory in Oral Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, 2002-2007
• Senior Scientist/Genomic Project leader, Prokaria, Ltd., Reykjavik, Iceland, 2000-2002
• Research Scientist, Molecular Pathogenesis, Dept. of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1997-2000
• EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow, Pathogen-Host interaction, Unité de Pathogenie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 1995-1997
• Doctoral Student and Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Pathogenesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Dept. of Microbiology, 1989-1995

Education

• Master Student, Bacteriology University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dept. of Biology (1989)
• Ph.D. Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine (1994)

Selected Recent Publications & Book Chapters

1. Bahrani-Mougeot, F. K., and M.S. Donnenberg. 2000. Enteropathogenic bacteria. In Encyclopedia of Microbiology (J. Lederberg, ed.) Academic Press. San Diego.

2. Bahrani-Mougeot, F. K., S. Pancholi, M. Daoust, and M. S. Donnenberg. 2001. Identification of putative urovirulence genes by subtractive Cloning. J. Infect. Dis. 183:S21-3.

3. Bahrani-Mougeot, F. K., N. W. Gunther IV, M. S. Donnenberg, and H.L.T. Mobley. 2002. Uropathogenic E. coli. In Escherichia coli: Virulence mechanisms of a versatile pathogen. (M. S. Donnenberg, ed.) Academic press. USA.

4. Bahrani-Mougeot, F. K., E. L. Buckles, C. V. Lockatell, J. R. Hebel, D. E. Johnson, C. M. Tang, and M. S. Donnenberg. 2002. Type 1 fimbriae and extracellular polysaccharides are preeminent uropathogenic Escherichia coli virulence determinants in the murine urinary tract. Mol. Micro. 45(4), 1079-1093.

5. Buckles, E. L., F. K. Bahrani-Mougeot, A. Molina, C. V. Lockatell, D. E. Johnson, C. B. Drachenberg, V. Burland, F. R. Blattner, and M. S. Donnenberg. 2004. Identification and characterization of a novel uropathogenic Escherichia coli-Associated fimbrial Gene cluster. Infect. Immun. 72 (7): 3890-3901.

6. Brennan, M., F. Bahrani-Mougeot, P.C. Fox, T. P. Kennedy, S. Hopkins, R. Boucher, and P. B. Lockhart. 2004. The role of oral microbial colonization in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod (In press).

7. Bahrani-Mougeot, F. K., S. K. Petursdottir, M. B. Arnarsdottir, H. J. Asgrinsson, B. Bjarnason, G. O. Hreggvidsson, and J. K. Kristjansson. 2002. Analysis of the gapped genomic sequence of the thermophilic bacterium Geothermus vaporicella from an industrial perspective. Extremophiles. P.197.

8. Birgisson, H., O. Fridjonsson, F. K. Bahrani-Mougeot, G. O. Hreggvidsson, J. K. Kristjansson, and B. O. Mattiasson. 2004. A new thermostable α-L-arabinofuranosidase from a novel thermophilic bacterium. Biotech let. 26:1347-1341.

9. Hobel, C. F. V., G. O. Hreggvidsson, V. T. Marteinsson, F. Bahrani-Mougeot, J. M. Einarsson, and J. K. Kristjansson. 2004. Cloning, expression and characterization of a highly thermostable family 18 chitinase from Rhodothermus marinus. DOI: 10.1007/s00792-004-0422-3.

10. Napeñas, JJ, Brennan MT, Bahrani-Mougeot FK, Fox PC, Lockhart PB. Relationship Between Mucositis and Changes in Oral Microflora during Cancer Chemotherapy. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2007; 103(1):48-59

11. Bahrani-Mougeot, FK., Paster BJ, Coleman, S, Barbuto S, Brennan, MT, Noll J, Kennedy, T, Fox PC, Lockhart PB. Molecular analysis of oral and respiratory bacterial species associated with ventilator-associated pneumonia. J Clin Micro. 2007;45(5): 1588-1593.