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Alaric is an Infectious Diseases Fellow at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his MD and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine and did Pediatrics residency at Boston Children's Hospital on the accelerated research pathway. He completed his Computational and Systems Biology dissertation research on Microbial Ecology and antibiotic resistance genes in the Dantas Lab. After training, Alaric hopes to lead his own research group studying microbial ecology and antibiotic resistance.

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Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Fellowship 2024 (July)
Pediatrics Infectious Diseases

Residency 2022 - 2024 (June)
Pediatrics

Education

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Washington University in St. Louis

MD 2022

PhD 2020
Computational and Systems Biology
Advisor: Gautam Dantas, PhD

Yale University

BS 2014
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Canyon High School

Graduated 2010

Publications

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  1. Daily occupational exposure in swine farm alters human skin microbiota and antibiotic resistome
    Chen DR, Cheng K, Wan L, Li G, Zhao DH, Yu Y, Liao XP, Liu YH, D’Souza AW**, Lian XL**, Sun J**
    iMeta | PMID: 38868515 | 2024
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  2. Acute and persistent effects of commonly-used antibiotics on the gut microbiome and resistome in healthy adults
    Anthony WE, Wang B, Sukhum KV, D’Souza AW, Hink T, Cass C, Seiler S, Reske KA, Coon C, Dubberke ER, Burnham CA, Dantas G, Kwon JH
    Cell Reports | PMID:35417701 | 2022
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  3. Structural and molecular rationale for the diversification of resistance mediated by the Antibiotic_NAT family
    Stogios PJ, Bordeleau E, Xu Z, Skarina T, Evdokimova E, Chou S, Diorio-Toth L, D'Souza AW, Patel S, Dantas G, Wright GD, Savchenko A
    Communications Biology | PMID:35338238 | 2022
    PDF | supplemental | preprint
  4. Destination shapes antibiotic resistance gene acquisitions, abundance increases, and diversity changes in Dutch travelers.
    D'Souza AW*, Boolchandani M*, Patel S, Galazzo G, Hattem J, Arcilla M, Melles D, Jong M, Schultsz C, Dantas G, Penders J
    Genome Medicine | PMID:34092249 | 2021
    PDF | supplemental | supplemental code
  5. Manure microbial communities and resistance profiles reconfigure after transition to manure pits and differ from fertilized field soil
    Sukhum K, Vargas R, D'Souza AW, Boolchandani M, Patel S, Kesaraju A, Walljasper G, Hedge H, Ye Z, Valenzuela R, Gunderson P, Bendixsen C, Dantas G, Shukla S
    mBio | PMID:33975936 | 2021
    PDF | supplemental
  6. Environmental remodeling of human gut microbiota and antibiotic resistome in livestock farms
    Sun J*, Liao XP*, D'Souza AW*, Boolchandani M*, Li SH*, Cheng K, Martinez JL, Li L, Feng YJ, Fang LX, Huang T, Xia J, Yu Y, Zhou YF, Sun YX, Deng XB, Zeng ZL, Jiang HX, Fang BH, Tang YZ, Lian XL, Zhang RM, Fang ZW, Yan QL, Dantas G, Liu YH
    Nature Communications | PMID:32188862 | 2020
    PDF | supplemental
  7. Genomic characterization of antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli isolated from domestic chickens in Pakistan
    Rafique M*, Potter RF*, Ferreiro A, Wallace MA, Rahim A, Malik AA, Siddique N, Abbas MA, D'Souza AW, Burnham CD, Ali N, Dantas G
    Frontiers in Microbiology | PMID:32010104 | 2019
    PDF | supplemental
  8. Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis increases resistance gene prevalence and α-diversity but decreases β-diversity in the gut microbiome of HIV-exposed, uninfected infants.
    D'Souza AW*, Moodley-Govender E*, Berla B, Kelkar T, Wang B, Sun X, Daniels B, Coutsoudis A, Trehan I, Dantas G
    Clinical Infectious Diseases | PMID:31832638 | 2019
    PDF | supplemental | supplemental figures
  9. Breakpoint beware: reliance on historical breakpoints for Enterobacteriaceae leads to discrepancies in interpretation of susceptibility testing for carbapenems and cephalosporins and gaps in detection of carbapenem-resistant organisms.
    Yarbrough ML, Wallace MA, Potter RF, D'Souza AW, Dantas G, Burnham CD
    European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases | PMID:31679102 | 2019
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  10. Spatiotemporal dynamics of multidrug resistant bacteria on intensive care unit surfaces.
    D'Souza AW*, Potter RF*, Wallace M, Shupe A, Patel S, Sun X, Gul D, Kwon JH, Andleeb S, Burnham CD, Dantas G
    Nature Communications | PMID:31594927 | 2019
    PDF | supplemental | supplemental code
  11. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of linezolid resistant Enterococcus faecium from the USA and Pakistan.
    Wardenburg K*, Potter R*, D'Souza AW, Hussain T, Wallace M, Andleeb A, Burnham CA, Dantas G
    Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | PMID:31504566 | 2019
    PDF
  12. Sequencing-based methods and resources to study antimicrobial resistance.
    Boolchandani M*, D'Souza AW*, Dantas G
    Nature Reviews Genetics | PMID:30886350 | 2019
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  13. Infant diet and maternal gestational weight gain predict early metabolic maturation of gut microbiomes.
    Baumann-Dudenhoeffer AM, D'Souza AW, Tarr PI, Warner BB, Dantas G
    Nature Medicine | PMID:30374198 | 2018
    PDF | supplemental
  14. Superficieibacter electus gen. nov., sp. nov., an Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Possessing Member of the Enterobacteriaceae Family, Isolated From Intensive Care Unit Surfaces.
    Potter RF*, D'Souza AW*, Wallace MA, Shupe A, Patel S, Gul D, Kwon JH, Beatty W, Andleeb S, Burnham CD, Dantas G
    Frontiers in Microbiology | PMID:30079059 | 2018
    PDF | supplemental
  15. Draft Genome Sequence of the blaOXA-436- and blaNDM-1-Harboring Shewanella putrefaciens SA70 Isolate.
    Potter RF*, D'Souza AW*, Wallace MA, Shupe A, Patel S, Gul D, Kwon JH, Andleeb S, Burnham CD, Dantas G
    Genome Announcements | PMID:28729267 | 2017
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  16. The rapid spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.
    Potter RF*, D'Souza AW*, Dantas G
    Drug Resistance Updates | PMID:27912842 | 2016
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  17. Malignant cancer and invasive placentation: A case for positive pleiotropy between endometrial and malignancy phenotypes.
    D'Souza AW and Wagner GP
    Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health | PMID:25324490 | 2014
    PDF

Preprints

  1. Structural and molecular rationale for the diversification of resistance mediated by the Antibiotic_NAT family
    Stogios PJ, Bordeleau E, Xu Z, Skarina T, Evdokimova E, Chou S, Diorio-Toth L, D'Souza AW, Patel S, Dantas G, Wright GD, Savchenko A
    bioRxiv | DOI:10.1101/2021.09.10.459797 | 2021
    PDF
    Published in Communications Biology

Patents

  1. Store-Easy Automotive wheelchair storage device.
    Guertler C, D'Souza AW, Milgrom R, Hong T, Xiao Y, Nadell S
    Patent US9937088B2 | 2018
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Published Abstracts

  1. Microbiome and immune disruption accompany mouse death in a gnotobiotic mouse model of neonatal sepsis
    Schwartz D, Wardenburg K, Shalon N, Ning J, Crofts T, D’Souza A, Robinson J, Henderson J, Warner B, Tarr P, Dantas G
    Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society | 2021
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  2. The Gut Microbiome and Resistome of Healthy Volunteers are Restructured After Short Courses of Antibiotics
    Anthony W, Sukhum K, Cass C, Reske K, Seiler S, Hink T, Coon C, D'Souza A, Wang B, Sun S, Dubberke E, Burnham C-A, Dantas G, Kwon JH
    Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | 2020
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  3. Longitudinal Analysis of ICU Surface Multidrug-resistant Organism Contamination in the US and Pakistan
    Kwon JH, D'Souza A, Potter R, Wallace M, Shupe A, Patel S, Gul D, Andleeb S, Burnham CAD, Dantas G
    Open Forum Infectious Diseases | 2017
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  4. Autologous Fecal Microbiota Transplantation as a Strategy to Prevent Colonization With Multidrug-Resistant Organisms Following Antimicrobial Therapy
    Bulow C, D'Souza A, Hink T, Wallace M, Reske K, Sun X, Kwon JH, Burnham CAD, Dantas G, Dubberke ER
    Open Forum Infectious Diseases | 2015

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