KALAI MATHEE, MSc, PhD.

Founding Chair & Associate Professor

 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, USA

www.fiu.edu/~matheek

 

PATENT DISCLOSURES AND SYNERGESTIC ACTVITIES

 

Patents and Licenses

3

2008

Ellagitannins as inhibitors of bacterial quorum sensing. Patent application has been filed by FIU. Serial No: 61/036,812

Involved K. Mathee, A. Adonizio, F. Ausubel, J. Clardy, B. Bennett and K. Downum

2

2007

Nanoscale DNA detection system using species-specific and/or disease-specific probes for rapid identification. Patent application has been filed by FIU, Serial No: 60/898,426.

Involved: W. Choi, R. Roy, V. Prasad and K. Mathee

1

2000

Two new devices to grow and study bacteria as a biofilm.  University of Tennessee-Memphis has licensed these inventions to Stovall Life Science, Inc (www.slscience.com). K. Mathee and R. Gallick

Synergistic Activities

3

Development of software for bacterial identification using 16S rRNA primer sequence data: http://biorg.cs.fiu.edu/AmpliQue/

2

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Genome Analysis Participant: Annotations of alginate genes

á      http://www.cmdr.ubc.ca/bobh/committee2.htm

á      http://www.fiu.edu/matheek/Alginate_Genes.htm

My contributions were acknowledged in the 2000 Nature paper on P. aeruginosa genome. 

1

Software tools: GYM: Detection of Helix-Turn-Helix motifs

  http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~giri/hth/

                         BIP: Biofilm Image Processing http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~giri/BIP/