• Education
  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
  • B.S. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 1990


• Experience
  • 1997-2001, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC.
  • 2001-2004, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC
  • 2004-present, Associate Professor of Chemistry, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC


• Research Interests
  Analysis of Campylobacter Lipooligosaccharide Assembly and the Role that Structural Diversity of LOS plays in Pathogenesis.


• Selected Publications
  • Kanipes M.I., Papp-Szabo E.,Guerry, P. and Monteiro M. A. (2006). Mutation of waaC, encoding heptosyltransferase I in Campylobacter jejuni 81-176, affects the structure of both lipooligosaccharide and capsular carbohydrate. J. Bacteriol. 188: 3273-3279.
  • Kanjilal-Kolar S, Basu S.S., Kanipes M.I., Guan Z., Garrett T.A., Raetz C. R. (2006). Expression cloning of three Rhizobium leguminosarum lipopolysaccharide core galacturonosyltransferases. J. Biol. Chem. 281: 12865-12878.
  • Papp-Szabo E., Kanipes M.I., Guerry P., Monteiro M.A. Cell-surface alpha-glucan in Campylobacter jejuni 81-176. Carbohydr. Res. 13: 2218-21. (2005).
  • Kanipes M.I., Holder L.C., Corcoran A.T., Moran A.P., and Guerry P. (2004). A deep rough mutant of Campylobacter jejuni 81-176 is non-invasive for intestinal epithelial cells. Infect. Immun. 72: 2452-2455.
  • Kanipes M.I., Kalb S.R., Cotter R.J., Hozbor D.F., and Raetz C.R.H. (2003). A mannosyl transferase required for lipopolysaccharide inner core assembly in Rhizobium leguminosarum. Purification, substrate specificity, and expression in Salmonella waaC mutants. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 16356-16364.

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