Office Address: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Curriculum Vitae

Phat Linh Tran, Ph.D.

Instructor

(revised 2/21/2013)

Office Address: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

School of Medicine

3601 4th Street Stop 7217
Lubbock, TX 79430-7217
Work Phone. 806/743-2480

Fax. 806.743.2471

Education

2008 Ph.D. Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX

1999 B.A. Biochemistry, Biology Minor, Honors College with Highest Honors, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

1999 B.S. Cell and Molecular Biology, Chemistry Minor Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Academic Appointments

2012- Instructor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX

Positions and Employment

2008-12 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, TX

2002-08 Graduate student, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, TX

1999-02 Medical research technician, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, TX

1997-99 Fellow, The Howards Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Texas Tech University, TX

Languages

English

Vietnamese (native speaker)

Citizenship

U.S. citizen

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

1997-02 Member, American Society of Cell Biology

2002-08 Member, American Society of Microbiology

2009-10 American Society for Biomaterials

2011- The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

Awards and Honors

1996 The Outstanding Major for Pre-med Award, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX

1996 The CRC Press Chemistry Achievement Award, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX

1996-99 Member of Phi Theta Kappa, Texas Tech University, TX

1996-99 The National Dean’s List Awards, Texas Tech University, TX

1996-98 The Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship, Texas Tech University, TX

1996-97 Texas Tech University Scholarship, Texas Tech University, TX

1996-99 The H. Y. Price, Jr. Memorial Scholarship, Texas Tech University, TX

1998-99 The Chancellor Endowed/TTU Honors Scholarship, Texas Tech University, TX

1999 The Golden Key Honors Society Award, Texas Tech University, TX

1999 The Honors Dean Award, Texas Tech University, TX

1996-99 Texas Tech University Honors Program, Texas Tech University, TX

1999 BA. awarded with highest honors, Texas Tech University, TX

Interests

Volunteer work, Travel, and, Photography.

Bibliography and Publications

Publications

Vercellino T, Morse A, Tran P, Song L, Hamood A, Reid T, et al. (2013). Inhibition of S. aureus and E. coli biofilm formation in reverse osmosis systems using an organo-selenium surface treatment. Desalination journal. Manuscript accepted, DES-D-12-01338R1.

P. Tran, A. Hamood, T. Mosley, T. Gray, C. Jarvis, D. Webster, B. Amaechi, T. Enos, T. Reid. 2013. Organo-Selenium Containing Dental Sealant Inhibits Bacterial Biofilm. Journal of Dental Research. 2013, Manuscript accepted, JDR-12-0572.R2.

Vercellino T, Morse A, Tran P, Song L, Hamood A, Reid T, et al. 2013. Attachment of organo-selenium to polyamide composite reverse osmosis membranes to inhibit biofilm formation of S. aureus and E. coli. Desalination. 309(0):291-295.

Phat L. Tran, Nathan Lowry, Thomas Campbell, Ted W. Reid, Daniel Webster, Eric Tobin, Arash Aslani, Thomas Mosley, Janet Dertien, Jane A Colmer-Hamood, Abdul N Hamood. 2012. An organoselenium compound inhibits Staphylococcus aureus biofilms on hemodialysis catheters in vivo. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 56(2):972-8. Listed as a featured article on Global Medical Discovery [ISSN 1929-8536] (http://globalmedicaldiscovery.com). October 15, 2012.

Pushpa Nidadavolu, Wail Amor, Phat L. Tran, Janet Dertien, Jane-Colmer A. Hamood, and Abdul N. Hamood. 2012. Garlic cream inhibits biofilm formation by bacterial pathogens from burn wounds. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 61(5):662-671

Darryl Low, Abdul Hamood, Ted Reid, Thomas Mosley, Phat Tran, Lianfa Song and Audra Morse. 2011. Attachment of selenium to a reverse osmosis membrane to inhibit biofilm formation of S. aureus, Journal of Membrane Science. 378(1-2):171-178.

Ted. Reid, Phat Tran, Thomas Mosley, Khiem Tran, Courtney Jarvis, Saurabh Patel, Mayank Shashtri, Robert Hanes, and Abdul Hamood. 2010. Biopolymers Containing Selenium: Their Synthesis And Use. International Journal of Medical Devices. 5(1):23-36.

Tran, P. L., A. A. Hammond, T. Mosley, J. Cortez, T. Gray, J. A. Colmer-Hamood, M. Shashtri, J. E. Spallholz, A. N. Hamood, and T. W. Reid. 2009. Organoselenium Coating on Cellulose Inhibits the Formation of Biofilms by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:3586-3592.

Reid, T.W., Tran, P., Spallholz, J. and Fralick, J. Counter Terrorism Measures to Combat Yersinia Pestis with Selenium Pharmaceuticals. Proceedings of the 2002 Joint Service Scientific Conference on Chemical and Biological Defense Research. 2003, 1-7.

Submitted

Vercellino T, Morse A, Tran P, Song L, Hamood A, Reid T, et al. Inhibition of S. aureus and E. coli biofilm formation in reverse osmosis systems using an organo-selenium surface treatment. Desalination journal. Manuscript submitted.

Daniel J Good, Michael Jansen, Jon R Kaufman, Sohrab Sidhu, Phat Tran, Thomas Mosley, Ted W Reid. Minimizing Risk And Improving Outcomes Using Selenium As A Trabeculectomy Adjunct. Journal of Glaucoma. 2012, Manuscript submitted.

Amaechi BT, Tran PL, Hamood AN, Mosley T, Gray T, Jarvis C, Webster D, Reid TW. Organo-Selenium Containing Pit and Fissure Sealant Inhibit Bacterial Attachment to Teeth. Journal of American Dental Association. 2012, Manuscript submitted.

In preparation

James C. Wang, Phat Tran, Rob Hanes, Joehassin Cordero, John Marchbanks, Ted Reid, Abdul Hamood. Organoselenium Coated Tympanostomy Tubes Inhibit Biofilms. In preparation

Tyler Enos, Phat Tran, Ted Reid, Courtney Jarvis, Thomas Mosley, and Abdul Hamood. Selenium Coated Polyester Bandage inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus. In preparation

Tran, P. L., S. Patel, C. Kruczek, T. W. Reid, T. Mosley, J. A. Colmer-Hamood, and H. Abdul. An organo-selenium bandage inhibits the formation of biofilm by Staphylococcus aureus and burn wound pathogens in vivo. In preparation.

Phat L. Tran & Ted W. Reid. Synergistic Effect of Substance P with Insulin and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I on Epithelial Migration of the Transformed Human Corneal Epithelial Cells (SV-40). In preparation.

K. Mitchell, A Arnett, J.-C. Auten, P. L. Tran, T. Mosley, K. Tran, C. Jarvis, J. Thomas, R. Hanes, D. Webster, Leo Dominguez, A. Hamood, T. W. Reid. The use of a covalent selenium coating to inhibit biofilm formation on a silicone scleral buckle. In preparation.

Tran, P. L., Zhao, X., Li, X., Reid, T, W., and Fralick, J. A. New

selenium antimicrobials against Escherichia coli pYPR1 expressing

the F1 antigen of Yersinia pestis. In preparation.

Cassie Kruczek, Kokila Kakarala, Phat L. Tran, Tyler Enos, Ted W. Reid, Janet Dertien, Jane-Colmer A. Hamood, and Abdul N. Hamood. An organo-selenium cream inhibits biofilm formation by burn wound pathogens. In preparation.

Abstracts

Tran, P. and Reid, T. 1998. The Effects of Substance P (SP), Insulin, and Insulin Like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) on Epithelial Cell Migration. The 1998 annual HHMI/TTU Student Research Week, Texas Tech University.

Tran, P. and Reid, T. 1998. The Effects of Substance P (SP), Insulin, and Insulin Like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) on Epithelial Cell Migration. The American Society for Cell Biology 38th Annual Meeting December 12-16, 1998. San Francisco, CA.

Reid, T.W., Tran, P., Nishida, T., and Murphy C. J., The Stimulation of Rabbit Corneal Epithelial Cell Migration in Culture by Substance P, is Synergistic with Insulin and IGF-1, ARVO, May 9-14, 1999, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Reid, T.W., Tran P., and Fralick, J.A. Counter Terrorism Measures to Combat Yersinia pestis with Selenium. 2002 Joint Service Scientific Conference on Chemical & Biological Defense Research, November 19-21, 2002, Hunt Valley MD.

Reid, T.W., Tran P., Spallholz J., and Fralick, J., Counter Terrorism Measures to Combat Yersinia pestis with Selenium. Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Biological Defense Researchers, April 28-30, 2003, Lubbock, TX.

Reid, T.W., Tran P., Spallholz J., and Fralick, J. The use of a selenium-peptide to specifically inactivate Yersinia pestis. 2003 Joint Service Scientific Conference on Chemical & Biological Defense Research, November 17-20, 2003, Hunt Valley MD.

Zhou, X., Tran, P., Fralick, J. and Reid, T.W. Design and structure determination of a selenium labeled peptide antimicrobial. Protein Society, San Diego CA, June 18-3, 2005.

Tran, P., Hammond, A., Mosley, T., Cortez, J., Gray, T., Colmer-Hamood, J., Looney, K., Shashtri, M., Spallholz, J., Hamood, A., and Reid, T. 2008. An Organo-Selenium Coating on Celllulose Inhibits Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms. The 20th annual TTUHSC Student Research Week, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Reid, T.W., Tran, P., Mosley, T., Cortez, J., Shashtri, M., Spallholz, J. and Hamood, Bandages Coated with Organo-Selenium Inhibit Bacterial Attachment. Society for Biomaterials Meeting, San Antonio, TX April 22-25, 2009.

Tran, P., Mosley, T., Cortez, J., Shashtri, M., Spallholz, J., Hamood. and Reid, T.W. Bandages Coated with Organo-Selenium Inhibit Bacterial Attachment. Society for Biomaterials Meeting, College Station, TX February 21, 2010.

Phat Tran, Abdul Hamood, Thomas Mosley, Courtney Jarvis, Josh Thomas, Blake Lackey, and Ted Reid. Selenium Coated Contact Lenses: Effects Upon Bacterial Biofilm Attachment. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. May 6 – 10, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2012.

Reid, T.W., Tran, P., Mosley, T., Jarvis, C., Thomas, J., Tran, K., Hanes, R., Hamood, A. Antimicrobial properties of selenium covalently incorporated into the polymer of contact lens case material. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 6 – 10, 2012.

Mitchell, K., Tran, P., Arnett, A.I., Mosley, T., Hanes, R., Jarvis, C., Hamood, A., Dominguez, L., and Reid, T.W. Organo-selenium coatings inhibit multiple species of biofilm formation on ophthalmic device material. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 6 – 10, 2012.