Amit Vikram, PhD

Amit Vikram, PhD has a diverse work experience. In 2019, they began their current role as a Senior Research Scientist at INTRALYTIX, INC. From 2015 to 2019, they were a Research Microbiologist at the Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, USDA-ARS, where they developed novel diagnostic tools for effective surveillance and enumeration of antimicrobial resistance in the farm-to table continuum, as well as defined functional resistome and mechanism of horizontal gene transfer. From 2013 to 2015, they were a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Dept of Civil amd Environmental Engg., University of Pittsburgh, where their research focused on antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonads and identified novel antimicrobial molecules. From 2012 to 2013, they were a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, where their research focused on small molecule inhibitors of Vibrio cholerae virulence. From 2011 to 2012, they were a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where they designed and conducted structure based searches for potential small molecule inhibitors of Vibrio cholerae toxin production, developed screening methods for cholera toxin and toxin coregulated pilus inhibitors, identified DKPs with potent anti-virulence activity in V. cholerae, and elucidated the mode of action of anti-virulence activity of DKPs. Finally, from 2004 to 2011, they were a Graduate Research Assistant at Texas A&M University, where their work was centered on antivirulence properties of citrus secondary metabolites.

Amit Vikram received their PhD in Horticulture from Texas A&M University in 2011. Prior to this, they obtained an MSc in Genetics & Plant Breeding from G. B. Pant University Of Agriculture & Technology between 1994 and 1997.