Dr. Gentile successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Impact of the L421P Mutation in Penicillin-Binding Protein 1 on Fitness and Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae,” under the guidance of her mentor, Dr. Rob Nicholas.
Publications
Gentile, G., Guzman, B., Le Van, A., Jerse, A. E., Grad, Y. H., Dominguez, D., Mortimer, T. D., & Nicholas, R. A. (2025). The role of the L421P mutation in Penicillin-Binding Protein 1 (PBP1) in the evolution of chromosomally mediated penicillin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.27.662027.
Helekal, D., Mortimer, T. D., Mukherjee, A., Gentile, G., Le Van, A., Nicholas, R. A., Jerse, A. E., Palace, S. G., & Grad, Y. H. (2025). Quantifying the impact of antibiotic use and genetic determinants of resistance on bacterial lineage dynamics. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.03.636319.
Dr. Gentile has a paper under review at mBio and another paper that was recently accepted at Nature Microbiology.
Honors, Awards & Highlights
Dr. Gentile was funded by the following T32 training grants while working in Rob Nicholas’ lab
Training in Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV T32
Pharmacological Science Training Program (PSTP) T32
Congratulations, Gabi, we wish you all the best!