Lacy Daniels

Education and Training

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Post-doctoral training, 1979-1981
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biochemistry, Hydrogenase in Methanogenic Microorganisms, 1978-1979
• University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Microbiology, 1978
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD, Bacteriology, 1978
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Master of Science in Bacteriology, 1974
• University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Arts in Biology, 1972

Research Interests

• Discovery of gene function in Mycobacterium species
• Coenzyme F420 metabolism

Teaching Interests

• Biochemistry
• Microbiology
• Elective on Mycobacterium

Representative Publications

• Guerra-Lopez, D., Daniels, L. and Rawat, M. (2007) “Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155 fbiC and MSMEG_2392 are involved in triphenylmethane dye decolorization and coenzyme F420 biosynthesis.”  Microbiology. 153:2724-2732.
• Manjunatha, U.H., Boshoff, H., Dowd, C.S., Zhang, L., Albert, T.J., Norton, J.E., Daniels, L. et al. (2006) “Identification of a nitroimidazo-oxazine-specific protein involved in PA-824 resistance in Mycobacteriumtuberculosis.” The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103:431-436.
• Choi, K.P., Kendrick, N. and Daniels, L. (2002) “Demonstration that fbiC is required by Mycobacterium bovis BCG for coenzyme F420 and FO biosynthesis.”  The Journal of Bacteriology. 184:2420-2428. 
• Choi, K.P., Bair, T.B., Bae, Y.M. and Daniels, L.  (2001)  “Use of transposon Tn5367 mutagenesis and a nitroimidazopyran-based selection system to demonstrate a role of fbiA and fbiB in coenzyme F420 biosynthesis by Mycobacterium bovis BCG.”  The Journal of Bacteriology. 183:7058-7066.
• Purwantini, E. and Daniels, L.  (1998)  “Molecular analysis of the gene coding for coenzyme F420-dependent glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Mycobacterium smegmatis.” The Journal of Bacteriology. 180:2212-2219.