Julie Miyo Higashi, M.D., Ph.D.
higashij@medicine.ucsf.edu

Mailing Address:
University of California, San Francisco
Division of Infectious Diseases
Box 111W2, 4150 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94121

Office Location:
SF VAMC, Building 12, Room 214

Research Interests:
Staphylococcus aureus biofilms, microbial genomics

Select Publications:

J.M. Higashi and P.M. Sullam, “Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms,”  In: Biofilm Infections: Roles of Antibiotic Tolerance and Resistance, Editors John Pace, Mark Rupp, and Roger Finch, Marcel Dekker, New York, in press.

J.M. Higashi, Y. Nakayama, R.E. Marchant, T. Matsuda, “Assessment of Cellular Response to Microprocessed Surfaces Prepared by a Surface Photo-Graft Copolymerization Method”, Langmuir, v15(6) 2080-2088, 1999.

C.A. Siedlecki, I-w. Wang, J.M. Higashi, K. Kottke-Marchant, and R.E. Marchant, "Platelet Derived Microparticles on Synthetic Surfaces Observed by Atomic Force Microscopy and Fluorescent Microscopy", Biomaterials, v20(16), 1521-9, 1999.

K. Vacheethasanee, J.S. Temenoff, J.M. Higashi, A. Gary, J.M. Anderson, R. Bayston, R.E. Marchant, “Bacterial Surface Properties of Clinically Isolated Staphylococcus epidermidis strains determine adhesion on polyethylene”, J Biomed Mater Res,, v42(3), 425-32, 1998.

J. M. Higashi, I-w. Wang, D.M. Shlaes, James M. Anderson, and R. E. Marchant, “Adhesion of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Transposon Mutant Strains to Hydrophobic Polyethylene”, J Biomed Mater Res, v39, 341-350, 1998.

Education and Training:

MD, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, 1999

Internal Medicine Residency, University of California, San Francisco,
1999-2002

Infectious Diseases Fellow, University of California, San Francisco,
2002-present