Degrees

• Ph.D., Rutgers University
• B.S., Virginia Union University

Areas of Interest

• Amino acid metabolism
• Bacterial-Plant interaction

Current research projects

• Characterization of a L,L-diaminopimelate aminotransferase over-expression in Arabidopsis thaliana
• Characterization of aminotransferases from Arabidopsis thaliana
• Identification and characterization of plant genes involved in bacterial sensing

Publications

1. Dobson, RCJ, Giron, I, Hudson, AO (2011) L,L-Diaminopimelate Aminotransferase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: A Target for Algaecide Development. PLoS ONE 6(5): e20439. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020439


2. Hudson, AO, Klartag, A, Gilvarg, C, Marques, FG, Leustek T (2011) Dual diaminopimelate biosynthesis pathways in Bacteroides fragilis and Clostridium thermocellum. BBA proteins and proteomics (1814):1162-1168.


3. Hudson, AO, Giron, I*, Dobson, R. (2011) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of L,L-diaminopimelate aminotransferase (DapL) from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Acta Cryst (F67) 140-143.


4. Hudson, AO, Savka MA. (2011) Bioluminescence biosensor strains for detection of quorum sensing N-acyl-homoserine lactone signal molecules. Bioluminescence ISBN Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 978-1-61209-747-3.


5. Hudson, AO, Ahmad, NH*, Van Buren, R*, Savka, MA. (2010) Sugarcane and Grapevine endophytic bacteria: Isolation, detection of quorum sensing signals and identification by 16 v3 rDNA sequence analysis. Current Research, Technology and Education Topics in Applied Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology Volume 2 ISBN (13): 978-84-614-6195-0 Pg. 801-806.


6. Prabhu, P*, Hudson, AO. (2010) Identification and partial characterization of an L-Tyrosine aminotransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochemistry Research International (2010) Article ID 549572.


7. Gan, HM*, Buckley, L, Szegedi, E, Hudson, AO, Savka, MA. (2009).   Identification of an rsh gene from Novosphingobium sp. Necessary for quorum sensing signal accumulation. Journal of Bacteriology (191) 2551-2560.


8. Hudson, AO, Gilvarg C and Leustek T. (2008) Biochemical and phylogenetic characterization of a novel diaminopimelate biosynthesis pathway in prokaryotes identifies a diverged form of LL-diaminopimelate aminotransferase. Journal of Bacteriology (190) 3256-3263.


9. Martin M, Saladores P*, Lambert E*, Hudson AO, Leustek T (2007). Localization of members of the γ-glutamyl transpepdidase family identifies sites of glutathione and glutathione S-conjugate hydrolysis. Plant Physiol (144) 1742-1752.


10. McCoy A, Adams N, Hudson AO, Gilvarg C, Leustek T, Maurelli A (2006) Chlamydia trachomatis CT390 is a transkingdom LL-diaminopimelate aminotransferase variant of the meso-diaminopimelate/lysine biosynthetic pathway. PNAS (47) 17909-17914.


11. Hudson, AO, Singh BK, Leustek T and Gilvarg C (2006) An L,L-   diaminopimelate aminotransferase defines a novel variant of the lysine biosynthesis pathway in plants. Plant Physiol (140) 292-301.


12. Hudson, AO, Bless, C*. Macedo, P*. Chatterjee SP. Singh, BK. Gilvarg, C. Leustek, T. (2005). Biosynthesis of lysine in plants: evidence for a variant of the known bacterial pathways. Biochemica et Biophysica Acta. (1721) 27-36.


13. Lee, M., Martin M., Hudson A., Lee, J., Muhitch, M., Leustek, T. (2005) Methionine and threonine synthesis are limited by homoserine availability and not the activity of homoserine kinase in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal. (41) 685-696.


14. Morgan, CA., Hudson, A., Konopka A, Nakatsu CH. (2002) Analyses of microbial activity in biomass-recycle reactors using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of 16S rDNA and 16S rRNA PCR products. Can. J. Microbiol. (48) 333-341.

*Denotes Undergraduate student