Frank C. Odds

Frank C. Odds (29 August 1945 – 7 July 2020) was an English mycologist. He studied Candida albicans, establishing how modern researchers study fungal pathogens and the diseases they cause.

Early life and education Frank C. Odds was born in Devon, England on 29 August 1945. He studied biochemistry and obtained his undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Leeds. From 1970 to 1972, Odds was a visiting Fellow at the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

Community roles and honors Odds held many community roles throughout his life, including:

Odds, Frank C. Candida and candidosis: a review and bibliography. Bailliere Tindall, 1988. Shahana S, Childers DS, Ballou ER, Bohvych I, Odds FC, Gow NA, Brown AJ. New Clox Systems for rapid and efficient gene disruption in Candida albicans. Plus One. 9: e100390. PMID 24940603 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0100390 Bates S, Hall RA, Cheetham J, Netea MG, MacCallum DM, Brown AJ, Odds FC, Gow NA. Role of the Candida albicans MNN1 gene family in cell wall structure and virulence. Bmc Research Notes. 6: 294. PMID 23886038 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-294 Shahana S, Mora-Montes HM, Castillo L, Bohovych I, Sheth CC, Odds FC, Gow NA, Brown AJ. Reporters for the analysis of N-glycosylation in Candida albicans. Fungal Genetics and Biology : Fg & B. 56: 107–15. PMID 23608318 DOI: 10.1016/J.Fgb.2013.03.009 Gazvani R, Fowler PA, Coyne L, Odds FC, Gow NAR. Does Candida albicans play a role in the etiology of endometriosis? Journal of Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Disorders. 5: 2–9. DOI: 10.5301/Je.2013.10919 Lee KK, Maccallum DM, Jacobsen MD, Walker LA, Odds FC, Gow NA, Munro CA. Elevated cell wall chitin in Candida albicans confers echinocandin resistance in vivo. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 56: 208–17. PMID 21986821 DOI: 10.1128/Aac.00683-11 Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Casadevall A, Galgiani JN, Odds FC, Rex JH. An insight into the antifungal pipeline: selected new molecules and beyond. Nature Reviews. Drug Discovery. 9: 719–27. PMID 20725094 DOI: 10.1038/Nrd3074 Mora-Montes HM, Bates S, Netea MG, Castillo L, Brand A, Buurman ET, Díaz-Jiménez DF, Jan Kullberg B, Brown AJ, Odds FC, Gow NA. A multifunctional mannosyltransferase family in Candida albicans determines cell wall mannan structure and host-fungus interactions. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285: 12087–95. PMID 20164191 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M109.081513 Odds FC. Editorial: Resistance to antifungal agents. Fungal Genetics and Biology : Fg & B. 47: 190. PMID 20026235 DOI: 10.1016/J.Fgb.2009.12.005 Odds FC. Molecular phylogenetics and epidemiology of Candida albicans. Future Microbiology. 5: 67–79. PMID 20020830 DOI: 10.2217/fmb.09.113 Odds FC. In Candida albicans, resistance to flucytosine and terbinafine is linked to MAT locus homozygosity and multilocus sequence typing clade 1. Fems Yeast Research. 9: 1091–101. PMID 19799637 DOI: 10.1111/J.1567-1364.2009.00577.X MacCallum DM, Castillo L, Nather K, Munro CA, Brown AJ, Gow NA, Odds FC. Property differences among the four major Candida albicans strain clades. Eukaryotic Cell. 8: 373–87. PMID 19151328 DOI: 10.1128/Ec.00387-08 Odds FC. Secreted proteinases and Candida albicans virulence. Microbiology. 154: 3245–6. PMID 18957578 DOI: 10.1099/Mic.0.2008/023671-0