A5062879393- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Enzyme Structure and Function
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Algal biology and biofuel production
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Biochemical and Molecular Research
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
University of Georgia
2018-2022
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2014
Campylobacter jejuni is the leading bacterial cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide and immense significance to public health. C. primarily lives in gastrointestinal tracts poultry can contaminate meat during processing. Despite a small genome, metabolic plasticity allows proliferation chicken ceca mammalian host intestines, survival environments with variety temperatures, pH, osmotic conditions, nutrient availabilities. The exact mechanism infection unknown, however, virulence requires...
While alternating between insects and mammals during its life cycle, Yersinia pestis, the flea-transmitted bacterium that causes plague, regulates gene expression appropriately to adapt these two physiologically disparate host environments. In fleas competent transmit Y. low-GC-content genes y3555, y3551, y3550 are highly transcribed, suggesting have a prioritized role in flea infection. Here, we demonstrate transcribed as part of single polycistronic mRNA comprising y3554, y3553, y355x,...
ABSTRACT DksA is a global regulatory protein that, together with the alarmone ppGpp, required for "stringent response" to nutrient starvation in gammaproteobacterium Escherichia coli and more moderate shifts between growth conditions. modulates expression of hundreds genes, directly or indirectly. Mutants lacking homolog exhibit pleiotropic phenotypes other gammaproteobacteria as well. Here we analyzed RSP2654 distantly related Rhodobacter sphaeroides, an alphaproteobacterium. 42% identical...
The Rid protein superfamily (YjgF/YER057c/UK114) is found in all domains of life. archetypal protein, RidA from
Individuals vary substantially in the degree to which they optimize their performance attentional tasks. How do such individual markers of strategy relate across different tasks? Previous research has failed observe significant correlations optimization between distinct visual search tasks (Clarke et al., 2022); suggesting that is not unitary, or determined by a single trait variable. Here we test whether shows some generality, specifically with similar components. We employed Adaptive...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa encodes eight members of the Rid protein superfamily. PA5339, a member RidA subfamily, is required for full growth and motility P. aeruginosa. Our understanding integration into metabolic network at an early stage, with analyses largely guided by well-established paradigm in Salmonella enterica. A strain lacking has defect minimal glucose medium, both which are exacerbated exogenous serine. All described ridA mutant phenotypes rescued supplementation isoleucine,...