Publications
Cell differentiation defines acute and chronic infection cell types in Staphylococcus aureus. eLife. 2017;6:e28023.
. Pervasive Selection for Cooperative Cross-Feeding in Bacterial Communities. PLoS Comput Biol. 2016;12(6):e1004986.
. Far from being well understood: multiple protein phosphorylation events control cell differentiation in Bacillus subtilis at different levels. Front Microbiol. 2014;5:704.
. The protein tyrosine kinases EpsB and PtkA differentially affect biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology. 2014;160(Pt 4):682-91.
. Density of founder cells affects spatial pattern formation and cooperation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms. ISME J. 2014;8(10):2069-79.
. A novel tool for stable genomic reporter gene integration to analyze heterogeneity in Photorhabdus luminescens at the single-cell level. Biotechniques. 2015;59(2):74-81.
. CsrA and its regulators control ColicinE2 release in Escherichia coli. Scientific reports. 2018;8(1):6537.
. Uptake, degradation and chiral discrimination of N-acyl-D/L-homoserine lactones by barley (Hordeum vulgare) and yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus) plants. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2007;389(5):1447-57.
. A Duo of Potassium-Responsive Histidine Kinases Govern the Multicellular Destiny of Bacillus subtilis. MBio. 2015;6(4).
. Evidence of autoinducer-dependent and autoinducer-independent heterogeneous gene expression in Sinorhizobium fredii NGR234. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014.
. The Absence of the N-acyl-homoserine-lactone Autoinducer Synthase Genes tral and ngrl Increases the Copy Number of the Symbiotic Plasmid in Sinorhizobium fredii NGR234. Front Microbiol. 2016;18(7):1858.
. Phenotypic Heterogeneity, a Phenomenon That May Explain Why Quorum Sensing Does Not Always Result in Truly Homogenous Cell Behavior. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2015;81(16):5280-9.
. A disposable picolitre bioreactor for cultivation and investigation of industrially relevant bacteria on the single cell level. Lab Chip. 2012;12(11):2060-8.
. Beyond growth rate 0.6: Corynebacterium glutamicum cultivated in highly diluted environments. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2012.
. Single-cell microfluidics: opportunity for bioprocess development. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2014;29C:15-23.
. Spatiotemporal microbial single-cell analysis using a high-throughput microfluidics cultivation platform. Cytometry A. 2015.
. Second Messenger Signaling in Bacillus subtilis: Accumulation of Cyclic di-AMP Inhibits Biofilm Formation. Front Microbiol. 2016;7:804.
. Transformation proteins and DNA uptake localize to the cell poles in Bacillus subtilis. Cell. 2005;122(1):59-71.
. ViCAR: An adaptive and landmark-free registration of time lapse image data from microfluidics experiments. Front Genet. [Internet]. 2017;in press. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28620411
. A novel methodology for characterizing cell sub-populations in automated time-lapse microscopy. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2018;6:17.
. Pathway analysis using 13C-glycerol and other carbon tracers reveals bipartite metabolism of Legionella pneumophila. Mol. Microbiol. 2016;100:229-246.
. High variation of fluorescence protein maturation times in closely related Escherichia coli strains. PLoS One. 2013;8(10):e75991.
. Comparative analysis of the Photorhabdus luminescens and the Yersinia enterocolitica genomes: uncovering candidate genes involved in insect pathogenicity. BMC Genomics. 2008;9:40.
. Heterogeneous regulation of bacterial natural product biosynthesis via a novel transcription factor. Heliyon. 2016;2(11):e00197.
. Vizardous: interactive analysis of microbial populations with single cell resolution. Bioinformatics. 2015.
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