Publications
] . The Legionella pneumophila orphan sensor kinase LqsT regulates competence and pathogen-host interactions as a component of the LAI-1 circuit. Environ. Microbiol. 2013;15:646-662.
. The Legionella pneumophila response regulator LqsR promotes host cell interactions as an element of the virulence regulatory network controlled by RpoS and LetA. Cell Microbiol. 2007;9(12):2903-20.
. Less is more: selective advantages can explain the prevalent loss of biosynthetic genes in bacteria. Evolution. 2014;68(9):2559-70.
. LiaRS-dependent gene expression is embedded in transition state regulation in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology. 2007;153(Pt 8):2530-40.
. Like will to like: abundances of closely related species can predict susceptibility to intestinal colonization by pathogenic and commensal bacteria. PLoS Pathog. 2010;6(1):e1000711.
. Live cell imaging of SOS and prophage dynamics in isogenic bacterial populations. Mol Microbiol. 2015.
. Logical-continuous modelling of post-translationally regulated bistability of curli fiber expression in Escherichia coli. BMC Syst. Biol. 2015;23:39.
. LuxR solos in Photorhabdus species. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2014;4:166.
. The Many Facets of the Small Non-coding RNA RsaE (RoxS) in Metabolic Niche Adaptation of Gram-Positive Bacteria. J. Mol. Biol. 2019;in press.
. The MarR-type regulator MalR is involved in stress-responsive cell envelope remodeling in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Front Microbiol. 2019;10:1039.
. Mechanisms controlling pathogen colonization of the gut. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2011;14(1):82-91.
. Memory in microbes: quantifying history-dependent behavior in a bacterium. PLoS One. 2008;3(2):e1700.
. Metabolic cross-feeding via intercellular nanotubes among bacteria. Nat Commun. 2015;6:6238.
. Metabolism of myo-inositol by Legionella pneumophila promotes infection of amoeba and macrophages. Appl. Environ. Micro. 2016;82:5000-5014.
. Methionine biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus is tightly controlled by a hierarchical network involving an initiator tRNA-specific T-box riboswitch. PLoS Pathog. 2013;9(9):e1003606.
. Microanatomy at cellular resolution and spatial order of physiological differentiation in a bacterial biofilm. MBio. 2013;4(2):e00103-13.
. Microbiology: tuning communication fidelity. Nat Chem Biol. 2011;7(8):502-3.
. Microbiota-derived hydrogen fuels Salmonella typhimurium invasion of the gut ecosystem. Cell Host Microbe. 2013;14(6):641-51.
. Microfluidic growth chambers with optical tweezers for full spatial single-cell control and analysis of evolving microbes. J Microbiol Methods. 2013;95(3):470-6.
. MinD-like ATPase FlhG effects location and number of bacterial flagella during C-ring assembly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112(10):3092-7.
. Minimal exposure of lipid II cycle intermediates triggers cell wall antibiotic resistance. Nat Commun. 2019;10(1):2733.
. Minor cause – major effect: A novel mode of control of bistable gene expression. PLOS Genet. 2015;11:e1005229.
. Modelling and analysis of a gene-regulatory feed-forward loop with basal expression of the second regulator. J Theor Biol. 2014;363C:290-299.
. A modular view of the diversity of cell-density-encoding schemes in bacterial quorum-sensing systems. Biophys J. 2014;107(1):266-77.