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    Microbial Genetics

  • BCPPA
    Biology and Characterization of Plant Pathogenic Agents

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    Microbiomes

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    How a Phage-Derived Weapon System Shapes Interbacterial Interactions Within and Across Species

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $550.5K
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    Does An Environmentally-Acquired Beneficial Symbiont Shape The Biology Of A Leaf-Footed Bug Pest?

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2019

    $455.0K
    Active
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    Do Facultative Endohyphal Bacteria Alter Virulence in Fusarium Spp. That Are Critical Agricultural Pathogens

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $165.0K
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    Developing Bacteriocins to Prevent Infection of Greens by Human Pathogens

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $76.7K
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    Characterization and Naming of a New Luteibacter

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $3.3K
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    Manipulation of Phage-derived Bacterocin Production as a Novel Antimicrobial Treatment for Bacterial Phytopathogens

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2016

    $483.7K
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    Genetic Contributions to Control of Yellow Starthistle (Centaurea Solstitialis)

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2015

    $500.0K
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    Bacterial Controls of Endophyte Phenotypes: An Unexplored Dimension of Diverse Plant-Fungal Symbioses

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2014

    $653.1K
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    Development and Evaluation of bacteriocins as robust bacterial phytopathogen control compounds.

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2014

    $113.6K
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    Fitness Costs of Horizontal Gene Transfer: Generality and Mechanism

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2013

    $147.6K
Technologies / Patents
      News
      • Despite COVID, UArizona Reports Strong Year for Innovation and Commercialization

        2021

      • 'Howl-itosis' a Problem? UArizona Inventor Creates Bacteria Strain to Quell Bad Dog Breath

        2021

      • UArizona Researchers Pivot to Tackle COVID-19

        2020

      Publications (98)
      Recent
      • Pantailocins: Phage-derived Bacteriocins fromPantoea ananatisandPantoea stewartiisubsp.indologenes

        2023

      • Genomic Correlates of Tailocin Sensitivity inPseudomonas syringae

        2023

      • Transcriptional Profiles of a Foliar Fungal Endophyte ( Pestalotiopsis , Ascomycota) and Its Bacterial Symbiont ( Luteibacter , Gammaproteobacteria ) Reveal Sulfur Exchange and Growth Regulation during Early Phases of Symbiotic Interaction

        2022

      • The 16S rRNA Gene Is Not a Precise Classifier for Luteibacter Species

        2022

      • Interspecies killing activity of Pseudomonas syringae tailocins

        2022

      • Transcriptional Profiles of a Foliar Fungal Endophyte (, Ascomycota) and Its Bacterial Symbiont (, ) Reveal Sulfur Exchange and Growth Regulation during Early Phases of Symbiotic Interaction

        2022

      • What makes a megaplasmid?

        2022

      • Experimental evolution of the megaplasmid pMPPla107 in enables identification of genes contributing to sensitivity to an inhibitory agent

        2022

      • Prevalence of an Insect-Associated Genomic Region in Environmentally Acquired Burkholderiaceae Symbionts

        2022

      • Introduction: the secret lives of microbial mobile genetic elements

        2022

      • Interspecies killing activity of tailocins

        2022

      • Convergent Gene Expression Patterns During Compatible Interactions Between Two Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars and a Common Host (Nicotiana benthamiana)

        2022

      • Prevalence of an Insect-Associated Genomic Region in Environmentally Acquired Symbionts

        2022

      • Draft Genome Sequences of Multiple Isolates from Arizona

        2021

      • Draft Genome Sequences of Multiple Streptomyces Isolates from Arizona

        2021

      • Prophylactic Application of Tailocins Prevents Infection by Pseudomonas syringae.

        2021

      • Genome context influences evolutionary flexibility of nearly identical type III effectors in two phytopathogenic Pseudomonads

        2021

      • Genomic Background Governs Opposing Responses to Nalidixic Acid upon Megaplasmid Acquisition in Pseudomonas.

        2021

      • Bacterial dispersal and biogeography as underappreciated influences on phytobiomes.

        2020

      • Crowdsourcing virtual summer research opportunities to support minorities in microbiology.

        2020

      • Complete Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas coronafaciens pv. oryzae 1_6

        2020

      • Pseudomonas Can Survive Tailocin Killing via Persistence-Like and Heterogenous Resistance Mechanisms

        2020

      • Complete Genome Sequences for sp. Strains 29A and 43A

        2020

      • Complete Genome Sequences for Pseudomonas sp. Strains 29A and 43A

        2020

      • Thiosulfinate Tolerance Is a Virulence Strategy of an Atypical Bacterial Pathogen of Onion.

        2020

      • Pantoea ananatis defeats Allium chemical defenses with a plasmid-borne virulence gene cluster

        2020

      • Best Practices for Successfully Writing and Publishing a Genome Announcement in Microbiology Resource Announcements

        2020

      • Prophylactic Application of Tailocins Prevents Infection by Pseudomonas syringae

        2020

      • Best Practices for Successfully Writing and Publishing a Genome Announcement in

        2020

      • Kings B Media (1L) v1

        2019

      • Complete Genome Sequence of Luteibacter pinisoli MAH-14

        2019

      • Experimental Evolution of the Megaplasmid pMPPla107 in Pseudomonas stutzeri Enables Identification of Genes Contributing to Sensitivity to an Inhibitory Agent

        2019

      • Genomic Background Governs Opposing Responses to Nalidixic Acid Upon Megaplasmid Acquisition in Pseudomonas

        2019

      • A Moving Target: The Megaplasmid pMPPla107 Sensitizes Cells to an Inhibitory Agent Conserved Across Pseudomonas spp

        2019

      • Localized recombination drives diversification of killing spectra for phage-derived syringacins

        2019

      • Media Recipes v1

        2019

      • Future-Proofing Your Microbiology Resource Announcements Genome Assembly for Reproducibility and Clarity

        2019

      • SW-LB Media (1L) v1

        2019

      • The Extended Genotype: To What Extent? A Comment on Carthey et al

        2019

      • Complete Genome Sequence of MAH-14

        2019

      • Lysogeny Broth (1L) v1

        2019

      • A complete genome sequence for Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi PP1 highlights the importance of multiple modes of horizontal gene transfer during phytopathogen evolution

        2019

      • Future-Proofing Your Genome Assembly for Reproducibility and Clarity

        2019

      • Identifying transposon insertions in bacterial genomes through nanopore sequencing

        2019

      • Understanding genomic diversity in Pseudomonas syringae throughout the forest and on the trees

        2018

      • Quantifying Re-association of a Facultative Endohyphal Bacterium with a Filamentous Fungus

        2018

      • Just the Two of Us? A Family of Pseudomonas Megaplasmids Offers a Rare Glimpse Into the Evolution of Large Mobile Elements

        2018

      • Evolutionary Plasticity of AmrZ Regulation in

        2018

      • Chloroplast sequence variation and the efficacy of peptide nucleic acids for blocking host amplification in plant microbiome studies

        2018

      • Genome Sequences of Nine Erwinia amylovora Bacteriophages

        2018

      • Context-dependent and variable effects of endohyphal bacteria on interactions between fungi and seeds

        2018

      • Conditionally Redundant Bacteriocin Targeting by Pseudomonas syringae

        2017

      • An endohyphal bacterium (Chitinophaga, Bacteroidetes) influences carbon source use by Fusarium keratoplasticum (F. solani species complex, Nectriaceae)

        2017

      • Bacterial Endosymbionts: Master Modulators of Fungal Phenotypes

        2017

      • Entomopathogenicity to Two Hemipteran Insects Is Common but Variable across Epiphytic Pseudomonas syringae Strains

        2017

      • Native and invading yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) microbiomes differ in composition and diversity of bacteria

        2017

      • Complete Genome Sequence of the Predatory Bacterium Ensifer adhaerens Casida A

        2017

      • An Endohyphal Bacterium (Chitinophaga, Bacteroidetes) Alters Carbon Source Use by Fusarium keratoplasticum (F. solani Species Complex, Nectriaceae)

        2017

      • Unusual Sulfur Requirements During Laboratory Growth of Luteibacter

        2017

      • Evolution, genomics and epidemiology of Pseudomonas syringae: Challenges in Bacterial Molecular Plant Pathology.

        2017

      • Adaptation, Specialization, and Coevolution within Phytobiomes

        2017

      • Variation in the oxidative burst in response to wounding and bacterial infection among native and invading genotypes of yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)

        2017

      • Localized Recombination Drives Diversification of Killing Spectra for Phage Derived Syringacins

        2017

      • Use of the Soft-agar Overlay Technique to Screen for Bacterially Produced Inhibitory Compounds

        2017

      • AmrZ is a positive regulator of swimming motility in Pseudomonas stutzeri

        2016

      • A highly infective plant-associated bacterium influences reproductive rates in pea aphids

        2016

      • Evolutionary plasticity of AmrZ regulation in Pseudomonas

        2016

      • Absence of Genome Reduction In Diverse, Facultative Endohyphal Bacteria

        2016

      • Divorcing Strain Classification From Species Names

        2016

      • Isolation of Endohyphal Bacteria from Foliar Ascomycota and In Vitro Establishment of Their Symbiotic Associations

        2016

      • Diversity, Specificity, and Phylogenetic Relationships of Endohyphal Bacteria in Fungi that Inhabit Tropical Seeds and Leaves

        2016

      • Independent Co-Option of a Tailed Bacteriophage into a Killing Complex in Pseudomonas

        2015

      • The facultative symbiont Rickettsia protects an invasive whitefly against entomopathogenic Pseudomonas syringae strains

        2014

      • Draft Genome Sequences of a Phylogenetically Diverse Suite of Pseudomonas syringae Strains from Multiple Source Populations

        2014

      • Multiple phenotypic changes associated with large-scale horizontal gene transfer

        2014

      • Incongruence between multi-locus sequence analysis (MLSA) and whole-genome-based phylogenies: Pseudomonas syringae pathovar pisi as a cautionary tale

        2014

      • Complete Genome Sequence of the Highly Transformable Pseudomonas stutzeri Strain 28a24

        2014

      • Bigger is not always better: transmission and fitness burden of ∼1MB Pseudomonas syringae megaplasmid pMPPla107

        2014

      • Pseudomonas syringae CC1557: A highly virulent strain with an unusually small type iii effector repertoire that includes a novel effector

        2014

      • Variable suites of non-effector genes are co-regulated in the type III secretion virulence regulon across the Pseudomonas syringae phylogeny

        2014

      • Ecological genomics of pseudomonas syringae

        2014

      • Comparative Genomics of Multiple Strains of Pseudomonas cannabina pv. alisalensis, a Potential Model Pathogen of Both Monocots and Dicots

        2013

      • Comparative genomics of multiple strains of Pseudomonas cannabina pv. alisalensis, a potential model pathogen of both monocots and dicots.

        2013

      • Exploring the costs of horizontal gene transfer

        2013

      • The molecular basis of host specialization in bean pathovars of Pseudomonas syringae

        2012

      • Draft genome sequence of plant growth-promoting rhizobium Mesorhizobium amorphae, isolated from zinc-lead mine tailings

        2012

      • Dynamic evolution of pathogenicity revealed by sequencing and comparative genomics of 19 pseudomonas syringae isolates

        2011

      • Draft genome of Streptomyces zinciresistens K42, a novel metal-resistant species isolated from copper-zinc mine tailings

        2011

      • The complete genome sequence of Helicobacter pylori strain G27

        2009

      • De novo assembly using low-coverage short read sequence data from the rice pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. oryzae

        2009

      • Helicobacter pylori genome plasticity

        2009

      • Natural transformation increases the rate of adaptation in the human pathogen Helicobacter pylori

        2008

      • Global virulence regulation networks in phytopathogenic bacteria

        2007

      • Extending assembly of short DNA sequences to handle error

        2007

      • Multiple phases of competence occur during the Helicobacter pylori growth cycle

        2006

      • Genome Duplication, Subfunction Partitioning, and Lineage Divergence: Sox9 in Stickleback and Zebrafish

        2003

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