selected publications
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academic article
- Building a biomedical pipeline: the impact of the Idaho IDeA INBRE summer research experience at a primarily undergraduate institution. Advances in Physiology Education. 45:786-796. 2021
- Deletion of Yersinia pestis ail Causes Temperature-Sensitive Pleiotropic Effects, Including Cell Lysis, That Are Suppressed by Carbon Source, Cations, or Loss of Phospholipase A Activity. Journal of Bacteriology. 203.0. 2021
- Repeated Oral Vaccination of Cattle with Shiga toxin-negative Escherichia coli O157:H7 Reduces Carriage of Wild-type E. coli O157:H7 after Challenge. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87:e02183-20. 2021
- The interactions of bacteriophage Ace and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli during biocontrol. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97. 2021
- Escherichia coli O157:H7 Curli Fimbriae Promotes Biofilm Formation, Epithelial Cell Invasion, and Persistence in Cattle. Microorganisms. 8:580. 2020
- Complete Genome Sequence of Broad-Host-Range Shiga Toxin-Converting Bacteriophage SH2026Stx1, Isolated from Escherichia coli O157:H7. Genome Announcements. 6:UNSP e00490-18. 2018
- High-Quality Complete Genome Sequences of Three Bovine Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O177:H- (fliC(H25)) Isolates Harboring Virulent stx2 and Multiple Plasmids. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 6:UNSP e01592-17. 2018
- Rapid Evolution of Citrate Utilization by Escherichia coli by Direct Selection Requires citT and dctA. Journal of Bacteriology. 198:1022-1034. 2016
- Standardized Escherichia coli O157:H7 Exposure Studies in Cattle Provide Evidence that Bovine Factors Do Not Drive Increased Summertime Colonization. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 82:964-971. 2016
- Physiological Levels of Glucose Induce Membrane Vesicle Secretion and Affect the Lipid and Protein Composition of Yersinia pestis Cell Surfaces. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79:4509-4514. 2013
- Role of a New Intimin/Invasin-Like Protein in Yersinia pestis Virulence. Infection and Immunity. 80:3559-3569. 2012
- Yersinia pestis Ail: multiple roles of a single protein. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 103. 2012
- Internalization of Escherichia coli o157:h7 by bovine rectal epithelial cells. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2:32. 2011
- Neutrophils are resistant to Yersinia YopJ/P-induced apoptosis and are protected from ROS-mediated cell death by the type III secretion system. PLOS One. 5:e9279. 2010
- Outer Membrane Protein X (Ail) Contributes to Yersinia pestis Virulence in Pneumonic Plague and Its Activity Is Dependent on the Lipopolysaccharide Core Length. Infection and Immunity. 78:5233-5243. 2010
- Yersinia pestis two-component gene regulatory systems promote survival in human neutrophils. Infection and Immunity. 78:773-782. 2010
- Characterization of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 O-antigen deletion mutant and effect of the deletion on bacterial persistence in the mouse intestine and colonization at the bovine terminal rectal mucosa.. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74. 2008
- Induction of innate immunity by lipid A mimetics increases survival from pneumonic plague. Microbiology. 154:2131-2138. 2008
- Lipid A mimetics are potent adjuvants for an intranasal pneumonic plague vaccine. Vaccine. 26:5554-5561. 2008
- A rationale for repression and/or loss of motility by pathogenic yersinia in the mammalian host. Genus Yersinia: from Genomics to Function. 603:298-311. 2007
- Phenotypic characterization of OmpX, an Ail homologue of Yersinia pestis KIM. Microbiology. 153:2941-2951. 2007
- The Escherichia coli O157 flagellar regulatory gene flhC and not the flagellin gene fliC impacts colonization of cattle. Infection and Immunity. 74. 2006
- Gene array analysis of Yersinia enterocolitica FIND and FlhC: regulation of enzymes affecting synthesis and degradation of carbamoylphosphate. Microbiology. 150:2289-2300. 2004
- A 12-base-pair deletion in the flagellar master control gene flhC causes nonmotility of the pathogenic German sorbitol-fermenting Escherichia coli O157 : H- strains. Journal of Bacteriology. 186:2319-2327. 2004
- Thermoregulation of the Escherichia coli O157:H7 pO157 ecf operon and lipid A myristoyl transferase activity involves intrinsically curved DNA.. Molecular Microbiology. 51. 2004
- A family of six flagellin genes contributes to the Caulobacter crescentus flagellar filament. Journal of Bacteriology. 182:5001-5004. 2000
- The Yersinia enterocolitica pYV virulence plasmid contains multiple intrinsic DNA bends which melt at 37 degrees C. Journal of Bacteriology. 181:4198-4204. 1999
- The Yersinia enterocolitica motility master regulatory operon, flhDC, is required for flagellin production, swimming motility, and swarming motility. Journal of Bacteriology. 181:2823-2833. 1999
- Temperature-dependent regulation of Yersinia enterocolitica class III flagellar genes. Molecular Microbiology. 19:1061-1071. 1996
- Co-ordinate, Temperature-Sensitive Regulation Of The Three Yersinia Enterocolitica Flagellin Genes. Molecular Microbiology. 17:49-56. 1995
- Thermoregulation In Yersinia-Enterocolitica Is Coincident With Changes In Dna Supercoiling. Molecular Microbiology. 12:187-199. 1994
- Enzyme-Immunoassay For Detection Of Salmonellae In Foods. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 43:877-883. 1982
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conference poster
- Using an Online Activity to Teach Regulation of the Lactose Operon in a General Genetics Undergraduate Classroom: Digital Study Studio. National Association of Biology Teachers, 2011 Professional Development Conference. 2011