PUBLICATIONS

“Understanding how bacterial competition shapes the evolution, structure, and function of marine microbial communities.”

  • Lighting the way: how the Vibrio fischeri model microbe reveals the complexity of Earth’s “simplest” life forms.

    Authors: AN Septer, Karen Visick

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  • A subcellular biochemical model for T6SS dynamics reveals winning competitive strategies.

    Authors: Y Lin, S Smith, E Kanso, A Septer, C Rycroft. PNAS. (2023)

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  • The Vibrio fischeri type VI secretion system incurs a fitness cost under host-like conditions.

    Authors: A Septer, G Sharpe, E Shook

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  • Calcium Promotes T6SS-Mediated Killing and Aggregation between Competing Symbionts.

    Authors: L Speare, A Jackson, AN Septer

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  • A tripartite model system for Southern Ocean diatom-bacterial interactions reveals the coexistence of competing symbiotic strategies

    Authors: S Andrew, T Wilson, S Smith, A Marchetti, AN Septer

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  • A putative lipoprotein mediates cell-cell contact for type VI secretion system-dependent killing of specific competitors.

    Authors: L Speare, M Woo, AK Dunn, AN Septer

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  • Prevalence and diversity of type VI secretion systems in a model beneficial symbiosis.

    Authors: AM Suria, S Smith, L Speare, Y Chen, I Chien, EG Clark, M Krueger, AM Warwick, H Wilkins, AN Septer

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  • Para-aminobenzoic acid, calcium, and c-di-GMP induce formation of cohesive, Syp-polysaccharide-dependent biofilms in Vibrio fischeri.

    Authors: CN Dial, L Speare, GC Sharpe, SM Gifford, AN Septer, KL Visick

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  • Activation of the type VI secretion system in the squid symbiont Vibrio fischeri requires the transcriptional regulator tasr and the structural proteins TssM and TssA.

    Authors: S Smith, F Salvato, A Garikipati,  MKleiner, AN Septer.

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  • Quantification of Interbacterial Competition using Single-Cell Fluorescence Imaging.

    Authors: S Smith and AN Septer

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  • Host-like conditions are required for T6SS-mediated competition among Vibrio fischeri light organ symbionts

    Authors: L Speare, M Woo, KM Bultman, MJ Mandel, MS Wollenberg, and AN Septer

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  • A model Roseobacter, Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3, employs a diffusible killing mechanism to eliminate competitors

    Authors: GL Sharpe, SM Gifford, and AN Septer

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  • Environmental Viscosity Modulates Interbacterial Killing during Habitat Transition

    Authors: L Speare, S Smith, F Salvato, M Kleiner, and AN Septer

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  • Draft genome sequence of a Harveyi clade bacterium isolated from Lolliguncula brevis squid

    Authors: AN Septer, L Speare, C Coleman, S Smith, C Dorsey, T Wilson, and SM Gifford

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  • The Vibrio-Squid symbiosis as a model for studying interbacterial competition

    Authors: AN Septer

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  • Viewpoint: Microbial expansion shaped by fluid flows

    Authors: E Kanso and AN Septer

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  • Coincubation assay for quantifying competitive interactions between isolates

    Authors: L Speare and AN Septer

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  • Draft genome sequences of type VI secretion system-encoding strains FQ-A001 and ES401

    Authors: KM Bultman, AG Cecere, T Miyashiro, AN Septer, MJ Mandel

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  • Bacterial symbionts use a type VI secretion system to eliminate competitors in their natural host.

    Authors: L Speare, A Cecere, K Guckes, S Smith, M Mandel, M Wollenberg, T Miyashiro, and AN Septer

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