Latest Research in Microbial Ecology

*Microbiomes At Guelph team members indicated in bold. Please note this is not an exhaustive list of publications.

2023

• Egan, C. D., Sargeant, J. M., Weese, J. S., Jones-Bitton, A., & Zentner, S. E. (2023). Role of the Household Environment in Transmission of Clostridioides difficile Infection: A Scoping Review. Journal of Environmental Health, 85(6).

2022

• Magnuson, E., Altshuler, I., Fernández-Martínez, M. Á., Chen, Y. J., Maggiori, C., Goordial, J., & Whyte, L. G. (2022). Active lithoautotrophic and methane-oxidizing microbial community in an anoxic, sub-zero, and hypersaline High Arctic spring. The ISME Journal, 1-11.
• Marinova, M. M., McKay, C. P., Heldmann, J. L., Goordial, J., Lacelle, D., Pollard, W. H., & Davila, A. F. (2022). Climate and energy balance of the ground in University Valley, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 34(2), 144-171.
• Wear, S. S., Sande, C., Ovchinnikova, O. G., Preston, A., & Whitfield, C. (2022). Investigation of core machinery for biosynthesis of Vi antigen capsular polysaccharides in Gram-negative bacteria. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 298(1).

2021

• Becattini, S., Sorbara, M. T., Kim, S. G., Littmann, E. L., Dong, Q., Walsh, G., … & Pamer, E. G. (2021). Rapid transcriptional and metabolic adaptation of intestinal microbes to host immune activation. Cell host & microbe, 29(3), 378-393.
• Burnet, J. B., Habash, M., Hachad, M., Khanafer, Z., Prévost, M., Servais, P., … & Dorner, S. (2021). Automated Targeted Sampling of Waterborne Pathogens and Microbial Source Tracking Markers Using Near-Real Time Monitoring of Microbiological Water Quality. Water, 13(15), 2069.
• Goordial, J. M. (2021). When the Vital Signs of Microbial Life Go Cold, Does That Mean the Pulse Is Gone? Microbial Life Persists at the Limits of Cryoenvironments on Earth. In Microbes: The Foundation Stone of the Biosphere (pp. 115-129). Springer, Cham.
• Goordial, J. (2021). Cryomicrobial ecology: still much to learn about life left out in the cold. Msystems, 6(5), e00852-21.
• Islam, M. R., Martinez-Soto, C. E., Lin, J. T., Khursigara, C. M., Barbut, S., & Anany, H. (2021). A systematic review from basics to omics on bacteriophage applications in poultry production and processing. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 1-33.
• Sande, C., & Whitfield, C. (2021). Capsules and extracellular polysaccharides in Escherichia coli and Salmonella. EcoSal Plus, 9(2), eESP-0033.

2020

• Kim, G. H., Rosiana, S., Kirienko, N. V., & Shapiro, R. S. (2020). A simple nematode infection model for studying Candida albicans pathogenesis. Current Protocols in Microbiology, 59(1), e114.