Search Results - "Ingham, Colin J"
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Comparative genomic analysis of Flavobacteriaceae: insights into carbohydrate metabolism, gliding motility and secondary metabolite biosynthesis
Published in BMC genomics (20-08-2020)“…Members of the bacterial family Flavobacteriaceae are widely distributed in the marine environment and often found associated with algae, fish, detritus or…”
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Where bio meets nano: The many uses for nanoporous aluminum oxide in biotechnology
Published in Biotechnology advances (01-09-2012)“…Porous aluminum oxide (PAO) is a ceramic formed by an anodization process of pure aluminum that enables the controllable assembly of exceptionally dense and…”
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Streamlined CRISPR genome engineering in wild-type bacteria using SIBR-Cas
Published in Nucleic acids research (08-11-2021)“…Abstract CRISPR-Cas is a powerful tool for genome editing in bacteria. However, its efficacy is dependent on host factors (such as DNA repair pathways) and/or…”
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Genetic manipulation of structural color in bacterial colonies
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-03-2018)“…Naturally occurring photonic structures are responsible for the bright and vivid coloration in a large variety of living organisms. Despite efforts to…”
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Mutually facilitated dispersal between the nonmotile fungus Aspergillus fumigatus and the swarming bacterium Paenibacillus vortex
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-12-2011)“…In the heterogeneous environment surrounding plant roots (the rhizosphere), microorganisms both compete and cooperate. Here, we show that two very different…”
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Bacterial swarms recruit cargo bacteria to pave the way in toxic environments
Published in mBio (12-05-2015)“…Swarming bacteria are challenged by the need to invade hostile environments. Swarms of the flagellated bacterium Paenibacillus vortex can collectively…”
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micro-Petri dish, a million-well growth chip for the culture and high-throughput screening of microorganisms
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-11-2007)“…A miniaturized, disposable microbial culture chip has been fabricated by microengineering a highly porous ceramic sheet with up to one million growth…”
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Mixed-Culture Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Molecular Basis of Mixed-Culture Growth in Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-12-2010)“…Many food fermentations are performed using mixed cultures of lactic acid bacteria. Interactions between strains are of key importance for the performance of…”
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Does Structural Color Exist in True Fungi?
Published in Journal of fungi (Basel) (16-02-2021)“…Structural color occurs by the interaction of light with regular structures and so generates colors by completely different optical mechanisms to dyes and…”
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Swarming and complex pattern formation in Paenibacillus vortex studied by imaging and tracking cells
Published in BMC microbiology (25-02-2008)“…Swarming motility allows microorganisms to move rapidly over surfaces. The Gram-positive bacterium Paenibacillus vortex exhibits advanced cooperative motility…”
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Microcolony imaging of Aspergillus fumigatus treated with echinocandins reveals both fungistatic and fungicidal activities
Published in PloS one (19-04-2012)“…The echinocandins are lipopeptides that can be employed as antifungal drugs that inhibit the synthesis of 1,3-β-glucans within the fungal cell wall…”
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Physically Triggered Morphology Changes in a Novel Acremonium Isolate Cultivated in Precisely Engineered Microfabricated Environments
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (14-07-2017)“…Fungi are strongly affected by their physical environment. Microfabrication offers the possibility of creating new culture environments and ecosystems with…”
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Rapid susceptibility testing and microcolony analysis of Candida spp. cultured and imaged on porous aluminum oxide
Published in PloS one (16-03-2012)“…Acquired resistance to antifungal agents now supports the introduction of susceptibility testing for species-drug combinations for which this was previously…”
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Isolation by Miniaturized Culture Chip of an Antarctic bacterium Aequorivita sp. with antimicrobial and anthelmintic activity
Published in Biotechnology reports (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (01-12-2018)“…•Novel microbial isolation approach allowed the identification of a Gram-negative Antarctic bacterium belonging to the genus Aequorivita.•Aequorivita sp…”
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EstDZ3: A New Esterolytic Enzyme Exhibiting Remarkable Thermostability
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (16-11-2016)“…Lipolytic enzymes that retain high levels of catalytic activity when exposed to a variety of denaturing conditions are of high importance for a number of…”
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Population Heterogeneity of Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1 Microcolonies in Response to and Recovery from Acid Stress
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-12-2008)“…Within an isogenic microbial population in a homogenous environment, individual bacteria can still exhibit differences in phenotype. Phenotypic heterogeneity…”
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A multi-platform flow device for microbial (co-) cultivation and microscopic analysis
Published in PloS one (14-05-2012)“…Novel microbial cultivation platforms are of increasing interest to researchers in academia and industry. The development of materials with specialized…”
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The cell organization underlying structural colour is involved in Flavobacterium IR1 predation
Published in The ISME Journal (01-11-2020)“…Flavobacterium IR1 is a gliding bacterium with a high degree of colonial organization as a 2D photonic crystal, resulting in vivid structural coloration when…”
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Simplified automated image analysis for detection and phenotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on porous supports by monitoring growing microcolonies
Published in PloS one (08-06-2010)“…Even with the advent of nucleic acid (NA) amplification technologies the culture of mycobacteria for diagnostic and other applications remains of critical…”
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A miniature porous aluminum oxide-based flow-cell for online water quality monitoring using bacterial sensor cells
Published in Biosensors & bioelectronics (15-02-2015)“…The use of live bacterial reporters as sensing entities in whole-cell biosensors allows the investigation of the biological effects of a tested sample, as well…”
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