Surface Colonization by Flavobacterium johnsoniae Promotes its Survival in a Model Microbial Community
Shruthi Magesh, Amanda I. Hurley, Julia F. Nepper, Marc G. Chevrette, Jonathan H. Schrope, Chao Li, David J. Beebe, and Jo Handelsman mBio (2024)
Microbes as Communication & Decision-Making Networked Communities
Joni Shaska, Mustafa Can Gursoy, Tyler D. Ross, Yu-Yu Cheng, Adam Krieger, Margaret Thairu, Ophelia S. Venturelli, James Boedicker, Jo Handelsman, and Urbashi Mitra. IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (2023)
Handelsman Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Jo Handelsman was among 120 scientists elected into the National Academy of Sciences this year. This recognition is for distinguished and continued achievements in original research, and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Congrats, Jo!
Jo Handelsman Presents at iFAST Seminar
This seminar is part of the International Forum on Advanced Environmental Sciences and Technology (iFAST) seminar series at the University of Oklahoma. Jo Handelsman discusses the importance of soil, the reasons we are losing soil at devastating rates, and practices to improve soil health in this talk, titled A World Without Soil: Science and Stewardship of
Microbiome Composition Modulates Secondary Metabolism in a Multispecies Bacterial Community
Marc G. Chevrette, Chris S. Thomas, Amanda Hurley, Natalia Rosario-Meléndez, Kris Sankaran, Yixing Tu, Austin Hall, Shruthi Magesh, and Jo Handelsman PNAS (2022)
Evolutionary Genome Mining for the Discovery and Engineering of Natural Product Biosynthesis
Marc G. Chevrette, Nelly Selem-Mojica, César Aguilar, Kristin Labby, Edder D. Bustos-Diaz, Jo Handelsman, and Francisco Barona-Gómez Methods in Molecular Biology (2022)
Achieving STEM Diversity: Fix the Classrooms
Jo Handelsman, Sarah Elgin, Mica Estrada, Shan Hays, Tracy Johnson, Sarah Miller, Vida Mingo, Christopher Shaffer, and Jason Williams Science (2022)
THOR’s Hammer: the Antibiotic Koreenceine Drives Gene Expression in a Model Microbial Community
Amanda Hurley, Marc G. Chevrette, Natalia Rosario-Meléndez, and Jo Handelsman mBio (2022)
Handelsman Lab and Tiny Earth Represent at Illuminating Connections
Illuminating Connections Handelsman Lab members engaged with other researchers and the general public at Illuminating Connections. We had posters and activities about Tiny Earth, the Tiny Earth Chemistry Hub, and our research on microbial communities!
Tiny Earth: A Big Idea for STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery
Amanda Hurley, Marc G. Chevrette, Deepa D. Acharya, Gabriel L. Lozano, Manuel Garavito, Jen Heinritz, Luis Balderrama, Mara Beebe, Martel L. DenHartog, Kamiyah Corinaldi, Renee Engels, Alyssa Gutierrez, Orli Jona, Josephine H. I. Putnam, Brody Rhodes, Tiffany Tsang, Simon Hernandez, Carol Bascom-Slack, Jessamina E. Blum, Paul A. Price, Debra Davis, Joanna Klein, Joshua Pultorak, Nora