Microbiology Publications in the 2020s

2026

DenHartog, M. L., Miller, S., & Handelsman, J. (2026). Expanding access to research for students at two-year colleges: transforming a microbiology course-based undergraduate research experience to a cohort-based summer research experience. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, e0003226. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00032-26

Ryan, K. T., Duncan, J. M., Thomas, C. S., Chevrette, M. G., DenHartog, M. L., Labby, K. J., Klein, J., Zamanian, M., & Handelsman, J. (2026). Nematicidal indole oxazoles and chemoattractants from soil bacteria. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).  https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.20.700618

2025

Kashyap, N., Cumsille, A., Saldanha, M., Becerra, J. D. C., DenHartog, M., Handelsman, J., & Chevrette, M. (2025). Fueling Future Antibiotic Discovery: An analysis of taxonomic and biosynthetic diversity in Antimicrobial-Producing Soil bacterial isolates. UF Journal of Undergraduate Research27. https://doi.org/10.32473/ufjur.27.138789 

Magesh, S., Schrope, J. H., Mercado Soto, N., Li, C., Hurley, A. I., Huttenlocher, A., Beebe, D. J., & Handelsman, J. (2025). Co-zorbs: Motile, multispecies biofilms aid transport of diverse bacterial species. PNAS122(6), e2417327122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417327122

Miller, S., Hernandez, P. R., Du, W., Aldana, C. C., Lee, H., Maldonado, N., Sandoval, P., Vong, J., Young, G., Handelsman, J., Broderick, N. A., & Estrada, M. (2025). Tiny Earth CURE demonstrates equitable benefits for U.S. college science students. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 24(2), ar30. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.23-06-0117 

2024

Magesh, S., Hurley, A. I., Nepper, J. F., Chevrette, M. G., Schrope, J. H., Li, C., Beebe, D. J., & Handelsman, J. (2024). Surface colonization by Flavobacterium johnsoniae promotes its survival in a model microbial community. mBio, e03428-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03428-23

2023

Aktukmak, M., Zhu, H., Chevrette, M. G., Nepper, J., Magesh, S., Handelsman, J., & Hero, A. (2023). A Graphical Model for Fusing Diverse Microbiome Data. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 71, 3399-3412. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2023.3309464

Shaska, J., Gursoy, M. C., Ross, T. D., Cheng, Y. -Y., Krieger, A., Thairu, M., Venturelli, O. S., Boedicker J., Handelsman, J., & Mitra, U. (2023). Microbes as Communication & Decision-Making Networked Communities. IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, 1(10). https://doi.org/10.1109/MNANO.2023.3262431

2022

Chevrette, M. G., Thomas, C. S., Hurley, A., Rosario-Meléndez, N., Sankaran, K., Tu, Y., Hall, A., Magesh, S., & Handelsman, J. (2022). Microbiome Composition Modulates Secondary Metabolism in a Multispecies Bacterial Community. PNAS, 119(42). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212930119

Chevrette, M. G., Selem-Mojica, N., Aguilar, C., Labby, K., Bustos-Diaz, E. D., Handelsman, J., & Barona-Gómez, F. (2022). Evolutionary Genome Mining for the Discovery and Engineering of Natural Product Biosynthesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2489, 129-155. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2273-5_8

Hurley, A., Chevrette, M. G., Rosario-Meléndez, N., & Handelsman, J. (2022). THOR’s Hammer: the Antibiotic Koreenceine Drives Gene Expression in a Model Microbial Community. mBio, e02486-21. doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02486-21

Jang, B., Nepper, J., Chevrette, M., Handelsman, J. and Hero, A.O. (2022). High Dimensional Stochastic Linear Contextual Bandit with Missing Covariates. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1109/MLSP55214.2022.9943319

2021

Chevrette, M. G. & Handelsman, J. (2021). Needles in Haystacks: Reevaluating Old Paradigms for the Discovery of Bacterial Secondary Metabolites. Natural Product Reports. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1039/D1NP00044F

Hurley, A., Chevrette, M. G., Acharya, D. D., Lozano, G. L., Garavito, M., Heinritz, J., Balderrama, L., Beebe, M., DenHartog, M. L., Corinaldi, K., Engels, R., Gutierrez, A., Jona, O., Putnam, J. H. I., Rhodes, B., Tsang, T., Hernandez, S., Bascom-Slack, C., Blum, J. E., Price, P. A., Davis, D., Klein, J., Pultorak, J., Sullivan, N. L., Mouncey, N. J., Dorrestein. P. C., Miller, S., Broderick, N. A., & Handelsman, J. (2021). Tiny Earth: A Big Idea for STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery. mBio, 12:e03432-20. doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03432-20

Li, C., Hurley, A., Hu, W., Warrick, J. W., Lozano, G. L., Ayuso, J. M., Pan, W., Handelsman, J., & Beebe, D. J. (2021). Social Motility of Biofilm-Like Microcolonies in a Gliding Bacterium. Nature Communications, 12:5700. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25408-7

2020

Chevrette, M. G. & Handelsman, J. (2020). From Metagenomes to Molecules: Innovations in Functional Metagenomics Unlock Hidden Chemistry in the Human Microbiome. Biochemistry, 59(6), 729-730.

Lozano, G. L., Guan, C., Cao, Y., Borlee, B. R., Broderick, N. A., Stabb, E. V., & Handelsman, J. (2020). A Chemical Counterpunch: Chromobacterium violaceum ATCC 31532 Produces Violacein in Response to Translation-Inhibiting Antibiotics. mBio, 11(3), e00948-20. https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/3/e00948-20