Publications

Byeon CH, Hansen KH, DePas W, Akbey Ü. (2024) High-resolution 2D solid-state NMR provides insights into nontuberculous mycobacteria. Solid State Nucl Magn Reson. 18;134:101970.

Morris AJ, Yau YC, DePas WH, Waters VJ. (2024) Lack of correlation between in vitro and within patient measures of P. aeruginosa biofilms in cystic fibrosis. Heliyon. 4;10(11):e32424.

Spencer-Williams I, Meyer M, DePas W, Elliott E, Haig SJ. (2023) Assessing the Impacts of Lead Corrosion Control on the Microbial Ecology and Abundance of Drinking-Water-Associated Pathogens in a Full-Scale Drinking Water Distribution System. Environ Sci Technol. 5;57(48):20360-20369.

Armbruster CR, Marshall CW, Garber AI, Melvin JA, Zemke AC, Moore J, Zamora PF, Li K, Fritz IL, Manko CD, Weaver ML, Gaston JR, Morris A, Methé B, DePas WH, Lee SE, Cooper VS, Bomberger JM. (2021) Adaptation and genomic erosion in fragmented Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations in the sinuses of people with cystic fibrosis. Cell Rep. 19;37(3):109829.

O'Toole GA, Crabbé A, Kümmerli R, LiPuma JJ, Bomberger JM, Davies JC, Limoli D, Phelan VV, Bliska JB, DePas WH, Dietrich LE, Hampton TH, Hunter R, Khursigara CM, Price-Whelan A, Ashare A, Cramer RA, Goldberg JB, Harrison F, Hogan DA, Henson MA, Madden DR, Mayers JR, Nadell C, Newman D, Prince A, Rivett DW, Schwartzman JD, Schultz D, Sheppard DC, Smyth AR, Spero MA, Stanton BA, Turner PE, van der Gast C, Whelan FJ, Whitaker R, Whiteson K. (2021) Model Systems to Study the Chronic, Polymicrobial Infections in Cystic Fibrosis: Current Approaches and Exploring Future Directions. mBio. 26;12(5):e0176321.

Wells, A.I., Grimes, K.A., Kim, K., Branche, E., Bakkenist, C.J., DePas, W.H., Shresta, S., Coyne, C. (2021) Human FcRn expression and Type I Interferon signaling control Echovirus 11 pathogenesis in mice PLoS Pathog. 29;17(1):e1009252.

Jackson, L., DePas, W., Morris, A. J., Guttman, K., Yau, Y. C. W., Waters, V. (2020) Visualization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa within the Sputum of Cystic Fibrosis Patients. J. Vis. Exp. (161), e61631, doi:10.3791/61631.

Gallego-Hernandez, A. L.*, DePas, W.H.*, Park J.H.*, Teschler, J. K.*, Hartmann, R., Jeckel, H., Drescher, K., Beyhan, S., Newman, D. K., and Yildiz F. H. (2020) Upregulation of virulence genes promotes Vibrio cholerae biofilm hyperinfectivity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 201916571; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1916571117

DePas WH, Bergkessel M, Newman DK (2019). Aggregation of nontuberculous mycobacteria is regulated by carbon:nitrogen balance. mBio. 10(4):e01715-19.

DePas WH*, Starwalt-Lee R*, Van Sambeek L, Ravindra S, Gradinaru V, Newman DK (2016). Exposing the 3D biogeography and metabolic states of pathogens in cystic fibrosis sputum via hydrogel embedding, clearing, and rRNA labeling. mBio. 7(5):e00796-16. (Editor’s Pick for Vol. 7 Issue 5, and an image from this study was selected as the mBio Featured Image for the same issue)

Floyd KA, Mitchell CA, Eberly AR, Colling SJ, Zhang EW, DePas W, Chapman MR, Conover M, Rogers BR, Hultgren SJ, Hadjifrangiskou M. (2016) The Ubil (VisC) aerobic ubiquinone synthase is required for expression of type 1 pili, biofilm formation, and pathogenesis in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 198(19):2662-2672.

Hufnagel DA, DePas WH, Chapman MR. (2015) The Biology of the Escherichia coli Extracellular Matrix. Microbiology Spectrum. 3(3)

DePas WH, Syed AK, Sifuentes M, Lee JS, Warshaw D, Saggar V, Csankovszki G, Boles BR, Chapman MR. (2014) Biofilm formation protects Escherichia coli against killing by Caenorhabditis elegans and Myxococcus xanthus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 80:7079-7087.

Hufnagel DA, DePas WH, Chapman MR. (2014) The disulfide bonding system suppresses CsgD-independent cellulose production in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 196:3690-3699.

DePas WH, Hufnagel DA, Lee JS, Blanco LP, Bernstein HC, Fisher ST, James GA, Stewart PS, Chapman MR. (2013) Iron induces bimodal population development by Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110:2629-2634.

DePas WH, Chapman MR. (2012) Microbial manipulation of the amyloid fold. Res Microbiol. Nov 163(9-10):592-606.