​​Publications

  1. Lima L.F.O., Alker A.T., Papudeshi B., Morris M., Edwards R., de Putron S., Dinsdale E. Coral and seawater metagenomes reveal key microbial functions to coral health and ecosystem functioning shaped at reef scale. Microbial Ecology. August 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s00248-022-02094-6
  2. Alker A.T. et al. Draft Genome Sequence of Nereida sp. MMG025 Isolated from Giant Kelp. Microbiology Resource Announcements. May 2022. 11(6):e0012222. DOI: 10.1128/mra.00122-22.
  3. Malter KE, Esmerode M, Damba M, Alker AT, Forsberg EM, Shikuma NJ. Lipidomics of Tubeworm Metamorphosis in Response to Bacteria Reveals a Role of Diacylglycerol, Protein Kinase C and MAPK Signaling. Developmental Biology. April 2022, 487: 99-109. DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2022.04.009.
  4. Alker A.T. et al. Draft genome sequences of ten bacteria from the marine Pseudoalteromonas group. Microbiology Resource Announcement. August 2021, 10 (32) e00404-21 DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00404-21
  5. Alker A.T., Delherbe N., Purdy T.N., Moore B.S., Shikuma N.J. Genetic examination of the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea and effects of its metamorphosis-inducing factors. Environmental Microbiology. August 2020; DOI: 10.1111/1462‐2920.15211
  6. Cavalcanti G.S., Alker A.T., Delherbe N., Malter K., Shikuma N.J. The Influence of Bacteria on Animal Metamorphosis. Annual Reviews of Microbiology. September 2020, 74:1, 137-158; DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-011320-012753 
  7. Rojas* M.I., Cavalcanti* G.S., McNair K., Benler S., Alker A.T., Cobián-Güemes A.G., Giluso M., Levi K., Rohwer F.L., Bailey B.A., Beyhan S., Edwards R.A., Shikuma N.J. A Distinct Contractile Injection System Found in a Majority of Adult Human Microbiomes. mSystems. July 2020, 5 (4) e00648-20; DOI:10.1128/mSystems.00648-20
  8. Lima, L.F.O., Weissman, M., Reed, M., Bhavya, N.P., Alker, A.T., Morris, M.M., Edwards, R.A., de Putron, S., Vaidya, N.K., Dinsdale, E.A. Modeling of the Coral Microbiome: the Influence of Temperature and Microbial Network. mBio. March 2020, 11 (2) e02691-19; DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02691-19​

Manuscripts in preparation or under review

  1. Alker AT, Apiras A, Demko AM, Dunbar TL, Farrell M, Fedoriouk A, Moore BS, Paul VJ, Purdy TN, Sneed JM, Shikuma NJ. Development and applications of a modular plasmid toolkit reveal new functional insights about bacteria-stimulated metamorphosis in tubeworms and coral (In preparation for submission to ISME, 2022).