W. B. Chrisler

This study develops molecular methods to detect and quantify specific duckweed-bacteria interactions by optimizing protocols and creating strain-specific primers for accurate differentiation.

The paper investigates phenotypic heterogeneity in Bacillus subtilis biofilms, revealing that many cells multi-task by co-expressing multiple genes, challenging prior models of cell-type differentiation.

This paper introduces a streamlined phosphoproteomics workflow that reduces sample loss and processing time, enabling sensitive detection of phosphopeptides from nanoscale samples.

The paper investigates microbial community succession in a hypersaline mat, finding that turnover, not nestedness, shapes community structure and that deterministic and stochastic processes affect bacteria and eukaryotes differently.