Shelbi L. Russell

The paper investigates genome erosion in deep-sea symbionts and finds evidence of genome expansion through horizontal gene transfer and mobile elements, suggesting functional innovation can reverse erosion and enable host-switching.

This study uses single-cell RNA sequencing to reveal how Wolbachia infection progresses through distinct transcriptional phases in Drosophila cells.

This paper demonstrates the successful detection of EMS-induced mutations in Wolbachia genomes using circle sequencing, revealing a significant enrichment of C/G>T/A transitions.

The paper estimates an extreme transmission bottleneck in a deep-sea clam symbiosis using ultra-accurate sequencing, finding an effective bottleneck size of about eight symbionts per host generation.

This study shows Wolbachia infection changes host cell states in Drosophila cell lines, affecting gene expression and chromatin structure, and suggests these changes determine symbiotic outcomes.

The paper identifies horizontal transfer of intron-containing transposons as a major source of new introns across eukaryotic lineages.

This study shows that the wMel Wolbachia strain outcompetes the promiscuous wRi strain in vitro across different host cell types, suggesting a deterministic outcome that may explain low natural mixed infections.

The paper develops a structural proteome screen to identify protein mimicry in host-microbe systems, applying it to Legionella pneumophila, Helicobacter pylori, and Wolbachia to find candidate proteins involved in host interactions.

The paper demonstrates that Illumina short-read libraries can be sequenced on the ONT MinION with high accuracy using the R2C2 method, achieving error rates comparable to Illumina MiSeq.

The paper uses metagenomic analyses to study symbiont composition in deep-sea hydrothermal vent snails, finding that environmental factors and geographic barriers influence symbiont strain composition more than host genetics.