Yingying Pu

The paper shows RNA phages are eliminated in dormant bacteria via ROS-mediated damage, but survival depends on genomic redundancy through co-infection.

The paper shows that aggresomes in E. coli store mRNA under stress, aiding rapid recovery by protecting mRNA from degradation and facilitating translation reactivation.

The paper identifies a toxin-antitoxin system in biofilms where c-di-GMP regulates genome stability and antibiotic persistence by controlling HipH activity.

The paper shows that combinations of highly variable core genes can accurately predict sequence variants and antibiotic resistance in bacterial genomes.