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Preprints

1. Stubbusch A, Keegstra J, Schwartzmann J, Pontrelli S, Clerc E, Stocker R, Magnabosco C, Schubert O, Ackermann M and D’Souza G. Polysaccharide breakdown products drive degradation-dispersal cycles of foraging bacteria through changes in metabolism and motility. BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.14.548877 [OA]

3. Povolo V, D’Souza G, Kaczmarczyk A, Stubbusch A, Jenal U and Ackermann M. Extracellular appendages govern spatial dynamics and growth of Caulobacter crescentus on a prevalent biopolymer. BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.13.495907 [OA]

Peer Reviewed and Published

2024

MicrobioRaman: An open-access web repository for microbiological Raman spectroscopy data.

Lee KS, [and 60 others, including D’Souza, G.] Nature Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01656-3

2023

Interspecies interactions determine growth dynamics of biopolymer degrading populations in microbial communities.

D’Souza G, Schwartzmann J, Keegstra J, Schreier J, Daniels M, Cordero O, Stocker R and Ackermann M. PNAS, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305198120

Cell aggregation is associated with enzyme secretion strategies in marine polysaccharide-degrading bacteria.

D’Souza G, Ebrahimi A, Keegstra J, Stubbusch A, Daniels M, Stocker R, Cordero O and Ackermann M. The ISME Journal, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01385-1 [OA]

2021

Short-range quorum sensing controls horizontal gene transfer at micron scale in bacterial communities.

van Gestel J, Bareia T, Tenennbaum B, Dal Co A,  Guler P, Aframian N, Puyesky S, Grinberg I, D’Souza G, Erez Z, Ackermann M, Eldar A. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22649-4 [OA]

Nutrient complexity triggers transitions between solitary and colonial growth in bacterial populations.

D’Souza G, Povolo V, Keegstra J, Stocker R and Ackermann M. The ISME Journal, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-00953-7 [OA]

An interdisciplinary and application-oriented approach to teach microfluidics.

Mehdi Salek M,  Fernandez V, D’souza G, Puigmartí-Luis J, Stocker R and Secchi E. Biomicrofluidics, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0038389

2020

Phenotypic variation in spatially structured microbial communities: Ecological origins and consequences.

D’Souza G. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2019.12.013

2018

Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria.

D’Souza G, Shitut S, Preusger D, Yousif G, Waschina S and Kost C. Natural Product Reports, https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NP00009C

2016

Experimental evolution of metabolic dependency in bacteria.

D’Souza G and Kost C. Plos Genetics, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006364

Metabolic network architecture and carbon source determine metabolite production costs.

Waschina S, D’Souza G, Kaleta C, and Kost C. The FEBS Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.13727

2015

Plasticity and epistasis strongly affect bacterial fitness after losing multiple metabolic genes.

D'Souza G*, Waschina S*, Kaleta C, and Kost C. Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12640

2014

Less is more: Selective advantages can explain the prevalent loss of biosynthetic genes in bacteria.

D'Souza G, Waschina S, Pande S, Bohl K, Kaleta C and Kost C. Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12468

2012

Carbon sources influence the nitrate removal activity, community structure and biofilm architecture.

Srinandan C, D'Souza G, Srivastava N, Nayak B, and Nerurkar A. Bioresource Technology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2012.04.079