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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