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Ethan Garner

Harvard University

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 2 Organism:E. coli· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Assay:imaging· 1

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Georgia Squyres· 2 shared Alexandre Wilson Bisson Filho· 1 shared Andrew C. KruseiD· 1 shared Calum Jukes· 1 shared Carlos Sanchez· 1 shared Cees Dekker· 1 shared Daniel Kahne· 1 shared Divya ChoudharyiD· 1 shared

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Inherited flagellar structures coordinate the onset of swimming among related E. coli cells

Divya Choudhary, Youlian Goulev, Noah Olsman, Carlos Sanchez, Johannes M. Keegstra, Ethan Garner, Quincey A. Justman, Philippe Cluzel, Johan Paulsson

The paper shows how inherited flagellar structures coordinate swimming onset in E. coli cells by integrating transcriptional noise and sharpening it into a heritable decision.

bioRxiv · Sep 22, 2026 · PreprintSystems Biology

An activation pathway governs cell wall polymerization by a bacterial morphogenic machine

Patricia D. A. Rohs, Jackson Buss, Sue Sim, Georgia Squyres, Veerasak Srisuknimit, Mandy Smith, Hongbaek Cho, Megan Sjodt, Andrew C. Kruse, Ethan Garner, Suzanne Walker, Daniel Kahne, Thomas G. Bernhardt

The paper identifies an activation pathway involving PBP2 that enhances cell wall polymerization and MreB filament formation in E. coli.

bioRxiv · Jun 29, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology

Treadmilling by FtsZ filaments drives peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial cell division.

Alexandre Wilson Bisson Filho, Yen-Pang Hsu, Georgia Squyres, Erkin Kuru, Fabai Wu, Calum Jukes, Cees Dekker, Seamus Holden, Michael VanNieuwenhze, Yves Brun, Ethan Garner

Bacterial cytokinesis is controlled by circumferential treadmilling of FtsAZ filaments that drives the insertion of new cell wall.

bioRxiv · Sep 26, 2016Microbiology