J. A. Morrissey

Air pollution modifies key colonization factors of the beneficial bee gut symbiont Snodgrassella alvi and disrupts the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) gut microbiome.

This study shows black carbon exposure alters the gut microbiome of bumblebees by affecting the beneficial bacterium Snodgrassella alvi and changing the abundance of core gut bacteria.

Air pollution induces Staphylococcus aureus USA300 respiratory tract colonisation mediated by specific bacterial genetic responses dependent on the global virulence gene regulators Agr and Sae

This study shows that exposure to black carbon increases Staphylococcus aureus virulence and colonization by altering gene expression, independent of host factors.