Berenike Maier

The paper investigates how intra- and extracellular β-lactamase activity contributes to collective β-lactam survival in E. coli under cefotaxime stress.

This study shows that chemical gradients induce eversion in bacterial colonies by triggering a capillary instability, leading to bacterial dissemination.

This study measures membrane potential dynamics in Neisseria gonorrhoeae during oxygen adaptation, revealing transient depolarization and hyperpolarization patterns linked to denitrification.

This study identifies genes upregulated in gonococcal aggregation that contribute to antibiotic tolerance by analyzing transcriptomes and testing deletion strains.

The paper develops a replacement accumulation assay to study cross-species gene transfer in Bacillus species, finding that orthologous replacement of core genes occurs extensively between closely related species.