John Frederick Beckmann

The paper benchmarks molecular methods for protein engineering and evaluates AI-based designs by comparing mutagenesis and phenotypic screening of a fluorophore.

The paper compares two bioinformatic pipelines for analyzing the virome of Culex nigripalpus, identifying 15 viruses with shared and unique detections between methods.

The paper demonstrates that a cytoplasmic incompatibility operon from Wolbachia has laterally transferred to Orientia tsutsugamushi and can induce CI in Drosophila, supporting the toxin-antidote model of CI.

This paper uses an evolutionary algorithm to model the emergence of Wolbachia toxin-antidote protein functions and identifies how different sequence features evolve under selective pressures.

The paper reports the genomes of two novel Wolbachia strains co-infecting cat fleas, revealing lateral gene transfers and mechanisms for mutualism and reproductive parasitism.