Roger C. Lévesque

This study identifies agaSY genes in UPEC as essential for amino sugar catabolism and links their loss to reduced virulence and colonization in a murine model.

The paper isolates and characterizes a novel Pectobacterium species, Pectobacterium sinaloense, from potato plants in Mexico, showing it meets species criteria but has lower virulence.

This study confirms that PqsE is conserved and functionally relevant across diverse Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, highlighting its role in quorum sensing and virulence.

The paper combines Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing to analyze structural variation in soybean cultivars, showing that long-read data can be effectively used with short-read data for population-scale SV analysis.

This paper identifies novel anionic cecropins in the spruce budworm with a poly-L-aspartic acid C-terminus, showing structural and functional differences from conventional cationic cecropins and suggesting potential anticancer activity.