Elizabeth Ann Dinsdale

This study characterizes the skin microbiome of largetooth sawfish, finding it is host-associated, functionally redundant, and adapted to anaerobic conditions.

Sphae is a bioinformatics pipeline that rapidly assesses phage therapeutic potential by analyzing genomic markers for safety and efficacy in under ten minutes.

The paper quantifies the compound processing potential of gut and soil metagenomes to link microbiome function to human health and ecosystem quality.

This study shows that elasmobranch sharks have species-specific epidermal microbiomes influenced by denticle morphology and phylogeny.

Phables improves phage genome recovery from fragmented viral metagenome assemblies, recovering more high-quality genomes and resolving variants with high nucleotide identity.

This study isolates and characterizes three novel Crassvirales phages infecting Bacteroides cellulosilyticus WH2, revealing they do not co-evolve with their hosts and share a conserved tail spike protein involved in host interaction.

The paper quantifies the benefits and costs of prophages in bacterial genomes, showing uniform prophage density and estimating their energetic contribution.

Hecatomb is a bioinformatics platform for viral metagenomics that enables read and contig analysis, integrating reference databases and providing tools for virome discovery.

This paper presents the first complete mitochondrial and partial nuclear genome of the Sharpnose Guitarfish and provides a phylogenetic assessment to aid in conservation efforts.

THEA improves gene prediction in phage genomes by exploiting their compact structure, identifying more genes than existing tools which are validated as functional.

The paper identifies core bioinformatics competencies needed for undergraduate life sciences education based on a national survey and syllabus analysis.