Iris Irby

The paper examines how the timing of anti-CRISPR gene expression in phages affects CRISPR-Cas interactions, finding that spacers map to earlier positions in genomes containing anti-CRISPR systems.

The paper evaluates the specificity of canonical Pseudomonas aeruginosa genes associated with cystic fibrosis (CF) by comparing their mutational patterns across diverse clinical and environmental contexts.

The paper shows that Pseudomonas aeruginosa's apparent generalism is due to convergent, cryptic specialization across environments, not strict generalism or lineage-specific specialization.

This paper discovers a novel lytic phage, Mystique, that infects a broad range of Acinetobacter baumannii strains and shows that environmental conditions significantly affect phage infectivity and isolation outcomes.