Vishnu Raghuram

Hiding in plain sight: rare Bacillus cereus group species are present among unassembled metagenomic samples in public databases

The paper identifies rare Bacillus cereus group species in unassembled metagenomic samples, revealing their potential geographic distribution and genomic diversity.

The insecticidal potential of Bacillus cereus group strains from insect-dense regions of the United Kingdom

The paper identifies novel insecticidal B. cereus group strains from UK insect-dense regions, revealing Cry toxin genes and uncharacterized biosynthetic gene clusters with potential for biopesticide development.

Intraspecific Diversity of Staphylococcus aureus Populations Isolated from Cystic Fibrosis Respiratory Infections

This study compares single colony and pooled colony isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from cystic fibrosis patients to reveal hidden intraspecific diversity in chronic infections.

AllTheBacteria: a community resource empowers biology and discovers novel peptide antibiotics

A uniformly processed set of 2,440,377 bacterial and archaeal genomes with search tools and annotations, plus an AI-mined peptide set yielding ATB20, active in a mouse skin infection model.

Species-wide phylogenomics of the Staphylococcus aureus agr operon reveals convergent evolution of frameshift mutations

The paper analyzes the agr operon across S. aureus genomes to identify frameshift mutations and their evolutionary patterns, finding over 5% of strains have non-functional agr systems.