Jennifer C. McClure

The paper identifies antimicrobial-producing bacteria in wooden cheese ripening boards that inhibit Listeria monocytogenes, with a focus on Bacillus safensis as a potential biocontrol agent.

This study characterizes the gastrointestinal tract microbiome of beef cattle at harvest, finding that harvest date and location significantly affect microbial diversity and composition.

The paper identifies a frameshift mutation in IFT80 causing embryonic lethality in Holstein cattle and validates it using CRISPR-Cas9 knockout embryos.

The paper identifies three haplotypes with putatively recessive lethal alleles in Irish beef cattle and shows their pleiotropic effects on economically important traits.

The paper determines the minimum SNP density needed for accurate parentage verification in cattle and introduces a genomic sample QC pipeline for large cattle datasets.