Ethan Clark Garner

This study shows Streptomyces venezuelae uses both polar and dispersed growth mechanisms during rapid growth, with MreB playing a key role in cell wall integrity and structure.

The paper uses multi-generational imaging to study essential genes in E. coli, revealing new mechanisms behind growth laws and identifying unknown gene functions.

This study shows SpoIIE modulates cytokinesis machinery in B. subtilis to drive asymmetric cell division by interacting with MinCD and DivIB, and regulating FtsZ filament length.

This paper investigates how FtsZ filament condensation and membrane tension interact to initiate and progress cell division in B. subtilis, finding that FtsZ bundling proteins overcome membrane tension and that constriction rates are limited by tension.

This study shows that axial asymmetry in Neisseria gonorrhoeae guides orthogonal division planes, maintaining diplococcal morphology through ParB segregation and MinCDE system function.

This paper introduces BatCRISPRi, a CRISPRi system in Bacillus subtilis that uses a rapamycin-dependent degron to eliminate leakiness and enable reversible gene knockdown.

This paper demonstrates efficient genetic code expansion in Bacillus subtilis using non-standard amino acids to enable chemical biology tools for studying bacterial biology.

The paper shows MreB filaments align along principal membrane curvature to create rod shape in bacteria, supported by biophysical modeling and experimental observations.