David Abia

The paper identifies a novel zipper-type transcriptional attenuation mechanism that controls expression of conjugation genes in Bacillus subtilis plasmids.

This paper identifies SddA, a periplasmic deacetylase that modulates daughter cell separation in E. coli by modifying denuded peptidoglycan strands, and links its function to amidase activation.

This study uses CRISPR/Cas9 screening to identify novel regulators of mitochondrial oxidative metabolism, revealing key genes involved in complex I assembly and BCAA catabolism.

The paper introduces PC_sim, a hybrid measure combining sequence and structure similarity for better alignments and evolutionary inference, showing improved results over individual measures.