Wendy Figueroa

The paper identifies immune-deficient bacteria as facilitators of genetic exchange and microbial evolution by enabling horizontal gene transfer of beneficial traits.

This study shows co-infection with Streptococcus and Rothia spp. reduces prophage gene expression and free phage levels in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in an artificial sputum model.

This study shows that multidrug resistance plasmids face a trade-off between phage resistance and conjugative ability, which affects their evolutionary response to plasmid-dependent phages.

The paper compares plasmids from pre-antibiotic era bacteria with modern plasmids to show how resistance genes evolved and spread over time.