Blake G. Lindner

This study identifies a novel metabolic pathway in chain elongating bacteria that couples Stickland fermentation with reverse β-oxidation to produce medium-chain carboxylic acids.

The paper describes a new bacterial species, Peptonella octanoica, and reclassifies Eubacterium pyruvativorans into this genus based on phylogenetic and phenotypic analysis.

This study demonstrates long-term production and recovery of medium-chain carboxylic acids from source-separated organics using microbial chain elongation and in-line extraction.

This paper develops a methylation-conjugation system for Clostridium kluyveri to enable plasmid-based genetic modification and demonstrates its use for expressing a fluorescent reporter.

The paper curates nine genomic databases for fecal source tracking, summarizes their source-specificity, and tests their utility with mock water samples.