Jamiema Sara Philip

The paper investigates the evolutionary relationship between flagellar motility and bacterial secretion systems, finding strong coupling with T6SS but not bacteriocins.

This study uses ancestral sequence reconstruction to generate flagellin sequences and tests their ability to restore motility in E. coli and S. Typhimurium, finding limited sequence tolerance and species-specific differences.

The paper maps the evolution of flagellar motility across bacterial species by analyzing genome data and developing a classifier to predict motility based on protein homology.