Publications

Alejandro Couce, Anurag Limdi, Melanie Magnan, Siân V. Owen, Cristina M. Herren, Richard E. Lenski, Olivier Tenaillon, and Michael Baym. 2024. “Changing Fitness Effects of Mutations through Long-Term Bacterial Evolution”. Science, 383, 6681, Pp. eadd1417. doi:10.1126/science.add1417

Natalia Quinones-Olvera, Siân V. Owen, Lucy M. McCully, Maximillian G. Marin, Eleanor A. Rand, Alice C. Fan, Oluremi J. Martins Dosumu, Kay Paul, Cleotilde E. Sanchez Castaño, Rachel Petherbridge, Jillian S. Paull, and Michael Baym. 2024. “Diverse and Abundant Phages Exploit Conjugative Plasmids.”. Nature Communications, 15, 1, Pp. 3197. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-47416-z

Charles L. Dulberger, Carlos A. Guerrero-Bustamante, Siân V. Owen, Sean Wilson, Michael G. Wuo, Rebecca A. Garlena, Lexi A. Serpa, Daniel A. Russell, Junhao Zhu, Ben J. Braunecker, Georgia R. Squyres, Michael Baym, Laura L. Kiessling, Ethan C. Garner, Eric J. Rubin, and Graham F. Hatfull. 2023. “Mycobacterial Nucleoid-Associated Protein Lsr2 Is Required for Productive Mycobacteriophage Infection”. Nature Microbiology, Pp. 1–16. doi:10.1038/s41564-023-01333-x

Akos Nyerges, Svenja Vinke, Regan Flynn, Siân V. Owen, Eleanor A. Rand, Bogdan Budnik, Eric Keen, Kamesh Narasimhan, Jorge A. Marchand, Maximilien Baas-Thomas, Min Liu, Kangming Chen, Anush Chiappino-Pepe, Fangxiang Hu, Michael Baym, and George M. Church. 2023. “A Swapped Genetic Code Prevents Viral Infections and Gene Transfer”. Nature, 615, 7953, Pp. 720–727. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05824-z

Leonard Koolman, Reenesh Prakash, Yohane Diness, Chisomo Msefula, Tonney S. Nyirenda, Franziska Olgemoeller, Paul Wigley, Blanca Perez-Sepulveda, Jay C. D. Hinton, Siân V. Owen, Nicholas A. Feasey, Philip M. Ashton, and Melita A. Gordon. 2022. “Case-Control Investigation of Invasive Salmonella Disease in Malawi Reveals No Evidence of Environmental or Animal Transmission of Invasive Strains, and Supports Human to Human Transmission”. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16, 12, Pp. 1-17. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010982

Sanne Wolput, Angela Makumi, Laura Wicke, Leonard Bäcker, William Cenens, Yves Briers, Nicolas Wenner, Siân Owen, Jay CD Hinton, Rob Lavigne, and others. 2022. “Transcriptional Organization of the Salmonella Typhimurium Phage P22 Pid ORFan Locus”. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23, 3, Pp. 1253

Justin Silpe, Joel WH Wong, Siân Owen, Michael Baym, and Emily P. Balskus. 2022. “The Bacterial Toxin Colibactin Triggers Prophage Induction”. Nature, 603, 7900, Pp. 315–320

Anurag Limdi, Siân Owen, Cristina Herren, Richard Lenski, and Michael Baym. 2022. “Parallel Changes in Gene Essentiality over 50,000 Generations of Evolution”. BioRxiv

Akos Nyerges, Svenja Vinke, Regan Flynn, Siân V. Owen, Eleanor A. Rand, Bogdan Budnik, Eric Keen, Kamesh Narasimhan, Jorge A. Marchand, Maximilien Baas-Thomas, Min Liu, Kangming Chen, Anush Chiappino-Pepe, Fangxiang Hu, Michael Baym, and George M. Church. 2022. “Swapped Genetic Code Blocks Viral Infections and Gene Transfer”. BioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2022.07.08.499367

Siân V. Owen*, Nicolas Wenner*, Charles L. Dulberger, Ella V. Rodwell, Arthur Bowers-Barnard, Natalia Quinones-Olvera, Daniel J. Rigden, Eric J. Rubin, Ethan C. Garner, Michael Baym, and Jay C. D. Hinton. 2021. “Prophages Encode Phage-Defense Systems With Cognate Self-Immunity”. Cell Host & Microbe. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2021.09.002

Siân Owen, Blanca Perez-Sepulveda, and Evelien Adriaenssens. 2021. “Detection of Bacteriophages: Sequence-Based Systems”. Bacteriophages: Biology, Technology, Therapy, Pp. 621–644

Jared D. Honeycutt, Nicolas Wenner, Yan Li, Susan M. Brewer, Liliana M. Massis, Sky W. Brubaker, Phoom Chairatana, Siân V. Owen, Rocío Canals, Jay C. D. Hinton, and Denise M. Monack. 2020. “Genetic Variation in the MacAB-TolC Efflux Pump Influences Pathogenesis of Invasive Salmonella Isolates from Africa”. PLOS Pathogens, 16, 8, Pp. 1-30. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1008763