By Professor Torsten Thomas

Journal articles

Thomas T; Rusch D; Demaere MZ; Yung PY; Lewis M; Halpern A; Heidelberg KB; Egan SG; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S, 2010, 'Functional genomic signatures of sponge bacteria reveal unique and shared features of symbiosis', ISME Journal, 4, pp. 1557 - 1567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2010.74

Ballestriero F; Thomas T; Burke CM; Egan SG; Kjelleberg S, 2010, 'Identification of Compounds with Bioactivity against the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans by a Screen Based on the Functional Genomics of the Marine Bacterium Pseudoalteromonas tunicata D2', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 17, pp. 5710 - 5717, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00695-10

Ng SC; De Maere M; Williams TJ; Lauro FM; Raftery MJ; Gibson J; Andrews-Pfannkoch C; Lewis M; Hoffman J; Thomas T; Cavicchioli R, 2010, 'Metaproteogenomic analysis of a dominant green sulfur bacterium from Ace Lake, Antarctica.', ISME Journal, 4, pp. 1002 - 1019

Tujula NA; Crocetti GR; Burke CM; Thomas T; Holmstrom CG; Kjelleberg S, 2010, 'Variability and abundance of the epiphytic bacterial community associated with a green marine Ulvacean alga', ISME Journal, 4, pp. 301-311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2009.107

Yung PY; Burke CM; Lewis M; Egan SG; Kjelleberg S; Thomas T, 2009, 'Phylogenetic screening of a bacterial, metagenomic library using homing endonuclease restriction and marker insertion', Nucleic Acids Research, 37, pp. e144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp746

Cairns MJ; Thomas T; Beltran C; Tillett D, 2009, 'Primer fabrication using polymerase mediated oligonucleotide synthesis', BMC Genomics, 10

Burke CM; Kjelleberg S; Thomas T, 2009, 'Selective extraction of bacterial DNA from the surfaces of macroalgae', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75, pp. 252 - 256

Allen MA; Lauro FM; Williams TJ; Burg DW; Siddiqui KS; De Francisci D; Chong K; Pilak O; Chew H; De Maere M; Ting LL; Katrib M; Ng SC; Sowers KR; Galperin M; Anderson I; Ivanova N; Dalin E; Martinez MP; Lapidus A; Hauser L; Land MH; Thomas T; Cavicchioli R, 2009, 'The genome sequence of the psychrophilic archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii: The role of genome evolution in cold adaptation', ISME Journal, 3, pp. 1012 - 1035

Lauro FM; McDougald D; Thomas T; Williams TJ; Egan SG; Rice SA; Demaere MZ; Ting LL; Ertan H; Johnson J; Ferriera S; Lapidus A; Anderson IM; Kyrpides N; Munkf A; Detter C; Hang C; Brown M; Robb F; Kjelleberg S; Cavicchioli R, 2009, 'The genomic basis of trophic strategy in marine bacteria', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, pp. 15527 - 15533

Thomas T; Evans FF; Schleheck D; Mai-Prochnow A; Burke C; Penesyan A; Dalisay DS; Stelzer-Braid S; Saunders N; Johnson J; others , 2008, 'Analysis of the Pseudoalteromonas tunicata Genome Reveals Properties of a Surface-Associated Life Style in the Marine Environment', Detail:

Mai-Prochnow AG; Lucas-Elio P; Egan SG; Thomas T; Webb JS; Sanchez-Amat A; Kjelleberg S, 2008, 'Hydrogen peroxide linked to lysine oxidase activity facilitates biofilm differentiation and dispersal in several gram-negative bacteria', Journal of Bacteriology, 190, pp. 5493 - 5501

Egan SG; Thomas T; Kjelleberg S, 2008, 'Unlocking the diversity and biotechnological potential of marine surface associated microbial communities', Current Opinion in Microbiology, 11, pp. 219 - 225

nil Siddiqui KS; De Francisci D; Thomas T, 2007, 'In: Methods in Protein Structure and Stability Analysis ISBN 1-60021-704-4 Editors: V. Uversky and E. Permyakov, pp. 147-158\copyright 2007 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.', Methods in Protein Structure and Stability Analysis: Conformational Stability, Size, Shape and Surface of Protein Molecules, pp. 147 - 147

Thomas T; Egan SG; Burg DW; Ng SC; Ting LL; Cavicchioli R, 2007, 'Integration of genomics and proteomics into marine microbial ecology', Marine Ecology Progress Series, 332, pp. 291 - 299

Cavicchioli R; Demaere MZ; Thomas T, 2007, 'Metagenomic studies reveal the critical and wide-ranging ecological importance of uncultivated archaea: the role of ammonia oxidizers', BioEssays, 29, pp. 11 - 14

Burke CM; Thomas T; Egan SG; Kjelleberg S, 2007, 'The use of functional genomics for the identification of a gene cluster encoding for the biosynthesis of an antifungal tambjamine in the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas tunicata', Environmental Microbiology, 9, pp. 814 - 818

Goldberg SMD; Johnson J; Busam D; Feldblyum T; Ferriera S; Friedman R; Halpern A; Khouri H; Kravitz SA; Lauro FM; Li K; Rogers YH; Strausberg R; Sutton G; Tallon L; Thomas T; Venter E; Frazier M; Venter JC, 2006, 'Erratum: A Sanger/pyrosequencing hybrid approach for the generation of high-quality draft assemblies of marine microbial genomes (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (July 25, 2006) 30, 103 (11240-11245) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604351103)', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103, pp. 16057, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607197103

Goldberg S; Johnson J; Busam D; Feldblyum T; Ferriera S; Friedman R; Halpern A; Khouri H; Kravitz S; Lauro FM; Li KS; Rogers Y; Strausberg R; Sutton G; Tallon L; Thomas T; Venter E; Frazier M; Venter J, 2006, 'A Sanger/pyrosequencing hybrid approach tor the generation of high-quality draft assemblies of marine microbial genomes', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103, pp. 11240 - 11245

Saunders NF; Thomas T; Curmi PM; Mattick JS; Kuczek E; Slade R; Davis J; Franzmann PD; Boone D; Rusterholtz K; Feldman R; Gates C; Bench S; Sowers KR; Kadner K; Aerts A; Dehal P; Detter C; Glavina T; Lucas S; Richardson P; Larimer F; Hauser L; Land M; Cavicchioli R, 2003, 'Mechanisms of Thermal Adaptation Revealed from the Genomes of the Antarctic Archaea Methanogenium frigidum and Methanococcoides burtonii', Genome Research, 13, pp. 1580 - 1588

Cavicchioli R; Curmi PM; Saunders NF; Thomas T, 2003, 'Pathogenic archaea: do they exist?', BioEssays, 25, pp. 1119 - 1128

Cavicchioli R; Torsten T; Curmi PM, 2000, 'Cold stress response in Archaea', Extremophiles, 4, pp. 321 - 331

Torsten T; Cavicchioli R, 2000, 'Effect of temperature on the stability and activity of the elongation factor 2 proteins from low-temperature adapted and thermophilic methanogens', Journal of Bacteriology, 182, pp. 1328 - 1332

Lim J; Torsten T; Cavicchioli R, 2000, 'Low temperature regulated DEAD-box RNA Helicase from the Antarctic Archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii', Journal of Molecular Biology, 297, pp. 553 - 567

Egan S; Torsten T; Holmstrom CG; Kjelleberg S, 2000, 'Phylogenetic relationship and antifouling activity of bacterial epiphytes from the marine alga Ulva lactuca', Environmental Microbiology, 2, pp. 343 - 347

Berchet V; Torsten T; Cavicchioli R; Russell NJ; Gounot A, 2000, 'Structural analysis of the elongation factor G protein from the low-temperature-adapted bacterium Arthrobacter globiformis S155', Extremophiles, 4, pp. 123 - 130

Torsten T; Cavicchioli R, 1998, 'Archaeal cold-adapted proteins: structural and evolutionary analysis of the elongation factor 2 proteins from psychrophilic, mesophilic and thermophilic proteins', FEBS Letters, 439, pp. 281 - 286

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