Publications

2026

2025

  • Velasquez, I., K. Ricci, E. Milusich, B.F. Tuthill II, Sauer, O. Hernández-Gómez, and J. Hua. 2025. . Scientific Reports. 15, 22596.
  • Wright SS#, Kumari P#, Víctor Fraile-Ágreda, Chengliang Wang, Sonia Shivcharan, Shirin Kappelhoff, Eleonora G Margheritis, Alyssa Matz, Swathy O Vasudevan, Ignacio Rubio, Michael Bauer, Beiyan Zhou, Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja, Katia Cosentino, Jianbin Ruan, Vijay A Rathinam. . Cell, 2025 (# contributed equally), PMID: 39742811.
  •  Barros BC, Palmer JD. . Nature Microbiology. 10, 1564-1655 (2025).
  • Fernandes S.E., Ortega H., Vaillancourt M., Galdino A.C.M, Stotland A., Mun K.S., Aguilar D., Doi Y., Lee J.S., Burgener E.B., Barrick J.E., Schertzer J.W., Jorth P. (2025). . Nat. Commun. 16(1):8397. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63284-7.
  • Gopal C., Al Tarify H., Pirhadi E., O’Brien E.G., Dagar A., Yong X., Schertzer J.W. (2025). . Membranes 15(8), 247. DOI: 10.3390/membranes15080247.
  • Mundanchira, A.V.2, Wong, A.2, Klos-Maki, K., Strand, J., Marques, C.N.H.1 (2025) Activity of Biocidin® against microbial biofilms. Frontiers in Antibiotics 4, 1692653.
  • Dash, S.K.4, Marques, C.N.H., Mahler, G.J. (2025). Biotechnology and Bioengineering 122(7): 1816-1827. PMID: 40197633

2024

  • Kalia, M. and Sauer. 2024. . mSphere, pp.e00884-24.
  • Oladosu, V.I., S. Park, and K. Sauer. 2024. Journal of Bacteriology 206:e00365-00323.
  • Park, S., Schneider, R., Rumbaugh, K.P., and Sauer. 2024. , p. 337-368. In Reichhardt C (ed.), Biofilm Matrix. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham.
  • Kumari P, Wright SS, and Rathinam VA. , Immunological Investigations, 2024, PMID:38348776
  •  Granato ET+, Palmer JD+, Kirk C, Sharp C, Shillcock G, Foster KR+. . PLOS Biology. 2025; 23 (5) e3003095.

  • Xu Q., Kang D., Meyer M., Pennington C., Gopal C., Schertzer J.W., and Kirienko N. (2024).    Infect. Immun 92(3); e0040723.  DOI: 10.1128/iai.00407-23

  • Hickok, N.J., Li, B., Oral, E., Zaat, S.A.J., Ambruster, D.A., Atkins, G.J., Chen, A.F., Coraça-Huber, D.C., Dai, T., Greenfield, E.M., Kasinath, R., Libera, M., Marques, C.N.H., Moriarty, T.F., Phollips, K.S., Raghuraman, K., Ren, D., Rimondini, L., Saeed, K., Schaer, T.P., Schwarz, E.M., Spiegel, C., Stoodley, P., Truong, V.K., Tsan, S-T.J., Wildermann, B., Zelmer, A.R., Zinkernagel, A.S. (2024). Journal or Orthopaedic Research 42: 512-517. PMID: 38146070.

2023

  • Kaleta, M., and Sauer. 2023. . Journal of Bacteriology. Special Series: 2022 ASM Conference on Biofilms.
  • Kalia, M., D. Amari, D.G. Davies, and Sauer. 2023. mBio 0:e02570-02523.
  • Park, S., J. Dingemans, and Sauer. 2023. . Journal of Bacteriology. Special Series: 2022 ASM Conference on Biofilms.
  • US 11,541,105 patent (Compositions and Methods for Disrupting Biofilm Formation and Maintenance). Sauer, K, et al., 2023.
  • Greenwich J.L., D. Fleming, E. Banin, S. Häussler, B.V. Kjellerup, K. Sauer, K.L. Visick, and C. Fuqua.2023. . Journal of Bacteriology 0:e00166-00123.
  • Mathur S., Ortega H., Pawlyshyn C. and Schertzer J.W. (2023).  . Springer Biofilm Series Vol. 12: Multispecies Biofilms (Eds: Kausik K., Darche S., Rumbaugh K., Coyne T.); Chapter 5; p 165-193. 
  • Pirhadi E., Vanegas J.M., Farin M., Schertzer J.W., Yong X. (2023).  Effect of local stress on accurate modeling of bacterial outer membranes using all-atom molecular dynamics.  J Chem Theory Comput 19(1); p. 363-372..
  • Hastings, C.J., Keledjian, M.V., Musselman, L.P., and Marques, C.N.H. (2023). . Sep 21:e0024623 PMID: 37732789.
  • Kim, M., McMahon, J.J., Nerone, J.M., Skinner, L.H., German, G.K., and Marques, C.N.H. (2023). Biofouling 16:1-14. PMID: 37455476.
  • Hastings, C.J., Syed, S.S., and Marques, C.N.H. (2023). . Journal of Bacteriology. e00018-23. PMID: 37436150.
  • Malik, M., Tanzman, J.V., Dash, S. K., Marques, C.N.H., and Mahler, G.J. (2023). . Microorganisms 11(6): 1419. PMID 37374921.
  • Cheng, J., Kolba, N., García-Rodríguez, A., Marques, C.N.H., Mahler, G.J., Tako, E. (2023). . Antioxidants 12(2): 431.
  • Hastings, C.J., Himmler, G. E., Patel, A., Marques, C.N.H. (2023). mBio e00056-23. PMID: 36920189.
  • Schwarz, E.M, Archer, N.K., Gerald J. Atkins, G.J., de Mesey Bentley, K.L., Botros, M., James E. Cassat, J.E., Emanuele Chisari, E., Débora C. Coraça-Huber, D.C., John L. Daiss, J.L., Gill, S.R., Goodman, S.B., Harro, J., Hernandez, C.J., Ivashkiv, L.B., Kates, S.L., Marques, C.N.H., Masters, E.A., Muthukrishnan, G., Owen, J.R., Raafat, D., Saito, M., Veis D.J., and Xie, C. (2023). . Journal of Orthopaedic Research. Dec. 16: 10.1002/jor.25758. PMID: 38102985.
  • Thomas, L.S., Faiola, N.A. , Canessa, E., Hathout, Y., and Cook, L.C. 2023. . Infection and Immunity.
  • Thomas, L.S., and Cook, L.C.  2022. . mSphere. 7(6). 00421-22. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00421-22.

2022

  • Park, S., J. Dingemans, M. Gowett, and K. Sauer. 2021. mSphere. 6(1):e01231-20. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.
  • Redman, W., D. Fleming, K. Sauer, and K. Rumbaugh. 2022. , p. 127-157. In Richter K, Kragh KN (Ed.), Antibiofilm Strategies: Current and Future Applications to Prevent, Control and Eradicate Biofilms. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
  • Park, S., and K. Sauer. 2022. , pp. 69-94. In A. Filloux and J-L. Ramos (Ed.), Pseudomonas aeruginosa: biology, pathogenesis and control strategies. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
  • Sauer, K., P. Stoodley, D.M. Goeres, L. Hall-Stoodley, M. Burmølle, P. Stewart, and T. Bjarnsholt. 2022. Nature Reviews Microbiology. DOI: 10.1038/s41579-022-00767-0.
  • Kalia, M., M.D. Resch, K.E. Cherny, and K. Sauer. 2022. . mSphere:e00505-00522.
  • Kaleta, M., O.E. Petrova, C. Zampaloni, F. Garcia-Alcalde, M. Parker, and K. Sauer. 2022.. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 8:54.

  • Induction of a physiological dispersion response in bacterial cells in a biofilm. D.G. Davies. US Patent 11,452,291 5 2022

  • Method and composition for water treatment. Rodensky, C. Zolkov, D.G. Davies. US Patent App. 17/613,758 2022.

  • Zdimal, A., and D. G. Davies. 2022. . Microbiol Spectr 10:e01001-21.
  • Garcia-Rodriguez, A.4, Stillwell, A., Tochilovsky, B2, Tansman, J.V.3, Limage, R.3, Kolba, N., Tako, E. Marques, C.N.H., Mahler, G.J. (2022). T Environmental Sciences: Nano 9(12):4540-4557.
  • Pednekar, D.D., Liguori, M.A., Marques, C.N.H., Zhang, T., Zhang, N., Zhou, Z., Amoako, K. and Gu, H. (2022). . ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 8 (7), 2825-2848.
  • Lipsky, Z.W.3, Patsy, M.2, Marques, C.N.H., and German, G.K. (2022). Microbiology Spectrum: e02744-21.
  • Lyles, K.V., Thomas, L.S., Ouellette, C., Cook, L.C.C., and Z. Eichenbaum. 2022. . Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 12:867963. 

2021

  • Park, S., J. Dingemans, M. Gowett, and K. Sauer. 2021. mSphere. 6(1):e01231-20. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.
  • Roy, S., A.A. Bahar, H. Gu, S Nangia, K. Sauer, and D. Ren. 2021. . PLOS Pathogens. 2021;17(12):e1010144.
  • Maktabi S., Malmstadt N., Schertzer J.W., Chiarot P.R. (2021). . Biomicrofluidics 15(2); 024112.  DOI: 10.1063/5.0047265.
  • Cook, L.C. 2021. . Infect Immun. 89(8): e00185-21.

2020

  • Rumbaugh KP, Sauer K. 2020.. Nature Reviews Microbiology. doi:10.1038/s41579-020-0385-0.
  • Xiao X, Zhao W, Liang J, Sauer K, Libera M. 2020. . Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 192:110989.
  • Sauer K. 2020. , p. 545-560. In Chou S-H, Guiliani N, Lee VT, Römling U (ed.), Microbial Cyclic Di-Nucleotide Signaling. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
  • Cherny, K. E., and K. Sauer. 2020. Journal of Bacteriology 202:e00575-00519.
  • David G. Davies. Issue Date: 05/19/2020. US Patent Number: 10,653,140.
  • Tahernia, M., Plotkin-Kaye, E., Mohammadifar, M., Goa, Y., Oefelein, M.R., Cook, L.C., and S. Choi. 2020. Rapid and High-throughput Screening of Electrogenic Gut Bacteria. Accepted. ACS Omega. 4(45):29439-29446.
  • Chatterjee, N., Cook, L.C.C., Van Mouwerik Lyles, K., Nguyen, H.A.T, Devlin, D., Thomas, L.S., and Z. Eichenbaum. 2020. J. Bac. doi: 10.1128/JB.00205-20.
  • García-Rodríguez, A., Moreno-Olivas, F., Marcos, R., Tako, E., Marques, C.N.H., and Mahler, G.J. (2020). . Environmental Sciences: Nano 7: 3940-3964..
  • Malik, M., Subedi, S., Marques, C.N.H. and Mahler, G.J. (2020). Frontriers in Nutrition 7: 131.
  • Lipsky, Z.W., Marques, C.N.H. and German G. K. (2020). Tissue Barriers 8(2): 1754706.
  • Limage R., Tako, E., Kolba, N., Guo, Z,, García-Rodríguez, A., Marques, C.N.H., and Mahler, G.J. (2020). Small 16(21): e2000601.
  • Cooke A.C., Florez C., Dunshee E.B., Lieber A.D., Terry M.L., Light C.J., Schertzer J.W. (2020). . mSphere 5(6); e01109-20.

2019

  • LCC Cook, N Chatterjee, Y Li, J Andrade, MJ Federle, Z Eichenbaum. 2019. . mBio 10 (3), e00848-19.
  • Goodwine, J., J. Gil, A. Doiron , J. Valdes, M. Solis, A. Higa, S. Davis, and K. Sauer . 2019. . Scientific Reports 9:3763.
  • Dingemans, J. R.E. Al-Feghali, G.W. Lau, and K. Sauer. 2019. Mol. Microbiol.doi: 10.1111/mmi.14215.
  • Woods, P.W., Haynes, Z.M. Mina, E. G., and Marques, C.N.H. 2019. Frontiers in Microbiology 9: 3291. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.03291
  • Marques, C.N.H. and Nelson, S.M. 2019. Letters in Applied Microbiology.doi: 10.1111/lam.13126
  • Cooke A.C., Nello A.V., Ernst R.K. and Schertzer J.W. (2019). PLoS One14(2): e0212275. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212275
  • Chandler C.E., Horspool A.M., Hill P.J., Wozniak D.J., Schertzer J.W., Rasko D.A. and Ernst R.K. (2019). . J. Bacteriology201:e00595-18. doi:10.1128/JB.00595-18.
  • Li A., Schertzer J.W., Yong X. 2019. J. Biol. Chem.; p. 1089-1094.doi: 10.1074/jbc.AC118.006844

2018

  • Cleary, J.M., Lipsky, Z.W., Kim, M., Marques, C.N.H. and German G. K. (2018). Journal of the Royal Society Interface 15: 20170848.doi: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0848.
  • Poudyal, B. and K. Sauer. 2018. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy24;62(10). doi: 10.1128/AAC.01049-18
  • Dingemans J, B. Poudyal, H. Sondermann, and K. Sauer. 2018. mSphere 3. DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00192-18.
  • Song, F., H. Wang, K. Sauer, and D. Ren. 2018. Frontiers in Microbiology.9:110. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00110.
  • Esch, MB and Mahler, GJ. Chapter 11 - Body-on-a-chip systems: Design, fabrication, and applications. In: Microfluidic Cell Culture Systems (Second Edition). Borenstein JT, Tandon V, Tao SL, Charest JL, editors. Elsevier; 2019. p. 323-50. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813671-3.00011-6.
  • Pereira MT, Malik M, Nostro JA, Mahler GJ, and Musselman LP. Disease Models & Mechanisms; 2018: doi:10.1242/dmm.034520.
  • Guo Z, Martucci NJ, Liu Y, Yoo E, Tako E, Mahler GJ. Nanotoxicology. 2018; 12(5): 485-508. doi: 10.1080/17435390.2018.1463407.
  • Richter JW, Shull GM, Fountain JH, Guo Z, Musselman LP, Fiumera AC, Mahler GJ. Nanotoxicology. 2018; (5):390-406. doi: 10.1080/17435390.2018.1457189.
  • Luo, Jing, Xiaobo Chen, Jada Crump, David G. Davies, Guangwen Zhou, Ning Zhang, and Congrui Jin. 2018. arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01337.
  • Luo, Jing, Xiaobo Chen, Jada Crump, Hui Zhou, David G. Davies, Guangwen Zhou, Ning Zhang, and Congrui Jin. 2018. Construction and Building Materials 164: 275-285.
  • Li A., Schertzer J.W., Yong X. 2018. Phys Chem Chem Phys 20(36); p. 23635-23648.
  • Horspool A.M., Schertzer J.W. (2018). Sci Rep. 8(1); 9873.

2017

  • Florez, C., Raab, JE., Cooke, AC, Schertzer, JW. 2017.MBio 8 (4), e01034-17 13 2017
  • Sauer, K. (Editor) 2017. C-di-GMP Signaling. Methods and Protocols. Springer.
  • Sauer, K. 2017. The war on slime: Why biofilms have earned their bad reputation and how scientists plan to retaliate. Scientific American, November: 65-60.
  • Chambers, J.R., K.C. Cherny, and K. Sauer. 2017. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Nov 22;61(12). pii: e00846-17. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00846-17. Print 2017 Dec..
  • Chambers, J.R., and K. Sauer. 2017. Methods Mol. Biol. 1657:317-329.
  • Chambers, J.R., and K. Sauer. 2017. Methods Mol. Biol. 1657:293-302.
  • Petrova, O.E., and K. Sauer. 2017. Methods Mol. Biol1657:33-43.
  • Song, F., M. Brasch, H. Wang, J. Henderson, K. Sauer, and D. Ren. 2017. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 9:22176-22184 .
  • Petrova, O.E., K. Gupta, J. Liao, J. Goodwine, and K. Sauer. 2017. Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports 19:2005-2024.
  • Petrova, O.E., F. Garcia-Alcalde, C. Zampaloni, and K. Sauer. 2017. Scientific Reports 7:41114 | DOI: 10.1038/srep41114. http://rdcu.be/oKR4.

2016

  • Sauer, K. 2016. Unlocking the secrets of bacterial biofilms – to use against them. Conversation US. .
  • Petrova, O. E., and Sauer, K. 2016. Escaping the biofilm in more than one way: Desorption, detachment or dispersion. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 30:67–78.
  • Mina, E.G. and Marques, C.N.H. 2016. Interaction of Staphylococcus aureuspersister cells with the host previous to- and during awakening. Scientific Reports 6: 31342.
  • Lu L., Doak W.J., Schertzer J.W., Chiarot P.R. 2016.  Membrane Mechanical Properties of Synthetic Asymmetric Phospholipid Vesicles.  Soft Matter 12(36). p. 7521-7528. DOI: 10.1039/c6sm01349j. 

2015

  • Lanter, B. B., and D. G. Davies. 2015.  Infection and immunity (2015): IAI-00510.
  • Marques CN, Davies DG, Sauer K. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2015 Nov 25;8(4):816-35.
  • Marques CN, Craver SA. Quantification of Respiratory Activity in Biofilms. Bio-protocol. 2015 September 20; 5(18):e1591.
  • Marques CN. Isolation of Persister Cells from Biofilm and Planktonic Populations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Bio-protocol. 2015 September 20; 5(18):e1590.
  • Pardo YA, Florez C, Baker KM, Schertzer JW, Mahler GJ. Detection of outer membrane vesicles in Synechocystis PCC 6803.FEMS microbiology letters. 2015; 362(20).
  • Lu L, Schertzer JW, Chiarot PR. Lab on a chip. 2015; 15(17):3591-9.
  • Lu L, Irwin RM, Coloma M, Schertzer JW, Chiarot PR.Removal of Excess Interfacial Material from Surface-modified Emulsions Using a Microfluidic Device with Triangular Post Geometry. Microfluid Nanofluidics. 2015 May; 18(5-6):1233-1246.
  • Vella BD, Schertzer JW. Ramos JL, Goldberg JB, Alain F, editors. New York: Springer. Pseudomonas Vol. VII, Chapter 9, Understanding and Exploiting Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles; p.217 - 250. 316p.
  • Richter J, Shull G, and Mahler GJ. TiO2 nanoparticle ingestion alters glucose absorption in an in vitro model of the intestinal epithelium. 41stAnnual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC). In press.

2014

  • Petrova, O.E., K.E. Cherny, and K. Sauer. 2014.   Bacteriol. 197(1):174-87.
  • Basu Roy, Ankita, and K. Sauer. 2014. Mol Microbiol. 94(4):771-93
  • Petrova, O.E., K.E. Cherny, and K. Sauer. 2014. . J. Bacteriol. Published ahead of print 2 June 2014, doi: 10.1128/JB.01628-14.
  • Lantern, B., K. Sauer, D.G. Davies. 2014. . mBio 5: 01206-01214.
  • Marques CN, Morozov A, Planzos P, Zelaya HM. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014 Nov;80(22):6976-91.