1/20/2021
Wood group and collaborator Xiaoxue Wang find antitoxin PrpA of the PrpT/PrpA toxin/antitoxin system control plasmid copy number (PNAS 2021)
12/10/2020
Wood group and collaborator Xiaoxue Wang find toxin/antitoxin system HepT/MntA form a novel type VII system in which the antitoxin inactivates the toxin by add three AMPs to the toxin active site (Nucleic Acids Research 2020). Watch the accompanying video:
4/16/2019
Wood group post-doctoral researcher Sooyeon Song discovers bacteria can use its enemy, a bacteriophage, against its kin, to obtain a competitive advantage (Cell Reports 2019)
5/17/2017
Wood group reverses methanogenesis by capturing methane via an enzyme from unculturable bacteria from the Black Sea in order to create the first microbial fuel for converting methane into electricity (Nature Communications 2017)
12/8/2016
Wood group and collaborator Miquel Pons discover that antitoxin TomB inactivates toxin Hha by oxidizing its cysteines (Nature Communications 2016)
5/2/2016
Wood group research Thammajun Wood creates a living biofilm to protect reverse osmosis membranes (PNAS 2016)
10/28/2015
Wood group receives $1.3M to study biofilm formation of sulfate-reducing bacteria