Thomas K Wood

Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering

Thomas K Wood

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Most Recent Publications

Conformational change as a mechanism for toxin activation in bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems

Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Hyeon Ji Hwang, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Journal of Virology

Capturing methane with recombinant soluble methane monooxygenase and recombinant methyl-coenzyme M reductase

Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Microbial Biotechnology

Phages produce persisters

Laura Fernández-García, Joy Kirigo, Daniel Huelgas-Méndez, Michael J. Benedik, María Tomás, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Microbial Biotechnology

Photoactive polymer coatings for antibacterial applications

Brock Hunter, Jessica L. Sacco, Kira Katterle, Joy Kirigo, Thomas Keith Wood, Esther Winter Gomez, Christian W. Pester, 2024, European Polymer Journal

Implications of lytic phage infections inducing persistence

Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Joy Kirigo, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Current Opinion in Microbiology

A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society

Kenneth Timmis, John E. Hallsworth, Terry J. McGenity, Rachel Armstrong, María Francisca Colom, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Max Chavarría, Patricia Bernal, Eric S. Boyd, Juan Luis Ramos, Martin Kaltenpoth, Carla Pruzzo, Gerard Clarke, Purificación López-Garcia, Michail M. Yakimov, Jessamyn Perlmutter, Chris Greening, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Willy Verstraete, Olga C. Nunes, Oleg Kotsyurbenko, Pablo Iván Nikel, Paola Scavone, Max M. Häggblom, Rob Lavigne, Frédérique Le Roux, James K. Timmis, Victor Parro, Carmen Michán, José Luis García, Arturo Casadevall, Shelley M. Payne, Joachim Frey, Omry Koren, James I. Prosser, Leo Lahti, Rup Lal, Shailly Anand, Utkarsh Sood, Pierre Offre, Casey C. Bryce, Allen Y. Mswaka, Jörg Jores, Betül Kaçar, Lars Mathias Blank, Nicole Maaßen, Phillip B. Pope, Horia L. Banciu, Judith Armitage, Sang Yup Lee, Fengping Wang, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Jack A. Gilbert, Thomas K. Wood, Branka Vasiljevic, Mario Soberón, Zulema Udaondo, Fernando Rojo, Jyoti Prakash Tamang, Tatiana Giraud, Jeanne Ropars, Thaddeus Ezeji, Volker Müller, Hirofume Danbara, Beate Averhoff, Angela Sessitsch, Laila Pamela Partida-Martínez, Wei Huang, Søren Molin, Pilar Junier, Ricardo Amils, Xiao Lei Wu, Eliora Ron, Huseyin Erten, Elaine Cristina Pereira de Martinis, Alexander Rapoport, Maarja Öpik, W. Donald R. Pokatong, Courtney Stairs, Mohammad Ali Amoozegar, Jéssica Gil Serna, 2024, Microbial Biotechnology

High-Throughput Screening Method Using Escherichia coli Keio Mutants for Assessing Primary Damage Mechanism of Antimicrobials

José A. Martínez-Álvarez, Marcos Vicente-Gómez, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Thomas K. Wood, Fátima Berenice Ramírez Montiel, Naurú Idalia Vargas-Maya, Beatriz Liliana España-Sánchez, Ángeles Rangel-Serrano, Felipe Padilla-Vaca, Bernardo Franco, 2024, Microorganisms

Single-cell analysis reveals that cryptic prophage protease LfgB protects Escherichia coli during oxidative stress by cleaving antitoxin MqsA

Laura Fernández-García, Xinyu Gao, Joy Kirigo, Sooyeon Song, Michael E. Battisti, Rodolfo Garcia-Contreras, Maria Tomas, Yunxue Guo, Xiaoxue Wang, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Microbiology spectrum

Improving phage therapy by evasion of phage resistance mechanisms

Inés Bleriot, Olga Pacios, Lucia Blasco, Laura Fernández-García, María López, Concha Ortiz-Cartagena, Antonio Barrio-Pujante, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Jean Paul Pirnay, Thomas K. Wood, María Tomás, 2024, JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance

Toxin/antitoxin systems induce persistence and work in concert with restriction/modification systems to inhibit phage

Laura Fernández-García, Sooyeon Song, Joy Kirigo, Michael E. Battisti, Maiken E. Petersen, María Tomás, Thomas K. Wood, 2024, Microbiology spectrum on p. e0338823

Most-Cited Papers

Roles of indole as an interspecies and interkingdom signaling molecule

Jin Hyung Lee, Thomas K. Wood, Jintae Lee, 2015, Trends in Microbiology on p. 707-718

Relationship between quorum sensing and secretion systems

Rocio Trastoy Pena, Lucia Blasco, Antón Ambroa, Bertha González-Pedrajo, Laura Fernández-García, Maria López, Ines Bleriot, German Bou, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Thomas Keith Wood, Maria Tomás, 2019, Frontiers in Microbiology

Quorum sensing enhancement of the stress response promotes resistance to quorum quenching and prevents social cheating

Rodolfo García-Contreras, Leslie Nuñez-López, Ricardo Jasso-Chávez, Brian W. Kwan, Javier A. Belmont, Adrián Rangel-Vega, Toshinari Maeda, Thomas K. Wood, 2015, ISME Journal on p. 115-125

Combatting bacterial infections by killing persister cells with mitomycin C

Brian W. Kwan, Nityananda Chowdhury, Thomas K. Wood, 2015, Environmental Microbiology on p. 4406-4414

Viable but non-culturable and persistence describe the same bacterial stress state

Jun Seob Kim, Nityananda Chowdhury, Ryota Yamasaki, Thomas K. Wood, 2018, Environmental Microbiology on p. 2038-2048

Electricity from methane by reversing methanogenesis

Michael J. McAnulty, Venkata G. Poosarla, Kyoung Yeol Kim, Ricardo Jasso-Chávez, Bruce E. Logan, Thomas K. Wood, 2017, Nature Communications

Mechanisms of bacterial tolerance and persistence in the gastrointestinal and respiratory environments

R. Trastoy, T. Manso, L. Fernández-García, L. Blasco, A. Ambroa, M. L. Pérez Del Molino, G. Bou, R. García-Contreras, T. K. Wood, M. Tomás, 2018, Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Tryptophan-metabolizing gut microbes regulate adult neurogenesis via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor

George Zhang Wei, Katherine A. Martin, Peter Yuli Xing, Ruchi Agrawal, Luke Whiley, Thomas K. Wood, Sophia Hejndorf, Yong Zhi Ng, Jeremy Zhi Yan Low, Janet Rossant, Robert Nechanitzky, Elaine Holmes, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Eng King Tan, Paul M. Matthews, Sven Pettersson, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

A Primary Physiological Role of Toxin/Antitoxin Systems Is Phage Inhibition

Sooyeon Song, Thomas K. Wood, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology

Reversing methanogenesis to capture methane for liquid biofuel precursors

Valerie W.C. Soo, Michael J. McAnulty, Arti Tripathi, Fayin Zhu, Limin Zhang, Emmanuel Hatzakis, Philip B. Smith, Saumya Agrawal, Hadi Nazem-Bokaee, Saratram Gopalakrishnan, Howard M. Salis, James G. Ferry, Costas D. Maranas, Andrew D. Patterson, Thomas K. Wood, 2016, Microbial Cell Factories on p. 11