Thomas K Wood

Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering

Thomas K Wood

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Cells Phenotype Cell Antibiotics Bacteria Quorum Sensing Anti Bacterial Agents Biofilms Bacterial Infections Vibrio Infection Oxidative Stress Escherichia Coli Methane Biotechnology Electricity Indole Genomics Dormancy Bacterium Interspersed Repetitive Sequences Vibrio Alginolyticus Mitomycin Gene Expression Nutrients

Most Recent Publications

The role of PemIK (PemK/PemI) type II TA system from Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical strains in lytic phage infection

Ines Bleriot, Lucia Blasco, Olga Pacios, Laura Fernández-García, Antón Ambroa, María López, Concha Ortiz-Cartagena, Felipe Fernández Cuenca, Jesús Oteo-Iglesias, Álvaro Pascual, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Pilar Domingo-Calap, Thomas K. Wood, María Tomás, 2022, Scientific Reports

Emerging applications of bacteria as antitumor agents

Vipin Chandra Kalia, Sanjay K.S. Patel, Byung Kwan Cho, Thomas K. Wood, Jung Kul Lee, 2022, Seminars in Cancer Biology on p. 1014-1025

What is the fate of the biofilm matrix?

Joy M. Muthami, Laura Fernández-García, María Tomás, Thomas K. Wood, 2022, Environmental Microbiology on p. 4495-4499

Manipulating indole symbiont signalling

Sooyeon Song, Thomas K. Wood, 2022, Environmental Microbiology Reports on p. 691-696

What are the options for treating infections by persister-forming pathogens?

Laura Fernández-García, Joy M. Muthami, Maria Tomas, Thomas K. Wood, 2022, Environmental Microbiology on p. 4500-4504

Mobile genetic elements used by competing coral microbial populations increase genomic plasticity

Pengxia Wang, Yi Zhao, Weiquan Wang, Shituan Lin, Kaihao Tang, Tianlang Liu, Thomas K. Wood, Xiaoxue Wang, 2022, ISME Journal on p. 2220-2229

The secret lives of single cells

Thomas K. Wood, 2022, Microbial Biotechnology on p. 13-17

Escherichia coli cryptic prophages sense nutrients to influence persister cell resuscitation

Sooyeon Song, Jun Seob Kim, Ryota Yamasaki, Sejong Oh, Michael J. Benedik, Thomas K. Wood, 2021, Environmental Microbiology on p. 7245-7254

Vibrio splendidus persister cells induced by host coelomic fluids show a similar phenotype to antibiotic-induced counterparts

Yanan Li, Thomas K. Wood, Weiwei Zhang, Chenghua Li, 2021, Environmental Microbiology on p. 5605-5620

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

Most-Cited Papers

Bacterial persister cell formation and dormancy

Thomas K. Wood, Stephen J. Knabel, Brian W. Kwan, 2013, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 7116-7121

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

Arrested protein synthesis increases persister-like cell formation

Brian W. Kwan, John A. Valenta, Michael J. Benedik, Thomas K. Wood, 2013, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy on p. 1468-1473

Evolution of Resistance to Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors

Vipin C. Kalia, Thomas K. Wood, Prasun Kumar, 2014, Microbial Ecology on p. 13-23

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

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

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

Combatting bacterial persister cells

Thomas K. Wood, 2016, Biotechnology and Bioengineering on p. 476-483