Thomas K Wood
Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering

- 0042 Greenberg Indoor Cplex PA 16802
- tuw14@psu.edu
- 814-863-4811
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Cells Phenotype Quorum Sensing Cell Bacteria Escherichia Coli Antibiotics Bacterial Infections Vibrio Anti Bacterial Agents Infection Methane Biotechnology Electricity Proteins Dormancy Genomics Bacterium Biofilms Growth Mitomycin Vibrio Alginolyticus Toxin Antitoxin Systems Pseudoalteromonas PersistenceMost Recent Publications
CRISPR-Cas Controls Cryptic Prophages
Sooyeon Song, Ekaterina Semenova, Konstantin Severinov, Laura Fernández-García, Michael J. Benedik, Toshinari Maeda, Thomas K. Wood, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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
Manipulating indole symbiont signalling
Sooyeon Song, Thomas K. Wood, 2022, Environmental Microbiology Reports
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
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
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
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