Publications

Sydney M. Morabbi, Niladri Bhowmik, Shaz Sutherland, Evelyn A. Wylie, Reagan S. Decker, Akram Al Daerwish, Mercedes Pérez Pérez, Elizabeth Pascual, Erika I. Lutter, Benjamin Philmus, and Reed M. Stubbendieck (2026). Differential Metabolite Production Underlies Disruption of the Cystic Fibrosis Airway Microbiota by Pathogens. bioRxiv.

Ying Xu, Reed M. Stubbendieck, Raghuvir Viswanatha, Ajda Krč, Lisa S. Baik, Won Se Suh, Yanhui Hu, Huan Wang, Linxiang Yin, Enzo Mameli, Anne van der Meij, John R. Carlson, Andrew C. Doxey, Pål Stenmark, Norbert Perrimon, Cameron R. Currie, Min Dong (2026). Streptomyces produce a diphtheria toxin-like exotoxin that targets insects. Nature Microbiology.

Mercedes Pérez Pérez, Jacobey King, Paul A. Lawson, Reed M. Stubbendieck (2026). Rothia similimucilaginosa sp. nov., isolated from the human nasal cavity. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

Padam Singh, Charles B. Kaufman, Lisa Whitworth, Reed M. Stubbendieck, Randy Morgenstein, Karen L. Wozniak, Avishek Mitra (2025). PPE64 is a mycomembrane channel protein that functions in heme iron uptake and moonlights in biofilm formation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mBio.

Niladri Bhowmik, Reed Stubbendieck (2025). Achromobacter spp.: Emerging pathogens in the cystic fibrosis lung. PLOS Pathogens.

Reed Stubbendieck, Jillian Hurst, Matthew Kelly (2024). Dolosigranulum pigrum: A promising nasal probiotic candidate. PLOS Pathogens.

Rauf Salamzade, J.Z. Alex Cheong, Shelby Sandstrom, Mary Hannah Swaney, Reed Stubbendieck, Nicole Lane Starr, Cameron Currie, Anne Marie Singh, and Lindsay Kalan (2023). Evolutionary investigations of the biosynthetic diversity in the skin microbiome using lsaBGC. Microbial Genomics.

Reed Stubbendieck, Eishika Dissanayake, Peter Burnham, Susan Zelasko, Mia Temkin, Sydney Wisdorf, Rose Vrtis, James Gern, and Cameron Currie (2023). Rothia from the Human Nose Inhibit Moraxella catarrhalis Colonization with a Secreted Peptidoglycan Endopeptidase. mBio.

Eishika Dissanayake, Rebecca Brockman-Schneider, Reed Stubbendieck, Britney Helling, Zhumin Zhang, Yury Bochkov, Charmaine Kirkham, Timothy Murphy, Carole Ober, Cameron Currie, and James Gern (2023). Rhinovirus increases Moraxella catarrhalis adhesion to the respiratory epithelium. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

Reed Stubbendieck, Susan Zelasko, Nasia Safdar, and Cameron Currie (2021). Biogeography of Bacterial Communities and Specialized Metabolism in Human Aerodigestive Tract Microbiomes. Microbiology Spectrum.

Ming Tang, Jie Liu, Wenpeng Hou, Reed Stubbendieck, Han Xiong, Jie Jin, Jiyi Gong, Chen Cheng, Xiaoxin Tang, Yinglong Liu, Zhaofeng Li, Jianfeng Wang, and Yin Yi (2021). Structural variability in the bulk soil, rhizosphere, and root endophyte fungal communities of Themeda japonica plants under different grades of karst rocky desertification. Plant and Soil.

Reed Stubbendieck and Paul Straight (2020). Specialized Metabolites for Bacterial Communication. Comprehensive Natural Products III: Chemistry and Biology.

Reed Stubbendieck, Hongjie Li, and Cameron Currie (2019). Convergent evolution of signal-structure interfaces for maintaining symbioses. Current Opinion in Microbiology.

Mia Temkin, Caitlin Carlson, Aaron Stubbendieck, Cameron Currie, and Reed Stubbendieck (2019). High Throughput Co-culture Assays for the Investigation of Microbial Interactions. Journal of Visualized Experiments.

Marc Chevrette, Jennifer Bratburd, Cameron Currie, and Reed Stubbendieck (2019). Experimental Microbiomes: Models Not to Scale. mSystems.

Reed Stubbendieck, Daniel May, Marc Chevrette, Mia Temkin, Evelyn Wendt-Pienkowski, Julian Cagnazzo, Caitlin Carlson, James Gern, and Cameron Currie (2019). Competition among Nasal Bacteria Suggests a Role for Siderophore-Mediated Interactions in Shaping the Human Nasal Microbiota. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Reed Stubbendieck, Dakota Brock, Jean-Philippe Pellois, Jason Gill, and Paul Straight (2018). Linearmycins are lytic membrane-targeting antibiotics. The Journal of Antibiotics.

B. Christopher Hoefler, Reed Stubbendieck, N. Kalyani Josyula, Sabrina Moison, Emma Howard-Schulze and Paul Straight (2017). A Link between Linearmycin Biosynthesis and Extracellular Vesicle Genesis Connects Specialized Metabolism and Bacterial Membrane Physiology. Cell Chemical Biology.

Reed Stubbendieck and Paul Straight (2017). Linearmycins Activate a Two-Component Signaling System Involved in Bacterial Competition and Biofilm Morphology. Journal of Bacteriology.

Reed Stubbendieck (2017). Discovering Linearmycins in Bacterial Competition: Lysis, Autolysis, and Resistance. Texas A&M University Doctoral Disseration.

PDF Source Document

Reed Stubbendieck, Carol Vargas-Bautista and Paul Straight (2016). Bacterial Communities: Interactions to Scale. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Reed Stubbendieck and Paul Straight (2016). Multifaceted Interfaces of Bacterial Competition. Journal of Bacteriology.

Reed Stubbendieck and Paul Straight (2015). Escape from Lethal Bacterial Competition through Coupled Activation of Antibiotic Resistance and a Mobilized Subpopulation. PLOS Genetics.

Reed Stubbendieck, Anthony Zera, and Eileen Hebets (2013). No evidence for a relationship between hemolymph ecdysteroid levels and female reproductive behavior in Schizocosa wolf spiders. Journal of Arachnology.