Publications and Presentations

Publications

Clayton T. Matthews, Kynzie D. Underwood, Khalid M. Ghanchi, Stephen D. Fields, Stewart G. Gardner Complete Genome Sequence of the Cellulolytic Actinobacterium, Cellulosimicrobium ES-005. Manuscript for submission to Microbiology Resource Announcements

Matthews CT, Mahmud S, Gardner SG. PhoU homologs from Staphylococcus aureus dimerization and protein interactions. Microbiol Spectr 0:e02067-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02067-24

Noor, Kimiya Epigenomics is Childhood-Onset Diabetes Therapy: A Critical Review. 2023 The Windmill. https://www.thewindmilljournal.com/copy-of-sellers A review prepared with supervision by Dr. Gardner, and was presented by Kimiya Noor at the Great Plans Honors Council conference in 2023 and won the Dennis Boe Award

Somerville, Greg A., Parrett A. A., Reed, Joseph M, Gardner, Stewart G., Morton, M., and Powers, Robert Human Serum Alters the Metabolism and Antibiotic Susceptiblility of Staphylococcus aureus. 2022 J Proteome Research 21(6). https://doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00073  Epub 2022 May 10. PMID: 35537087

Parrett, Allison, Reed, Joseph M., Gardner, Stewart G., Mishra, Nagendra N., Bayer, Arnold S., Powers, Robert, and Somerville, Greg A. Metabolic changes associated with adaptive resistance to daptomycin in Streptococcus mitis-oralis. BMC Microbiol 20, 162 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-01849-w

Gardner, Stewart G., McCleary, William R. Control of the phoBR Regulon in Escherichia coli. 2019 EcoSal Plus 8(2). https://www.asmscience.org/content/journal/ecosalplus/10.1128/ecosalplus.ESP-0006-2019

Reed, Joseph M., Gardner, Stewart G., Mishra, Nagendra N., Bayer, Arnold S., and Somerville, Greg A. Metabolic interventions for the prevention and treatment of daptomycin non-susceptibility in Staphylococcus aureus. 2019 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkz194

Gardner, Stewart G., Marshall, Darrell D., Daum, Robert S., Powers, Robert, and Somerville, Greg A. Metabolic mitigation of Staphylococcus aureus vancomycin intermediate-level susceptibility. 2017 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 62:e01608-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01608-17.

Stevens, Emily., Laabei, Maisem., Gardner, Stewart., Somerville, Greg A., and Massey, Ruth Cytolytic toxin production by Staphylococcus aureus is dependent upon the activity of the protoheme IX farnesyltransferase. 2017 Scientific Reports 7:13744 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-14110-8

Gardner, Stewart G., Miller, Justin B., Dean, Tanner, Robinson, Tanner, Erickson, McCall, Ridge, Perry, and McCleary, William R. Genetic analysis, structural modeling, and direct coupling analysis suggest a mechanism for phosphate signaling in Escherichia coli. 2015 BMC Genetics 16(Suppl 2):52 https://bmcgenet.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2156-16-S2-S2

Gardner, Stewart G., Johns, Kristine D., Tanner, Rebecca, and McCleary, William R. The PhoU Protein from Escherichia coli Interacts with PhoR, PstB, and Metals To Form a Phosphate-Signaling Complex at the Membrane. 2014 J. Bacteriology 196:1741-1752. https://jb.asm.org/content/196/9/1741/article-info

Presentations 

Oral Presentations

Mahmud, S., Yackovich, N., Rodriguez, R., Schmalz, K., and Gardner, S.G. Investigating the Mechanism of PhoU Homologs in Staphylococcus aureus. An oral presentation given by Sakib Mahmud at Research and Creativity Day, Emporia State University, April 2024

Matthews, C.T. and Gardner, S.G. The Interactions of the PhoU1 and PhoU2 Homologs in Staphylococcus aureus. An oral presentation given by Clayton Matthews at the Kansas Academy of Science annual meeting, April 2022 and at Research and Creativity Day, Emporia State University, April 2022

Gardner, Stewart G., Miller, Justin B., Dean, Tanner, Robinson, Tanner, Erickson, McCall, Ridge, Perry, and McCleary, William R. Genetic Analysis, structural modeling, and direct coupling analysis suggest a mechanism for phosphate signaling in Escherichia coli. An oral presentation at the Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium December 2014

Gardner, Stewart G. and McCleary, William R. Escherichia coli PhoU Interacts with PstB and PhoR to Signal Environmental Phosphate An oral presentation presented at the American Society for Microbiology Intermountain Branch Meeting in March 2014

Poster Presentations

Nikolas Yackovich, Sakib Mahmud, Ryan Rodriguez, Katelyn Schmatz, and Stewart Gardner. Learning More About PhoU Proteins in Staphylococcus aureus. A poster presented at Research and Creativity Day at Emporia State University in April 2024

Sakib Mahmud, Nikolas Yackovich, Ryan Rodriguez, Katelyn Schmalz, and Stewart Gardner. PhoU Homologes in Staphylococcus aureus Form Homodimers. A poster presented at the Kansas-IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Symposium in January 2024

Nikolas Yackovich, Sakib Mahmud, Ryan Rodriguez, Katelyn Schmatz, and Stewart Gardner. Hydrogen Bonds Impact on Function of PhoU Homologs and Dimers. A poster presented at the Kansas-IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Symposium in January 2024

Sakib Mahmud, Dorianne Malave, Nikolas Yackovich, and Stewart Gardner. Evaluation of PhoU Action in Staphylococcus aureus. A poster presented at Research and Creativity Day at Emporia State University in April 2023

Clayton Matthews, Alexis Boyce, and Stewart Gardner. The Interactions of PhoU1 and PhoU2 Homologs in Staphylococcus aureus. A poster presented at Research and Creativity Day at Emporia State University in April 2021.

Dylan Sinclair, Shuaishuai Tan, Emily Torrey, and Stewart G. Gardner. Studies of Phosphate Signaling in Staphylococcus aureus. A poster presented at Research and Creativity Day at Emporia State University in April 2020. Awarded 2nd place in the People’s Choice voting.

Brooke Schoening, Dylan Sinclair, Shuaishuai Tan, Emily Torrey, and Stewart G. Gardner Studies of Phosphate Signaling in Staphylococcus aureus. A poster presented at Research and Creativity Day at Emporia State University in April 2019. Tied for 3rd place in the People’s Choice voting.