Scientific Publications 

Perez AJ,* Lamanna MM,* Bruce KE*, Touraev MA, Page J, Shaw SL, Tsui HC, and Winkler ME. Elongasome core proteins and class A PBP1a display zonal, processive movement at the midcell of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Preprint posted to BioRx  Jan 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.10.575112

*AJP, MML, KEB contributed equally to this work. 

Lamanna MM, Manzoor I, Joseph M, Ye ZA, Benedet M, Zanardi A, Ren Z, Wang X, Massidda O, Tsui HT, Winkler ME. Roles of RodZ and class A PBP1b in the assembly and regulation of the peripheral peptidoglycan elongasome in ovoid-shaped cells of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39. Mol Microbiol. 2022 Oct;118(4):336-368. doi: 10.1111/mmi.14969. Epub 2022 Aug 24. PubMed PMID: 36001060; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9804626.

Lamanna MM and Maurelli AT. What Is Motion? Recent Advances in the Study of Molecular Movement Patterns of the Peptidoglycan Synthesis Machines. J Bacteriol. 2022 Apr 19;204(4):e0059821. doi: 10.1128/JB.00598-21. Epub 2021 Dec 20. Review. PubMed PMID: 34928180; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9017339.

Perez AJ*, Boersma MJ*, Bruce KE*, Lamanna MM, Shaw SL, Tsui HC, Taguchi A, Carlson EE, VanNieuwenhze MS, Winkler ME. Organization of peptidoglycan synthesis in nodes and separate rings at different stages of cell division of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mol Microbiol. 2021 Jun;115(6):1152-1169. doi: 10.1111/mmi.14659. Epub 2020 Dec 21. PubMed PMID: 33269494; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8575487.

*AJP, MJB, KEB contributed equally to this work. 

McCausland JW, Yang X, Squyres GR, Lyu Z, Bruce KE, Lamanna MM, Söderström B, Garner EC, Winkler ME, Xiao J, Liu J. Treadmilling FtsZ polymers drive the directional movement of sPG-synthesis enzymes via a Brownian ratchet mechanism. Nat Commun. 2021 Jan 27;12(1):609. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20873-y. PubMed PMID: 33504807; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7840769.

Teaching Curricula 

Lamanna MM. Teaching genetic manipulation and central dogma mastery via active learning and exploitation of open-source bioinformatics platforms  (2023). https://sites.google.com/view/lamannalab

Lamanna MM. (2023) Teaching Molecular Cloning via Construction of Protein-Fluorochrome Fusions Towards Mastering Gene Expression via Technology-Based Learning and Exploitation of Open-Resource platforms. https://sites.google.com/view/lamannalab