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Overview

Colin Manoil is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine, with a strong focus on molecular and genetic aspects relevant to bacterial systems and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these areas, they have contributed notably to several subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Molecular Medicine
  • Genetics
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Endocrinology

The research topics most frequently addressed by Colin Manoil involve bacterial biology and genetics, with emphasis on:

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies

Their recent scientific papers reflect these interests and include:

  • Ranking essential bacterial processes by speed of mutant death (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • CsrA-Controlled Proteins Reveal New Dimensions of Acinetobacter baumannii Desiccation Tolerance (2022), published in Journal of Bacteriology
  • Shipworm symbiosis ecology-guided discovery of an antibiotic that kills colistin-resistant Acinetobacter (2021), published in Cell chemical biology
  • Genetic Dissection of Antibiotic Adjuvant Activity (2022), published in mBio
  • Reconstructing a Wild-Type Pseudomonas aeruginosa Reference Strain PAO1 (2021), published in Journal of Bacteriology

Colin Manoil's collaborations are recurrent with several scientists in related fields, frequently co-authoring with:

  • Larry A. Gallagher
  • Jeannie Bailey
  • Matthew C. Radey
  • Samuel Lee
  • Sardar Karash

The scientist's work has been published in various scientific journals, notably with multiple contributions to these venues:

  • Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
  • Journal of Bacteriology
  • mBio
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cell chemical biology

Best Publications

  • TnphoA: a transposon probe for protein export signals.

    Colin Manoil;Jon Beckwith

  • Functions Required for Extracellular Quinolone Signaling by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Larry A. Gallagher;Susan L. McKnight;Marina S. Kuznetsova;Everett C. Pesci

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 kills Caenorhabditis elegans by cyanide poisoning.

    Larry A. Gallagher;Colin Manoil

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa Rugose Small-Colony Variants Have Adaptations That Likely Promote Persistence in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung

    Melissa Starkey;Jason H. Hickman;Luyan Ma;Niu Zhang

  • Determinants of membrane protein topology.

    Dana Boyd;Colin Manoil;Jon Beckwith

  • A comprehensive transposon mutant library of Francisella novicida, a bioweapon surrogate

    Larry A. Gallagher;Elizabeth Ramage;Michael A. Jacobs;Rajinder Kaul

  • Regional Isolation Drives Bacterial Diversification within Cystic Fibrosis Lungs.

    Peter Jorth;Benjamin J. Staudinger;Xia Wu;Katherine B. Hisert

  • Analysis of membrane protein topology using alkaline phosphatase and beta-galactosidase gene fusions.

    Colin Manoil

  • lac permease of Escherichia coli: topology and sequence elements promoting membrane insertion

    Justina Calamia;Colin Manoil

  • Drosophila as a Model Host for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection

    David A. D'Argenio;Larry A. Gallagher;Celeste A. Berg;Colin Manoil

  • Alkaline phosphatase fusions: sensors of subcellular location.

    C Manoil;J J Mekalanos;J Beckwith

  • Resources for genetic and genomic analysis of emerging pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii

    Larry A. Gallagher;Elizabeth Ramage;Eli J. Weiss;Matthew Radey

  • Genome-Scale Identification of Resistance Functions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using Tn-seq

    Larry A. Gallagher;Jay Shendure;Colin Manoil

  • Comparison of Francisella tularensis genomes reveals evolutionary events associated with the emergence of human pathogenic strains

    Laurence Rohmer;Christine Fong;Simone Abmayr;Michael Wasnick

  • General and condition-specific essential functions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Samuel A. Lee;Larry A. Gallagher;Metawee Thongdee;Benjamin J. Staudinger

  • Sequence-Verified Two-Allele Transposon Mutant Library for Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

    Kiara Held;Elizabeth Ramage;Michael Jacobs;Larry Gallagher

  • Analysis of protein localization by use of gene fusions with complementary properties.

    C Manoil

  • Targeting a bacterial stress response to enhance antibiotic action

    Samuel Lee;Aaron Hinz;Elizabeth Bauerle;Angus Angermeyer

  • Combining functional and structural genomics to sample the essential Burkholderia structome.

    Loren Baugh;Larry A. Gallagher;Rapatbhorn Patrapuvich;Matthew C. Clifton

  • A simple screen for permissive sites in proteins: analysis of Escherichia coli lac permease

    Colin Manoil;Jeannie Bailey

Frequent Co-Authors

Pradeep K. Singh
Pradeep K. Singh University of Washington
James E. Bruce
James E. Bruce University of Washington
Jon Beckwith
Jon Beckwith Harvard University
Rajinder Kaul
Rajinder Kaul University of Washington
Jimmy K. Eng
Jimmy K. Eng University of Washington
Peter J. Myler
Peter J. Myler Seattle Children's Hospital
Robert K. Ernst
Robert K. Ernst University of Maryland, Baltimore
Caroline S. Harwood
Caroline S. Harwood University of Washington
Samuel I. Miller
Samuel I. Miller University of Washington
Jay Shendure
Jay Shendure University of Washington

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