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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Yves V. Brun is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their work primarily falls within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Endocrinology, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their research covers multiple scientific topics, among which bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and Vibrio bacteria studies are most prominent. Additional topics include genomics and phylogenetic studies, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and biochemical and structural characterization.

Yves V. Brun has contributed to several publications across a variety of scientific venues. They have ten publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), five in Nature Communications, three in mBio, two each in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Current Biology.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • "Evolution-guided discovery of antibiotics that inhibit peptidoglycan remodelling," 2020, Nature
  • "A Natural Polyphenol Exerts Antitumor Activity and Circumvents Anti-PD-1 Resistance through Effects on the Gut Microbiota," 2022, Cancer Discovery
  • "c-di-GMP modulates type IV MSHA pilus retraction and surface attachment in Vibrio cholerae," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Type IV Pili: dynamic bacterial nanomachines," 2021, FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • "Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation," 2021, Physical Biology

Frequent collaborators in Yves V. Brun's research include Gregory B. Whitfield, Courtney K. Ellison, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Maxime Jacq, and David T. Kysela, with collaborative works ranging from 5 to 13 joint publications per coauthor.

Yves V. Brun was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • MicrobeJ, a tool for high throughput bacterial cell detection and quantitative analysis

    Adrien Ducret;Ellen M Quardokus;Yves V Brun

  • In Situ Probing of Newly Synthesized Peptidoglycan in Live Bacteria with Fluorescent D-Amino Acids†

    Erkin Kuru;H. Velocity Hughes;Pamela J. Brown;Edward Hall

  • Treadmilling by FtsZ filaments drives peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial cell division

    Alexandre W. Bisson-Filho;Yen-Pang Hsu;Georgia R. Squyres;Erkin Kuru

  • Bacterial adhesion at the single-cell level

    Cecile Berne;Courtney K Ellison;Adrien Ducret;Yves V Brun

  • The structure of FtsZ filaments in vivo suggests a force-generating role in cell division.

    Zhuo Li;Michael J Trimble;Yves V Brun;Grant J Jensen

  • A new metabolic cell-wall labelling method reveals peptidoglycan in Chlamydia trachomatis

    G. W. Liechti;E. Kuru;E. Hall;A. Kalinda

  • Adhesins Involved in Attachment to Abiotic Surfaces by Gram-Negative Bacteria.

    Cécile Berne;Adrien Ducret;Gail G. Hardy;Yves V. Brun

  • Synthesis of fluorescent D-amino acids and their use for probing peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial growth in situ.

    Erkin Kuru;Srinivas Tekkam;Edward Hall;Yves V Brun

  • Evolution-guided discovery of antibiotics that inhibit peptidoglycan remodelling.

    Elizabeth J. Culp;Nicholas Waglechner;Wenliang Wang;Aline A. Fiebig-Comyn

  • Getting in the Loop: Regulation of Development in Caulobacter crescentus

    Patrick D. Curtis;Yves V. Brun

  • Cell shape dynamics during the staphylococcal cell cycle.

    João M. Monteiro;Pedro B. Fernandes;Filipa Vaz;Ana R. Pereira

  • Cell cycle-dependent transcriptional and proteolytic regulation of FtsZ in Caulobacter

    Aaron J. Kelly;Marcella J. Sackett;Neena Din;Ellen Quardokus

  • Obstruction of pilus retraction stimulates bacterial surface sensing

    Courtney K. Ellison;Jingbo Kan;Jingbo Kan;Rebecca S. Dillard;David T. Kysela

  • Anammox Planctomycetes have a peptidoglycan cell wall

    Muriel C. F. van Teeseling;Rob J. Mesman;Erkin Kuru;Akbar Espaillat

  • Polar growth in the Alphaproteobacterial order Rhizobiales

    Pamela J B Brown;Miguel A de Pedro;David T Kysela;Charles Van der Henst

  • Retraction of DNA-bound type IV competence pili initiates DNA uptake during natural transformation in Vibrio cholerae.

    Courtney K. Ellison;Triana N. Dalia;Alfredo Vidal Ceballos;Alfredo Vidal Ceballos;Joseph Che Yen Wang

  • Adhesion of single bacterial cells in the micronewton range

    Peter H. Tsang;Guanglai Li;Yves V. Brun;L. Ben Freund

  • MapZ marks the division sites and positions FtsZ rings in Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Aurore Fleurie;Christian Lesterlin;Sylvie Manuse;Chao Zhao;Chao Zhao

  • Surface contact stimulates the just‐in‐time deployment of bacterial adhesins

    Guanglai Li;Pamela J. B. Brown;Jay X. Tang;Jing Xu

  • Interplay of the serine/threonine-kinase StkP and the paralogs DivIVA and GpsB in pneumococcal cell elongation and division.

    Aurore Fleurie;Sylvie Manuse;Chao Zhao;Nathalie Campo

Frequent Co-Authors

Felipe Cava
Felipe Cava Umeå University
Stephen C. Jacobson
Stephen C. Jacobson Indiana University
Miguel A. de Pedro
Miguel A. de Pedro University of Parma
James P. Reilly
James P. Reilly Indiana University
Waldemar Vollmer
Waldemar Vollmer Newcastle University
Grant J. Jensen
Grant J. Jensen California Institute of Technology
Clay Fuqua
Clay Fuqua Indiana University
Christopher M. Waters
Christopher M. Waters Michigan State University
David E. Larson
David E. Larson Washington University in St. Louis

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