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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Overview

Zemer Gitai is a researcher affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their work spans various areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular emphasis on molecular biology and genetics.

Their research topics include:

  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Bacterial genetics and biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • CRISPR and genetic engineering
  • Genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms

Zemer Gitai has contributed extensively to the literature, with notable frequent coauthors including:

  • Benjamin P. Bratton
  • Matthias D. Koch
  • Joshua W. Shaevitz
  • Ned S. Wingreen
  • Coleen T. Murphy

The most common venues where Gitai's work appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Microbiology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Gitai include:

  • "A Dual-Mechanism Antibiotic Kills Gram-Negative Bacteria and Avoids Drug Resistance," 2020, published in Cell
  • "C. elegans interprets bacterial non-coding RNAs to learn pathogenic avoidance," 2020, published in Nature
  • "The role of the Cer1 transposon in horizontal transfer of transgenerational memory," 2021, published in Cell
  • "Single-cell massively-parallel multiplexed microbial sequencing (M3-seq) identifies rare bacterial populations and profiles phage infection," 2023, published in Nature Microbiology
  • "Competitive binding of independent extension and retraction motors explains the quantitative dynamics of type IV pili," 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Zemer Gitai has been recognized with the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2015.

Best Publications

  • The Mechanical World of Bacteria

    Alexandre Persat;Carey D. Nadell;Minyoung Kevin Kim;Francois Ingremeau

  • MreB Actin-Mediated Segregation of a Specific Region of a Bacterial Chromosome

    Zemer Gitai;Natalie Anne Dye;Ann Reisenauer;Masaaki Wachi

  • The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly

    Sven van Teeffelen;Siyuan Wang;Leon Furchtgott;Leon Furchtgott;Kerwyn Casey Huang

  • Type IV pili mechanochemically regulate virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Alexandre Persat;Yuki F. Inclan;Joanne N. Engel;Howard A. Stone

  • Enzyme clustering accelerates processing of intermediates through metabolic channeling

    Michele Castellana;Maxwell Z Wilson;Yifan Xu;Preeti Joshi

  • Cell shape and cell-wall organization in Gram-negative bacteria

    Kerwyn Casey Huang;Ranjan Mukhopadhyay;Bingni Wen;Zemer Gitai

  • An actin-like gene can determine cell polarity in bacteria

    Zemer Gitai;Natalie Dye;Lucy Shapiro

  • The metabolic enzyme CTP synthase forms cytoskeletal filaments

    Michael Ingerson-Mahar;Ariane Briegel;John N. Werner;Grant J. Jensen

  • Rod-like bacterial shape is maintained by feedback between cell curvature and cytoskeletal localization

    Tristan S. Ursell;Jeffrey Nguyen;Russell D. Monds;Alexandre Colavin

  • The netrin receptor UNC-40/DCC stimulates axon attraction and outgrowth through enabled and, in parallel, Rac and UNC-115/AbLIM.

    Zemer Gitai;Timothy W. Yu;Erik A. Lundquist;Marc Tessier-Lavigne

  • A Dual-Mechanism Antibiotic Kills Gram-Negative Bacteria and Avoids Drug Resistance.

    James K. Martin;Joseph P. Sheehan;Benjamin P. Bratton;Gabriel M. Moore

  • Single molecules of the bacterial actin MreB undergo directed treadmilling motion in Caulobacter crescentus

    So Yeon Kim;Zemer Gitai;Anika Kinkhabwala;Lucy Shapiro

  • The new bacterial cell biology: moving parts and subcellular architecture.

    Zemer Gitai;Zemer Gitai

  • Mitochondrial translation requires folate-dependent tRNA methylation

    Raphael J. Morscher;Gregory S. Ducker;Sophia Hsin Jung Li;Johannes A. Mayer

  • Light-based control of metabolic flux through assembly of synthetic organelles.

    Evan M. Zhao;Nathan Suek;Maxwell Z. Wilson;Elliot Dine

  • Human SHMT inhibitors reveal defective glycine import as a targetable metabolic vulnerability of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

    Gregory S. Ducker;Jonathan M. Ghergurovich;Nello Mainolfi;Vipin Suri

  • Specific Control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Surface-Associated Behaviors by Two c-di-GMP Diguanylate Cyclases

    Judith H. Merritt;Dae Gon Ha;Kimberly N. Cowles;Wenyun Lu

  • Quantitative genome-scale analysis of protein localization in an asymmetric bacterium

    John N. Werner;Eric Y. Chen;Jonathan M. Guberman;Angela R. Zippilli

  • C. elegans interprets bacterial non-coding RNAs to learn pathogenic avoidance

    Rachel Kaletsky;Rebecca S. Moore;Geoffrey D. Vrla;Lance R. Parsons

  • How to Build a Bacterial Cell: MreB as the Foreman of E. coli Construction

    Handuo Shi;Benjamin P. Bratton;Zemer Gitai;Kerwyn Casey Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ned S. Wingreen
Ned S. Wingreen Princeton University
Howard A. Stone
Howard A. Stone Princeton University
Kerwyn Casey Huang
Kerwyn Casey Huang Stanford University
Joshua D. Rabinowitz
Joshua D. Rabinowitz Princeton University
Lucy Shapiro
Lucy Shapiro Stanford University
Grant J. Jensen
Grant J. Jensen California Institute of Technology
Coleen T. Murphy
Coleen T. Murphy Princeton University
Nevan J. Krogan
Nevan J. Krogan University of California, San Francisco
Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost
Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost Princeton University
W. E. Moerner
W. E. Moerner Stanford University

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