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Schubert, K., Shosanya, T., & García-Bayona, L., 2025. The role of mobile genetic elements in adaptation of the microbiota to the dynamic human gut ecosystem. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 2025. 88, 102675.
García-Bayona, L., Said, N., Coyne, M.J., Flores, K., Elmekki, N.M., Sheahan, M., Camacho, A.G., Hutt, K., Yildiz, F.H., Kovács, Á.T., Waldor, M.K. and Comstock L.E.. A pervasive large conjugative plasmid mediates multispecies biofilm formation in the intestinal microbiota increasing resilience to perturbations. bioRxiv. 2024.
Sheahan ML, Flores K, Coyne MJ, García-Bayona L, Chatzidaki-Livanis M, Holst AQ, Smith RC, Sundararajan A, Barquera B, Comstock LE. A ubiquitous mobile genetic element changes the antagonistic weaponry of a human gut symbiont. Science. 2024. 386(6720), 414-420.
Abrahamsen HL, Sanford TC, Collamore CE, Johnstone BA, Coyne MJ, García-Bayona L, Christie MP, Evans JC, Farrand AJ, Flores K, Morton CJ. Distant relatives of a eukaryotic cell-specific toxin family evolved a complement-like mechanism to kill bacteria. Nature Communications. 2024 Jun 12;15(1):5028.
Cadena MA, Amaya C, Duan D, Rico CA, García-Bayona L, Blanco AT, Agreda YS, Rodríguez GJV, Ceja A, Martinez VG, Goldman OV, Fernandez RW. Insights and strategies for improving equity in graduate school admissions. Cell. 2023. 186(17), pp.3529-3547.
Bao H, Coyne MJ, García-Bayona L, Comstock LE. Analysis of Effector and Immunity Proteins of the GA2 Type VI Secretion Systems of Gut Bacteroidales. Journal of Bacteriology. 2022. 204(7), pp.e00122-22.
Matano LM, Coyne MJ, García-Bayona L, Comstock LE. Bacteroidetocins target the essential outer membrane protein BamA of Bacteroidales symbionts and pathogens. mBio. 2021. 12 (5), e02285-21.
García-Bayona L*, Coyne MJ*, Comstock LE. Mobile Type VI secretion system loci of the gut Bacteroidales display extensive intra-ecosystem transfer, multi-species spread and geographical clustering. PLOS Genetics. 2021. 17 (4), e1009541. *Contributed equally
García-Bayona L, Coyne MJ, Hantman N, Montero-Llopis P, Von S, Ito T, Malamy M, Basler M, Barquera B, Comstock LE. Nanaerobic growth enables direct visualization of dynamic cellular processes in human gut symbionts. PNAS. 2020. 117 (39), 24484-24493.
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microscopy. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 2021. Apr;19(4):224.
García-Bayona L, Comstock LE. Utilizing Ribose Compounds: How Bacteroides PUL It Off. Cell Host & Microbe. 2020 Jan. 27 (1), 79-92.e9.
García-Bayona L, Comstock LE. Streamlined genetic manipulation of diverse Bacteroides and Parabacteroides isolates from the human gut microbiota. mBio. 2019. 10 (4), e01762-19.
García-Bayona L, Gozzi K, Laub MT. Mechanisms of resistance to the contact-dependent bacteriocin CdzC/D in Caulobacter crescentus. Journal of bacteriology. 2019 201 (8), e00538-1.
García-Bayona L, Comstock LE. Bacterial antagonism in host-associated microbial communities. Science. 2018 361 (6408), eaat2456.
García-Bayona L, Guo MS, Laub MT. Contact-dependent killing by Caulobacter crescentus via cell surface- associated, glycine zipper proteins. eLife. 2017 Mar 21;6. pii: e24869.
García-Bayona L*, Garavito MF*, Vasquez JJ, Lozano GL, Myers K, Fry WE , Bernal A, Zimmermann BH, Restrepo S. De novo pyrimidine biosynthesis in the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Gene. 2014 Mar 10;537(2):312-21. *Contributed equally
García-Bayona L, Grajales A, Cárdenas M., Sierra R., Lozano G, Garavito MF, Cepero de García MC, Bernal A., Jiménez P, Restrepo S. Isolation and characterization of two strains of Fusarium oxysporum causing potato dry rot in Solanum tuberosum in Colombia. Rev Iberoam Micol. 2011 Oct-Dec;28(4):166-72.
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