Summary
I am a research associate working in Dr. Nicholas Croucher’s group. Currently, I am working on the molecular biology of the two systems that enable short-term phenotypic variation of Streptococcus pneumoniae: the competence system, and the phase-variable restriction-modification systems.
Publications
Journals
Kwun MJ, Ion A, Oggioni MR, et al., 2023, Diverse regulatory pathways modulate bet hedging of competence induction in epigenetically-differentiated phase variants of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Nucleic Acids Research, ISSN:0305-1048
Croucher N, Kwun MJ, Alexandru I, et al., 2022, Post-vaccine epidemiology of serotype 3 pneumococci identifies transformation inhibition through prophage-driven alteration of a non-coding RNA, Genome Medicine: Medicine in the Post-genomic Era, Vol:14, ISSN:1756-994X
Zamudio R, Haigh RD, Ralph JD, et al., 2020, Lineage-specific evolution and gene flow in<i>Listeria monocytogenes</i>are independent of bacteriophages, Environmental Microbiology, Vol:22, ISSN:1462-2912, Pages:5058-5072
Furi L, Crawford LA, Rangel-Pineros G, et al., 2019, Methylation Warfare: Interaction of Pneumococcal Bacteriophages with Their Host, Journal of Bacteriology, Vol:201, ISSN:0021-9193
Kwun M, Oggioni MR, Bentley SD, et al., 2019, Synergistic activity of mobile genetic element defences in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Genes, Vol:10, ISSN:2073-4425