Blake Ushijima
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Thomas E, Smith E, Papke E, Shlafstein M, Grant-Beurmann S, Coelho L, et al.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
. 2025 Feb;
75(2).
PMID: 39999150
Strains P94, B95 and R96 were isolated from apparently healthy fragments of the coral , which were resistant to infection, from the reef surrounding Moku o Lo'e in Kāne'ohe Bay,...
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Lydick V, Mass S, Pepin R, Podicheti R, Klempic E, Rusch D, et al.
Appl Environ Microbiol
. 2025 Jan;
91(2):e0114324.
PMID: 39812412
The bacterial pathogen causes disease in coral species worldwide. The mechanisms of coral colonization, coral microbiome interactions, and virulence factor production are understudied. In other model species, virulence factors like...
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Papke E, Kennedy G, Elliott E, Taylor A, Tolar B, Ushijima B
Curr Protoc
. 2024 Oct;
4(11):e70033.
PMID: 39475326
Coral reefs are invaluable ecosystems that are under threat from various anthropogenic stressors. There has been a recent increase in the diagnostic tools utilized to understand how these threats impact...
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Mass S, Cohen H, Podicheti R, Rusch D, Gerlic M, Ushijima B, et al.
PLoS Biol
. 2024 Sep;
22(9):e3002734.
PMID: 39226241
Vibrio coralliilyticus is a pathogen of coral and shellfish, leading to devastating economic and ecological consequences worldwide. Although rising ocean temperatures correlate with increased V. coralliilyticus pathogenicity, the specific molecular...
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Jefferson T, Henley E, Erwin P, Lager C, Perry R, Chernikhova D, et al.
Cryobiology
. 2024 Aug;
117:104960.
PMID: 39187231
Coral reefs are threatened by various local and global stressors, including elevated ocean temperatures due to anthropogenic climate change. Coral cryopreservation could help secure the diversity of threatened corals. Recently,...
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Videau P, Shlafstein M, Oline D, Givan S, Chapman L, Strangman W, et al.
Environ Microbiol
. 2024 Jul;
26(7):e16672.
PMID: 39040020
The Pseudoalteromonas genus comprises members that have been demonstrated to play significant ecological roles and produce enzymes, natural products, and activities that are beneficial to the environment and economy. A...
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Boas Lichty K, Loughran R, Ushijima B, Richards G, Boyd E
Appl Environ Microbiol
. 2024 Jun;
90(7):e0092024.
PMID: 38874337
Marine bacteria experience fluctuations in osmolarity that they must adapt to, and most bacteria respond to high osmolarity by accumulating compatible solutes also known as osmolytes. The osmotic stress response...
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Ramsey K, Britt M, Maramba J, Ushijima B, Moller E, Anishkin A, et al.
iScience
. 2024 Jun;
27(6):110001.
PMID: 38868203
adapts to osmotic down-shifts by releasing metabolites through two mechanosensitive (MS) channels, low-threshold MscS and high-threshold MscL. To investigate each channel's contribution to the osmotic response, we generated , ,...
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Boas Lichty K, Loughran R, Ushijima B, Richards G, Boyd E
bioRxiv
. 2024 May;
PMID: 38766061
Importance: Host associated bacteria such as encounter competition for nutrients and have evolved metabolic strategies to better compete for food. Emerging studies show that -inositol is exchanged in the coral-algae...
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Emsley S, Loughran R, Shlafstein M, Pfannmuller K, De La Flor Y, Lein C, et al.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
. 2024 Feb;
117(1):45.
PMID: 38424217
Strain AA17 was isolated from an apparently healthy fragment of Montipora capitata coral from the reef surrounding Moku o Lo'e in Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, and was taxonomically evaluated...