Publications

When citing a core facility, please ensure that you are referencing their Research Resource Identifier (RRID) number, and funding source. Authors should reach out to the facility manager if you are unsure how to acknowledge a specific instrument. Citation examples for the CBE facilities are provided below:

Bioimaging

"Imaging was made possible by the Center for Biofilm Engineering (RRID:SCR_026519), which is supported by funding from the National Science Foundation. M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the US Department of Defense and Montana State University".

Analytical

"Analytical analysis was made possible by the Center for Biofilm Engineering (RRID:SCR_026519), which is supported by funding from the National Science Foundation. M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the US Department of Defense and Montana State University".

Please check with the facility managers for specific funding details, if needed.

2025 Publications

*Thornton IJ, Zimlich KR, Fields MW, Wilking JN (Sep 2025). Characterizing Spatioemporal Microbial Colony Distributions in Printed PEG-DA Hydrogel Films. Biomed. Mater. DOI 10.1088/1748-605X/ae066e.

*Chaverra M, Toney JP, Dardenne-Ankringa LD, Knee JT, Morris AR, Wadhams JB, Certel SJ, Stowers RS (Jul 2025). Two classes of amine-glutamate multi-transmitter neurons innervate Drosophila internal male reproductive organs. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Jul 28:2025.07.23.666348. [Version 1] doi: 10.1101/2025.07.23.666348

Stowers RS. Multimerized epitope tags for high-sensitivity protein detection, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Volume 15, Issue 6, June 2025, jkaf070, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf070 

Ketteler HM, Johnson EL, McGlennen M, Dieser M, Foreman CM, Warnat S (2025 Jun). A simulated microgravity biofilm reactor with integrated microfabricated sensors: Advancing biofilm studies in near-space conditions. Biofilm, 9(), 100263. . ID: 40083859. 

Brown K, Vahidi G, Hislop BD, Moody M, Watson S, Welhaven HD, Behzad R, Paton KO, Karim L, June RK, Martin SA, Heveran CM (2025 June 3). Short-term high-fat diet impacts bone material properties and metabolism for adult and aged C57BL/6JN mice. Commun Biol 8, 850. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08263-w 

Schaible GA, Cliff JB, Crandall JA, Bougoure JJ, Mathuri MN, Sessions AL, Atwood J, Hatzenpichler R (2025 May 30). Comparing Raman and NanoSIMS for heavy water labeling of single cells. Microbiology spectrum, (), e0165924. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01659-24. ID: 40445204. 

Pettygrove BA, Nygaard TK, Borgogna TR, Malachowa N, Gaur G, Salo SE, Pallister KB, Burroughs O, Robinson C, Gao A, Sturdevant DE, Ricklefs S, DeLeo FR, Otto M, Stewart PS, Voyich JM (2025 May 20). Staphylococcus aureus SaeR/S-regulated factors overcome human complement-mediated inhibition of aggregation to evade neutrophil killing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(20), e2412447122. . ID: 40359050.

Viles E, Heyneman E, Lin S, Montague V, Darabi A, Cox LM, Phillips A, Gerlach R, Espinosa-Ortiz EJ, Heveran C (April 2025). Mycelium as a scaffold for biomineralized engineered living materials, Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 6, Issue 4, 102517, ISSN 2666-3864, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.102517.

Fricke MS, Frometa MR, Kerkhoff Y, Bernhard SP, Tahir RS, Quaas E, Totten WH, Haag R, Achazi K, Cloninger MJ (2025 Apr 10). The toxicity, uptake, and impact on galectin-3 mediated apoptosis of lactose functionalized PAMAM dendrimers. Mater. Adv., 2025,6, 3171-3184.

Cherne MD, Snyder D, Sidar B, Blackwell K, Jenkins B, Huang S, Sebrell TA, Hedges JF, Spence JR, Chang CB, Wilking JN, Walk ST, Jutila MA, Loveday EK, Bimczok D (2025 Mar 28). Strain- and vaccine-specific effects of serum antibodies in the protection of intestinal SARS-CoV-2 infection. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, (), . . ID: 40196264.

Koepnick HR, Peyton BM, Lauchnor EG. Factors influencing the efficacy of microbial remediation of selenium in groundwater near a coal-fired power plant. Geo-Bio Interfaces. 2025;2:e7. doi:10.1180/gbi.2025.3

Anjum S, Parks K, Clark K, Parker A, Heveran CM, Gerlach R (2025 Jan 27). Strengthening biopolymer adhesives through ureolysis-induced calcium carbonate precipitation. Sci Rep 15, 3453. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84087-8 

Stewart PS, Kim J, James G, Yi F, Stechmiller J, Weaver M, Kelly DL, Fisher S, Schultz G, Lyon D (2024 Nov-Dec). Association of biofilm and microbial metrics with healing rate in older adults with chronic venous leg ulcers. Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society, 32(6), 858-871. . ID: 39425525.

Gaur G, Predtechenskaya M, Voyich JM, James G, Stewart PS, Borgogna TR. Assessing the Effects of Surgical Irrigation Solutions on Human Neutrophil Interactions with Nascent Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms. Microorganisms. Sep 2024; 12(10):1951. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12101951

Vahidi G, Boone C, Hoffman F, Heveran C (2024 Sep). Aging decreases osteocyte peri-lacunar-canalicular system turnover in female C57BL/6JN mice. Bone, 186(), 117163. . ID: 38857854.

Buckner E, Buckingham-Meyer K, Miller LA, Parker AE, Jones CJ, Goeres DM (2024 Aug). Coupon position does not affect Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus biofilm densities in the CDC biofilm reactor. Journal of microbiological methods, 223(), 106960. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2024.106960. ID: 38788980.

Kohtz AJ, Petrosian N, Krukenberg V, Jay ZJ, Pilhofer M, Hatzenpichler R (2024 Aug). Cultivation and visualization of a methanogen of the phylum Thermoproteota. Nature, 632(8027), 1118-1123. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07631-6. ID: 39048824.

Lyon K, Bansil R, Bimczok D (2024 Jul 5). Profiling Luminal pH in Three-Dimensional Gastrointestinal Organoids Using Microelectrodes. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, (209), . doi: 10.3791/66900. ID: 39037269.

Schaible GA, Jay ZJ, Cliff J, Schulz F, Gauvin C, Goudeau D, Malmstrom RR, Ruff SE, Edgcomb V, Hatzenpichler R (2024 Jul). Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells. PLoS biology, 22(7), e3002638. . ID: 38990824.

Miller IR, Bui H, Wood JB, Fields MW, Gerlach R (2024 Jun). Understanding phycosomal dynamics to improve industrial microalgae cultivation. Trends in biotechnology, 42(6), 680-698. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2023.12.003. ID: 38184438.

Gunyol P, Khosravi MK, Phillips A, Plymesser K, Parker A. Effect of Fines Content on Calcium Carbonate Precipitation and Thermal Properties of Biocemented Sand (Apr 2024). J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng. Vol 150 (7). https://doi.org/10.1061/JGGEFK.GTENG-11925

Ugur GE, Rux K, Boone JC, Seaman R, Avci R, Gerlach R, Phillips A, Heveran C (2024 Jan 17). Biotrapping Ureolytic Bacteria on Sand to Improve the Efficiency of Biocementation. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 16(2), 2075-2085. doi: 10.1021/acsami.3c13971. ID: 38176018.

Fredrikson JP, Brahmachary PP, June RK, Cox LM, Chang CB (2024 Jan). Pericellular Matrix Formation and Atomic Force Microscopy of Single Primary Human Chondrocytes Cultured in Alginate Microgels. Advanced biology, 8(1), e2300268. . ID: 37688354.