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Office: 315 Cobleigh Hall
Specialty: Metabolic engineering, metabolic networks; chronic wounds
E-mail: rossc@montana.edu

Highest Degree

PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2003

Selected Publications

  • McGill, S.L.,Yung, Y., Hunt, K.A., Henson, M.A., Hanley, L., Carlson, R.P. (2021) Pseudomonas aeruginosa reverse diauxie is a multidimensional, optimized, resource utilization strategy. Scientific Reports. 11, 1457. 
  • Hammarlund, S.P., Gedeon, T., Carlson, R.P., Harcombe, W. (2021) Limitation by a shared mutualist promotes coexistence of multiple competing partners. Nature Communications. 12, 619. 
  • Park, H., Patel, A., Hunt, K.A., Henson, M.A., Carlson, R. P. (2020) Artificial consortium demonstrates emergent properties of enhanced cellulosic-sugar degradation and biofuel synthesis. npj Biofilms Microbiomes. 6, 59. 
  • Jay, Z.J., Hunt, K.A. Chou, K.J., Schut, G.J., Maness, P.C., Adams, M.W.W., Carlson, R.P. (2020) Integrated thermodynamic analysis of electron bifurcating [FeFe]-hydrogenase to inform anaerobic metabolism and H2 production. Biochemica Biophysica Acta Bioenergetics. 1861; 148087. 
  • Park, H., McGill, S.L., Arnold, A. D., Carlson, R.P. (2020) Pseudomonad reverse carbon catabolite repression, interspecies metabolite exchange, and consortial division of labor. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 77, 395-413.
  • Yung, Y., McGill, S.L., Chen, H., Carlson, R.P., Hanley, L. (2019) Reverse Diauxie Phenotype in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Revealed by Exometabolomics and Label-Free Proteomics. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 5, 31. 
  • Schepens, D., Carlson, R.P., Heys, J., Beck, A.E., Gedeon, T. (2019) Role of resource allocation and transport in emergence of cross-feeding in microbial consortia. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 467, 150-163. 

Dr. Carlson's CV

 

Additional biofilm related publications searchable via the CBE Publications Database

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