Michael J. Boersma

Indiana University Bloomington — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

7h-index473citations9works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections(7), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines(7), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments(4), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology(1), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus(1)

Publications9 total

Organization of peptidoglycan synthesis in nodes and separate rings at different stages of cell division of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>
Molecular Microbiology·2020· 36 citedOpen Access
Organization of Peptidoglycan Synthesis in Nodes and Separate Rings at Different Stages of Cell Division of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>
2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Movement dynamics of divisome proteins and PBP2x:FtsW in cells of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2019· 139 citedOpen Access
Movement Dynamics of Divisome and Penicillin-Binding Proteins (PBPs) in Cells of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>
2018Open Access
Novel Electrophilic Scaffold for Imaging of Essential Penicillin-Binding Proteins in <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>
ACS Chemical Biology·2017· 33 citedOpen Access
Suppression and synthetic‐lethal genetic relationships of Δ<i>gps</i><scp><i>B</i></scp> mutations indicate that <scp>G</scp>ps<scp>B</scp> mediates protein phosphorylation and penicillin‐binding protein interactions in <scp><i>S</i></scp><i>treptococcus pneumoniae</i><scp>D</scp>39
Molecular Microbiology·2016· 82 citedOpen Access
Minimal Peptidoglycan (PG) Turnover in Wild-Type and PG Hydrolase and Cell Division Mutants of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 Growing Planktonically and in Host-Relevant Biofilms
Journal of Bacteriology·2015· 62 citedOpen Access
<scp>Pbp2x</scp> localizes separately from <scp>Pbp2b</scp> and other peptidoglycan synthesis proteins during later stages of cell division of <scp><i>S</i></scp><i>treptococcus pneumoniae</i> <scp>D</scp>39
Molecular Microbiology·2014· 102 citedOpen Access
A screen for Neurospora knockout mutants displaying growth rate dependent branch density
Fungal Biology·2011· 18 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Malcolm E. Winkler(8), Ho‐Ching Tiffany Tsui(6), Amilcar J. Perez(5), Sidney L. Shaw(5), Erin E. Carlson(4), Michael S. VanNieuwenhze(4), Yann Cesbron(2), Jesús Bazán Villicaña(2), Ziyun A. Ye(2), Yanina Tovpeko(2), Cees Dekker(2), Séamus Holden(2), Ozden Kocaoglu(2), Erkin Kuru(2), Yves V. Brun(2), Kevin E. Bruce(2), Melissa M. Lamanna(2), Atsushi Taguchi(2), Stephen A. Vella(1), Julia K. Peceny(1)