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  • TWI2050 - The World in 2050 (2020). Innovations for Sustainability. Pathways to an efficient and post-pandemic future. Report prepared by The World in 2050 initiative. www.twi2050.org. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.(IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/16533/
  • Comolli, L. R., Whittaker, M. L., Gilbert, B., and Banfield, J. F. (2019). Layer size polydispersity in hydrated montmorillonite creates multiscale porosity networks. Appl Clay Sci, in press. Available online 30 March 2020. doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2020.105548
  • TWI2050 - The World in 2050 (2019). The Digital Revolution and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges. Report prepared by the World in 2050 initiative. www.twi2050.org. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/15913/.
  • Comolli, L.R., Gilbert, B., Tinnacher, R.M., and Banfield, J. F. (2015). Formation and Restacking of Disordered Smectite Osmotic Hydrates. Clays Clay Miner. 63, 432–442 (2015), doi.org/10.1346/CCMN.2015.0630602.
  • Andrade, K., Logemann, J., Heidelberg, K., Emerson, J., Comolli, L. R., Hug, L.A., Probst, A. J., Keillar, A., Thomas, B. C., Miller, C., Allen, E. E., Moreau, J., E., Brocks, J. J., and Banfield, J. F. Metagenomic analyses reveal diel cycle in a hypersaline microbial ecosystem.The ISME Journal, (28 April 2015), doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.66.
  • Intra- and Inter- Species Interactions in Microbial Communities, Comolli, L. R., Editor; Luef, B., Auer, M., co-Editors (2015). Frontiers Research Topics E-book, Terrestrial Microbiology, Front. Microbiol. Frontiers, EPFL Innovation Park, Building I, CH – 1015 Lausanne Switzerland. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/2159.
  • Luef, B., Frischkorn, K. R., Wrighton, K. C., Holman, H-Y., Birarda, G., Thomas, B. C., Singh, A., Williams, K. H., Siegerist, C. E., Tringe, S. G., Downing, K. H., Comolli, L. R., and Banfield, J. F. (2015). Diverse uncultivated ultra-small bacterial cells in groundwater.Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6372.
  • Allen, F. I., Comolli, L. R., Kusoglu, A., Modestino, M. A., Minor, A. M. Weber, A. Z.(2015) The morphology of hydrated as-cast Nafion revealed through cryo electron tomography. ACS Macro Lett. doi:10.1021/mz500606h. Featured as journal cover.
  • Kim, Kyunghoon, Geng, Jia, Tunuguntla, Ramya, Comolli, Luis, R., Grigoropoulos, Costas, Ajo-Franklin, Caroline, and Noy, Aleksandr (2014). Osmotically-Driven Transport in Carbon Nanotube Porins. Nano Lett., 2014, 14 (12), 7051–7056. doi: 10.1021/nl5034446.
  • Comolli, Luis R. and Banfield, J.F.(2014). Intra- and inter-species interactions in microbial communities. Front. Microbiol., 24 November 2014, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00629 http://www.frontiersin.org/terrestrial_microbiology/researchtopics/Inter-species_connections_in_e/2159
  • Legg, B. A., Mengqiang, Z., Comolli, L. R., Gilbert, G. and Banfield, J. F. (2014). Impacts of Ionic Strength on Three Dimensional Nanoparticle Aggregate Structure and Consequences for Environmental Transport and Deposition. Environmental Science and Technology, November 7, 2014, doi: 10.1021/es502654q
  • Aliaga Goltsman, D. S., Comolli, L. R., Thomas, B. C., and Banfield, J. F. (2014). Community Transcriptomics Reveals Unexpected High Microbial Diversity in Acidophilic Biofilm Communities. ISMEJ, 4 November 2014. doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.200 The ISME Journal
  • Geng J., Kim, K., Zhang, J., Escalada, A., Tunuguntla, R., Comolli, L. R. Allen, F. I., Shnyrova, A. V., Cho, K. R., Munoz, D., Wang, Y. M., Grigoropoulos, C. P., Ajo-Franklin, C. M., Frolov, V. A., and Noy, A. (2014). Stochastic transport through carbon nanotubes in lipid bilayers and live cell membranes. Nature 514, 612–615.
  • Legg, B., Mengqiang, Z., Comolli, L. R., Gilbert, B. and Banfield, J.(2014). Determination of the Three-dimensional Structure of Ferrihydrite Nanoparticle Aggregates. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. 2014, doi: 10.1021/la502128d
  • Madeo, D., Comolli, L. R., and Mocenni, C. (2014). Emergence of microbial networks as a response to hostile environments. Front. Microbiol. 5(407). doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00407
  • Comolli, L. R., and Banfield, J. F. (2014). Inter-species interconnections in acid mine drainage microbial communities. Front. Microbiol. 5(367). doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00367
  • Frandsen, C., Legg, B.A., Comolli, L.R., Zhang, H.Z., Gilbert, B., Johnson, E., and Banfield, J.F. (2013). Aggregation-Induced Growth and Transformation of β-FeOOH Nanorods to Micron-Sized α-Fe2O3 Spindles. CrystEngComm. 16, 1451-1458. doi:10.1039/C3CE40983J. Featured journal inside cover.
  • Holmes, D., Giloteaux, L, Chaurasia, A., Williams, K., Luef, B., Wilkins, M., Wrighton, K., Thompson, C., Comolli, L. R., and Lovley, D. (2014). Evidence of Geobacter-associated phage in a uranium contaminated aquifer.The ISME Journal , 1 August 2014, doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.12
  • Shao, P.P. Comolli, L.R., and Bernier-Latmani, R.(2014). Membrane vesicles as a novel strategy for shedding encrusted cell surfaces. In Press, Minerals, Special Issue on Interactions between Microbes and Minerals.
  • Bowman, G.R., Perez, A. M., Ptacin, J. L., Ighodaro, E., Foltignew, E., Comolli, L. R., and Shapiro, L.(2013). Oligomerization and higher-order assembly contribute to sub-cellular localization of a bacterial scaffold. Mol. Micro, 90(4), 776-795 doi:10.1111/mmi.12398
  • Orellana, R. A., Leavitt, J., Comolli, L. R., Csencsits, R., Jano, N., Flanagan, K., Gray, A. S., Leang, C., Long, P., and Lovley, D. R. (2013). U(VI) Reduction by Diverse Outer Surface c-Type Cytochromes of Geobacter sulfurreducens. AEM, vol. 79 no. 20 6369-6374. doi:10.1128/AEM.02551-13
  • Yelton, A. P., Comolli, L. R., Castelle, C., Justice, N., Denef, V. J., Thomas, B. C., and Banfield, J. F. (2013). Comparative genomics in acid mine drainage biofilm communities reveals metabolic and structural differentiation of co-occurring archaea. BMC Genomics, 14(1), 485. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-485.
  • Comolli, L.R., Shin, S-H., Tscheliessnig, R. Wang, C., Nam, K. T., Chung, S., Hexemer, A., Siegerist, C. E., De Yoreo, J., Bertozzi, C. (2013). Self-Assembly of "S-Bilayers", a Step Toward Expanding the Dimensionality of S-Layer Assemblies. ACS Nano, 7(6):4946-53. Featured as June 2013 Journal Cover. doi:10.1021/nn400263j
  • Comolli, L.R., Shin, S-H., Siegerist, C. E., Regan, W., Zettl, A., Bertozzi, C., and De Yoreo, J. (2013). Conformational transitions at an S-layer growing boundary resolved by cryo-TEM. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 52, 4829-32. Featured as May 2013 Inside Journal Cover. doi:10.1002/anie.201302596.
  • Luef, B., Fakra, S. C., Csencsits, R., Wrighton, K. C., Williams, K. H., Wilkins, M. J., Downing, K. H., Long, P. E., Comolli, L. R., and Banfield, J. F. (2012). Iron-reducing bacteria accumulate ferric oxyhydroxide nanoparticle aggregates that may support planktonic growth. ISMEJ,7, 338-350, doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.103.
  • Shin, S-H., Chung, S., Sanii, B., Comolli, L. R., Bertozzi, C. R., and De Yoreo, J. J. (2012). Direct observation of kinetic traps associated with structural transformations leading to multiple pathways of S-layer assembly. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109(32), 12968-73, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201504109.
  • Song, K., Comolli, L. R., and Horowitz, M. (2012). Removing high contrast artifacts via digital inpainting in cryo-Electron Tomography: An application of compressed sensing.J. Struct. Biol. 178(2), 108-120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2012.01.003.
  • Comolli, L. R., Duarte, R., Baum, D., Luef, B., Downing, K. H., Larson, D., Csencsits, R., and Banfield, J. F. (2011). A portable cryo-plunger for on-site intact cryogenic microscopy sample preparation in natural environments. Microsc. Res. Techniq., 75(6),829–836, doi:10.1002/jemt.22001
  • Singer, E., Emerson, D., Webb, E.A., Kuenen, J. G., Nelson, W. C., Barco, R. A., Chan, C. S., Comolli, L. R., Heidelberg, J. F., Ferriera, S., Johnson, J., and Edwards, K. J. (2011). Mariprofundus ferrooxydans PV-1 the First Genome of a Marine Fe(II) Oxidizing Zetaproteobacterium. PLoS One, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025386.
  • Comolli, L. R., Luef, B., and Chan, C. S. (2011). High resolution 2D and 3D cryo-TEM reveals structural adaptations of two stalk-forming bacteria to an Fe-oxidizing lifestyle. Environ Microbiol, 3(11), 2915–2929. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02567.x.
  • Knierim, B., Luef, B., Wilmes, P., Auer, M., Webb, R. I., Comolli, L. R., and Banfield, J.F. (2011). Correlative microscopy for phylogenetic and ultrastructural characterization of microbial communities.. Environ Microbiol Reports, 4(1), 36-41 doi:10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00275.x.
  • Amat, F., Comolli, L. R.i, Nomellini, J., Moussavi, F., Downing K.H., Smit J. and Horowitz M. (2010) Analysis of the Intact Surface Layer of Caulobacter crescentus by Cryo-Electron Tomography. J. Bacteriol., Vol 192 (19), 4847-4858. doi:10.1128/JB.00747-10
  • Yi-Chun Yeh, Comolli, L. R., E., Downing, K. H., McAdams, H.H., Shapiro, L. (2010) The Caulobacter Tol-Pal complex is essential for outer membrane integrity and the positioning of a polar localization factor . J. Bacteriol., Vol 192 (19), 4801-4811. doi:10.1128/JB.00607-10
  • Ptacin, J. L., Lee, S. F., Garner, E. C., Toro, E., Eckart, M., Comolli, L. R., Moerner, W. E., Shapiro, L. (2010) A spindle-like apparatus guides bacterial chromosome segregation. Nature Cell Biology, Vol 12, 791-798. doi:10.1038/ncb2083
  • Amat, F., Comolli, Luis R., Moussavi, F., Downing, K. H., Horowitz, M. (2010) Subtomogram alignment by adaptive Fourier coefficient thresholding. J. Struct. Biol., 171(3), 332-44. doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2010.05.013
  • Baker, Brett J., Comolli, Luis R., Dick, Gregory J., Hauser, Loren, Land, Miriam, VerBerkmoes, Nathan C., Hettich, Robert L., and Banfield Jillian F. (2010). Enigmatic, ultra-small uncultivated Archaea. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 107 (19), 8806-8811. doi:10.1073/pnas.0914470107.
  • Goley, Erin D., Comolli, Luis R., Fero, Katherine E., Downing, Kenneth H., and Shapiro, Lucy (2010). DipM links peptidoglycan remodeling to outer membrane organization in Caulobacter. Mol. Micro., 77(1), 56-73. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07222.x
  • Bowman, G. R., Comolli, L. R., Gaietta, G. M., Fero, M., Hong, S.-H., Jones, Y., Lee, J. H., Downing, K. H., Ellisman, M. H., McAdams, H. H. and Shapiro, L. (2010), Caulobacter PopZ forms a polar subdomain dictating sequential changes in pole composition and function. Molecular Microbiology, 76(1), 173-189. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07088.x
  • Moussavi, F., Heitz, G., Amat, F., Comolli, L.R., Koller, D., and Horowitz, M. (2009). 3D Segmentation of Cell Boundaries from Noisy Electron Tomography Volumes. J. Struct. Biol. 17(1), 134-145. doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2009.12.015.
  • Holman, N. H-Y., Wozei, E., Lin, Z., Comolli, L. R., Ball, D. A., Downing, K. H., Borglin, S., Fields, M., Hazen, T.C. (2009). Real-Time Molecular Monitoring of Chemical Environment in Obligate Anaerobes during Oxygen-Stress Adaptive Response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 106 (31), 12599-12604. doi:10.1073/pnas.0902070106.
  • Comolli, L. R., Baker, B., Downing, K.H., Siegerist, C. E., and Banfield, J. (2009) Three-dimensional analysis of the structure and ecology of a novel, ultra-small archaeon. ISME Journal, Vol 3(2):159-167. doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.99
  • Bowman, G., Comolli, L. R., Zhu J., Eckart M., Koenig M., Downing, K. H., Moerner W.E., Earnest T., Shapiro, L. (2008) A polymeric protein anchors the chromosomal origin/ParB complex at a bacterial cell pole. Cell, 134, 945-955. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2008.07.015
  • Luis R Comollii, Andrew J Spakowitz, Cristina E Siegerist, Paul J Jardine, Shelley Grimes, Dwight L Anderson, Carlos Bustamante and Kenneth H Downing (2007) Architecture of the bacteriophage Φ29 packaged genome and elucidation of its packaging process. Virology, 371 (2), 267-277. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2007.07.035
  • Amat, F., Moussavi, F., Comolli, L. R., Elidan, G., Downing, K. H., and Horowitz, M. (2007) Markov random field based automatic alignment of low SNR images for cryo electron tomography. J. Struct. Biol., 161 (3), 260-275. doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2007.07.007
  • Jang, S.B., Jeong, M.S., Carter, R.J., Holbrook, E.L., Comolli, L.R., and Stephen R. Holbrook (2006) Novel Crystal Form of the ColE1 Rom Protein. Acta Crystallographica Section D62, 619-627. doi:10.1107/S0907444906012388
  • Comolli, L.R., Kundmann, M., and Downing, K.H. (2006) Characterization of Intact Subcellular Bodies in Whole Bacteria. Journal of Microscopy, Vol 223 Pt 1, 40-52. Featured as journal cover. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2818.2006.01597.x
  • Rosenberg, O.S., Deindl, S., Comolli, L.R., Hoelz, A., Downing, K.H., Nairm, A., and Kuriyan J. (2006) Oligomerization States of the Association Domain and the holoenyzme of Ca2+/CaM Kinase II. FEBS Journal Vol 273, Issue 4, 682-694.Featured as journal cover. doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.05088.x
  • Comolli, L.R. and Downing, K.H. (2005) Dose Tolerance at Helium and Nitrogen Temperatures for Whole Cell Electron Tomography.J. Struct. Biol., Vol 152 (3), 149-156. doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2005.08.004
  • Comolli, L. R., Judd, E.M., Chen, J.C., Downing, K.H., Moerner W.E., and McAdams, H.H. (2005) Distinct constrictive processes, separated in time and space, divide Caulobacter inner and outer membranes.Journal of Bacteriology, Vol 187, Issue 20, 6874-6882. Featured as journal cover and editorial review article. doi:10.1128/JB.187.20.6874-6882.2005i
  • Downing, K.H., Comolli, L.R., and Holman H.-Y. (2005) Electron Tomography in the Study of Bacterial Structure and Function. Microscopy Today, Vol 13 (1), 1184-1186. doi:10.1017/S1431927604882953
  • Comolli, L. R., Smirnov, I., Xu, L., Blackburn, E. H., and James, T. L. (2002) A molecular switch underlies a human telomerase disease.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 99 (26), 16998-17003. doi:10.1073/pnas.262663599
  • Comolli, L. R., Ulyanov, N. B., Soto, A. M., Marky, L. A., James, T. L., and Gmeiner, W. H. (2002) NMR structure of the 3' stem-loop from human U4 snRNA.Nucleic. Acids Research, Vol 30, No. 20: 4371-4379. doi:10.1093/nar/gkf560
  • Comolli, L. R., Pelton J. G., and Tinoco, I. Jr. (1998) Mapping of a protein-RNA kissing hairpin interface: Rom and Tar-Tar*. Nucleic Acids Research. Vol. 26, No. 20, 4688-4695. doi:10.1093/nar/26.20.4688
  • Comolli LR, Zhou J, Linden T, Breitling R, Flores J, Hung T, Jamshidi A, Huang LS, Fernandez-Velasco JG (1998) In vivo and in vitro studies on the interaction between cytochrome f and plastocyanin in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In: Garab G (ed.): Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects, vol. III, pp. 1589-1592, Kluwer, Netherlands.
  • Pelton, J. G. & Comolli, L. R. (1998) Sequence specific 1HN, 15N, 1Halpha, 13Calpha, and 13Cbeta assignments for RNA-1 modulator protein ROM. J. Biomol. NMR, 11: 1-2. doi:10.1023/A:1008283704026
  • Feese, M. D., Comolli, L. R., Meadow, N. D., Rosemann, S., and Remington, J. S. (1997) Structural Studies of the Escherichia Coli Signal Transducing Protein IIAGlc: Implications for Target Recognition. Biochemistry, Vol. 36, No 51, 16087-16096. doi:10.1021/bi971999e

  • Articles submitted/in preparation:
    • Leavitt, J., Comolli, L. R., Csencsitis, R., Stucker, V., Bargar, J., Cabaniss, S., Howe, K., Long, P. (2013). U(VI) sorption to two microbial species following stimulation of dissimilatory metal reduction. In preparation.
    • Shao, P. P., Comolli, L. R., Stylo, M., Alessi, D. S., Bargar, J. R., and Bernier-Latmani, R.. Microbial extracellular polymeric substances modulate the product of uranium biomineralization. In preparation.
    • Mullin, S. W., Wrighton, K. C., Luef, B., Comolli, L. R., Castelle, C. J., Hug, L. A., Williams, K. H., Thomas, B. C., and Banfield, J. F.. Spirochaeta nitroreducens, sp. nov, a nitrate-reducing, nitrogen-fixing spirochete isolated from groundwater. In preparation.
    • Comolli, L. R., Gilbert, B., Tinnacher, R., Kunz, M., and Banfield, J. F.. Smectite layers and osmotic hydrates crytallize via oriented attachment to form particles that display interparticle diffraction. In preparation.
    • Comolli, L. R., Gilbert, B., and Banfield, J. F.. 3D structure of intact clay in-aqua reveled by cryo-TEM. In preparation.

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