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Yves BrunYves Brun

Clyde Culbertson Professor, Biology

Office: Jordan Hall 425

Phone: 812/855-8860

Email: ybrun at indiana.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 1990

Research

Cell cycle control, cell division, and cell differentiation in bacteria; bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation.

Representative Publications

Brown, P., G. Hardy, M. Trimble, and Y. V. Brun. Complex regulatory pathways mediate cell cycle progression in Caulobacter crescentus.  2009.  Advances in Microbial Physiology Volume 54, p. 1-101, Elsevier Press, R.K. Poole, editor.

Toh, E, H. D. Kurtz, Jr., and Y.V. Brun. 2008. Characterization of the Caulobacter crescentus Holdfast Polysaccharide Biosynthesis Pathway Reveals Significant Redundancy in the Initiating Glycosyltransferase and Polymerase steps. Journal of Bacteriology, 190, 7219-7231. [abstract]

Wagner, J.K. and Y.V. Brun. 2007. Out on a limb: how the Caulobacter stalk can boost the study of bacterial cell shape. Molecular Microbiology, 64: 28-33.

Li, Z., M. Trimble, Y.V. Brun, and G. Jensen. 2007. Direct in situ Visualization of FtsZ Filaments in Caulobacter crescentus by Electron Cryotomography. The EMBO Journal, 26, 4694-4708. [abstract]

Lawler, M.L., and Y.V. Brun. 2007. Advantages and mechanisms of polarity and cell shape determination in Caulobacter crescentus. Current Opinions in Microbiology, 10: 630-637. [abstract]

Lawler, M.L., D.E. Larson, A.J. Hinz, D. Klein, and Y.V. Brun. 2006. Dissection of Functional Domains of the Polar Localization Factor PodJ in Caulobacter crescentus. Molecular Microbiology, 59: 301-316.

Tsang, P., G. Li, Y.V. Brun, B. Freund, and J. X. Tang. 2006. Adhesion of single bacterial cells in the micronewton range. PNAS, 103: 5764-68. [abstract | commentary in Nature]

Wagner, J.K., S. Setayeshgar, L. Sharon, J. Reilly, and Y.V. Brun. 2006. A nutrient uptake role for bacterial cell envelope extensions. PNAS, 103: 11772-11777. [abstract | full text pdf | commentary]

Badger, J.H., T.R. Hoover, Y.V. Brun, (24 other authors), and N. L. Ward. 2006. The genome sequence of the marine prosthecate a-proteobacterium Hyphomonas neptunium ATCC 15444 and its comparison with Caulobacter crescentus CB15. Journal of Bacteriology, 188: 6841-6850. [abstract]

Li, G., C. S. Smith, Y. V. Brun, and J. X. Tang. 2005. The elastic properties of the Caulobacter crescentus adhesive holdfast are dependent on oligomers of N-acetylglucosamine.  Journal of Bacteriology, 187: 257-265.