1997-98 Publications on Myxobacteria:

Shimkets, L. J., and M. Dworkin. 1997. Myxobacterial multicellularity. In Bacteria as multicellular organisms. J. Shapiro and M. Dworkin (ed.) Oxford University Press, Inc. New York, pp. 220-244.
Shimkets, L. J. 1997. Structure and sizes of archaeal and bacterial genomes. In Bacterial genomes: Physical structure and analysis. F. J. deBruijn, J. R. Lupski, G. Weinstock (ed.) Chapman & Hall, New York. pp. 5-11.
Shimkets, L. J. 1997. Physical map of Myxococcus xanthus. In Bacterial genomes: Physical structure and analysis. F. J. deBruijn, J. R. Lupski, G. Weinstock (ed.) Chapman & Hall, New York. pp. 695-701.
Kearns, D. B. and L. J. Shimkets. 1998. Chemotaxis in a gliding bacterium. (submitted)
Crawford, Jr., E. W. and L. J. Shimkets. 1998. Myxococcus xanthus cell cycle control by SocE and the CsgA C-signaling protein. (submitted)
Shimkets, L. J. and D. Kaiser. 1998. Cell contact-dependent C-signaling in Myxococcus xanthus. In Cell-cell communication in bacteria. G. M. Dunny, S. C. Winans (ed.) American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington DC. (submitted).
Crawford, Jr., E. W. and L. J. Shimkets. 1998. Development of the myxobacteria Myxococcus xanthus and Stigmatella aurantiaca. In Development: Genetics, epigenetics, and environmental regulation. E. Russo, D. Cove, L. Edgar, R. Jaenisch, F. Salamini (ed.) Springer-Verlag Heidelberg. (submitted).

Personnel:

Gene Crawford <crawford@bscr.uga.edu> is a PhD student looking at several csgA suppressor loci.
Dan Kearns <dkearns@uga.cc.uga.edu> is a PhD student looking at chemotaxis towards phospholipids.
Jamie Ryding <ryding@bscr.uga.edu> is a postdoctoral associate looking at the localization of CsgA.