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  1. A conserved archaeal ribosome-associated factor linking bacterial hibernation and eukaryotic energy sensing

    Article • February 2026, openRxiv

    Alex Bisson

  2. SpoIIE drives asymmetric cell division in B. subtilis by sequential modulation of the cytokinesis machinery

    Article • June 2025, openRxiv

    Alex Bisson

  3. Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea

    Article • Science, April 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alex Bisson

  4. NMR study of the interaction between MinC and FtsZ and modeling of the FtsZ:MinC complex

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, March 2025, Elsevier

    Alex Bisson

  5. How archaeal cells do not break while bending as they change shape

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Alex Bisson

  6. Identification of structural and regulatory cell-shape determinants in Haloferax volcanii

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Bisson

  7. Halofilins as Emerging Bactofilin Families of Archaeal Cell Shape Plasticity Orchestrators

    Article • January 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alex Bisson

  8. Salactin, a dynamically unstable actin homolog in Haloarchaea

    Article • mBio, December 2023, ASM Journals

    Alex Bisson

  9. The faculty-to-faculty mentorship experience: a survey on challenges and recommendations for improvements

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Christopher Thomas Smith, Alex Bisson

  10. A sweet new set of inducible and constitutive promoters in Haloferax volcanii

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2023, Frontiers

    Alex Bisson

  11. Insights from a survey of mentorship experiences by graduate and postdoctoral researchers

    Article • May 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Christopher Thomas Smith, Alex Bisson

  12. Salactin, a dynamically unstable actin homolog in Haloarchaea

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alex Bisson

  13. Identification and characterization of structural and regulatory cell-shape determinants inHaloferax volcanii

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alex Bisson

  14. The faculty-to-faculty mentorship experience: a survey on challenges and recommendations for improvements

    Article • October 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Christopher Thomas Smith, Alex Bisson

  15. Preprint Highlight: Pressure and curvature control of contact inhibition in epithelia growing under spherical confinement

    Article • Molecular Biology of the Cell, April 2022, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

    Alex Bisson

  16. Haloferax volcanii Immersed Liquid Biofilms Develop Independently of Known Biofilm Machineries and Exhibit Rapid Honeycomb Pattern Formation

    Article • mSphere, December 2020, ASM Journals

    Alex Bisson

  17. The Ribbon-Helix-Helix Domain Protein CdrS Regulates the Tubulin Homolog ftsZ2 To Control Cell Division in Archaea

    Article • mBio, August 2020, ASM Journals

    Alex Bisson

  18. A survey-based analysis of the academic job market

    Article • eLife, June 2020, eLife

    Christopher Thomas Smith, Alex Bisson

  19. Lipid Anchoring of Archaeosortase Substrates and Midcell Growth in Haloarchaea

    Article • mBio, April 2020, ASM Journals

    Alex Bisson

  20. In vivomulti-dimensional information-keeping inHalobacterium salinarum

    Article • February 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alex Bisson

  21. Division plane placement in pleomorphic archaea is dynamically coupled to cell shape

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, June 2019, Wiley

    Alex Bisson

  22. Archaeal imaging: leading the hunt for new discoveries

    Article • Molecular Biology of the Cell, July 2018, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

    Alex Bisson

  23. MreB filaments align along greatest principal membrane curvature to orient cell wall synthesis

    Article • eLife, February 2018, eLife

    Alex Bisson

  24. MreB Filaments Create Rod Shape By Aligning Along Principal Membrane Curvature

    Article • October 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alex Bisson

  25. Treadmilling by FtsZ filaments drives peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial cell division

    Article • Science, February 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alex Bisson

  26. Revisiting the cell biology of the acyl‐ACP:phosphate transacylase PlsX suggests that the phospholipid synthesis and cell division machineries are not coupled in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2016, Wiley

    Alex Bisson

  27. FtsZ filament capping by MciZ, a developmental regulator of bacterial division

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Alex Bisson

  28. Bacterial killing via a type IV secretion system

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Bisson

  29. Genetic and Biochemical Characterization of the MinC-FtsZ Interaction in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • PLOS One, April 2013, PLOS

    Alex Bisson

  30. RefZ Facilitates the Switch from Medial to Polar Division during Spore Formation in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, June 2012, ASM Journals

    Alex Bisson

  31. DivIVA-Mediated Polar Localization of ComN, a Posttranscriptional Regulator of Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, May 2012, ASM Journals

    Alex Bisson

  32. Identification of 18 new transcribed retrotransposons in Schistosoma mansoni

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, July 2005, Elsevier

    Alex Bisson