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  1. Adaptation of Enterococcus faecalis to intestinal mucus revealed by a human colonic organoid model

    Article • mSystems, April 2026, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  2. Elongation Factor Tu Acts as a Chaperone to Activate an Antibacterial RNase Toxin

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, January 2026, Wiley

    Julia Willett

  3. Insights into ecology, pathogenesis, and biofilm formation of Enterococcus faecalis from functional genomics

    Article • Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, March 2025, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  4. Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of Enterococcus faecalis isolates from periprosthetic joint infections

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, August 2024, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  5. Arginine impacts aggregation, biofilm formation, and antibiotic susceptibility in Enterococcus faecalis

    Article • FEMS Microbes, January 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Julia Willett

  6. Optimized Replication of Arrayed Bacterial Mutant Libraries Increases Access to Biological Resources

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, August 2023, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  7. Problems with Peer Review Shine a Light on Gaps in Scientific Training

    Article • mBio, June 2023, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  8. The Phosphatase Bph and Peptidyl-Prolyl Isomerase PrsA Are Required for Gelatinase Expression and Activity in Enterococcus faecalis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2022, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  9. Enterococcal PrgU Provides Additional Regulation of Pheromone-Inducible Conjugative Plasmids

    Article • mSphere, June 2021, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  10. Comparative Biofilm Assays Using Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF Identify New Determinants of Biofilm Formation

    Article • mBio, June 2021, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  11. Phage infection and sub-lethal antibiotic exposure mediate Enterococcus faecalis type VII secretion system dependent inhibition of bystander bacteria

    Article • PLoS Genetics, January 2021, PLOS

    Julia Willett

  12. Genome-Wide Mutagenesis Identifies Factors Involved in Enterococcus faecalis Vaginal Adherence and Persistence

    Article • Infection and Immunity, September 2020, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  13. Parallel Genomics Uncover Novel Enterococcal-Bacteriophage Interactions

    Article • mBio, April 2020, ASM Journals

    Julia Willett

  14. Exploiting biofilm phenotypes for functional characterization of hypothetical genes in Enterococcus faecalis

    Article • npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Julia Willett

  15. Comprehensive Functional Analysis of the Enterococcus faecalis Core Genome Using an Ordered, Sequence-Defined Collection of Insertional Mutations in Strain OG1RF

    Article • mSystems, September 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Gary M Dunny, Julia Willett

  16. Functional plasticity of antibacterial EndoU toxins

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, August 2018, Wiley

    Julia Willett

  17. CdiA Effectors from Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Use Heterotrimeric Osmoporins as Receptors to Recognize Target Bacteria

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, October 2016, PLOS

    Julia Willett

  18. Contact-Dependent Growth Inhibition (CDI) and CdiB/CdiA Two-Partner Secretion Proteins

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Julia Willett

  19. Diversification of β-Augmentation Interactions between CDI Toxin/Immunity Proteins

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Julia Willett

  20. Contact-dependent growth inhibition toxins exploit multiple independent cell-entry pathways

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

    Julia Willett

  21. Delivery of CdiA Nuclease Toxins into Target Cells during Contact-Dependent Growth Inhibition

    Article • PLOS One, February 2013, PLOS

    Julia Willett

  22. Structural basis of toxicity and immunity in contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Julia Willett