
PUBLICATIONS
2018
Genetic background influences heterogeneity of adaptive response and genome stability during prolonged antifungal drug exposure in Candida albicans.
Gerstein AC, and Berman J. bioRxiv. 2018 December 3; doi:10.1101/360347
Gene Essentiality Analyzed by in vivo Transposon Mutagenesis and Machine Learning in a Stable Haploid Isolate of Candida albicans.
Shtifman-Segal E, Gristenko V, Levitan A, Yadav B, Dror N, Steenwyk J, Silberberg Y, Mielich K, Rokas A, Kunze R, Sharan R, Gow R, and Berman J. mBio. 2018 Sept; 9:5. doi:10.1128/mBio.02048-18
Candida albicans Dispersed Cells Are Developmentally Distinct from Biofilm and Planktonic Cells.
Uppuluri P, Zaldivar MA, Anderson MZ, Dunn MJ, Berman J, Lopez-Ribot JL, and J Koehler. mBio. 2018 Aug 21;9(4). doi: 10.1128/mBio.01338-18
Living Bacteria in Thermoresponsive Gel for Treating Fungal Infections.
Orbach A, Corem-Salkmon E, Berman J, Nyska A, and Mizrahi B. Advanced Functional Materials. 2018 Aug 6;28(40). doi:10.1002/adfm.201801581
Antifungal Tolerance is a Subpopulation Effect Distinct from Resistance and is Associated with Persistent Candidemia.
Rosenberg A, Ene IV, Bibi M, Zakin S, Shtifman-Segal E, Ziv N, Dahan A, Colombo A L, Bennett R J, and Berman J. Nature Communications. 2018 Jun 25; 9:2470. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04926-x
Methodologies for in vitro and in vivo Evaluation of Efficacy of Antifungal and Antibiofilm Agents and Surface Coatings Against Fungal Biofilms.
Van Dijck P, Sjollema J, Cammue BPA, Lagrou K, Berman J, d’Enfert C, Andes DR, Arendrup MC, Brakhage AA, Calderone R, Cantón E, Coenye T, Cos P, Cowen LE, Edgerton M, Espinel-Ingroff A, Filler SG, Ghannoum M, Gow NAR, Haas H, Jabra-Rizk MA, Johnson EM, Lockhart SR, Lopez-Ribot JL, Maertens J, Munro CA, Nett JE, Nobile CJ, Pfaller MA, Ramage G, Sanglard D, Sanguinetti M, Spriet I, Verweij PE, Warris A, Wauters J, Yeaman MR, Zaat SAJ, and Thevissen K. Microbial Cell. 2018 June 14;5(7). doi: 10.15698/mic2018.07.638
Rapid Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversification After Exposure to the Oral Host Niche in Candida albicans.
Forche A, Cromie G, Gerstein A, Solis N, Pisithkul T, Srifa, W, Jeffery E, Abbey D, Filler S, Dudley A, and Berman J. GENETICS. 2018 May 3; 209(1). doi: 10.1534/genetics.118.301019
Functional Diversification Accompanies Gene Family Expansion of MED2 Homologs in Candida albicans.
Dunn MJ, Kinney GM, Washington PM, Berman J, and Anderson MZ. PLoS Genetics. 2018 Apr 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.10073269
Maize Transposable Elements Ac/Ds as Insertion Mutagenesis Tools in Candida albicans.
Mielich K, Shtifman-Segal E, Golz JC, Zeng G, Wang Y, Berman J, and Kunze R. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 2018 Apr 1; 8(4). doi: 10.1534/g3.117.300388
Localizing Antifungal Drugs to the Correct Organelle Can Markedly Enhance Their Efficacy.
Benhamou RL, Bibi M, Berman J and Fridman M. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2018 Mar 25. doi: 10.1002/anie.201802509
2017
Adaptive Mistranslation Accelerates the Evolution of Fluconazole Resistance and Induces Major Genomic and Gene Expression Alterations in Candida albicans.
Weil T, Santamaría R, Lee W, Rung J, Tocci N, Abbey D, Bezerra A, Carreto L, Moura G, Bayés M, Gut I, Csikasz-Nagy A, Cavalieri D, Berman J, and Santos M. mSphere. 2017 Aug 9;2(4). doi:10.1128/mSphere.00167-17
Real-Time Imaging of the Azole Class of Antifungal Drugs in Live Candida Cells.
Benhamou R, Bibi M, Steinbuch K, Engel H, Levin M, Roichman Y, Berman J, and Fridman M. ACS Chemical Biology. 2017 Jul 21; doi:10.1021/acschembio.7b00339
Phenotypic and Genotypic Characteristics of Candida albicans Isolates from Bloodstream and Mucosal Infections.
Mandelblat M, Frenkel M, Abbey A, Ben-Ami R, Berman J, Esther S. Mycoses. 2017 May 22; 60(5). doi:10.1111/myc.12623
Generation of Fluorescent Protein Fusions in Candida Species.
Gonia S, Berman J, and Gale C. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2017 Mar 4; 121(e55333). doi:10.3791/55333
Ploidy Tug-of-War: Evolutionary and Genetic Environments Influence the Rate of Ploidy Drive in a Human Fungal Pathogen.
Gerstein A, Lim H, Berman J, and Hickman M. Evolution. 2017 Feb 14;71(4):1025-1038. doi:10.1111/evo.13205
Multidrug-Resistant Candida haemulonii and C. auris, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ben-Ami R, Berman J, Novikov A, Bash E, Shachor Y, Zakin S, Maor Y, Tarabia J, Carmeli Y, Adler A, and Finn T. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2017 Feb; 23(2):195-203. doi:10.3201/eid2302.161486
2016
Ploidy Dynamics and Evolvability in Fungi.
Wertheimer N, Stone N, and Berman J. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 2016 Dec 5: 371(1709). doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0461
Sir2 regulates stability of repetitive domains differentially in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans.
Freire-Benéitez V, Gourlay S, Berman J, and Buscaino A. Nucleaic Acids Research. 2016 Nov 2. doi:10.1093/nar/gkw594
Neocentromeres Provide Chromosome Segregation Accuracy and Centromere Clustering to Multiple Loci Along a Candida albicans Chromosome.
Burrack L, Hutton H, Matter K, Clancey S, Liachko I, Plemmons A, Saha A, Power E, Turman B, Thevandavakkam M, Ay F, Dunham M, and Berman J. PLoS Genetics. 2016 Sep 23; 12(9):e1006317. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006317
Heteroresistance to Fluconazole is a Continuously Distributed Phenotype Among Candida glabrata Clinical Strains Associated with In Vivo Persistence.
Ben-Ami R, Zimmerman O, Finn T, Amit S, Novikov A, Wertheimer N, Lurie-Weinberger M, and Berman J. mBio. 2016 Aug 2; 7(4):e00655-16. doi:10.1128/mBio.00655-16
The Phenotypic Consequences of a Spontaneous Loss of Heterozygosity in a Common Laboratory Strain of Candida albicans.
Ciudad T, Hickman H, Bellido A, Berman J, and Larriba G. GENETICS. 2016 Jul 1; 203(3):1161-76. doi:10.1534/genetics.116.189274
diskImageR: Quantification of Resistance and Tolerance to Antimicrobial Drugs Using Disk Diffusion Assays.
Gerstein C, Rosenberg A, Hecht I, and Berman J. Microbiology. 2016 Jul 1. doi:10.1099/mic.0.000295
Candida albicans Repetitive Elements Display Epigenetic Diversity and Plasticity.
Freire-Beneitez V, Gourlay S, Tarrant D, Berman J, and Buscaino A. Scientific Reports. 2016 Mar 14; 6:22989. doi:10.1038/srep22989
Ploidy Plasticity: A Rapid and Reversible Strategy for Adaptation to Stress.
Berman J. FEMS Yeast Research. 2016 Mar 4; 16(3). doi:10.1093/femsyr/fow020
High Frame-Rate Resolution of Cell Division During Candida albicans Filamentation.
Thompson D, Berman J, and Brand A. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 2016 Mar; 88:54-58. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2016.02.001