Publications

Metzger lab

Hart S., Yonemitsu, M., Giersch, R., Beal B., Arriagada G., Davis B., Ostrander E., Goff S., Metzger M. (2022). Centuries of genome instability and evolution in soft-shell clam transmissible cancer. bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.07.503107 (preprint).

Michnowska A., Hart S., Smolarz K., Hallmann A., Metzger M. (2022). Horizontal transmission of disseminated neoplasia in the widespread clam Limecola balthica from Southern Baltic Sea. Molecular Ecology, 31(11): 3128–3136.

Giersch R., Hart S., Reddy S., Yonemitsu M., Rosales M., Korn M., Geleta B., Countway P., Robledo J., Metzger M. (2022). Survival and detection of bivalve transmissible neoplasia from the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria (MarBTN) in seawater. Pathogens, 11(3), 283.

Shou Lab

Hart S., Chen C. Shou W. (2021). Pleiotropic mutations can rapidly evolve to directly benefit self and cooperative partner despite unfavorable conditions. eLife, DOI: 10.7554/eLife.57838.

Green R., Sonal, Wang L., Hart S. , Lu W., Skelding D., Burton J., Mi H., Capel A., Chen H., Lin A., Subramaniam A., Rabinowitz J., Shou W. (2020). Metabolic excretion associated with nutrient–growth dysregulation promotes the rapid evolution of an overt metabolic defect. PLoS Biology, 18(8): e3000757.

Hart S.*, Pineda J.*, Chen C., Capel A., Green R., Shou W. (2019). Disentangling strictly self-serving mutations from win-win mutations in a mutualistic microbial community. eLife, DOI: 10.7554/eLife.44812. *equal contribution first authors

Hart S., Mi H., Skelding D., Green R., Shou, W. (2019). Uncovering and resolving challenges of quantitative modeling in a simplified community of interacting cells. PLoS Biology, 17(2), e3000135.

Hart S., Skelding D., Waite A., Burton J., Shou, W. (2019). High-throughput quantification of microbial birth and death dynamics using fluorescence microscopy. Quantitative Biology, 7(1), 69–81.

Skelding D., Hart S., Vidyasagar, T., Pozhitkov, A., Shou W. (2018). Developing a low-cost milliliter-scale chemostat array for precise control of cellular growth. Quantitative Biology, 6(2), 129-141.