Published in Emory Theses and Dissertations (ETD), 2020
Undergraduate Honors Thesis.
Recommended citation: Worthy, A. (2020) Spiteful Weapons and the Environmental Dependence of Phage. Honors Thesis. Emory University. Available at: https://etd.library.emory.edu/concern/etds/bv73c164v?locale=en.
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Published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2020
This study demonstrates that overproduction of exopolysaccharides, “mucoidy”, allows bacterial populations to be resistant to lytic bacteriophage infection. We found that spontaneous reversion from the mucoid state to the susceptible non-mucoid state allows these phage-resistant bacterial populations to maintain lytic viruses without greatly affecting the bacterial population density.
Recommended citation: Waqas Chaudhry, Esther Lee, Andrew Worthy, Zoe Weiss, Marcin Grabowicz, Nicole Vega, Bruce Levin, Mucoidy, a general mechanism for maintaining lytic phage in populations of bacteria, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 96, Issue 10, October 2020, fiaa162, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa162
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Published in eLife, 2024
This study characterizes the various subtypes (“clades”) of spinal V1 interneurons, describing their relative neurogenesis times, their distributions throughout the lumbar spinal cord, and their connections to motoneurons. It also investigates the molecular identities of further subdivisions within the Foxp2-V1 clade, and demonstrates that some of these Foxp2-V1s have connectivity that resembles reciprocal Ia inhibitory interneurons (IaINs).
Recommended citation: Andrew E Worthy, Joanna T Anderson, Alicia R Lane, Laura J Gomez-Perez, Anthony A Wang, Ronald W Griffith, Andre F Rivard, Jay B Bikoff, Francisco J Alvarez (2024) Spinal V1 inhibitory interneuron clades differ in birthdate, projections to motoneurons, and heterogeneity eLife 13:RP95172. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.95172.3
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Undergraduate course, Emory University, Biology Department, 2024
Role: Graduate Teaching Assistant