David Hershey

Position title: Assistant Professor

Address:
Bacteriology
Mechanisms of surface colonization in bacteria and production of complex polysaccharides

Education: PhD in Microbiology at the University of California - Berkeley; Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago
Website: https://hersheylab.bact.wisc.edu/
Department: Bacteriology
Research Interests: Mechanisms of surface colonization in bacteria and production of complex polysaccharides
Research Fields: Computational, Systems and Synthetic Biology, Bacteria and Other Microbes

Research Description:
My laboratory studies the physiology of surface-associated bacterial cells. Microbes routinely encounter solid objects in their native environments, and many bacteria deploy specialized behavioral programs to colonize these surfaces. We dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying surface colonization programs and engineer surface-associated bacteria to produce new biomaterials.

Representative Publications:
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Goetsch AG, Ufearo D, Keiser G, Heiss C, Azadi P, Hershey DM. An exopolysaccharide pathway from a freshwater Sphingomonas isolate. J Bacteriol. 2024 Jul 15:e0016924. doi: 10.1128/jb.00169-24. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39007563.

van Wijngaarden EW, Goetsch AG, Brito IL, Hershey DM, Silberstein MN. Engineering Bacterial Biomanufacturing: Characterization and Manipulation of Sphingomonas sp. LM7 Extracellular Polymers. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 May 16:2024.05.16.594401. doi: 10.1101/2024.05.16.594401. PMID: 38798469; PMCID: PMC11118415.

Salemi RI, Cruz AK, Hershey DM. A flagellar accessory protein links chemotaxis to surface sensing. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jun 20:2024.06.20.599946. doi: 10.1101/2024.06.20.599946. PMID: 38948737; PMCID: PMC11212940.