Publications

We are working on a series of educational children's books with Simon as the star! Please fill out the contact form to be notified when they are released!

If you're interested in learning more about the research I participate in, please read the published articles below. If the publisher requires a fee, please email me and I can send you the PDF.

McCollister B, Kotter CV, Frank DN, Washburn T, Jobling MG.. Erratum for McCollister et al., Whole-Genome Sequencing Identifies In Vivo Acquisition of a blaCTX-M-27-Carrying IncFII Transmissible Plasmid as the Cause of Ceftriaxone Treatment Failure for an Invasive Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Infection. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. February 2017, 61(3).
S M Dillon, E J Lee, C V Kotter, G L Austin, S Gianella, B Siewe, D M Smith, A L Landay, M C McManus, C E Robertson, D N Frank, M D McCarter & C C Wilson. Gut dendritic cell activation links an altered colonic microbiome to mucosal and systemic T-cell activation in untreated HIV-1 infection. Mucosal Immunology, 2016, 9:24–37.
Samuel R. Dominguez, Lydia J. Anderson, Cassandra V. Kotter, Cynthia A. Littlehorn, Lesley E. Arms, Elaine Dowell, James K. Todd, Daniel N. Frank. Comparison of Whole-Genome Sequencing and Molecular-Epidemiological Techniques for Clostridium difficile Strain Typing. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, September 2016, 5(3):329–332.
Bessesen M.T., Kotter C.V., Wagner B.D., Adams J.C., Kingery S., Benoit J.B., Robertson C.E., Frank D.N.. 2015. MRSA colonization and the nasal microbiome in adults at high risk of colonization and infection Journal of Infection, 2015, 71(6):649-657.
Handorean, A., Robertson, C.E., Harris, J.K. et al. Microbial aerosol liberation from soiled textiles isolated during routine residuals handling in a modern health care setting. Microbiome 3, 72 (2015).
Yi, Jeniann; Slaughter, Anne; Kotter, Cassandra V.; Moore, Ernest E.; Hauser, Carl J.; Itagaki, Kiyoshi; Wohlauer, Max; Frank, Daniel N.; Silliman, Christopher; Banerjee, Anirban; Peltz, Erik. A “Clean Case” of Systemic Injury Mesenteric Lymph After Hemorrhagic Shock elicits A Sterile Inflammatory Response. Shock, October 2015, 44(4):336–340.
Dominguez SR, Dolan SA, West K, Dantes RP, Epson E, Friedman D, Littlehorn CA, Arms LE, Walton K, Servetar E, Frank DN, Kotter CV, Dowell E, Gould CV, Hilden JM, Todd JK. High Colonization Rate and Prolonged Shedding of Clostridium difficile in Pediatric Oncology Patients. Clinical Infectious Diseases, August 2015, (59)3: 401–403.
Ling AL, Robertson CE, Harris JK, Frank DN, Kotter CV, High-Resolution Microbial Community Succession of Microbially Induced Concrete Corrosion in Working Sanitary Manholes, March 2015, PLOS ONE 10(3).
Hull NM, Reens AL, Robertson CE, Stanish LF, Harris JK, Stevens MJ, Frank DN, Kotter C, Pace NR. Molecular analysis of single room humidifier bacteriology. Water Research, February 2015, 69:318-327
Flass T, Tong S, Frank DN, Wagner BD, Robertson CE, Kotter CV, Sokol RJ, Zemanick E, Accurso F, Hoffenberg EJ, Narkewicz MR. Intestinal lesions are associated with altered intestinal microbiome and are more frequent in children and young adults with cystic fibrosis and cirrhosis. PloS One, February 2015, 10(2).
Dillon SM, Lee EJ, Kotter CV, Austin GL, Dong Z, Hecht DK, Gianella S, Siewe B, Smith DM, Landay AL, Robertson CE, Frank DN, Wilson CC. An altered intestinal mucosal microbiome in HIV-1 infection is associated with mucosal and systemic immune activation and endotoxemia. Mucosal Immunology, 2014, 7:983–994
Ling AL, Robertson CE, Harris JK, Frank DN, Kotter CV, Stevens MJ, Pace NR, Hernandez MT. Carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide associations with regional bacterial diversity patterns in microbially induced concrete corrosion. Environmental Science Technolgy, July 2014, 48(13):7357-64.
Alkanani AK, Hara N, Lien E, Ir D, Kotter CV, Robertson CE, Wagner BD, Frank DN, Zipris D. Induction of diabetes in the RIP-B7.1 mouse model is critically dependent on TLR3 and MyD88 pathways and is associated with alterations in the intestinal microbiome. Diabetes, February 2014,63(2):619-31
Amanda Charlesworth, Tomomi M. Yamamoto, Jonathan M. Cook, Kevin D. Silva, Cassandra V. Kotter, Gwendolyn S. Carter, Justin W. Holt, Heather F. Lavender, Angus M. Mac Nicol, Yi Ying Wang, Anna Wilczynska, Xenopus laevis zygote arrest 2 (zar2) encodes a zinc finger RNA-binding protein that binds to the translational control sequence in the maternal Wee1 mRNA and regulates translation, Developmental Biology, June 2012, 369(2):177-90.
Tomomi M Yamamoto, Jonathan M Cook, Cassandra V Kotter, Terry Khat, Kevin D Silva, Michael Ferreyros, Justin W Holt, Jefferson D Knight, Amanda Charlesworth. Zar1 represses translation in Xenopus oocytes and binds to the TCS in maternal mRNAs with different characteristics than Zar2. BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, October 2013, 1829(10): 1034-1046.
Cassandra Vogel Kotter. Assessment of Neutralization-Biodegradation Technology Proposed for Detoxifying Mustard Gas Munitions at Pueblo Chemical Agent Pilot Plant. CDPHE, May 2005
Ismael, Zinat, Loomis, Zoe, and Vogel, Cassandra. “Creating an Interactive Science Program: Tapping the Enthusiasm”, In Chemistry Magazine. American Chemical Society Education, Washington, D.C.. September, 2006: 6.
Janet Markle, Dan Frank, Steven Mortin-Toth, Charles E. Robertson, Leah M. Feazel, Ulrike Rolle-Kampczyk, Martin von Bergen, Kathy D. McCoy, Andrew J. Macpherson, Jayne S. Danska. Sex Differences in the Gut Microbiome Drive Hormone-Dependent Regulation of Autoimmunity. Science, March 2013, 339: 1084. Acknowledgement: Cassandra V. Kotter.