Heather E. Allison

Tracing the fate of wastewater viruses reveals catchment-scale virome diversity and connectivity.

Lytic and lysogenic infection of diverse Escherichia coli and Shigella strains with a verocytotoxigenic bacteriophage.

Immunity profiles of wild-type and recombinant shiga-like toxin-encoding bacteriophages and characterization of novel double lysogens.

Occurrence of hlyA and sheA genes in extraintestinal Escherichia coli strains.

Stx-phages: drivers and mediators of the evolution of STEC and STEC-like pathogens.

Short-tailed stx phages exploit the conserved YaeT protein to disseminate Shiga toxin genes among enterobacteria.

Multilocus characterization scheme for shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophages.

Identification of multiple integration sites for Stx-phage Phi24B in the Escherichia coli genome, description of a novel integrase and evidence for a functional anti-repressor.

Detection of novel Fibrobacter populations in landfill sites and determination of their relative abundance via quantitative PCR.

Cellulose degradation by micromonosporas recovered from freshwater lakes and classification of these actinomycetes by DNA gyrase B gene sequencing.

Molecular biological detection and quantification of novel Fibrobacter populations in freshwater lakes.

Composition of the landfill microbial community as determined by application of domain- and group-specific 16S and 18S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes.

High-throughput method for rapid induction of prophages from lysogens and its application in the study of Shiga Toxin-encoding Escherichia coli strains.

Development and validation of a qPCR-based method for quantifying Shiga toxin-encoding and other lambdoid bacteriophages.

Bacteriophage lambda: a paradigm revisited.

Cumulative effect of prophage burden on Shiga toxin production in Escherichia coli.

The microbial ecology of anaerobic cellulose degradation in municipal waste landfill sites: evidence of a role for fibrobacters.

Importance of Micromonospora spp. as colonizers of cellulose in freshwater lakes as demonstrated by quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR of 16S rRNA.

Identification of genes expressed in cultures of E. coli lysogens carrying the Shiga toxin-encoding prophage Φ24B.

Comparative genomics of Shiga toxin encoding bacteriophages.

Development and application of a method for the purification of free shigatoxigenic bacteriophage from environmental samples.

454-pyrosequencing: a molecular battiscope for freshwater viral ecology.

Transcriptomic analysis of Shiga-toxigenic bacteriophage carriage reveals a profound regulatory effect on acid resistance in Escherichia coli.

Characterising the Canine Oral Microbiome by Direct Sequencing of Reverse-Transcribed rRNA Molecules.

Development of a Poly-ε-Lysine Contact Lens as a Drug Delivery Device for the Treatment of Fungal Keratitis.

Viromic Analysis of Wastewater Input to a River Catchment Reveals a Diverse Assemblage of RNA Viruses.

Antimicrobial Activity of Poly-epsilon-lysine Peptide Hydrogels Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

The Site-Specific Recombination System of the Bacteriophage Φ24.

Amoebicidal Activity of Poly-Epsilon-Lysine Functionalized Hydrogels.

Efficient screening of adsorbed receptors for phage LP31 and identification of receptor-binding protein.