Dr Von Torres
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Book Chapter
Hodges, Freya J., Torres, Von Vergel L., Cunningham, Adam F., Henderson, Ian R. and Icke, Christopher (2022). Redefining the bacterial Type I protein secretion system. Advances in microbial physiology. (pp. 1-50) San Diego, CA, United States: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2022.10.003
Journal Articles
Goodall, Emily C. A., Azevedo Antunes, Camila, Möller, Jens, Sangal, Vartul, Torres, Von Vergel L., Gray, Jessica, Cunningham, Adam F., Hoskisson, Paul A., Burkovski, Andreas and Henderson, Ian R. (2023). A multiomic approach to defining the essential genome of the globally important pathogen Corynebacterium diphtheriae. PLOS Genetics, 19 (4) e1010737, e1010737. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010737
Traore, Daouda A.K., Torres, Von Vergel L., Akhtar, Naureen, Gummer, Alexandra M., Flanigan, Sarena F., Coulibaly, Fasséli, Adams, Vicki, Whisstock, James C. and Rood, Julian I. (2023). TcpA from the Clostridium perfringens plasmid pCW3 is more closely related to the DNA translocase FtsK than to coupling proteins. Structure, 31 (4), 455-463.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2023.02.001
Mandela, Eric, Stubenrauch, Christopher J., Ryoo, David, Hwang, Hyea, Cohen, Eli J., Torres, Von Vergel L., Deo, Pankaj, Webb, Chaille T., Huang, Cheng, Schittenhelm, Ralf B., Beeby, Morgan, Gumbart, James C., Lithgow, Trevor and Hay, Iain D. (2022). Adaptation of the periplasm to maintain spatial constraints essential for cell envelope processes and cell viability. eLife, 11 e73516, 1-21. doi: 10.7554/elife.73516
Torres, Von Vergel L., Coggon, Carrie F. and Wells, Timothy J. (2021). Antibody-dependent enhancement of bacterial disease: prevalence, mechanisms and treatment. Infection and Immunity, 89 (4) e00054-21, 1-15. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00054-21
Wang, Jiawei, Li, Jiahui, Hou, Yi, Dai, Wei, Xie, Ruopeng, Marquez-Lago, Tatiana T, Leier, André, Zhou, Tieli, Torres, Von, Hay, Iain, Stubenrauch, Christopher, Zhang, Yanju, Song, Jiangning and Lithgow, Trevor (2020). BastionHub: a universal platform for integrating and analyzing substrates secreted by Gram-negative bacteria. Nucleic Acids Research, 49 (D1), D651-D659. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa899
Perlaza-Jiménez, Laura, Wu, Qing, Torres, Von Vergel L., Zhang, Xiaoxiao, Li, Jiahui, Rocker, Andrea, Lithgow, Trevor, Zhou, Tieli and Vijaykrishna, Dhanasekaran (2020). Forensic genomics of a novel type from a neonatal intensive care unit in China reveals patterns of colonization, evolution and epidemiology. Microbial Genomics, 6 (10) 000433, 1-10. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000433
Chen, Lijiang, Wilksch, Jonathan J., Liu, Haiyang, Zhang, Xiaoxiao, Torres, Von V. L., Bi, Wenzi, Mandela, Eric, Cao, Jianming, Li, Jiahui, Lithgow, Trevor and Zhou, Tieli (2020). Investigation of LuxS-mediated quorum sensing in. Journal of medical microbiology, 69 (3), 402-413. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.001148
Nang, Sue C., Han, Mei-Ling, Yu, Heidi H., Wang, Jiping, Torres, Von Vergel L., Dai, Chongshan, Velkov, Tony, Harper, Marina and Li, Jian (2019). Polymyxin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae: multifaceted mechanisms utilized in the presence and absence of the plasmid-encoded phosphoethanolamine transferase gene mcr-1. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74 (11), 3190-3198. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkz314
Zhao, Yajie, Zhang, Xiucai, Torres, Von Vergel L., Liu, Haiyang, Rocker, Andrea, Zhang, Yizhi, Wang, Jiawei, Chen, Lijiang, Bi, Wenzi, Lin, Jie, Strugnell, Richard A., Zhang, Siqin, Lithgow, Trevor, Zhou, Tieli and Cao, Jianming (2019). An outbreak of carbapenem-resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in an intensive care unit of a major teaching hospital in Wenzhou, China. Frontiers in Public Health, 7 229, 229. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00229
Vergel L. Torres, Von, Heinz, Eva, Stubenrauch, Christopher J., Wilksch, Jonathan J., Cao, Hanwei, Yang, Ji, Clements, Abigail, Dunstan, Rhys A., Alcock, Felicity, Webb, Chaille T., Dougan, Gordon, Strugnell, Richard A., Hay, Iain D. and Lithgow, Trevor (2018). An investigation into the Omp85 protein BamK in hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, and its role in outer membrane biogenesis. Molecular Microbiology, 109 (5), 584-599. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13990
Bi, Wenzi, Liu, Haiyang, Dunstan, Rhys A., Li, Bin, Torres, Von Vergel L., Cao, Jianming, Chen, Lijiang, Wilksch, Jonathan J., Strugnell, Richard A., Lithgow, Trevor and Zhou, Tieli (2017). Extensively drug-resistant klebsiella pneumoniae causing nosocomial bloodstream infections in China: Molecular investigation of antibiotic resistance determinants, Informing therapy, and clinical outcomes. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8 (June) 1230. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01230