Recent Publications  Xiangyu Deng, Adam M. Phillippy, Steven L. Salzberg, Mary Lou Tortorello, Wei Zhang. 2010. Probing the pan genome of Listeria monocytogenes: Implications on niche adaptation, pathogenesis and evolution. PLoS Pathogens Siyun Wang, Kaiping Deng, Adam M. Phillippy, Xiaoqian Rui, Steven L. Salzberg, Mary Lou Tortorello, Wei Zhang. 2010. Transcriptomic profiling of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium and Enteritidis under chlorine-based oxidation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology Siyun Wang, Kaiping Deng, Sam Zaremba, Xiangyu Deng, Chiahui Lin, Qian Wang, Mary Lou Tortorello, Wei Zhang. 2009. Transcriptomic response of Escherichia coli O157:H7 to oxidative stress. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75: 6110-6123. Adam M. Phillippy, Xiangyu Deng, Wei Zhang, Steven L. Salzberg. 2009. Efficient oligonucleotide probe selection for pan genomic tiling arrays. BMC Bioinformatics 10:293. Shannon D. Manning, Alifiya S. Motiwala, A. Cody Springman, Weihong Qi, David W. Lacher, Lindsey M. Ouellette, Janice M. Mladonicky, Patricia Somsel, James T. Rudrik, Stephen E. Dietrich, Wei Zhang, Bala Swaminathan, David Alland, Thomas S. Whittam. 2008. Variation in virulence among clades of Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with disease outbreaks. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 105:4868-4873 Xinyi He, Hongyu Ou, Yu Qing, Xiufen Zhou, Jun Wu, Jingdan Liang, Wei Zhang, Kumar Rajakumar, Zixin Deng. 2007. Analysis of a genomic island housing dnd gene clusters which encodes S modification system in Streptomyces lividans. Molecular Microbiology 65:1034-1048. Hui Cai, Beatriz T. Rodríguez, Wei Zhang, Jeff R. Broadbent and James L. Steele. 2007. Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of Lactobacillus casei strains from different ecological niches suggests frequent recombination and niche specificity. Microbiology 153:2655-2665. Yi Chen, Wei Zhang, Stephen J. Knabel. 2007. Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing identifies single nucleotide polymorphisms which differentiate epidemic clones and outbreak strains of Listeria monocytogenes. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45: 835-846. Wei Zhang, Weihong Qi, Thomas J. Albert, Alifiya S. Motiwala, David Alland, Eija K. Hyytia-Trees, Efrain M. Ribot, Patricia I. Fields, Thomas S. Whittam and Bala Swaminathan. 2006. Probing genomic diversity and evolution of Escherichia coli O157 by single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Genome Research 16:757-767. Yi Chen, Wei Zhang, Stephen J. Knabel. 2005. Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing clarifies epidemiology of recent U.S. listeriosis outbreaks. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43: 5291-5294. Wei Zhang, Bhushan M. Jayarao, Stephen J. Knabel. 2004. Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing of Listeria monocytogenes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70: 913-920.