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- Vertical transmission of mosquito microbiota and its effects on offspring developmentHolly L Nichols, Laura E Brettell, Miguel A Saldaña, Shivanand Hegde, Eva Heinz, Kathy Vaccaro, Grant L Hughes, Kerri L Coon bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
- Historical mosquito colonization dynamics are associated with patterns of microbial community assembly in aboveground aquatic habitatsSerena Y Zhao, John Hausbeck, Kerri L Coon Environmental microbiome
- A bacterial culture collection from stable flies and manure relevant to bovine mastitisAndrew J Sommer, Travis K Worley, Julia E Kettner, Kerri L Coon Microbiology resource announcements
- Host-mediated niche construction of bacterial communities in an aquatic microecosystemAldo A Arellano, Journey L Prack, Kerri L Coon The ISME journal
- Transient Microbes in Insects: Fleeting but FunctionalAlison Ravenscraft, Kerri L Coon Annual review of entomology
- Phylogenetic intermixing reveals stable fly-mediated circulation of mastitis-associated bacteria in dairy settingsAndrew J Sommer, Travis K Worley, Panagiotis Sapountzis, Kerri L Coon mSystems
- Leveraging microbial ecology for mosquito-borne disease controlHolly L Nichols, Kerri L Coon Trends in parasitology
- Genomic evidence for flies as carriers of zoonotic pathogens on dairy farmsAndrew J Sommer, Joseph H Skarlupka, Serafino Teseo, Saria Otani, Garret Suen, Kerri L Coon, Panagiotis Sapountzis NPJ biofilms and microbiomes
- Differential fitness effects of gut and reproductive tract bacteria in larval and adult stages of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegyptiSebastián Díaz, Frank W Avila, Kerri L Coon Acta tropica
- Microbiota isolate collections: A key to global vector-borne disease controlMiguel Medina Muñoz, Holly L Nichols, Kerri L Coon PLoS biology
- Opportunistic pathogens are prevalent across the culturable exogenous and endogenous microbiota of stable flies captured at a dairy facilityAndrew J Sommer, Courtney L Deblois, Andrew D J Tu, Garret Suen, Kerri L Coon Veterinary research
- Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance phenotypes and genes in stable fly- and manure-derived bacterial isolates from clinically relevant taxa in dairy settingsAndrew J Sommer, Julia E Kettner, Travis K Worley, Jordan Petrick, Caroline Haynie, Kerri L Coon Journal of applied microbiology
- Microbiota Composition Associates With Mosquito Productivity Outcomes in Belowground Larval HabitatsSerena Y Zhao, Andrew J Sommer, Dan Bartlett, Justin E Harbison, Patrick Irwin, Kerri L Coon Molecular ecology
- MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assembliesAidan Foo, Laura E Brettell, Holly L Nichols, 2022 UW-Madison Capstone in Microbiology Students, Miguel Medina Muñoz, Jessica A Lysne, Vishaal Dhokiya, Ananya F Hoque, Doug E Brackney, Eric P Caragata, Michael L Hutchinson, Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, David J Lampe, Edwige Martin, Claire Valiente Moro, Michael Povelones, Sarah M Short, Blaire Steven, Jiannong Xu, Timothy D Paustian, Michelle R Rondon, Grant L Hughes, Kerri L Coon, Eva Heinz PLoS biology
- Stable flies are bona fide carriers of mastitis-associated bacteriaAndrew J Sommer, Julia E Kettner, Kerri L Coon mSphere
- An inquiline mosquito modulates microbial diversity and function in an aquatic microecosystemAldo A Arellano, Erica B Young, Kerri L Coon Molecular ecology
- Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field-caught or laboratory-reared mosquitoesShivanand Hegde, Laura E Brettell, Shannon Quek, Kayvan Etebari, Miguel A Saldaña, Sassan Asgari, Kerri L Coon, Eva Heinz, Grant L Hughes Environmental microbiology
- Increased environmental microbial diversity reduces the disease risk of a mosquitocidal pathogenZhiwei Kang, Vincent G Martinson, Yin Wang, Kerri L Coon, Luca Valzania, Michael R Strand mBio
- Beyond canonical models: why a broader understanding of Diptera-microbiota interactions is essential for vector-borne disease controlAldo A Arellano, Andrew J Sommer, Kerri L Coon Evolutionary ecology
- A cryopreservation method to recover laboratory- and field-derived bacterial communities from mosquito larval habitatsSerena Y Zhao, Grant L Hughes, Kerri L Coon PLoS neglected tropical diseases
- Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field-caught or laboratory-reared mosquitoesShivanand Hegde, Laura E Brettell, Shannon Quek, Kayvan Etebari, Miguel A Saldaña, Sassan Asgari, Kerri L Coon, Eva Heinz, Grant L Hughes bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
- Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoesKerri L Coon, Shivanand Hegde, Grant L Hughes Microbiome
- Bacterial communities in carnivorous pitcher plants colonize and persist in inquiline mosquitoesAldo A Arellano, Kerri L Coon Animal microbiome
- Host-Environment Interplay Shapes Fungal Diversity in MosquitoesPatil Tawidian, Kerri L Coon, Ari Jumpponen, Lee W Cohnstaedt, Kristin Michel mSphere
- The microbiome and mosquito vectorial capacity: rich potential for discovery and translationCintia Cansado-Utrilla, Serena Y Zhao, Philip J McCall, Kerri L Coon, Grant L Hughes Microbiome
- Predaceous Toxorhynchites mosquitoes require a living gut microbiota to developKerri L Coon, Luca Valzania, Mark R Brown, Michael R Strand Proceedings. Biological sciences
- Correction for Raymann et al., "Pathogenicity of Serratia marcescens Strains in Honey Bees"Kasie Raymann, Kerri L Coon, Zack Shaffer, Stephen Salisbury, Nancy A Moran mBio
- Pathogenicity of Serratia marcescens Strains in Honey BeesKasie Raymann, Kerri L Coon, Zack Shaffer, Stephen Salisbury, Nancy A Moran mBio
- Both living bacteria and eukaryotes in the mosquito gut promote growth of larvaeLuca Valzania, Vincent G Martinson, Ruby E Harrison, Bret M Boyd, Kerri L Coon, Mark R Brown, Michael R Strand PLoS neglected tropical diseases
- Hypoxia-induced transcription factor signaling is essential for larval growth of the mosquito Aedes aegyptiLuca Valzania, Kerri L Coon, Kevin J Vogel, Mark R Brown, Michael R Strand Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Bacteria-mediated hypoxia functions as a signal for mosquito developmentKerri L Coon, Luca Valzania, David A McKinney, Kevin J Vogel, Mark R Brown, Michael R Strand Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals Large-Scale Changes in Axenic Aedes aegypti LarvaeKevin J Vogel, Luca Valzania, Kerri L Coon, Mark R Brown, Michael R Strand PLoS neglected tropical diseases
- Mosquitoes host communities of bacteria that are essential for development but vary greatly between local habitatsKerri L Coon, Mark R Brown, Michael R Strand Molecular ecology
- Gut bacteria differentially affect egg production in the anautogenous mosquito Aedes aegypti and facultatively autogenous mosquito Aedes atropalpus (Diptera: Culicidae)Kerri L Coon, Mark R Brown, Michael R Strand Parasites & vectors
- Mosquitoes rely on their gut microbiota for developmentKerri L Coon, Kevin J Vogel, Mark R Brown, Michael R Strand Molecular ecology
Research in my lab centers on insect-microbe interactions, with a current focus on those between mosquitoes and their gut microbiota. We integrate field and lab-based experiments with bioinformatic approaches to tease apart the mechanisms by which microbes regulate fundamental processes in their mosquito hosts, from their development and reproduction to their ability to transmit disease-causing agents to humans and other mammals.
Other research topics of interest in my lab include: i) the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbial communities, ii) the interplay between resident and pathogenic microbes, and iii) the mechanisms underlying host-microbe specificity.
Entomology 321: Physiology of Insects
MICROBIO 345: Introduction to Disease Biology
Start and Promotion Dates
- Assistant Professor: 2019
- Associate Professor: 2025
Education
B.Sc. with Highest Distinction, Biology/Biostatistics, University of Virginia
Ph.D., Entomology, University of Georgia
Postdoctoral Research: University of Texas at Austin