Publications

For an up-to-date, full list of my publications please see my google scholar page. Only first or last author papers are listed here.

Brewer TE, Kielkowski P, Meier-Rosar F, Schlundt A, Lassak J (2026) Horizontal transfer of post-translational modifiers brings evolutionary opportunity and challenges to a conserved translation factor. BMC Biology 24, 51.

Lassak J, Stritzel J, Schlundt A, Brewer TE (2026) Constant Trouble with Prolines — Navigating a Global Translation Dilemma. Nucleic Acids Research 54, 3.

Brewer TE, Wagner A (2024) Horizontal gene transfer of a key translation factor and its role in polyproline proteome evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41 (9), msae180.

Brewer TE, Wagner A (2022) Translation stalling proline motifs are enriched in slow-growing, thermophilic, and multicellular bacteria. ISME Journal 16(4), 1065-1073.

Brewer TE, Albertsen M, Edwards A, Kirkegaard RH, Rocha EPC, Fierer N (2020) Unlinked rRNA genes are widespread among bacteria and archaea. ISME Journal 14(2), 597-608.

Brewer TE, Aronson EL, Arogyaswamy K, Billings SA, Botthoff JK, Campbell AN, … Fierer N (2019) Ecological and genomic attributes of novel bacterial taxa that thrive in subsurface soil horizons. MBio 10(5), e01318-19.

Brewer TE, Fierer N (2017) Tales from the tomb: the microbial ecology of exposed rock surfaces. Environmental Microbiology 20(3), 958-970.

Brewer TE, Handley KM, Carini P, Gilbert JA, Fierer N (2016) Genome reduction in an abundant and ubiquitous soil bacterium ‘Candidatus Udaeobacter copiosus’. Nature Microbiology 2(2), 16198.

Brewer TE, Stroupe ME, Jones KM (2014) The genome, proteome and phylogenetic analysis of Sinorhizobium meliloti phage ΦM12, the founder of a new group of T4-superfamily phages. Virology 450–451, 84-97.