Thomas R. Ioerger

Publications

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Research Areas

TnSeq

Choudhery, S., Brown, A.J., Akusobi, C., Rubin, E.J., Sassetti, C.M., and Ioerger, T.R (2021). Modeling site-specific nucleotide biases affecting Himar1 transposon insertion frequencies in TnSeq datasets. mSystems, 6(5):e0087621.
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Subramaniyam, S., DeJesus, M.A., Zaveri, A., Smith, C.M., Baker, R.E., Ehrt, S., Schnappinger, D., Sassetti, C.M., and Ioerger, T.R. (2019). Statistical analysis of variability in TnSeq data across conditions using Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Regression. BMC Bioinformatics, 20(1):603. pubmed

DeJesus, M.A., Nambi, S., Smith, C.M., Baker, R.E., Sassetti, C.M., and Ioerger, T.R. (2017). Statistical Analysis of Genetic Interactions in TnSeq Data. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(11):e93. pubmed PDF

DeJesus, M.A., Gerrick, E.R., Xu, W., Park, S.W., Long, J.E., Boutte, C.C., Rubin, E.J., Schnappinger, D., Ehrt, S., Fortune, S.M., Sassetti, C.M., and Ioerger, T.R. (2017). Comprehensive essentiality analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome via saturating transposon mutagenesis. mBio, 8(1):e02133-16. pubmed PDF

DeJesus, M.A. and Ioerger, T.R. (2016). Normalization of transposon-mutant library sequencing datasets to improve identification of conditionally essential genes. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 14(3):1642004. pubmed PDF

DeJesus, M.A., Ambadipudi, C., Baker, R., Sassetti, C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2015). TRANSIT - a Software Tool for Himar1 TnSeq Analysis. PLOS Computational Biology, 11(10):e1004401. pubmed PDF

DeJesus, M.A. and Ioerger, T.R. (2015). Reducing type I errors in Tn-Seq experiments by correcting the skew in read count distributions. 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB 2015). Best Paper Award! PDF

DeJesus, M.A. and Ioerger, T.R. (2014). Capturing uncertainty by modeling local transposon insertion frequencies improves discrimination of essential genes. IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 12(1):92-102. pubmed PDF

DeJesus, M.A. and Ioerger, T.R. (2013). A Hidden Markov Model for identifying essential and growth-defect regions in bacterial genomes from transposon insertion sequencing data. BMC Bioinformatics, 14:303. pubmed PDF

DeJesus, M.A. and Ioerger, T.R. (2013). Improving discrimination of essential genes by modeling local insertion frequencies in transposon mutagenesis data. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (ACM-BCB), Washington, DC, Sept 22-25, 2013. Best paper award! PDF

DeJesus, M.A., Zhang, Y.J., Sassettti, C.M., Rubin, E.J., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2013). Bayesian analysis of gene essentiality based on sequencing of transposon insertion libraries. Bioinformatics, 29(6):695-703. pubmed PDF

Zhang, Y.J., Ioerger, T.R., Huttenhower, C., Chen, X., Mohaideen, N., Long, J., Sassetti, C.M., Sacchettini, J.C. and Rubin, E.J. (2012). Global assessment of genomic regions required for growth in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS Pathogens, 8(9):e1002946. pubmed PDF

Griffin, J.E., Gawronski, J.D., DeJesus, M.A., Ioerger, T.R., Akerley, B.J., Sassetti, C.M. (2011). High-resolution phenotypic profiling defines genes essential for mycobacterial survival and cholesterol catabolism. PLoS Pathogens, 7(9):e1002251. pubmed PDF

Ioerger, T.R. (2022). Analysis of Gene Essentiality from TnSeq Data Using Transit. in: Zhang R. (eds) Essential Genes and Genomes. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2377. Humana, New York, NY, 2377:391-421. pubmed

Long, J.E., DeJesus, M., Ward, D., Baker, R.E., Ioerger, T.R. and Sassetti, C.M. (2015). Identifying essential genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by global phenotypic profiling. in: Methods in Molecular Biology: Gene Essentiality, (Long Jason Lu, ed.), vol. 1279.

Drug Discovery

Yadav, V., Boshoff, H., Trifonov, L., Roma, J., Ioerger, T., Barry, C., Oh, S. (2023). Synthesis and structure-activity relationships of a new class of oxadiazoles targeting DprE1 as antitubercular agents. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 14(9):1275-1283. pubmed

Koller, T., Scheid, U,. Koesel, T,. Herrmann, J,. Krug, D,. Boshoff, H., Beckert, B., Evans, J., Schlemmer, J., Sloan, B., Weiner, D., Via, L., Moosa, A., Ioerger, T., Graf, M., Zinshteyn, B., Abdelshahid, M., Nguyen, F., Arenz, S., Gille, F., Siebke, M., Seedorf, T., Plettenburg, O., Green, R., Warnke, A.-L., Ullrich, J., Warrass, R., Barry, C., Warner, D., Mizrahi, V., Kirschning, A., Wilson, D., Mueller, R. (2022). The Myxobacterial Antibiotic Myxovalargin: Biosynthesis, Structural Revision, Total Synthesis and Molecular Characterization of Ribosomal Inhibition. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(2):851-863. pubmed

Singh, V., Grzegorzewicz, A., Fienberg, S., Mueller, R., Khonde, L.P., Sanz, O., Alfonso, S., Urones, B., Drewes, G., Bantscheff, M., Ghidelli-Disse, S., Ioerger, T.R., Angala, B., Liu, J., Lee, R., Sacchettini, J.C., Krieger, I., Jackson, M., Chibale, K., Ghorpade, S. (2022). 1,3-Diarylpyrazolyl-acylsulfonamides target HadAB/BC complex in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ACS Infectious Diseases, 8(11):2315-2326. pubmed

Pepi MJ, Chacko S, Marqus GM, Singh V, Wang Z, Planck K, Cullinane RT, Meka PN, Gollapalli DR, Ioerger TR, Rhee KY, Cuny GD, Boshoff HIM, Hedstrom L. (2022). A D-phenylalanine-benzoxazole derivative reveals the role of the essential enzyme Rv3603c in the pantothenate biosynthetic pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ACS Infectious Diseases, 8(2):330-342. pubmed

Consalvi, S., Venditti, G., Zhu, J., Boshoff, H.I., Arora, K., De Logu, A., Ioerger, T.R., Rubin, E.J., Biava, M., and Poce, G. (2021). 6-Fluorophenylbenzohydrazides inhibit Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth through alteration of tryptophan biosynthesis. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 226:113843. pubmed

Oh S, Libardo MDJ, Azeeza S, Pauly GT, Roma JSO, Sajid A, Tateishi Y, Duncombe C, Goodwin M, Ioerger TR, Wyatt PG, Ray PC, Gray DW, Boshoff HIM, Barry CE 3rd. (2021). Structure-Activity Relationships of Pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7(4H)-ones as Antitubercular Agents. ACS Infectious Diseases, 7(2):479-492. pubmed

Libardo MDJ, Duncombe CJ, Green SR, Wyatt PG, Thompson S, Ray PC, Ioerger TR, Oh S, Goodwin MB, Boshoff HIM, Barry CE 3rd. (2021). Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to indole 4-carboxamides occurs through alterations in drug metabolism and tryptophan biosynthesis. Cell Chem Biol, 28(8):1180-1191.e20. pubmed

Shelton, C., McNeil, M., Early, J., Ioerger, T.R., and Parish, T. (2021). Deletion of Rv2571c confers resistance to arylamide compounds in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 65(5):e02334-20. pubmed

Chengalroyen, M.D., Jordaan, A., Seldon, R., Ioerger, T.R., Franzblau, S.G., Nasr, M., Warner, D.F., and Mizrahi, V. (2020). Biological profiling enables rapid mechanistic classification of phenotypic screening hits and identification of KatG activation-dependent pyridine carboxamide prodrugs with activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10:582416. pubmed

Rehberg, N., Sommer, G., Driessen, D., Kruppa, M., Adeniyi, E., Chen, S., Wang, L., Wolf, K., Tasch, B, Ioerger, T.R., Zhu, K, Mueller, T.J.J. and Kalscheuer, R.K. (2020). Nature-inspired (di)azine-bridged bisindole alkaloids with potent antibacterial in vitro and in vivo efficacy against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 63(21):12623-12641. pubmed

van Geelen, L., Kaschani, F., Sazzadeh, S.S., Adeniyi, E.T., Meier, D., Proksch, P., Pfeffer, K., Kaiser, M., Ioerger, T.R., and Kalscheuer, R. (2020). Natural brominated phenoxyphenols kill persistent and biofilm-incorporated cells of MRSA and other pathogenic bacteria. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 104(13):5985-5998. pubmed

Akester, J., Njaria, P., Nchinda, A., Le Manach, C., Myrick, A., Singh, V., Lawrence, N., Njoroge, M., Taylor, D., Moosa, A., Smith, A., Brooks, E., Lenaerts, A., Robertson, G., Ioerger, T.R., Mueller, R., and Chibale, K. (2020). Synthesis, structure activity relationship and mechanistic studies of aminoquinazolinones displaying antimycobacterial activity. ACS Infectious Diseases, 6(7):1951-1964. pubmed

Poce, G., Consalvi, S., Venditti, G., Alfonso, S., Desideri, N., Fernandez-Menendez, R., Bates, R., Ballell, L., Barros Aguirre, D., Rullas, J., De Logu, A., Gardner, M., Ioerger, T.R., Rubin, E. and Biava, M. (2019). Novel pyrazole containing compounds active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 10(10):1423-1429. pubmed

Park, Y. Ahn, Y.-M., Jonnala, S., Oh, S., Fisher, J., Goodwin, M. Ioerger, T.R., Via, L., Bayliss, T., Green, S., Ray, P., Wyatt, P., Barry, C., and Boshoff, H. (2019). Inhibition of CorA-dependent magnesium homeostasis is cidal in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy, 63(10):e01006-19. pubmed

Rehberg, N., Omeje, E., Ebada, S., van Geelen, L., Liu, Z, Sureechatchayan, P., Kassack, M., Ioerger, T.R., Proksch, P. and Kalscheuer, R. (2019). 3-O-Methyl-alkylgallates inhibit fatty acid desaturation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 63(9):e00136-19. pubmed

Johnson, E.O., LaVerriere, E., Stanley, M., Office, E., Meyer, E., Kawate, T., Gomez, J., Audette, R.E., Bandyopadhyay, N., Betancourt, N., Delano, K., Da Silva, I., Davis, J., Gallo, C., Gardner, M., Golas, A., Guinn, K.M., Korn, R., McConnell, J.A., Moss, C.E., Murphy, K.C., Neitupski, R., Papavinasasundaram, K.G., Pinkham, J.T., Pine, P.A., Proulx, M.K., Ruecker, N., Song, N., Thompson, M., Trujillo, C., Wakabayashi, S., Wallack, J.B., Watson, C., Ioerger, T.R,. Lander, E.S., Hubbard, B.K., Serrano-Wu, M.H., Ehrt, S., Fitzgerald, M., Rubin, E.J., Sassetti, C.M., Schnappinger, D., and Hung, D.T. (2019). Large-scale chemical-genetics yields new M. tuberculosis inhibitor classes. Nature, s41586-019-1315-z. pubmed PDF

Ballinger, E, Mosior, J., Harman, T., Burns-Huang, K. Gold, B., Morris, R., Goullieux, L., Blanc, I., Lagrange, Sl., Fraisee, L., Sans, S., Couturier, C., Bacque, E., Rhee, K., Scarry, S.M., Aube, J., Yang, G., Ouerfelli, O., Schnappinger, D., Ioerger, T.R., Engelhart, C.A., McConnell, J.A., McAulay, K., Roubert, C., Sacchettini, J.C., and Nathan, C. (2019). Opposing reactions in coenzyme A metabolism make Mycobacterium tuberculosis vulnerable to inhibition of a new target. Science, 363(6426):eaau8959. pubmed PDF

Singh, S.B., Odingo, J., Bailey, M.A., Sunde, B., Korkegian, A., O'Malley, T., Ovechkina, Y., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Young, K., Olsen, D.B., and Parish, T. (2018). Identification of cyclic hexapeptides natural products with inhibitory potency against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. BMC Research Notes, 11(1):416. pubmed PDF

Xia, Y., Zhou, Y., Carter, D., McNeil, M., Choi, W., Halladay, J., Berry, P., Mao, W., Hernandez, V., O'Malley, T., Korkegian, A., Sunde, B., Flint, L., Woolhiser, L., Scherman, M., Gruppo, V., Hastings, C., Robertson, G., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Tonge, P., Lenaerts, A., Parish, T., and M.R.K. Alley (2018). Discovery of a cofactor-independent inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis InhA. Life Science Alliance, 113(49):E7880-E7889. pubmed PDF

Ganley, J.G. Carr, G., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Clardy, J. and Derbyshire, E.R. (2018). Discovery of antimicrobial lipodepsipeptides produced by a Serratia sp. within mosquito microbiomes. ChemBioChem, 19(15):1590-1594. pubmed PDF

Murugesan, D., Ray, P.C., Bayliss, T., Prosser, G.A., Harrison, J.R., Green, K., Soares de Melo, C., Feng, T.-S., Street, L.J., Chibale, K., Warner, D.F., Mizrahi, V., Epemolu, O., Scullion, P., Ellis, L., Riley, J., Shishikura, Y., Ferguson, L., Osuna-Cabello, M., Read, K.D., Green, S.R., Lamprecht, D.A., Finin, P.M., Steyn, A.J.C., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Rhee, K.Y., Arora, K., Barry, III, C.E., Wyatt, P.G., Boshoff, H.I.M. (2018). 2-Mercapto-quinazolinones as inhibitors of NDH-2 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Structure-activity relationships, mechanism of action and ADME characterization. ACS Infectious Diseases, 4(6):954-969. pubmed PDF

Negri, A., Javidnia, P., Mu, R., Zhang, X., Vendome, A., Gold, B., Roberts, J., Barman, D., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Jiang, X., Burns-Huang, K., Warrier, T., Ling, Y., Warren, D., Oren, D., Beuming, T., Wang, H., Wu, J., Li, H., Rhee, K., Nathan, C., Liu, G., Somersan-Karakaya, S. (2018). Identification of a mycothiol-dependent nitroreductase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ACS Infectious Disease, 4(5):771-787. pubmed PDF

Tiwari, D., Park, S.W., Essawy, M.M., Dawadi, S., Mason, A., Nandakumar, M., Zimmerman, M., Mina, M., Ho, H.P., Engelhart, C., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Rhee, K., Ehrt, S., Aldrich, C.C., Dartois, V. and Schnappinger, D. (2018). Targeting protein biotinylation enhances tuberculosis chemotherapy. Science Translational Medicine, 10:eeal1803. pubmed PDF

Korkegian, A., O'Malley, T., Xia, Y., Zhou, Y., Carter, D.S., Sunde, B., Flint, L., Thompson, D., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Alley, M.R.K,., Parish, T. (2018). The 7-phenyl benzoxaborole series is active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, 108:96-98. pubmed PDF

Rehberg, N., Akone, H., Ioerger, T.R., Erlenkamp, G., Daletos, G., Gohlke, H., Proksch, P., and Kalscheuer, R. (2017). Chlorflavonin targets acetohydroxyacid synthase catalytic subunit IlvB1 for synergistic killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ACS Infectious Disease, 4(2):123-134. pubmed PDF

Chandrasekara, N., Berube, B., Shetye, G., O'Malley, T., Chettiar, S., Manning, A., Flint, L., Awasthi, D., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Masquelin, T., Hipskind, P., Odingo, J. and Parish, T. (2017). Improved phenoxyalkylbenzimidazoles with activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis appear to target QcrB. ACS Infectious Diseases, 3(12):898-916. pubmed PDF

Moosa, A., Lamprecht, D., Arora, K., Barry C.E., Boshoff, H.I.M., Ioerger, T.R., Steyn, A., Mizrahi, V. and Warner, D. (2017). Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cytochrome bd oxidase mutants to compounds targeting the terminal respiratory oxidase, cytochrome c. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 61(10):e01338-17. pubmed PDF

Patel, N., O'Malley, T., Zhang, Y.-K., Xia, Y., Sunde, B., Flint, L., Korkegian, A., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Alley, M.R.K, and Parish, T. (2017). A novel 6-benzyl ether benzoxaborole is active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 61(9):e01205-17. pubmed PDF

Aggarwal, A., Parai, M.K., Shetty, N., Wallis, D., Woolhiser, L., Hastings, C., Dutta, N.K., Galaviz, S., Dhakal, R.C., Shrestha, R., Wakabayashi, S., Walpole, C., Matthews, D., Floyd, D., Scullion, P., Riley, J., Epemolu, O., Norval, S., Snavely, T., Robertson, G.T., Rubin, E.J., Ioerger, T.R., Sirgel, E.A., van der Merwe, R., van Helden, P.D., Keller, P., Böttger, E.C., Karakousis, P.C., Lenaerts, A.J., Sacchettini, J.C. (2017). Development of a novel lead that targets M. tuberculosis polyketide synthase 13. Cell, 170(2):249-259. pubmed PDF

Park, Y., Pacitto, A., Bayliss, T., Cleghorn, L.A.T, Wang, Z., Hartman, T., Arora, K., Ioerger, T.R., Saccettini, J.C., Rizzi, M., Zhou, N., Dartois, V., Jonnala, S., Via, L.E., Mizrahi, V., et al, Barry, C.E. and Boshoff, H.I.M. (2017). Essential but not vulnerable: indazole sulfonamides targeting IMPDH as potential leads against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ACS Infectious Diseases, 3(1):18-33. pubmed PDF

Palencia, A. Li, X., Bu., W., Choi, W., Ding, C., Easom, E., Feng, L., Hernandez, V., Houston, P., Liu, L., Meewan, M., Mohan, M., Rock, F., Sexton, H., Zhang, S., Zhou, Y., Wan, B., Wang, Y., Franzblau, S., Woolhiser, L., Gruppo, V., Lenaerts, A., O'Malley, T., Parish, T., Cooper, C., Waters, M.G., Ma, Z., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Rullas, J., Angulo-Barturen, I., Perez-Herran, E., Mendoza-Losana, A., Barros-Aquirre, D., Cusack, S., Plattner, J., and Alley, M.R.K. (2016). Discovery of novel oral protein synthesis inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that target leucyl-tRNA synthetase. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 60(10):6271-80. pubmed PDF

Warrier, T., Kapilashrami, K., Argyou, A., Ioerger, T.R., Little, D., Murphy, K., Nandakumar, M., Park, S., Gold, B., Mi, J., Zhang, T., Meiler, E., Rees, M., Somersan-Karakaya, S., Porras-De Francisco, E., Martinez-Hoyos, M., Burns-Huang, K., Roberts, J., Ling, Y., Rhee, K., Mendoza-Losana, A., Luo, M. and Nathan, C. (2016). N-methylation of a bactericidal compound as a resistance mechanism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PNAS, 113(31):E4523-E4530. pubmed PDF

Dragset, M., Poce, G., Alfonso, S., Padilla-Benavides, T., Ioerger, T.R., Kaneko, T., Sacchettini, J.C., Biava, M., Parish, T., Arguello, J., Steigedal, M., and Rubin, E.J. (2015). A novel antimycobacterial compound acts as an intracellular iron chelator. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 59(4):2256-64. pubmed PDF

Odingo J, O'Malley T, Kesicki EA, Alling T, Bailey MA, Early J, Ollinger J, Dalai S, Kumar N, Singh RV, Hipskind PA, Cramer JW, Ioerger T, Sacchettini J, Vickers R, Parish T. (2014). Synthesis and evaluation of the 2,4-diaminoquinazoline series as anti-tubercular agents. Bioorg Med Chem., 22(24):6965-79. pubmed PDF

Ioerger, T.R., O'Malley, T., Liao, R., Guinn, K.M., Hickey, M.J., Mohaideen, N., Murphy, K.C., Boshoff, H.I.M., Mizrahi, V., Rubin, E.J., Sassetti, C.M., Barry, C.E., Sherman, D.R., Parish, T., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2013). Identification of new drug targets and resistance mechanisms in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLOS ONE, 8(9):e75245. pubmed PDF

Stanley, S.A., Kawate, T., Iwase, N., Shimizu, M., Clatworthy, A., Kazyanskaya, E., Sacchettini, J.C., Ioerger, T.R., Siddiqi, N., Minami, S., Aquadro, J.A., Grant, S.S., Rubin, E.J. and Hung, D.T. (2013). Diarylcoumarins inhibit mycolic acid biosynthesis and kill M. tuberculosis by targeting FadD32. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 110(28):11565-70. pubmed PDF

Krieger, I., Freundlich, J., Gawandi, Vijay, Roberts, J., Gawandi, Vidya, Sun, Q., Owen, J., Fraile, M., Huss, S., Duncan, K., Lavandera, J.-L., Ioerger, T.R., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2012). Structure-guided discovery of phenyl diketo-acids as potent inhibitors of M. tuberculosis malate synthase. Chemistry & Biology, 19(12):1556-1567. pubmed PDF

La Rosa, V., Poce, G., Canseco, J.O., Buroni, S., Pasca, M.R., Biava, M., Raju, R.M., Porretta, C. Alfonso, S. Battilocchio, C., Javid, B., Sorrentino, F., Ioerger, T., Sacchettini, J., Manetti, F., Botta, M., De Logu, A., Rubin, E., and De Rossi, E. (2012). MmpL3 is the cellular target of the antitubercular pyrrole derivative BM212. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 56(1):324-31. pubmed PDF

Cho, Y., Ioerger, T.R. and Sacchettini, J.C. (2008). Discovery of novel nitrobenzothiazole inhibitors for M. tuberculosis ATP phosphoribosyl transferase (HisG) through virtual screening. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 51(19):5984-5992. pubmed

Antibiotic Resistance

Omollo, C., Singh, V., Kigondu, E., Wasuna, A., Agarwal, P., Moosa, A., Ioerger, T.R., Mizrahi, V., Chibale, K. and Warner, D. (2021). Developing synergistic drug combinations to restore antibiotic sensitivity in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 5(5):e02554-20. pubmed

Rifat, D., Li, S-Y, Ioerger, T.R., Shah, K. Lanoix, J-P, Lee, J. Bashiri, G., Sacchettini, J.C., and Nuermberger, E. (2020). Mutations in fbiD (Rv2983) as a novel determinant of resistance to pretomanid and delamanid in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, AAC.01948-20. pubmed

Morbidoni, H.R., de loa Iglesia, A.I., Figueroa, V., di Capua, C., Ioerger, T.R., and Parish, T. (2019). Mutations in the anti-sigma H factor RshA confer resistance to econazole and clotrimazole in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Access Microbiology, 1(10):acmi.0.0000070.

Farhat, M.R., Freschi, L., Calderon, R., Ioerger, T.R., Snyder, M., Meehan, C.J., de Jong, B., Rigouts, L., Sloutsky, A., Kaur, D., Sunyaev, S., van Soolingen, D., Shendure, J., Sacchettini, J.C., and Murray, M. (2019). Genome wide association with quantitative resistance phenotypes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals novel resistance genes and regulatory regions. Nature Communications, 10(1):2128. pubmed PDF

Blanc, L., Sarathy, J., Cabrera, N.A., O'Brien, P., Dias-Freedman, I., Mina, M., Sacchettini, J.C., Savic, R., Gengenbacher, M., Podell, B., Prideaux, B., Ioerger, T.R., Dick, T., and Dartois, V. (2018). Impact of immunopathology on the antituberculous activity of pyrazinamide. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 215(8):1975-1986. pubmed PDF

Campodonico, V.L., Rifat, D., Chuang, Y.-M., Ioerger, T.R, and Karakousis, P.C. (2018). Altered Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall metabolism and physiology associated with RpoB mutation H526D. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9:494. pubmed PDF

Xu, W., DeJesus, M.A., Rucker, N., Engelhart, C., Wright, M.G., Healy, C., Lin, K., Wang, R., Park, S.W., Ioerger, T.R., Schnappinger, D., and Ehrt, S. (2017). Chemical genomic interaction profiling reveals determinants of antibiotic susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 61(12):e01334-17. pubmed PDF

Yadon, A.N., Maharaj, K., Adamson, J.H., Lai, Y.-P., Sacchettini, J.C., Ioerger, T.R., Rubin, E.J., and Pym, A.S. (2017). Comprehensive characterization of pncA polymorphisms conferring resistance to pyrazinamide. Nature Communications, 8(1):588. pubmed PDF

Gomez, J., Kaufmann-Malaga, B., Wivagg, C., Kim, P., Silvis, M., Renedo, N., Ahmad, R., Livny, J., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Carr, S., and Hung, D. (2017). Ribosomal mutations promote the evolution of antibiotic resistance in a multidrug environment. eLife, 6:e20420. pubmed PDF

Lanzas, F., Ioerger, T.R., Shah, H., Acosta, W., and Karakousis, P.C. (2016). First evaluation of GenoType MTBDRPlus 2.0 performed directly on respiratory specimens in Central America. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 54(10):2498-502. pubmed PDF

Almeida, D., Ioerger, T.R., Tyagi, S. Li, S.-Y., Mdluli, K., Andries, K., Grosset, J., Sacchettini, J.C., and Nuermberger, E. (2016) Mutations in pepQ confer low-level resistance to bedaquiline and clofazimine in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 60(8):4590-9. pubmed PDF

Lanoix, J.P, Ioerger, T.R., Ormond, A., Kaya, F., Sacchettini, J., Dartois, V., and Nuermberger, E. (2015). Selective inactivity of pyrazinamide against tuberculosis in C3HeB/FeJ mice is best explained by neutral pH of caseum. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 60(2):735-43. pubmed PDF

Chia, B.-S., Lanzas, F., Rifat, D., Herrera, A., Kim, E.Y., Sailer, C., Torres-Chavolla, E., Narayanaswamy, P., Einarsson, V., Bravo, J., Pascale, J.M., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchttini, J.C. and Karakousis, P.C. (2012). Use of multiplex allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (MAS-PCR) to detect multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in Panama. PLoS ONE, 7(7):e40456. pubmed PDF

Wang, F., Jain, P., Gulten, G., Liu, Z., Feng, Y., Ganesula, K., Motiwala, A.S., Ioerger, T.R., Alland, D., Vilcheze, C., Jacobs, W.R. and Sacchettini1, J.C. (2010). Mycobacterium tuberculosis dihydrofolate reductase is not a target relevant to the anti-tubercular activity of isoniazid. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 54(9):3776-3782. pubmed PDF

Tuberculosis Biology

Zhou, Y., Sun, H., Vargas-Blanco, D.A., Martini, M.C., Raplejkl, A.R., Chase, M.R., Jourban, S.R., Davis, A.B., Dainis, J.P., Kelly, J.M., Ioerger, T.R., Roberts, L.A., Fortune, S.M., and Shell, S.S. (2023). Mycobacterial RNase E cleaves with a distinct sequence preference and controls the degradation rates of most Mycolicibacterium smegmatis mRNAs. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 299(11):105312. pubmed

Matern, W.M., Harris, H.T., Danchik, C., McDonald, M, Patel, G., Srivastava, A. Ioerger, T.R., Bader, J.S., and Karakousis, P.C. (2023). Functional whole genome screen of nutrient-starved Mycobacterium tuberculosis identifies genes involved in antibiotic tolerance. Microorganisms, 11(9):2269. pubmed

Nelson SJ, Williams JT, Buglino JA, Nambi S, Lojek LJ, Glickman MS, Ioerger TR, Sassetti CM. (2023). The Rip1 intramembrane protease contributes to iron and zinc homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mSphere, e0038922. pubmed

Vargas, R., Luna, M.J., Freschi, L., Marin, M., Froom, R., Murphy, K.C., Campbell, E.A., Ioerger, T.R., Sassetti, C.M., and Farhat M.R. (2023). Phase variation as a major mechanism of adaptation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. PNAS, 120(28):e2301394120. pubmed

Akusobi, C., Benghomari, B.S., Zhu, J., Wolf, I.D., Singhvi, S., Dulberger, C.L., Ioerger, T.R., and Rubin, E.J. (2022). High-density transposon mutagenesis in Mycobacterium abscessus identifies an essential penicillin-binding lipo-protein (PBP-lipo) involved in septal peptidoglycan synthesis and antibiotic sensitivity. eLife, 10.7554/eLife.71947. pubmed

Koh EI, Oluoch PO, Ruecker N, Proulx MK, Soni V, Murphy KC, Papavinasasundaram K, Reames CJ, Trujillo C, Zaveri A, Zimmerman MD, Aslebagh R, Baker RE, Shaffer SA, Guinn KM, Fitzgerald M, Dartois V, Ehrt S, Hung DT, Ioerger TR, Rubin EJ, Rhee KY, Schnappinger D, Sassetti CM. (2022). Chemical-genetic interaction mapping links carbon metabolism and cell wall structure to tuberculosis drug efficacy. PNAS, 119(15):e2201632119. pubmed

Carey, A., Wang, X., Cicchetti, N., Spaulding, C., Liu, Q., Hopkins, F., Brown, J., Sixsmith, J., Sutiwisesak, R., Behar, S., Ioerger, T.R., and Fortune, S. (2022). Multiplexed strain phenotyping defines consequences of genetic diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis for infection and vaccination outcomes. mSystems, 7(3):e0011022. pubmed

Smith, C.M., Baker, R.E., Proulx, M.K., Mishra, B.B., Long, J.E., Park, S.W., Lee, H.-N., Kiritsy, M.C., Bellerose, M.M., Olive, A.J., Murphy, K.C., Papavinasasundaram, K. Boehm, F.J., Reames, C.J., Meade, R.K., Hampton, B.K., Linnertz, C.L., Shaw, G.D., Hock, P., Bell, T.A., Ehrt, S., Schnappinger, D., Pardo-Manuel de Villena, F., Ferris, M.T., Ioerger, T.R., and Sassetti, C.M. (2022). Host-pathogen genetic interactions underlie tuberculosis susceptibility in genetically diverse mice. eLife, 11:e74419. pubmed

Babu Sait, M.R., Koliwer-Brandl, H., Stewart, J.A., Swarts, B.M., Jacobsen, M., Ioerger, T.R., and Kalscheuer R. (2022). PPE51 mediates uptake of trehalose across the mycomembrane of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Scientific Reports, 12(1):2097. pubmed

Mesman, A., Baek, S.-H., Huang, C.-C., Kim, Y.M., Cho, S.-R., Ioerger, T.R, Barreda, N.N., Calderon, R., Sassetti, C.M., and Murray, M. (2021). Characterization of drug-resistant lipid-dependent differentially detectable Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10(15):3249. pubmed

Su, H., Lin, K., Tiwari, D., Healy, C., Trujillo, C., Liu, Y., Ioerger, T.R., Schnappinger, D., and Ehrt, S. (2021). Genetic models of latent tuberculosis in mice reveal differential control by adaptive immunity. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 218(9):e20210332. pubmed

Fishbein, S., Tomasi, F., Wolf, I., Dulberger, C., Wang, A., Keshishian, H., Wallace, L., Carr, S., Ioerger, T.R., Rego, E.H. and Rubin, E.J. (2020). The conserved translation factor LepA is required for optimal synthesis of a porin family in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Journal of Bacteriology, 203(6):e00604-20. pubmed

Bandekar, A.C., Subedi, S., Ioerger, T.R., and Sassetti, C.M. (2020). Cell cycle-associated expression patterns predict gene function in mycobacteria. Current Biology, 30(20):3961-3971. pubmed

Bellerose, M.M., Proulx, M.K., Smith, C.M., Baker, R.E., Ioerger, T.R., and Sassetti, C.M. (2020). Distinct bacterial pathways influence the efficacy of antibiotics against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mSystems, 5(4):e00396-20. pubmed

Zhang, L., Hendrickson, R.C., Meikle, V., Lefkowitz, E.J., Ioerger, T.R., and Niederweis, M. (2020). Comprehensive analysis of iron utilization by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS Pathogens, 16(2):e1008337. pubmed

Dragset, M., Ioerger, T.R., Loevenich, M., Haug, M., Sivakumar, N., Marstad, A., Cardona, P., Klinkenberg, G., Rubin, E.J., Steigedal, M., and Flo, T. (2019). Global assessment of Mycobacterium avium subspecies hominissuis genetic requirement for growth and virulence. mSystems, 4(6):e00402-19. pubmed

Dragset, M.S., Ioerger, T.R., Zhang, Y.J., Zekarias, Maerk, M., Ginbot, Z., Sacchettini, J.C., Flo, T.H., Rubin, E.J., Steigedal, M. (2019). Genome-wide phenotypic profiling identifies and categorizes genes required for mycobacterial low iron fitness. Scientific Reports, 9(1):11394. pubmed

Kannan, N., Lai, Y.-P., Haug, M., Lilleness, K., Bakke, S., Marstad, A., Hov, H., Nausdal, T., Afset, J.E., Ioerger, T.R., Flo, T., and Steigedal, M. (2019). Genetic variation/evolution and differential host responses resulting from in-patient adaptation of Mycobacterium avium. Infection and Immunity, IAI.00323-18. pubmed PDF

Wu, K.J., Boutte, C.C., Ioerger, T.R., and Rubin, E.J. (2018). Mycobacterium smegmatis HtrA blocks the toxic activity of a putative cell wall amidase. Cell Reports, 27(8):2468-2479.e3. pubmed PDF

Steindor, M., Nkwouano, V. Stefanski, A., Stuehler, K., Ioerger, T.R., Bogumil, D., Jacobsen, M., Mackenzie, C.R., Kalscheuer, R. (2018). A proteomics approach for the identification of species-specific immunogenic proteins in the Mycobacterium abscessus complex. Microbes and Infection, pii: S1286-4579(18)30168-0. pubmed PDF

Rego, H., Baranowski, C., Welch, M., Sham, L.-T., Eskandarian, H., Lim, H., Kieser, K., Wagner, J., McKinney, J., Fantner, G., Ioerger, T.R., Walker, S., Berhardt, T., and Rubin, E.J. (2018). Maturing Mycobacterium smegmatis peptidoglycan requires non-canonical crosslinks to maintain shape. eLife, e37516. pubmed PDF

Carey, A.F., Rock, J.M., Krieger, I.V., Chase, M.R., Fernandez-Suarez, M., Gagneux, S., Sacchettini, J.C., Ioerger, T.R, and Fortune, S.M. (2018). TnSeq of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates reveals strain-specific antibiotic liabilities. PLOS Pathogens, 14(3):e1006939. pubmed PDF

Perkowski, E.F., Zulauf, K.E., Weerakoon, D., Hayden, J.D., Ioerger, T.R., Oreper, D., Gomez, S., Sacchettini, J.C., and Braunstein, M. (2017). The EXIT Strategy: An approach for identifying bacterial proteins exported during host infection. mBio, 8(2):e00333-17. pubmed PDF

Puckett, S., Trujillo, C., Wang, Z., Eoh, H., Ioerger, T.R., Krieger, I., Sacchettini, J.C., Schnappinger, D., Rhee, K.Y., and Ehrt, S. (2017). Glyoxylate detoxification is an essential function of malate synthase required for carbon assimilation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PNAS, 114(11):E2225-E2232. pubmed PDF

Korte, J., Alber, M., Trujullo, C.M., Syson, K. Koliwer-Brandl, H., Deenen, R., Köhrer, K., DeJesus, M.A., Hartman, T., Jacobs, W.R. Jr., Bornemann, S., Ioerger, T.R., Ehrt, S., Kalscheuer, R. (2016). Trehalose-6-phosphate-mediated toxicity determines essentiality of OtsB2 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro and in mice. PLOS Pathogens, 12(12):e1006043. pubmed PDF

Koliwer-Brandl, H., Syson, K., van de Weerd, R., Chandra, G., Appelmelk, B., Alber, M., Ioerger, T.R., Jacobs, W.R., Geurtsen, J., Bornemann, S., Kalscheuer, R. (2016). Metabolic network for the biosynthesis of intra- and extracellular alpha-glucans required for virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLOS Pathogens, 12(8):e1005768. pubmed PDF

Boutte, C.C., Baer, C.E., Papavinasasundaram, K., Liu, W., Chase, M.R., Meniche, X., Fortune, S.M., Sassetti, C.M., Ioerger, T.R, and Rubin E.J. (2016). A cytoplasmic peptidoglycan amidase homologue controls mycobacterial cell wall synthesis. eLife, 5:e14590. pubmed PDF

Kieser, K.J., Baranowski, C., Chao, M.C., Long, J.E., Sassetti, C.M., Waldor, M.K., Sacchettini, J.C., Ioerger, T.R, and Rubin, E.J. (2015). Peptidoglycan synthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is organized into networks with varying drug susceptibility. PNAS, 112(42):13087-92. pubmed PDF

Maksymiuk, C., Ioerger, T.R., Balakrishnan, A., Bryk, R., Rhee, K., Sacchettini, J.C., and Nathan C. (2015). Comparison of transposon and deletion mutants in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: The case of Rv1248c, encoding 2-hydroxy-3-oxoadipate synthase. Tuberculosis, 95(6):689-94. pubmed PDF

Shi, X., Festa, R.A., Ioerger, T.R., Butler-Wu, S., Sacchettini, J.C. Darwin, K.H. and Samanovic, M.I. (2014). The copper-responsive RicR regulon contributes to Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence. mBio, e00876-13. pubmed PDF

Lin, P.L., Ford, C.B, Coleman, M.T., Myers, A., Gawande, R., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Fortune, S.M. and Flynn, J.L. (2014). Sterilization of granulomas is common in both active and latent tuberculosis despite extensive within-host variability in bacterial killing. Nature Medicine, 20(1):75-9. pubmed PDF

Zhang, Y.J., Reddy, M.C., Ioerger, T.R., Rothchild, A.C., Dartois, V., Schuster, B.M., Trauner, A., Wallis, D.E., Galaviz, S., Huttenhower, C., Saccettini, J.C., Behar, S.M., and Rubin, E.J. (2013). Tryptophan biosynthesis protects mycobacteria from CD4 T cell-mediated killing. Cell, 155(6):1296-308. pubmed PDF

Ngubane, N.Q.C, Gresh, L., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Zhang, Y.J., Rubin, E.J., Pym, A. and Khati, M. (2013). High-throughput sequencing enhanced phage display identifies peptides that bind mycobacteria. PLOS ONE, e77844. pubmed PDF

Small, J.L., Park, S.W., Kana, B., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C. and Ehrt, S. (2013). Perturbation of cytochrome C maturation reveals adaptability of the respiratory chain in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mBio, 4(5):e00475-13. pubmed PDF

Gopinath, K., Venclovas, C., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., McKinney, J.D., Mizrahi, V. and Warner, D.F. (2013). A vitamin B12 transporter in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Open Biology, 3(2):120175. pubmed PDF

James, J.N., Hasan, Z., Ioerger, T.R., Brown, A.C., Personne, Y., Carroll, P., Ikeh, M., Tilston-Lunel, N.L., Palavecino, C., Sacchettini, J.C., and Parish, T. (2012). Deletion of SenX3-RegX3, a key two component regulatory system of Mycobacterium smegmatis, results in growth defects under phosphate-limiting conditions. Microbiology, 158(Pt 11):2724-31. pubmed PDF

Tuberculosis Genomics

Shell, S.S., Wang, J., Lapierre, P., Mir, M., Chase, M.R., Hunter, M., Gawande, R., Ahmad, R., Sarracino, D., Ioerger, T.R., Fortune, S.M., Derbyshire, K.M., Wade, J.T. and Gray, T.A. (2015). Leaderless transcripts and small proteins are common features of the mycobacterial translational landscape. PLOS Genetics, 11(11): e1005641. pubmed PDF

Lanzas, F., Karakousis, P.K, Sacchettini, J.C. and Ioerger, T.R. (2013). Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Panama is driven by clonal expansion of an MDR-TB strain related to the KZN XDR-TB strain from South Africa. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 51(10):3277-3285. pubmed PDF

DeJesus, M.A., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2013). Reannotation of translational start sites in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, 93:18-25. pubmed PDF

Ford, C., Yusim, K., Ioerger, T.R., Feng, S., Chase, M., Greene, M., Korber, B., and Fortune, S. (2012). Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Heterogeneity revealed through whole genome sequencing. Tuberculosis, 92(3):194-201. pubmed PDF

Ford, C.B., Lin, P.L., Chase, M., Shah, R.R., Iartchouk, O., Galagan, J., Mohaideen, N., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Lipsitch, M., Flynn, J.L., and Fortune, S.M. (2011). Use of whole genome sequencing to estimate the mutation rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during latent infection. Nature Genetics, 43:482.486. pubmed PDF

Ioerger, T.R., Feng, Y., Chen, X., Dobos, K.M., Victor, T.C., Streicher, E.M., Warren, R.M., Gey van Pittius, N.C., Van Helden P.D. and Sacchettini, J.C. (2010). The non-clonality of drug resistance in Beijing-genotype isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Western Cape of South Africa. BMC Genomics, 11(1):670. pubmed PDF

Ioerger, T.R., Feng, Y., Ganseula, K., Chen, X., Dobos, K.M., Fortune, S., Jacobs, W.R., Mizrahi, V., Parish, T., Rubin, E., Sassetti, C. and Sacchettini, J.C. (2010). Variation among genome sequences of H37Rv strains of M. tuberculosis from multiple laboratories. Journal of Bacteriology, 192(14):3645-3653. pubmed PDF

Ioerger, T.R., Koo, S., No, E.-G., Chen, X., Larsen, M.H., Jacobs, W.R., Pillay, M., Sturm, A.W., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2009). Genome analysis of multi- and extensively-drug-resistant Tuberculosis from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PLoS ONE, 4(11):e7778. pubmed PDF

Shell SS, Chase MR, Ioerger TR, Fortune SM. (2015). RNA sequencing for transcript 5'-end mapping in mycobacteria. in Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 1285, pp. 31-45. pubmed

Protein Structures and Structural Genomics

Swanson, S., Ioerger, T.R., Rigel, N.W., Miller, B.K., Braunstein, M., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2016). Structural similarities and differences between two functionally distinct SecA proteins: the Mycobacterium tuberculosis SecA1 and SecA2. Journal of Bacteriology, 198(4):720-30. pubmed PDF

Liu Z, Ioerger TR, Wang F, Sacchettini JC. (2013). Structures of Mtb FadD10 reveal a new type of adenylate-forming enzyme. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 288(25):18473-83. pubmed PDF

Gokulan, K., O'Leary, S.E., Russell, W.K., Russell, D.H., Lalgondar, M., Begley, T.P., Ioerger, T.R., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2013). Crystal structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PKS11 reveals intermediates in the synthesis of methyl-branched alkylpyrones. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 288(23):16484-94. pubmed PDF

Ioerger, T.R. and Sacchettini, J.C. (2009). Structural genomics approach to drug discovery for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 12:318-325. pubmed PDF

Reddy, C.M.C., Kuppan, G., Shetty, N.D., Owen, J.L., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C. (2008). Crystal structures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase in ternary complex with substrate and inhibitors. Protein Science, 17(12):2134-2144. pubmed

Javid-Majd, F., Yang, D., Ioerger, T.R., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2008). The 1.25 A resolution structure of phosphoribosyl-ATP pyrophosphohydrolase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Acta Crystallographica, D:64(6):627-635. pubmed

Reddy C.M., Gokulan, K., Jacobs, W.R., Ioerger, T.R., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2008). Crystal structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis LrpA, a leucine-responsive global regulator associated with starvation response. Protein Science, 17(1):159-170. pubmed

Murillo, A.C., Alber, T.C., Baker, E.N., Berger, J.M., Cherney, L.T., Cherney, M.M., Eisenberg, D., Garen, C.R., Hung, L.W., Ioerger, T.R., Jacobs, W.R., James, M.N.G., Kim, C., Kriger, I., Li, H., Lott, J.S., Sankaranarayanan, R., Segelke, B.R., Terwilliger, T.C., Wang, F., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2007). High Throughput Crystallography of TB Drug Targets. Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets, 7(2):127-139. pubmed

Ye S, Vakonakis I, Ioerger TR, LiWang AC, Sacchettini JC. (2004). Crystal structure of circadian clock protein KaiA from Synechococcus elongatus. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279(19):20511-20518. pubmed

Musa, T.L., Ioerger, T.R., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2009). The Tuberculosis Structural Genomics Consortium: A Structural Genomics Approach to Drug Discovery. Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology, Volume 77, pp. 41-76.

Protein Crystallography

Gopal, K., McKee, E., Romo, T., Pai, R., Smith, J., Sacchettini, J.C. and Ioerger, T.R. (2007). Crystallographic Protein Model-Building on the Web. Bioinformatics, 23:375-377.

Romo, T.D., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2006). Improving amino acid identification, fit, and C-alpha prediction using the Simplex method in automated model building. Acta Crystallographica, D62(11):1401-1406. pubmed PDF

Gopal, K., Romo, T.D., McKee, E.W., Pai, R., Smith, J.N., Sacchettini, J.C. and Ioerger, T.R. (2006). TEXTAL: Crystallographic Model Building Using AI and Pattern Recognition. AI Magazine, 27(3):15-24. AI Mag PDF

Pai, R., Sacchettini, J.C. and Ioerger, T.R. (2006). Identifying non-crystallographic symmetry in protein electron-density maps: a feature-based approach. Acta Crystallographica, D62(9):1012-1021. PDF

Romo, T.D., Gopal, K., McKee, E., Kanbi, L., Pai, R., Smith, J., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2005). TEXTAL: AI-based Structural Determination for X-ray Protein Crystallography. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 20(6):59-63. PDF

McKee, E.W., Kanbi, L.D., Childs, K.L., Grosse-Kunstleve, R.W., Adams, P.D., Sacchettini J.C. and Ioerger, T.R. (2005). FINDMOL: Automated Identification of Macromolecules in Electron Density Maps. Acta Crystallographica, D61(11):1514-1520. pubmed

Gopal, K., Romo, T., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2005). Determining Relevant Features to Recognize Electron Density Patterns in X-ray Protein Crystallography. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 3(3):645-676. pubmed, PDF

Ioerger, T.R. (2005). Automated detection of disulfide bridges in electron density maps using linear discriminant analysis. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 38(1):121-125. paper PDF

Gopal, K., Romo, T., McKee, E., Childs, K., Pai, R., Smith, J., Sacchettini, J., and Ioerger, T. (2005). TEXTAL: Automated Crystallographic Protein Structure Determination. Proc. 17th Conference on Innovative Applications in Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-05), 1483-1490. (acceptance rate = 18/48 = 38%)

Adams PD, Gopal K, Grosse-Kunstleve RW, Hung LW, Ioerger TR, McCoy AJ, Moriarty NW, Pai RK, Read RJ, Romo TD, Sacchettini JC, Sauter NK, Storoni LC, Terwilliger TC. (2004). Recent developments in the PHENIX software for automated crystallographic structure determination. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 11:53-55.

Gopal, K., Romo, T., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2004). Efficient Retrieval of Electron Density Patterns for Modeling Proteins by X-ray Crystallography. Proc. International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'04), 380-387. (acceptance rate = 67/93 = 72%)

Gopal, K., Romo, T.D., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2004). Weighting Features to Recognize 3D Patterns of Electron Density in X-ray Protein Crystallography. Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB 2004), 255-265. Stanford, CA, Aug 16-19. (acceptance rate = 30/202 = 15%) PDF

Gopal, K., Romo, T.D., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2004). Evaluation of Geometric and Probabilistic Distance Measures to Retrieve Electron Density Patterns for Protein Structure Determination. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 427-432. June 21-24, Las Vegas. (acceptance rate = 20% for RRPs) PDF

Gopal, K., Pai, R., Ioerger, T.R., Romo, T., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2003). TEXTAL: Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Automated Protein Structure Determination. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), 93-100. text&info

Ioerger, T.R. and Sacchettini, J.C. (2002). Automatic Modeling of Protein Backbones in Electron Density Maps via Prediction of C-alpha Coordinates. Acta Crystallographica, D58(12):2043-2054. abstract PDF

Adams, P.D., Grosse-Kunstleve, R.W., Hung, L.W., Ioerger, T.R., McCoy, A.J., Moriarty, N.W., Read, R.J., Sacchettini, J.C., Sauter, N.K., and Terwilliger, T.C. (2002). PHENIX: Building New Software for Automated Crystallographic Structure Determination. Acta Crystallographica, D58:1948-1954. abstract

Holton, T.R., Christopher, J.A., Ioerger, T.R., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2000). Determining protein structure from electron density maps using pattern matching. Acta Crystallographica, D56:722-734. abstract, full text in PDF

Ioerger, T.R., Holton, T.R., Christopher, J.A., and Sacchettini, J.C. (1999). TEXTAL: A pattern recognition system for interpreting electron density maps. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, (ISMB-99), pp. 130-137. text&info

Zwart PH, Afonine PV, Grosse-Kunstleve RW, Hung LW, Ioerger TR, McCoy AJ, McKee E, Moriarty NW, Read RJ, Sacchettini JC, Sauter NK, Storoni LC, Terwilliger TC, Adams PD. (2008). Automated structure solution with the PHENIX suite. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 426, pp. 419-35.

Ioerger, T.R. and Sacchettini, J.C. (2003). The TEXTAL System: Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Automated Protein Model Building. in Methods in Enzymology. C. Carter and R. Sweet (eds.). vol. 374, pp. 244-270. pubmed

Bioinformatics papers, other

Choudhery, S. and Ioerger, T.R. (2023). Dual ICA to extract interacting sets of genes and conditions from transcriptomic data. in: ACM-BCB'23, Association for Computing Machinery, Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics. PDF

Dutta, E., DeJesus, M.A., Ruecker, N., Zaveri, A., Koh, E.-I., Sassetti, C.M., Schnappinger, D., and Ioerger, T.R. (2021). An improved statistical method to identify Chemical-Genetic Interactions by exploiting concentration-dependence. PLOS ONE, 16(10):e0257911. pubmed

Lai, Y.-P. and Ioerger, T.R. (2020). Exploiting homoplasy in GWAS to enhance identification of antibiotic-resistance mutations in bacterial genomes. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 16:1-16. pubmed

Taechalertpaisarn, J., Lyu, R.-L., Arancillo, M., Lin, C.-M., Jiang, Z., Perez, L.M., Ioerger, T.R., Burgess, K. (2019). Correlations between secondary structure- and protein-protein interface-mimicry: The Interface Mimicry Hypothesis. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 17:3267-3274. pubmed PDF

Taechalertpaisarn, J., Lyu, R.-L., Arancillo, M., Lin, C.-M., Jiang, Z., Perez, L.M., Ioerger, T.R., Burgess, K. (2019). Design criteria for minimalist mimics of protein-protein interface segments. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 17:908-915. pubmed PDF

Lai, Y.-P. and Ioerger, T.R. (2018). A statistical method to identify recombination in bacterial genomes based on SNP incompatibility. BMC Bioinformatics, 19(1):450. pubmed PDF

Ellenbarger, J.F., Krieger, I.V., Huang, H., Gomez-Coca, S., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C., Wheeler, S.E. and Dunbar, K.R. (2018). Anion-π interactions in computer-aided drug design: Modeling the inhibition of malate synthase by phenyl-diketo acids. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 58(10):2085-2091. pubmed PDF

Lai, Y.-P. and Ioerger, T.R. (2017). A compatibility approach to identify recombination breakpoints in sequence alignments. Proc. of the 8th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB'17), pp. 11-20. PDF

Xin, D., Perez, L.M., Ioerger, T.R., and Burgess, K. (2014). A multi-faceted secondary structure mimic based in piperidine-piperidinones. Angewandte Chemie, 53(14):3594-8. pubmed PDF

Xin D, Ko E, Perez LM, Ioerger TR, Burgess K. (2013). Evaluating minimalist mimics by exploring key orientations on secondary structures (EKOS). Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 11(44):7789-801. pubmed PDF

Ko, E., Raghuraman, A., Perez, L., Ioerger, T.R. and Burgess, K. (2013). Exploring key orientations at protein-protein interfaces with small molecule probes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(1):167-73. pubmed PDF

Raghuraman, A., Ko, E., Perez, L., Ioerger, T.R., and Burgess, K. (2011). Pyrrolinone-pyrrolidine oligomers as universal peptidomimetics. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(32):12350-3. pubmed PDF

Pai, R., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2008). Specificity normalization for identifying selective inhibitors in virtual screening. Proc. of the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08). (acceptance rate = 27%) PDF

Pai, R., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2008). Analysis of protein-ligand interactions using localized stereochemical features. Proc. of the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08). (acceptance rate = 27%) PDF

Gopal, K., Sacchettini, J.C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2007). Database Approaches and Data Representation in Structural Bioinformatics. IEEE 7th International Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE'07), 425-434. (acceptance rate = 65/500 = 13%)

Rajagopalan, G., Siegele, D., and Ioerger, T.R. (2003). MOPAC: MOtif-finding by Preprocessing and Agglomerative Clustering from Microarrays. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 41-52. Kauai, Hawaii. January 2003. PDF

Tao, Y., Ioerger, T.R., and Sacchettini, J.C. (2002). Extracting Fractal Features for Analyzing Protein Structure. IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02), 482-485. text&info

Linthicum, D.S., Tetin, S.Y., Anchin, J.M., and Ioerger, T.R. (2001). Antibody-Ligand Interactions: Computational Modeling and Correlation with Biophysical Measurements. Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening, 4(5):439-449. abstract

Hofle, M., Linthicum, D.S., and Ioerger, T.R. (2001). Analysis of diversity of nucleotide and amino acid distribution in the VD and DJ joining regions in Ig heavy chains. Molecular Immunology, 37(14):827-835. abstract

Tao, Y., Ioerger, T.R., and Tang, Y.Y. (2001). Extraction of Rotation Invariant Signature Based on Fractal Geometry. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 1090-1093. text&info

Ioerger, T.R., Du, C., and Linthicum, D.S. (1999). Conservation of Cys-Cys-Trp Structural Triads and their Geometry in the Protein Domains of Immunoglobulin Superfamily Members. Molecular Immunology, 36:373-386. abstract

Ioerger, T.R. and Linthicum, D.S. (1999). T-SEARCH: A program to identify and measure the geometry of cysteine-cysteine tryptophan (C-CW) triad motifs in immunoglobulin superfamily structures and other proteins. Biotechnology Software and Internet Journal , vol. 16(3), pp. 26-31. related web page

Ioerger, T.R. (1997). The context-dependence of amino acid properties. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, (ISMB-97), pp. 157-166. text&info

Ioerger, T.R., Rendell, L., and Subramaniam, S. (1995). Searching for representations to improve protein sequence fold-class prediction. Machine Learning, 21:151-175. paper

Ioerger, T.R., Rendell, L., and Subramaniam, S. (1993). Constructive induction and protein tertiary structure prediction, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, (ISMB-93), pp. 198-206.

Biology papers, other

Schreier, J.E., Smith, C.B., Ioerger, T.R., and Moran, M.A. (2023). A Mutant Fitness Assay Identifies Bacterial Interactions in an Ocean Hot-Spot. PNAS, 120(12):e2217200120. pubmed

Orsini, C., Setlow, B., DeJesus, M., Galaviz, S., Loesch, K., Ioerger, T.R., and Wallis, D. (2016). Behavioral and transcriptomic profiling of mice null for Lphn3, a gene implicated in ADHD and addiction. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 4(3):322-43. pubmed PDF

Loesch, K., Galaviz, S., Sun, Q., DeJesus, M.A., Ioerger, T.R., Sacchettini, J.C. and Wallis, D. (2015). High-throughput differentiation and screening of a library of mutant stem cell clones defines new host-based genes involved in rabies virus infection. Stem Cells, 33(8):2509-22. pubmed PDF

Loesch, K., Clanton, R., Akabani, G., Deveau, M., DeJesus, M., Ioerger, T.R., Galaviz, S., Sacchettini, J.C., and Wallis, D. (2015). Functional genomics screening utilizing mutant mouse embryonic stem cells identifies novel radiation-response genes. PLOS ONE, 10(4):e0120534. pubmed PDF

Ioerger, T.R., Gohlke, J., Xu, B., and Kao, T.H. (1991). Primary structural features of the self-incompatibility protein in Solanaceae. Sexual Plant Reproduction, 4:81-87.

Ioerger, T.R., Clark, A., and Kao, T.H. (1990). Polymorphism at the self-incompatibility locus in Solanaceae predates speciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 87:9732-9735. PubMed

Kheyr-Pour, A., Bintrim, S., Ioerger, T.R., Remy, R., Hammond, S., and Kao, T.H. (1990). Sequence diversity of pistil S-proteins associated with gametophytic self-incompatibility in Nicotiana alata. Sexual Plant Reproduction, 3:88-97.

Yunjun, A., Singh, A., Coleman, C., Ioerger, T.R., Kheyr-Pour, A., and Kao, T.H. (1990). Self-incompatibility in Petunia inflata: Isolation and characterization of cDNAs encoding three S-allele-associated proteins. Sexual Plant Reproduction, 3:130-138.

Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Fan, X., Yen, J., Miller, M., Ioerger, T.R. and Volz, R.A. (2006). MALLET - A Multi-Agent Logic Language for Encoding Teamwork. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 18(1):123-138.

Cao, S., Volz, R.A, Ioerger, T.R. and Miller M. (2005). On Proactive Helping Behaviors In Teamwork. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI). Las Vegas.

Wollkind, S., Valasek, J., and Ioerger, T.R. (2004). Automated Conflict Resolution for Air Traffic Management Using Cooperative Multiagent Negotiation. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. Aug, 16-19, Providence, RI. PDF

Ma, N.K. and Ioerger, T.R. (2004). Distributed Command and Organizational Situation Awareness. Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium. June 15-17, San Diego. PDF

Ioerger, T.R. (2004). Reasoning about Beliefs, Observability, and Information Exchange in Teamwork. 17th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS'04). (acceptance rate = 158/286 = 55%) PDF

Zhang, Yu, Ioerger, T.R., Volz, R.A., and Yen, J. (2004). A Decision-Theoretic Approach for Designing Proactive Communication in Multi-Agent Teamwork. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, special track on Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems, pp. 64-71. March 14-17, Nicosa, Cyprus. PDF (acceptance rate = 10/34 = 29%)

Xu, D., Volz, R.A., Ioerger, T.R., and Yen, J. (2003). Modeling and Analyzing Multi-Agent Behaviors Using Predicate/Transition Nets. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 13(1):103-124. abstract

Ioerger, T.R., Sims, J., Volz, R.A, Workman, J., and Shebilske, W.L. (2003). On the Use of Intelligent Agents as Partners in Training Systems for Complex Tasks. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'03). text&info

Ioerger, T.R. and He, L. (2003). Modeling Command and Control in Multi-Agent Systems. 8th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS). Washington, DC, June 17-19, 2003. text&info

He, L. and Ioerger, T.R. (2003). A Quantitative Model of Capabilities in Multi-Agent Systems. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), 730-736. Las Vegas. PDF

Xu, D., Miller, M., Volz, R.A., and Ioerger, T.R. (2003). Collaborative Agents for C2 Teamwork Simulation. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), 723-729. Las Vegas. PDF

Xu, D., Volz, R.A., Ioerger, T.R., and Yen, J. (2002). Modeling and Verifying Multi-Agent Behaviors Using Predicate/Transition Nets. Proc. 14th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), 193-200. PDF

Ioerger, T.R., He, L., Lord, D., and Tsang, P. (2002). Modeling Capabilities and Workload in Intelligent Agents for Simulating Teamwork. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'02), 482-487. text&info

Zhang, Y., Volz, R.A., Ioerger, T.R., Cao S., and Yen, J. (2002). Proactive Information Exchange During Team Cooperation. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2002), 341-346.

Cao, S., Volz, R.A., Ioerger, T.R., Zhang, Y. and Yen, J. (2002). Role-Based and Agent-Oriented Teamwork Modeling. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2002), 1190-1196.

Xu, D., Volz, R.A., and Ioerger, T.R. (2002). Generating Parallel Plans Based on Planning Graph Analysis of Predicate/Transition Nets. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2002), 440-446.

Biggers, K.E. and Ioerger, T.R. (2001). Automatic Generation of Communication and Teamwork within Multi-Agent Systems. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 15(10):875-916. abstract

Yen, J., Yin, J., Ioerger, T.R., Miller, M., Xu, D., and Volz, R.A. (2001). CAST: Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01), 1135-1142. text&info

Ioerger, T.R. and Johnson, J.C. (2001). A Formal Model of Responsibilities in Agent-Based Teamwork. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2001), 58-64. text&info

Zhang, Y., He, L., Biggers, K., Yen, J., and Ioerger, T.R. (2001). Simulating Teamwork and Information Flow in Tactical Operations Centers using Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computer Generated Forces (10th CGF), 529-539. text&info

Zhang, Y., Biggers, K., He, L., Reddy, S.K., Sepulvado, D., Yen, J. and Ioerger, T.R. (2001). A Distributed Intelligent Agent Architecture for Simulating Aggregate-Level Behavior and Interactions on the Battlefield. Proceedings of the Fifth World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI-2001), 58-63.text&info

Ioerger, T.R., Volz, R.A., and Yen, J. (2000). Modeling Cooperative, Reactive Behaviors on the Battlefield Using Intelligent Agents. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computer Generated Forces (9th CGF), 13-23. text&info

Miller, M., Yin, J., Volz, R.A., Ioerger, T.R., Yen, J. (2000). Training teams with collaborative agents. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, (ITS-2000), 63-72. text&info

Yin, J., Miller, M., Ioerger, T.R., Yen, J., and Volz, R.A. (2000). A knowledge-based approach for designing intelligent team training systems. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, (AGENTS-2000), 427-434. text&info

Machine Learning

Dutta, E., Bothra, A., Chaspari, T., Ioerger, T.R., and Mortazavi, B.J. (2020). Reinforcement Learning using EEG signals for therapeutic use of music in emotion management. IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC), 5553-6. PDF

Gopal, K. and Ioerger, T.R. (2007). Distance Metric Learning through Optimization of Ranking. Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Workshops, pp.201-206. PDF

Widyantoro, D., Ioerger, T.R., and Yen, J. (2002). An Incremental Approach to Building Concept Hierarchies. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 705-708. PDF

Rozich, R., Ioerger, T.R., and Yager, R. (2002). FURL - A Theory Revision Approach to Learning Fuzzy Rules. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems,791-796. text&info

Widyantoro, D.W., Ioerger, T.R., and Yen, J. (2001). Learning User Interest Dynamics with a Three-Descriptor Representation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 52(3):212-225.

Yang, L., Widyantoro, D.H., Ioerger, T.R. and Yen, J. (2001). Entropy-based Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Learning Classification Rules. Proceedings, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 790-796. text&info

Widyantoro, D.H., Ioerger, T.R., and Yen, J. (1999). An adaptive algorithm for learning changes in user interests. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM-99), 405-412. text&info

Ioerger, T.R. (1999). Detecting feature interactions from accuracies of random feature subsets. Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-99), pp. 350-357. text&info

Artificial Intelligence

Nelson, E. and Ioerger, T.R. (2016). Learning to control first-order linear systems with discrete-time reinforcement learning. 14th International Conference on Embedded Systems, Cyber-physical Systems, and Applications (ESCS'16), July 25-28, Las Vegas. (acceptance rate=27%) PDF

Creel, J., Menzel, C., and Ioerger, T.R. (2007). Intention is Commitment with Expectation. 20th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS'07), 50-55.

He, L. and Ioerger, T.R. (2005). Combining bundle search with buyer coalition formation in electronic markets: A distributed approach through explicit negotiation. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 4(4):329-344.

He, L. and Ioerger, T.R. (2005). Forming Resource-Sharing Coalitions: A Distributed Resource Allocation Mechanism for Self-Interested Agents in Computational Grids. Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), special track on Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems (AIMS), 84-91. (acceptance rate = 29%)

He, L. and Ioerger, T.R. (2004). Combining Bundle Search with Buyer Coalition Formation in Electronic Markets: A Distributed Approach through Explicit Negotiation. Sixth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC'04). Oct. 25-27, Delft, The Netherlands. PDF

He, L. and Ioerger, T.R. (2004). An Efficient Heuristic Bundle Search Algorithm for Buyers in Electronic Markets. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 729-735. June 21-24, Las Vegas. (acceptance rate = 33% for RRRs) PDF

He, L. and Ioerger, T.R. (2004). Task-Oriented Computational Economic-Based Distributed Resource Allocation Mechanisms for Computational Grids. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 462-468. June 21-24, Las Vegas. (acceptance rate = 20% for RRPs) PDF

Widyantoro, D., Ioerger, T.R., and Yen, J. (2003). Tracking Changes in User Interests with a Few Relevance Judgements. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 548-551. (CIKM'03) PDF

El-Nasr, M.S., Yen, J., and Ioerger, T.R. (2000). FLAME: Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Model of Emotions. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 3(3):219-257. paper

Gopal, K. and Ioerger, T.R. (2000). An Adaptive Planner Based on Learning of Planning Performance. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2000), 1017-1023. text&info

Seif El-Nasr, M., Ioerger, T.R., Yen, J., House, D. and Parke, F. (1999). Emotionally expressive agents. Proceedings of Computer Animation '99, (CA-99), pp. 48-57. text&info

Seif El-Nasr, M., Ioerger, T.R., and Yen, J. (1999). PETEEI: A pet with evolving emotional intelligence. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, (AGENTS-99), pp. 9-15. text&info

Ioerger, T.R. (1997). Integrating a spatial reasoner with a resolution theorem-prover. Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-97), pp. 145-152. text&info

Ioerger, T.R. (1994). The manipulation of images to handle indeterminacy in spatial reasoning. Cognitive Science, 18:551-593. paper

Ioerger, T.R. (1991). Imagery and categories: The Indeterminacy Problem. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, (CogSci-91), pp. 37-42.

Other Publications

DeWitt, T.J., Fuentes, J.I., Ioerger, T.R. and Bishop, M.P. (2021). Rectifying I: three point and continuous fit of the spatial autocorrelation metric, Moran's I, to ideal form. Landscape Ecology, 36:2897–2918. link

Rong, J., Valasek, J., Geng, S., and Ioerger, T.R. (2002). Air Traffic Conflict Negotiation and Resolution Using an OnBoard Multi-Agent System. 21st Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Irvine, CA. October 2002. paper

Ioerger, T.R., Meeks, J.H., and Nelson, P. (2001). Investigation of Density and Flow Relationships in Congested Traffic Using Videogrammetric Data. Proceedings of the 80th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, CD-ROM. Washington, DC. text&info