Publications

2025

  • Wadsworth CB, Goytia M, Shafer WM. 2025. Commensal Neisseria and antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. Submitted, invited review Annual Review of Microbiology.
  • Robinson LR±*, Mcdevitt CJ±*, Regan MR±*, Quail SL±*, Swartz ME±*, Wadsworth CB. 2025. Revisiting the potential impact of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) on the selection of resistance in Neisseria commensals. Scientific Reports 15: 12400.
  • Robinson LR±*, Mcdevitt CJ±*, Regan MR±*, Quail SL±*, Wadsworth CB. 2025. In vitro evolution of ciprofloxacin resistance in Neisseria commensals and derived mutation population dynamics in natural Neisseria populations. FEMS Microbiology Letters 372:fnae107.

2024

  • Frost KM±*, Charron-Smith SL±, Cotsonas TC±, Dimartino DC±*, Eisenhart RC±, Everingham ET±, Holland EC±, Imtiaz K±, Kornowicz CJ±, Lenhard LE±, Lynch LH±, Moore NP±, Phadke K±, Reed ML±, Smith SR±, Ward LL±, Wadsworth CB. 2024. Rolling the evolutionary dice: Neisseria commensals as proxies for elucidating the underpinnings of antibiotic resistance mechanisms and evolution in human pathogens. Microbiology Spectrum 12(2): e03507-23.

2022

  • Goytia M & Wadsworth CB. 2022. Canary in the coal mine: How resistance surveillance in commensals could help curb the spread of AMR in pathogenic Neisseria. mBio. 13(5): e0199122. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01991-22
  • Raisman JC, Fiore MA, Tomin L, Adjei JKO, Aswad V, Chu J, Domondon CJD, Donahue BA, Masciotti CA, McGrath CG, Melita J, Podbielski PA, Schreiner MR, Trumpore LJ, Wengert PC, Wrightstone EA, Hudson AO, Wadsworth CB. 2022. Evolutionary paths to macrolide resistance in a Neisseria commensal converge on ribosomal genes through short sequence duplications. PLOS ONE 17(1): e0262370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262370
  • Reilly E, Alfaro J, Borzelleri A, Branco E, Conklin D, Held E, Kulee F, Kuzma A, Langdon N, Lasko A, Neri S, Nicholas J, Olawuyi T, Park E, Rugullies K, Wilkie C, Krebs L, Carter D, Hudson AO, Wadsworth CB. 2022. Draft genome sequences of three antibiotic-producing soil bacteria Staphylococcus pasteuri WAM01, Peribacillus butanolivorans WAM04, and Micrococcus yunnanensis WAM06 with growth inhibiting effects against commensal Neisseria. Microbiology Resource Announcements e00627-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00627-22
  • Mozrall AR, Miranda RR, Kumar G, Wadsworth CB, Hudson AO. 2022. Isolation, whole-genome sequencing and annotation of two antibiotic producing and resistant bacteria, Enterobacter roggenkampii sp RIT 834 and Acinetobacter pittii sp RIT 835 from disposable masks collected from the environment. Microbiology Resource Announcements. e00757-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00757-22

2021

  • Schroeter MN±, Gazali SJ±, Parthasarathy A, Wadsworth CB, Miranda RR±, Thomas BN±, Hudson AO. 2021. Isolation, whole-genome sequencing, and annotation of three unclassified antibiotic-producing bacteria Enterobacter sp. RIT 637, Pseudomonas sp. RIT and Deinococcus sp. RIT 780. Microbiology Resource Announcements 10(48):e00863-21.
  • Murphy TC*±, Mortimer TD, Nicholas RA, Wadsworth CB. 2021. Draft genome sequences of three penicillin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains isolated from Cincinnati, Ohio in 1994. Microbiology Resource Announcements 10(11):e00074-21

2020

  • Thomas SG, Abajorga M±, Glover MA±, Wengert PC±, Parthasarathy A, Savka MA, Shipman PA, Wadsworth CB, Hudson AO. 2020. Aeromonas hydrophila RIT668 and Citrobacter portucalensis RIT669 – potential zoonotic pathogens isolated from spotted turtles. Microorganisms 8:1805.
  • Fiore MA*±, Raisman JC*±, Wong NH, Hudson AO, Wadsworth CB. 2020. Exploration of the Neisseria resistome reveals resistance mechanisms in commensals that may be acquired by N. gonorrhoeae through horizontal gene transfer. Antibiotics 9(10):656.
  • Arnold BJ, Sohail M, Wadsworth CB, Corander J, Hanage WP, Sunyaev S, Grad Y. 2020. Fine-scale haplotype structure reveals strong signatures of positive selection in a recombining bacterial pathogen. Molecular Biology and Evolution37(2):417-428.
  • Wadsworth CB, Okada Y*, Dopman EB. 2020. Phenology-dependent cold exposure and thermal performance of Ostrinia nubilalis ecotypes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20(34):1-14.
  • Břinda K, Callendrello A, Ma K*, MacFadden DR, Charalampous T, Lee RS, Cowley L, Wadsworth CB, Grad YH, Kucherov G, O’Grady J, Baym M, Hanage WP. 2020. Rapid heuristic inference of antibiotic resistance by genomic neighbor typing. Nature Microbiology 5:455-464.

2019

  • Kozak GM, Wadsworth CB, Kahne SC*, Bogdanowicz SM, Harrison RG, Coates BS, Dopman EB. 2019. Genomic basis of circannual rhythm in the European corn borer moth. Current Biology 29:3501-3509.
  • Wadsworth CB, Sater MRA, Bhattacharyya R, Grad Y. 2019. Impact of species diversity on the design of RNA-based diagnostics for antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 63(8):e00549-19.

2018

  • Wadsworth CB, Arnold BJ, Sater MRA, Grad Y. 2018. Azithromycin resistance through interspecific acquisition of an epistasis dependent efflux pump component and transcriptional regulator in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. mBio 9:e01419-18.

2017

  • Kozak GM, Wadsworth CB, Kahne SC*, Bogdanowicz SM, Harrison RG, Coates BS, Dopman EB. 2017. A combination of sexual and ecological divergence contributes to rearrangement spread during initial stages of speciation. Molecular Ecology26(8):2331-2347.

2015

  • Wadsworth CB, Dopman EB. 2015. Transcriptome profiling reveals mechanisms for the evolution of insect seasonality. Journal of Experimental Biology 218(22):3611-3622.
  • Wadsworth CB, Li X*, Dopman EB. 2015. A recombination suppressor contributes to ecological speciation in Ostrinia moths. Heredity 114(6):593-600.
  • Levy RC, Kozak GM, Wadsworth CB, Coates BS, Dopman EB. 2015. Explaining the sawtooth: Latitudinal periodicity in a circadian gene correlates with shifts in generation number. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28(1):40-53.

2013

  • Wadsworth CB, Woods W, Hahn D, Dopman EB. 2013.One phase of the dormancy developmental pathway is critical for the evolution of insect seasonality. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26(11):2359-2368.

2011

Dyer KA, Burke C, Jaenike J. 2011. Wolbachia-mediated persistence of mtDNA from a potentially extinct species. Molecular Ecology 20(13):2805-2817.

(*trainee co-author, ±RIT student)