Publications

  • Herman, MA, Irazoqui, JE, Samuel, BS, Vega, N 2022. Editorial: C. elegans host-microbiome interactions: From medical to ecological and evolutionary model. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 12:1035545. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.1035545
  • Herman MA, Aiello BR, DeLong JD, Garcia-Ruiz H, González AL, Hwang W, McBeth C, Stojkovic EA, Trakselis MA, Yakoby N 2021. A Unifying Framework for Understanding Biological Structures and Functions Across Levels of Biological Organization. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(6): 2038–2047, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab167
  • Radeke LJ, Herman MA. 2021 Take a walk to the wild side of Caenorhabditis elegans-pathogen interactions. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 85:e00146-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.00146-20.
  • Radeke, L.J., Herman, M.A 2020. Identification and characterization of differentially expressed genes in Caenorhabditis elegans in response to pathogenic and nonpathogenic Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. BMC Microbiol 20, 170 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-01771-1
  • White, CV, Herman, MA. 2018 Transcriptomic, Functional, and Network Analyses Reveal Novel Genes Involved in the Interaction Between Caenorhabditis elegans and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 8:266.
  • White, CV, Darby, BJ, Breeden, RJ, Herman MA. 2016 A Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain evades a major Caenorhabditis elegans defense pathway. Infect. Immun. 84: 524-536
  • Darby, BJ, Herman, MA. 2014 Effect of prey richness on a consumer’s growth rate. Oecologia 175, 243-250.
  • Gomez-Montano L Jumpponen, A, Gonzales. MA, Cusicanqui, J, Valdivia, C, Motavalli, PP, Herman M, Garrett, KA.  2013. Do bacterial and fungal communities in soils of the Bolivian Altiplano change under shorter fallow periods? Soil Biology & Biochemistry 65: 50-59.
  • Darby, BJ, Todd, TC, Herman, MA 2013 High-throughput amplicon sequencing of rRNA genes requires a copy number correction to accurately reflect the effects of management practices on soil nematode community structure. Mol. Ecol., 22:5456-54-71, DOI: 10.1111/mec.12480.
  • Coolon, JD, Jones, KL, Todd, TC, Blair, JM, Herman, MA. 2013 Long-term nitrogen amendment alters soil bacterial diversity and assemblage in tallgrass prairie. PLoS One, Jun 28;8(6): e67884
  • Wheeler DC, Darby BD, Herman, MA 2012.  Several grassland soil nematodes species are insensitive to RNA-mediated interference. Journal of Nematology, 44:92-101.
  • Darby, B.J., Jones, K.L., Wheeler, D., and Herman, M.A. 2011. Normalization and centering of array-based heterologous genome hybridization based on divergent control probes. BMC Bioinformatics 12, 183
  • Coolon, JD, Jones, KL, Carr, BC, Todd, TC, Herman, MA. 2009. C. elegans genomic response to soil bacteria predicts environment-specific genetic effects on life history traits. PLoS Genetics, 5(6): e1000503. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000503
  • Herman, MA; Coolon, JD; Jones, KL; Todd, TC. 2009. Ecological Genomics of Nematode Community Interactions: Model and Non-model Approaches. In Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application II, ed. by Pierre Pontarotti, Springer: Heidelberg, Germany, p. 303-321.(PDF)
  • Kammenga, J.E., Herman, M.A., Ouberg. N.J., Johnson, L.C., Breitling, R. (2007), Microarray challenges in ecology, TREE., 22, 273-279.(PDF)
  • Ungerer, M.C., Johnson, L.C., Herman, M.A.( 2008) Ecological genomics: understanding gene functions in the natural environment. Heredity, 100, 178-183.(PDF)
  • Jones, K.L., Todd, T.C., Coolon, J.D., Blair, J. M., and Herman, M.A. 2006. Molecular approach for assessing responses of microbial-feeding nematodes to burning and chronic nitrogen enrichment in a native grassland, Mol. Ecol., 15, 2601-2609.(PDF)
  • Jones, K.L., Todd, T.C., and Herman, M.A. 2006 Development of taxon-specific markers for high-throughput screening of microbial-feeding nematodes, Molecular Ecology Notes, 6, 712-714.(PDF)
  • Leight ER, Murphy JT, Fantz DA, Pepin D, Schneider DL, Ratliff TM, Mohammad, DH, Herman MA, Kornfeld K.  2015. Conversion of the LIN-1 ETS protein of Caenorhabditis elegans from a SUMOylated transcriptional repressor to a phosphorylated transcriptional activator. Genetics 199: 761-75.
  • Hajuskova, M, Jindra, M, Herman, MA, Asahina, M. 2009. Nuclear receptor NHR-25 cooperates with Wnt/ß-catenin asymmetry pathway to control T cell differentiation in C. elegans. J Cell Sci.122:3051.
  • Yu H, Seah A, Herman MA, Ferguson EL, Horvitz HR, Sternberg PW 2009. Wnt and EGF pathways act together to induce C. elegans male hook development. Dev Biol, 327: 419-432.(PDF
  • Van Hoffelen, S. and Herman, M.A. 2009. Analysis of Wnt signaling during C. elegans postembryonic development. Methods Mol Biol., 469, 87-102.(PDF)
  • Wu, M. and Herman, M.A. 2007. Asymmetric localization of LIN-17/Fz and MIG-5/Dsh are required for the the asymmetric B cell division in C. elegans. Dev. Biol., 303:650-662. (PDF)
  • Walston, T., Guo, C., Proenca, R., Wu, M. Herman, M., Hardin, J., Hedgecock, E. 2006. mig-5/Dsh controls cell fate determination and cell migration in C. elegans. Dev. Biol, 298: 485-497.(PDF)
  • Arata, Y., Kouike, H. Zhang, Y., Herman, M.A., Okano, H, and Sawa, H. 2006. The Wnt signal and Hox cooperate to express PSA-3/Meis, which determines specific daughter fates after asymmetric division in C. elegans, Dev Cell, 11, 105-115.(PDF)
  • Wu, M. and Herman, M.A. 2006. A novel noncanonical Wnt pathway is involved in the regulation fo the asymmetric B cell division in C. elegansDev. Biol293:316-329.(PDF)
  • Van Hoffelen, S. and Herman, M.A. 2006. Stem Cells: Specifying stem cell niches in the worm. Curr. Biol. 16, R175-177.(PDF)
  • Herman, M.A. Hermaphrodite cell fate specification. (January 09, 2006). in WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, Wormbook,doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.39.1, http://www.wormbook.org
  • Herman, M.A. and Wu, M. (2004). Noncanonical Wnt signaling pathways in C. elegans converge on POP-1/Tcf and control cell polarity. Frontiers in Bioscience 9, 1530-1539.(PDF)
  • Hoeppner, D., Spector, M.S., Ratliff, T.R., Kinchen, J.M. Granat, S., Lin, S-C, Bhusri, S.S., Conradt, B., Herman, M.A., and Hengartner, M.O. 2004. eor-1 and eor-2 are required for cell-specific apoptotic death in C. elegans, Dev. Biol, 274, 125-138.(PDF)
  • Zhao, X. Sawa, H., and Herman, M. A. (2003). tcl-2 encodes a novel protein that acts synergistically with the Wnt signaling pathway in C. elegans. Dev. Biol.256, 276-289.(PDF)
  • Herman, M.A. (2003). Wnt signaling in C. elegans. In Wnt signaling in Development, M. Kühl, Editor. Landes Biosciences: Georgetown, TX, USA, pp.187-212.(PDF)
  • Herman, M.A. (2002). Control of cell polarity by noncanonical Wnt signaling in C. elegans. 
    Semin. Cell Dev. Biol. 13, 233-241.(PDF)
  • Xiaojun Zhao, Ying Yang, David H. A. Fitch, and Michael A. Herman (2002). TLP-1 is an asymmetric cell fate determinant that responds to Wnt signals and controls male tail tip morphogenesis in C. elegans. 
    Development 129, 1497-1508.(PDF)
  • Herman, M. A. (2001). C. elegans POP-1/TCF functions in a canonical Wnt pathway that controls cell migration and a noncanonical Wnt pathway that controls cell polarity. 
    Development 128, 581-590.(PDF)
  • Korswagen, H. C., Herman, M. A., and Clevers, H. C. (2000). Distinct beta-catenins mediate adhesion and signalling functions in C. elegansNature 406, 527-532.(PDF)
  • Herman, M. A., Ch'ng, Q., Hettenbach, S. M., Ratliff, T. M., Kenyon, C., and Herman, R. K. (1999). EGL-27 is similar to a metastasis-associated factor and controls cell polarity and cell migration in C. elegans. 
    Development 126, 1055-1064.(PDF)