For a complete list of our publications, please visit Dr. Lawson’s Google Scholar page.
2024
Agena, E., Gois, I. M., Bowers, C. M., Mahadevan, R., Scarborough, M. J., & Lawson, C. E. (2024). Evaluating the feasibility of medium chain oleochemical synthesis using microbial chain elongation (p. 2024.05.06.592817). bioRxiv. (In Review)
2023
Venturelli, O. S., Wang, H. H., Estrela, S., Huang, K. C., Ledesma-Amaro, R., Fedorec, A. J. H., Stecher, B., Lawson, C. E., Zarrinpar, A., Guo, C.-J., & Soyer, O. S. (2023). What is the key challenge in engineering microbiomes? Cell Systems, 14(2), 85–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2023.01.002
2022
Pabst, M., Grouzdev, D. S., Lawson, C. E., Kleikamp, H. B. C., de Ram, C., Louwen, R., Lin, Y. M., Lücker, S., van Loosdrecht, M. C. M., & Laureni, M. (2022). A general approach to explore prokaryotic protein glycosylation reveals the unique surface layer modulation of an anammox bacterium. The ISME Journal, 16(2), 346–357. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-01073-y
Scarborough, M. J., Lawson, C. E., DeCola, A. C., & Gois, I. M. (2022). Microbiomes for sustainable biomanufacturing. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 65, 8–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2021.09.015
2021
Cerruti, M., Guo, B., Delatolla, R., Jonge, N. de, Steenwijk, A. H. V. van, Kadota, P., E. Lawson, C., Mao, T., J. Oosterkamp, M., Sabba, F., Stokholm-Bjerregaard, M., Watson, I., Frigon, D., & G. Weissbrodt, D. (2021). Plant-wide systems microbiology for the wastewater industry. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 7(10), 1687–1706. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EW00231G
Lawson, C.E., Mundinger, A.B., Koch, H., Jacobson, T.B., Weathersby, C.A., Jetten M.S.M., Pabst M., Amador-Noguez D., Noguera, D.R., McMahon, K.D., Lücker S. (2021). Investigating the chemolithoautotrophic and formate metabolism of Nitrospira moscoviensis by constraint-based metabolic modeling and 13C-tracer analysis. mSystems. 10.1128/msystems.00173-21
Wilken, S.E., Monk, J.M., Leggieri, P., Lawson, C.E., Lankiewicz, T.S., Seppälä, S., Daum, C.G., Jenkins, J., Lipzen, A.M., Mondo, S.J., Barry, K.W., Grigoriev, I.V., Henske, J.K., Theodorou, M.K., Palsson, B.O., Petzold, L.R., O’Malley, M.A. (2021). Experimentally Validated Reconstruction and Analysis of a Genome-Scale Metabolic Model of an Anaerobic Neocallimastigomycota Fungus. mSystems. 10.1128/mSystems.00002-21
2020
Lawson, C.E., Martí, J.M., Radivojevic, T., Jonnalagadda, S.V.R., Reinhard, G., Hillson, N.J., Peisert, S., Kim, J., Simmons, B.A., Petzold, C.J., Singer, S.W., Mukhopadhyay, A., Tanjore, D., Dunn, J., Martin, H.G. (2020). Machine learning for metabolic engineering: A review. Metabolic Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2020.10.005
Lawson, C.E., Nuijten, G., de Graaf, R., Jacobson, T.B., Pabst, M., Stevenson, D.M., Jetten, M.S.M., Noguera, D.R., McMahon, K.D., Amador-Noguez, D., Lücker, S. Autotrophic and mixotrophic metabolism of an anammox bacterium revealed by in vivo 13C and 2H metabolic network mapping. The ISME Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00805-w.
Sánchez-Andrea I., Alves Guedes I., Hornung B., Boeren S., Lawson C.E., Sousa D.Z., Bar-Even A., Claassens N.J., Stams A.J.M. (2020). The reductive glycine pathway allows autotrophic growth of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans. Nature Communications 11: 5090.
2019
Lawson, C.E., Harcombe, W.R., Hatzenpichler, R., Lindmann, S.R., Löffler, F., O’Malley, M.A., García-Martin, H., Pfleger, B.F., Raskin, L., Venturelli, O.S., Weissbrodt, D.G., Noguera, D.R., McMahon, K.D. (2019) Common principles and best practice for engineering microbiomes. Nature Reviews Microbiology 17: 725–741.
Mundinger, A., Lawson, C.E., Koch, H., Jetten, M.S.M., Lücker, S. (2019) Cultivation and Transcriptional Analysis of a Canonical Nitrospira Under Stable Growth Conditions. Frontiers in Microbiology 10: 1325.
2018
Scarborough, M.J., Lawson, C.E., Hamilton, J.J., Donohue, T.J., Noguera, D.R. Metatranscriptomic and thermodynamic insights into medium-chain fatty acid production using an anaerobic microbiome. mSystems 3(6): e00221-18.
Lawson, C.E., Lücker S. (2018). Complete ammonia oxidation: an important control on nitrification in engineered ecosystems? Current Opinion in Biotechnology 50: 158-165.
2017
Lawson, C.E., Wu, S., Bhattacharjee, A.S., Hamilton, J.J., McMahon, K.D., Goel, R., Noguera, D.R. (2017) Metabolic network analysis reveals microbial community interactions in anammox granules. Nature Communications 8:15416.
Bhattacharjee, A.S., Wu, S., Lawson, C.E., Jetten, M.S., Kapoor, V., Domingo, J.W.S., McMahon, K.D., Noguera, D.R. Goel, R. (2017). Whole community metagenomics in two different anammox configurations: process performance and community structure. Environmental Science & Technology 51 (8): 4317–4327.
2016
Oyserman, B.O., Moya, F., Lawson, C.E., Garcia, A.L., Voigt, M., Heffernan, M., Noguera, D.R., McMahon, K.D. (2016) Ancestral genome reconstruction identifies the evolutionary basis for trait acquisition in polyphosphate accumulating bacteria. The ISME Journal 10: 2931-2945.
2015
Lawson, C.E., Strachan, C.R., Williams, D.D., Koziel, S., Hallam, S.J., and Budwill, K. (2015) Patterns of endemism and habitat selection in coalbed microbial communities. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 81: 7924–7937.
Lawson, C.E., Strachan, B.J., Hanson, N.W., Hahn, A.S., Hall, E.R., Rabinowitz, B., Mavinic, D.S., Ramey, W.D., Hallam, S.J. (2015) Rare taxa have potential to make metabolic contributions in enhanced biological phosphorus removal ecosystems. Environ. Microbiol. 17: 4979–4993.