Education
Ph.D. in Microbiology, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008
Current position
Research Professional, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens
Publications
*Contributed equally toward work.
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Vaccaro, B. J., Thorgersen, M. P., Lancaster, W. A., Price, M. N., Wetmore, K. M., Poole, F. L., 2nd, Deutschbauer, A., Arkin, A. P. and Adams, M. W. (2016). Determining Roles of Accessory Genes in Denitrification by Mutant Fitness Analyses. Appl Environ Microbiol 82(1): 51-61.
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Thorgersen, M. P., Lancaster, W. A., Vaccaro, B. J., Poole, F. L., Rocha, A. M., Mehlhorn, T., Pettenato, A., Ray, J., Waters, R. J., Melnyk, R. A., Chakraborty, R., Hazen, T. C., Deutschbauer, A. M., Arkin, A. P. and Adams, M. W. (2015). Molybdenum Availability Is Key to Nitrate Removal in Contaminated Groundwater Environments. Appl Environ Microbiol 81(15): 4976-4983.
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Thorgersen, M. P., Lipscomb, G. L., Schut, G. J., Kelly, R. M. and Adams, M. W. (2014). Deletion of acetyl-CoA synthetases I and II increases production of 3-hydroxypropionate by the metabolically-engineered hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus. Metab Eng 22: 83-88.
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Brown, S. D., Utturkar, S. M., Magnuson, T. S., Ray, A. E., Poole, F. L., Lancaster, W. A., Thorgersen, M. P., Adams, M. W. and Elias, D. A. (2014). Complete Genome Sequence of Pelosinus sp. Strain UFO1 Assembled Using Single-Molecule Real-Time DNA Sequencing Technology. Genome Announc 2(5).
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Lancaster, W. A., Menon, A. L., Scott, I., Poole, F. L., Vaccaro, B. J., Thorgersen, M. P., Geller, J., Hazen, T. C., Hurt, R. A., Jr., Brown, S. D., Elias, D. A. and Adams, M. W. (2014). Metallomics of two microorganisms relevant to heavy metal bioremediation reveal fundamental differences in metal assimilation and utilization. Metallomics 6(5): 1004-1013.
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Lipscomb, G. L., Schut, G. J., Thorgersen, M. P., Nixon, W. J., Kelly, R. M. and Adams, M. W. (2014). Engineering hydrogen gas production from formate in a hyperthermophile by heterologous production of an 18-subunit membrane-bound complex. J Biol Chem 289(5): 2873-2879.
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Keller, M. W., Schut, G. J., Lipscomb, G. L., Menon, A. L., Iwuchukwu, I. J., Leuko, T. T., Thorgersen, M. P., Nixon, W. J., Hawkins, A. S., Kelly, R. M. and Adams, M. W. (2013). Exploiting microbial hyperthermophilicity to produce an industrial chemical, using hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110(15): 5840-5845.
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Thorgersen, M. P., Stirrett, K., Scott, R. A. and Adams, M. W. (2012). Insights into the mechanism of oxygen detoxification by the surprisingly oxygen-tolerant hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus. Proc Nat Acad Sci 109:18547-18552.
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Lancaster, W. A., Praissman, J. L., Poole, F. L., 2nd, Cvetkovic, A., Menon, A. L., Scott, J. W., Jenney, F. E., Jr., Thorgersen, M. P., Kalisiak, E., Apon, J. V., Trauger, S. A., Siuzdak, G., Tainer, J. A. and Adams, M. W. (2011). A computational framework for proteome-wide pursuit and prediction of metalloproteins using ICP-MS and MS/MS data. BMC Bioinformatics 12: 64.
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Cvetkovic, A.*, Menon, A. L.*, Thorgersen, M. P.*, Scott, J. W., Poole, F. L., 2nd, Jenney, F. E., Jr., Lancaster, W. A., Praissman, J. L., Shanmukh, S., Vaccaro, B. J., Trauger, S. A., Kalisiak, E., Apon, J. V., Siuzdak, G., Yannone, S. M., Tainer, J. A. and Adams, M. W. (2010). Microbial metalloproteomes are largely uncharacterized. Nature 466(7307): 779-782.
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Thorgersen, M. P. and Downs, D. M. (2009). Oxidative stress and disruption of labile iron generate specific auxotrophic requirements in Salmonella enterica. Microbiology 155(Pt 1): 295-304.
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Thorgersen, M. P. and Downs, D. M. (2008). Analysis of yggX and gshA mutants provides insights into the labile iron pool in Salmonella enterica. J Bacteriol 190(23): 7608-7613.
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Thorgersen, M. P. and Downs, D. M. (2007). Cobalt targets multiple metabolic processes in Salmonella enterica. J Bacteriol 189(21): 7774-7781.
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Cui, Q.*, Thorgersen, M. P.*, Westler, W. M., Markley, J. L. and Downs, D. M. (2006). Solution structure of YggX: a prokaryotic protein involved in Fe(II) trafficking. Proteins 62(3): 578-586.