Publications

All students and postdocs in the Wong lab are underlined below.  *Equal contribution.  #Co-corresponding author

Publications

Pub. Order	Year	Title	Authors	Journal
142	2021	PACAP is a pathogen-inducible resident antimicrobial neuropeptide affording rapid and contextual molecular host defense of the brain	Ernest Y. Lee, Liana C. Chan, Huiyuan Wang, Juelline Lieng, Mandy Hung, Yashes Srinivasan, Jennifer Wang, James Waschek, Andrew L. Ferguson, Kuo-Fen Lee, Nannette Y. Yount, Michael R. Yeaman#, Gerard C.L. Wong#	PNAS 118 (1), e1917623117 (2021) Commentary in PNAS, "An ancient neuropeptide defends the brain against infection"
141	2020	Clostridioides difficile Toxin A Remodels Membranes and Mediates DNA Entry Into Cells to Activate Toll Like Receptor 9 Signaling	Xinhua Chen#*, Xiaotong Yang*, Jaime de Anda*, Jun Huang, Dan Li, Hua Xu, Kelsey S. Shields, Mária Džunková, Joshua Hansen, Ishan J. Patel, Eric U. Yee, Douglas T. Golenbock, Marianne A. Grant, Gerard C. L. Wong#, and Ciarán P. Kelly * Co-first authors #Co-corresponding authors	Gastroenterology 156 (6), 2181-2192 (2020)
140	2020	Discovery of Novel Type II Bacteriocins Using a New High-Dimensional Bioinformatic Algorithm	Nannette Y. Yount, David C. Weaver, Jaime de Anda, Ernest Y. Lee, Michelle W. Lee, Gerard C.L. Wong, Michael R. Yeaman	Frontiers in Immunology 11 1873 (2020)
139	2020	Functional reciprocity of amyloids and antimicrobial peptides: Rethinking the role of supramolecular assembly in host defense, immune activation, and inflammation	Ernest Y. Lee, Yashes Srinivasan, Jaime de Anda, Lauren K. Nicastro, Çagla Tükel, Gerard C.L. Wong	Frontiers in Immunology 11 1629 (2020)
138	2020	Selective Promotion of Adhesion of Shewanella oneidensis on Mannose-Decorated Glycopolymer Surfaces	Thomas D. Young, Walter T. Liau, Calvin K. Lee, Michael Mellody, Gerard C. L. Wong, Andrea M. Kasko, and Paul S. Weiss	ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces XXX (XXX), XXX-XXX (2020)
137	2020	Prototypical pacemaker neurons interact with the resident microbiota	Alexander Klimovich , Stefania Giacomello , Åsa Björklund , Louis Faure , Marketa Kaucka , Christoph Giez , Andrea P. Murillo-Rincon , Ann-Sophie Matt , Doris Willoweit-Ohl , Gabriele Crupi , Jaime de Anda, Gerard C.L. Wong , Mauro D'Amato , Igor Adameyko , Thomas C.G. Bosch	PNAS 117 (30) 17854-17863 (2020) Commentary in PNAS, "Linking neurons to immunity: Lessons from Hydra"
136	2020	Chemokine CCL28 Is a Potent Therapeutic Agent for Oropharyngeal Candidiasis	Jie He, Monica A. Thomas, Jaime de Anda, Michelle W. Lee, Emma Van Why, Pippa Simpson, Gerard C. L. Wong, Mitchell H. Grayson, Brian F. Volkman, Anna R. Huppler	Antimicrob Agents Chemother 64 (8) e00210-20 (2020)
135	2020	How do cyclic antibiotics with activity against Gram-negative bacteria permeate membranes? A machine learning informed experimental study	Michelle W. Lee, Jaime de Anda, Carsten Kroll, Christoph Bieniossek, Kenneth Bradley, Kurt E. Amrein, Gerard C. L. Wong†	BBA Biomembranes 1862 (8), 183302 (2020)
134	2020	Switchable membrane remodeling and antifungal defense by metamorphic chemokine XCL1	Acacia Dishman*, Michelle W. Lee*, Jaime de Anda, Ernest Y. Lee , Jie He, Anna Huppler, Gerard Wong , Brian Volkman * Co-first authors.	ACS Infectious Diseases 6 (5), 1204-1213 (2020)
133	2020	C-di-GMP modulates type IV MSHA pilus retraction and surface attachment in Vibrio cholerae	Kyle A. Floyd, Calvin K. Lee, Wujing Xian, Mahmoud Nametalla, Aneesa Valentine, Benjamin Crair, Shiwei Zhu, Hannah Q. Hughes, Jennifer L. Chlebek, Daniel C. Wu, Jin Hwan Park, Ali M. Farhat, Charles J. Lomba, Courtney K. Ellison, Yves V. Brun, Javier Campos-Gomez, Ankur B. Dalia6, Jun Liu, Nicolas Biais, Gerard C. L. Wong†, and Fitnat H. Yildiz† †Co-corresponding authors	Nature Commun 11, 1549 (2020)
132	2020	Reciprocal c-di-GMP signaling: Incomplete flagellum biogenesis triggers c-di-GMP signaling pathways that promote biofilm formation	Daniel C. Wu, David Zamorano-Sánchez, Fernando A. Pagliai, Jin Hwan Park, Kyle A. Floyd, Calvin K. Lee, Giordan Kitts, Christopher B. Rose, Eric M. Bilotta, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Fitnat H. Yildiz	PLoS Genetics 16 (3), e1008703 (2020)
131	2020	Social Cooperativity of Bacteria during Reversible Surface Attachment in Young Biofilms: a Quantitative Comparison of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 and PAO1	Calvin Kai-man Lee*, Jérémy Vachier*, Jaime de Anda, Kun Zhao, Amy E. Baker, Rachel R. Bennett, Catherine R. Armbruster, Kimberley A. Lewis, Rebecca L. Tarnopol, Charles J. Lomba, Deborah A. Hogan, Matthew R. Parsek, George A. O'Toole, Ramin Golestanian†, Gerard C. L. Wong† *Equal contribution †Co-corresponding authors	mBio, 11 (1), e02644-19 (2020)
130	2019	Heterogeneity in surface sensing suggests a division of labor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations	Catherine R. Armbruster*, Calvin K. Lee*, Jessica Parker-Gilham, Jaime de Anda, Aiguo Xia, Boo Shan Tseng, Lucas R. Hoffman, Fan Jin, Caroline Harwood, Gerard C. L. Wong, Matthew R Parsek *Equal contribution	eLife, 2019
129	2019	Extended hopanoid loss reduces bacterial motility and surface attachment, and leads to heterogeneity in root nodule growth kinetics in a Bradyrhizobium-Aeschynomene symbiosis	Brittany J. Belin, Elise T. Tookmanian, Jaime de Anda, Gerard C.L. Wong, and Dianne Newman	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 32:10, 1415-1428 (2019)
128	2019	Externalized histone H4 orchestrates chronic inflammation by inducing lytic cell death	Carlos Silvestre-Roig*, Quinte Braster*, Kanin Wichapong, Ernest Y. Lee, Jean Marie Teulon, Nihel Berrebeh, Janine Winter, Alexander Froese, José M. Adrover, Almudena Ortega-Gómez, Julian Marschner, Nicole Paulin, Patricia Lemnitzer, Ariane Schmuski, Carla Winter, Tom Schoufour, Helene Hartwig, Silvia González Ramos, Frits Kamp, Remco T. A. Megens, Christian Weber, Esther Lutgens, Mat Daemen, Hans-Joachim Anders, Viacheslav O. Nikolaev, Andrés Hidalgo, Jean-Luc Pellequer, Gerry Nicolaes, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Oliver Soehnlein *Equal contribution	Nature, 569 (7755), 236-240 (2019)
127	2019	Functional specialization in Vibrio cholerae diguanylate cyclases: distinct modes of motility suppression and c-di-GMP production	David Zamorano-Sánchez*, Wujing Xian*, Calvin Lee, Mauro Salinas, Wiriya Thongsomboon, Lynette Cegelski, Gerard Wong, and Fitnat Yildiz *Equal Contribution	mBio, 10 (2), e00670-19 (2019)
126	2019	CXCL4 assembles DNA into liquid crystalline complexes to amplify TLR9-mediated interferon-α production in systemic sclerosis	Roberto Lande†, Ernest Y. Lee, Raffaella Palazzo, Immacolata Pietraforte, Yves Mattenberger, Francesca Spadaro, Katia Stefanantoni, Nicoletta Iannace, Aleksandra Maria Dufour, Mario Falchi, Manuela Bianco, Montserrat Alvarez, Valeria Riccieri, Marie-Elise Truchetet, Gerard C.L. Wong†, Carlo Chizzolini†, Loredana Frasca† †Co-corresponding authors	Nature Communications, 10 (1), 1731 (2019)
125	2019	A Unifying Structural Signature of Eukaryotic α-helical Host Defense Peptides	Nannette Y. Yount , David C. Weaver, Ernest Y. Lee, Michelle W. Lee, Huiyuan Wang, Liana C. Chan, Gerard C.L. Wong, Michael R. Yeaman	PNAS, 116 (14), 6944-6953 (2019)
124	2019	Helical antimicrobial peptides assemble into protofibril scaffolds that present ordered dsDNA to TLR9	Ernest Y. Lee*, Changsheng Zhang*, Jeremy Di Domizio, Fan Jin, Will Connell, Mandy Hung, Nicolas Malkoff, Veronica Veksler, Michel Gilliet, Pengyu Ren†, Gerard C. L. Wong† *Equal contribution †Co-corresponding authors	Nature Communications, 10 (1), 1012 (2019)
123	2019	Modulation of Toll-like receptor signaling by antimicrobial peptides	Ernest Y. Lee, Michelle W. Lee, Gerard C.L. Wong	Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 88, 173-184 (2019) Invited review for special issue "Antimicrobial Peptides"
122	2018	Machine Learning Antimicrobial Peptide Sequences: Some Surprising Variations on the Theme of Amphiphilic Assembly	Michelle W. Lee, Ernest Y. Lee, Andrew L. Ferguson, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science, 38, 204-213 (2018)
121	2018	What can pleiotropic proteins in innate immunity teach us about bioconjugation and molecular design?	Michelle W. Lee, Ernest Y. Lee, Gerard C.L. Wong	Bioconjugate Chemistry, 29 (7), 2127-2139 (2018)
120	2018	Multigenerational Memory and Adaptive Adhesion in Early Bacterial Biofilm Communities	Calvin K. Lee*, Jaime De Anda*, Amy E. Baker, Rachel R. Bennett, Yun Luo, Ernest Y. Lee, Joshua A. Keefe, Joshua S. Helali, Jie Ma, Kun Zhao†, Ramin Golestanian†, George A. O’Toole†, and Gerard C. L. Wong† * Co-first authors †Co-corresponding authors	PNAS, 115 (17), 4471-4476 (2018) Read UCLA Press Release
119	2018	Cathelicidin promotes inflammation by enabling binding of self-RNA to cell surface scavenger receptors	Toshiya Takahashi, Nikhil Nitin Kulkarni, Ernest Y. Lee, Ling-juan Zhang, Gerard C.L. Wong , Richard L. Gallo	Scientific Reports, 8, 4032 (2018)
118	2018	Applications of synchrotron-based spectroscopic techniques in studying nucleic acids and nucleic acid-based nanomaterials	Peiwen Wu, Yang Yu, Claire E. McGhee, Li Huey Tan, Abhijit Mishra, Gerard C. L. Wong, Yi Lu	"Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science: Light Sources, Techniques, and Applications", Wiley, Chapter 18, pp 687-756 (2018)
117	2017	Molecular motor Dnm1 synergistically induces membrane curvature to facilitate mitochondrial fission	Michelle W. Lee, Ernest Y. Lee, Ghee Hwee Lai, Nolan W. Kennedy, Ammon E. Posey, Wujing Xian, Andrew L. Ferguson, R. Blake Hill†, and Gerard C. L. Wong† †Co-corresponding authors	ACS Central Science, 3 (11), 1156-1167 (2017) Read UCLA Press Release
116	2017	Crystallinity of double-stranded RNA-antimicrobial peptide complexes modulates Toll-Like receptor 3-mediated inflammation	Ernest Y. Lee, Toshiya Takahashi, Tine Curk, Jure Dobnikar†, Richard L. Gallo†, Gerard C. L. Wong† †Co-corresponding authors	ACS Nano, 11 (12), 12145-12155 (2017)
115	2017	High-speed “4D” computational microscopy of bacterial surface motility	Jaime De Anda*, Ernest Y. Lee*, Calvin K. Lee*, Rachel R. Bennett, Xiang Ji, Soheil Soltani, Mark C. Harrison, Amy E. Baker, Yun Luo, Tom Chou, George A. O’Toole, Andrea M. Armani, Ramin Golestanian, Gerard C. L. Wong * Co-first authors	ACS Nano, 11 (9), 9340-9351 (2017)
114	2017	Machine learning-enabled discovery and design of membrane-active peptides	Ernest Y. Lee, Gerard C.L. Wong†, and Andrew L. Ferguson† †Co-corresponding authors	Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 26 (10), 2708-2718 (2018) Invited review for "Peptide Therapeutics" symposium-in-print
113	2017	A role for neuronal ⍺-synuclein in gastrointestinal immunity	Ethan Stolzenberg, Deborah Berry, De Yang, Ernest Y. Lee, Alexander Kroemer, Stuart Kaufman, Gerard C.L. Wong, Joost Oppenheim, Supti Sen, Thomas Fishbein, Adriaan Bax, Brent Harris, Denise Barbut, and Michael Zasloff	Journal of Innate Immunity, 9 (5), 456-463 (2017) Highlighted in Science
112	2017	What can machine learning do for antimicrobial peptides, and what can antimicrobial peptides do for machine learning?	Ernest Y. Lee, Michelle W. Lee, Benjamin M. Fulan, Andrew L. Ferguson†, and Gerard C. L. Wong† †Co-corresponding authors	Interface Focus, 7(6), 20160153 (2017) Invited review for special issue "Self-assembled peptides: from nanostructure to bioactivity"
111	2017	Bacterial amyloid curli acts as a carrier for DNA to elicit an autoimmune response via TLR2 and TLR9	Sarah A. Tursi, Ernest Y. Lee, Nicole J. Medeiros, Michael H. Lee, Lauren K. Nicastro, Bettina Buttaro, Stefania Galluccci, Ronald P. Wilson, Gerard C. L. Wong†, Cagla Tukel† †Co-corresponding authors	PLoS Pathogens, 13 (4), e1006315 (2017)
110	2017	Designing Hybrid Antibiotic Peptide Conjugates To Cross Bacterial Membranes	Stephanie Deshayes, Wujing Xian, Nathan W. Schmidt, Shadi Kordbacheh, Juelline Lieng, Jennifer Wang, Sandra Zarmer, Samantha St. Germain, Laura Voyen, Julia Thulin, Gerard C.L. Wong†, Andrea M. Kasko† †Co-corresponding authors	Bioconjugate Chemistry, 28 (3), 793–804 (2017)
109	2017	Interactions Between Membranes and "Metaphilic" Polypeptide Architectures with Diverse Sidechain Populations	Michelle W. Lee, Ming Han, Guilherme Volpe Bossa, Carly Snell, Ziyuan Song, Haoyu Tang, Lichen Yin, Jianjun Cheng, Sylvio May, Erik Luijten, and Gerard C. L. Wong	ACS Nano, 11 (3), 2858–2871 (2017)
108	2017	Emergence of complex behavior in pili-based motility in early stages of P. aeruginosa surface adaptation	Yifat Brill-Karniely†, Fan Jin, Gerard C. L. Wong†, Daan Frenkel, and Jure Dobnikar† †Co-corresponding authors	Scientific Reports, 7, 45467 (2017)
107	2017	Direct antimicrobial activity of Interferon-β	Amber Kaplan*, Michelle W. Lee*, Andrea J. Wolf, Jose Limon-Tello, Courtney A. Becker, Minna Ding, Ramachandran Murali, Ernest Y. Lee, George Y. Liu, Gerard C. L. Wong†, David M. Underhill† *Equal contribution †Co-corresponding authors	Journal of Immunology, 198 (10), 4036-4045 (2017)
106	2016	Multicellular self-organization of P. aeruginosa due to interactions with secreted trails	Anatolij Gelimson, Kun Zhao, Calvin K. Lee, W. Till Kranz, Gerard C. L. Wong, Ramin Golestanian	Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 (17), 178102 (2016)
105	2016	Nanoelectronic Investigation Reveals the Electrochemical Basis of Electrical Conductivity in Shewanella and Geobacter	Mengning Ding, Hui-Ying Shiu, Shiue-Lin Li, Calvin K. Lee, Gongming Wang, Hao Wu, Nathan O. Weiss, Thomas D. Young, Paul S. Weiss, Gerard C. L. Wong, Kenneth H. Nealson, Yu Huang, and Xiangfeng Duan	ACS Nano, 10 (11), 9919–9926 (2016)
104	2016	Evolution of Cell Size Homeostasis and Growth Rate Diversity during Initial Surface Colonization of Shewanella oneidensis See also: An Emerging Grip on the Growth of Grounded Bacteria (Perspective) by Carey D. Nadell, Raimo Hartmann, and Knut Drescher	Calvin K. Lee, Alexander J. Kim, Giancarlo S. Santos, Peter Y. Lai, Stella Y. Lee, David F. Qiao, Jaime De Anda, Thomas D. Young, Yujie Chen, Annette R. Rowe, Kenneth H. Nealson, Paul S. Weiss, and Gerard C. L. Wong	ACS Nano, 10 (10), 9183-9192 (2016) See also: ACS Nano, 10 (10), 9109-9110 (2016)
103	2016	Mapping membrane activity in undiscovered peptide sequence space using machine learning	Ernest Y. Lee, Benjamin M. Fulan, Gerard C.L. Wong†, Andrew L. Ferguson† †Co-corresponding authors	PNAS 113 (48), 13588–13593 (2016) -Read Science Daily Article -Read Phys.org Article
102	2016	Effective dynamics of microorganisms that interact with their own trail	W. Till Kranz, Anatolij Gelimson, Kun Zhao, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Ramin Golestanian	Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 (3), 038101 (2016)
101	2016	S100A12 is part of the antimicrobial network against Mycobacterium leprae in human macrophages	Susan Realegeno, Kindra M. Kelly-Scumpia, Angeline Tilly Dang, Jing Lu, Rosane Teles, Philip T. Liu, Mirjam Schenk, Ernest Y. Lee, Nathan W. Schmidt, Gerard C. L. Wong, Euzenir N. Sarno, Thomas H. Rea, Maria T. Ochoa, Matteo Pellegrini, Robert L. Modlin	PLoS Pathogens 12(6), e1005705 (2016)
100	2016	Three-dimensional architecture of Vibrio cholera biofilms	Gerard C.L. Wong	PNAS 113 (14), 3711-3713 (2016)
99	2016	How to teach old antibiotics new tricks	Stephanie Deshayes, Michelle W. Lee, Nathan W. Schmidt, Wujing Xian, Andrea Kasko, Gerard C. L. Wong Editor: Richard M. Epand	"Host defense peptides and their potential as therapeutic agents", Springer Verlag, Chapter 10, pp 253–290 (2016)
98	2016	A unified view of peptide induced membrane curvature: innate immunity peptides, cell penetrating peptides, viral budding peptides	Michelle W. Lee, Nathan W. Schmidt, Wujing J. Xian, Gerard. C. L. Wong Editors: Cyrus R. Safinya, Joachim Radler	Handbook of lipid membranes, Taylor & Francis, Accepted 2016
97	2016	Sensational Biofilms: Surface Sensing in Bacteria	George A. O'Toole, Gerard C. L. Wong	Current Opinion in Microbiology 30, 139–146 (2016)
96	2016	A review of immune amplification via ligand clustering by self-assembled liquid-crystalline DNA complexes	Ernest Y. Lee, Calvin K. Lee, Nathan W. Schmidt, Fan Jin, Roberto Lande, Tine Curk, Daan Frenkel, Jure Dobnikar, Michel Gilliet, and Gerard C.L. Wong	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 232, 17-24 (2016) Invited review for special issue "Polyelectrolytes"
95	2016	Oxidation of membrane curvature-regulating phosphatidylethanolamine lipid results in formation of bilayer and cubic structures	Shalene Sankhagowit, Ernest Y. Lee, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Noah Malmstadt	Langmuir 32(10), 2450–2457 (2016)
94	2016	Species-dependent hydrodynamics of flagellum-tethered bacteria in early biofilm development	Rachel R. Bennett, Calvin K. Lee, Jaime De Anda, Kenneth H. Nealson, Fitnat H. Yildiz, George O. O’Toole, Gerard C. L. Wong, Ramin Golestanian	Journal of the Royal Society Interface 13(115), 20150966 (2016)
93	2016	Tools for the Microbiome: Nano and Beyond	Julie S. Biteen, Paul C. Blainey, Zoe G. Cardon, Miyoung Chun, George Church, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Scott E. Fraser, Jack Gilbert, Janet K. Jansson, Rob Knight, Jeffery F. Miller, Aydogan Ozcan, Kimberly A. Prather, Sharif Taha, Ger van den Engh, Stephen Quake, Edward G. Ruby, Pamela Silver, Paul S. Weiss, Gerard C. L. Wong, Aaron T. Wright, X., and Thomas D. Young	ACS Nano 10, 6-37 (2016) -Read ACS Highlight
92	2016	Interplay between type IV pili activity and exopolysaccharides secretion controls motility patterns in single cells of Myxococcus xanthus	Wei Hu*, Maxsim L. Gibiansky*, Jing Wang, Chuandong Wang, Renate Lux, Yuezhong Li, Gerard C. L. Wong & Wenyuan Shi *Equal contribution	Scientific Reports 6, 17790 (2016)
91	2015	How Bacteria Use Type IV Pili Machinery on Surfaces	Berenike Maier, Gerard C L Wong	Trends in Microbiology 23 (12), 775–788 (2015)
90	2015	Helical Antimicrobial Polypeptides with Radial Amphiphilicity	Menghua Xiong*, Michelle W. Lee*, Rachael A. Mansbach, Ziyuan Song, Yan Bao, Richard M. Peek, Jr., Catherine Yao, Lin-Feng Chen, Andrew L. Ferguson*, Gerard C. L. Wong*, and Jianjun Cheng*	PNAS 112, 13155–13160 (2015) -Read Press Release
89	2015	A dynamic network formation model for understanding bacterial self-organization in micro colonies	Luca Canzian, Kun Zhao, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Mihaela van der Schaar	IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications 1 (1), 76–89 (2015)
88	2015	A Viral Fusion Protein Transmembrane Domain Adopts Beta-Strand Structure to Facilitate Membrane Topological Changes For Virus-Cell Fusion	Hongwei Yao, Michelle W. Lee, Alan J. Waring, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Mei Hong	PNAS 112, 10926–10931 (2015)
87	2015	c-di-GMP Regulates Motile to Sessile Transition by Modulating MshA Pili Biogenesis and Near-Surface Motility Behavior in Vibrio cholerae	Christopher J. Jones, Andrew Utada, Kimberly R. Davis, Wiriya Thongsomboon, David Zamorano Sanchez, Vinita Banakar, Lynette Cegelski, Gerard C. L. Wong*, Fitnat H. Yildiz*	PLOS Pathogens 11(10), e1005068 (2015)
86	2015	Liquid-crystalline ordering of antimicrobial peptide-DNA complexes controls TLR9 activation	Nathan W. Schmidt*, Fan Jin*, Roberto Lande*, Tine Curk*, Wujing Xian, Calvin Lee, Loredana Frasca, Daan Frenkel, Jure Dobnikar, Michel Gilliet, and Gerard Wong *Equal contribution	Nature Materials 14, 696–700 (2015) -Read Nature News and Views -Read Press Release
85	2015	Reinventing cell penetrating peptides using glycosylated methionine sulfonium ion sequences	Jessica R. Kramer*, Nathan W. Schmidt*, Kristine M. Mayle, Daniel T. Kamei, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Timothy J. Deming	ACS Central Science 1, 83−88 (2015) -Read Press Release
84	2015	Living in the matrix: a guide to Vibrio cholera biofilms	Jennifer K. Teschler, David Zamorano-Sánchez, Andrew S. Utada, Christopher J. A. Warner, Gerard C. L. Wong, Roger G. Linington & Fitnat H. Yildiz	Nature Reviews Microbiology 13, 255–268 (2015)
83	2015	Pentobra: A potent antibiotic with multiple layers of selective antimicrobial mechanisms against Propionibacterium acnes	Nathan W. Schmidt*, George W. Agak*, Stephanie Deshayes, Yang Yu, Alyssa Blacker, Jackson Champer, Wujing Xian, Andrea M. Kasko, Jenny Kim and Gerard C.L. Wong	Journal of Investigative Dermatology 135, 1581–1589 (2015)
82	2015	A Hierarchical Cascade of Second Messengers Regulates Pseudomonas aeruginosa Surface Behaviors	Yun Luo, Kun Zhao, Amy E. Baker, Sherry L. Kuchma, Kimberly A. Coggan, Matthew C. Wolfgang, Gerard C. L. Wong, George A. O’Toole	mBio 6 (1) 1-11 (2015)
81	2014	Ternary Nylon-3 Copolymers as Host-Defense Peptide Mimics: Beyond Hydrophobic and Cationic Subunits	Saswata Chakraborty, Runhui Liu, Zvi Hayouka, Xinyu Chen, Jeffrey Ehrhardt, Qin Lu, Eileen Burke, Yiqing Yang, Bernard Weisblum, Gerard C. L. Wong, Kristyn S. Masters, and Samuel H. Gellman	J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 (41) 14530-14535
80	2014	Engineering Persister-Specific Antibiotics with Synergistic Antimicrobial Functions	Nathan W. Schmidt*, Stephanie Deshayes*, Sinead Hawker, Alyssa Blacker, Andrea M. Kasko, Gerard C.L. Wong *Equal contribution	ACS Nano 8 (9) 8786-8793 -Read Press Release
79	2014	Vibrio cholera use pili and flagella synergistically to effect motility switching and conditional surface attachment	Andrew S. Utada*, Rachel R. Bennett*, Jiunn C.N. Fong, Maxsim L. Gibiansky, Fitnat H. Yildiz, Ramin Golestanian & Gerard C.L. Wong	Nat. Commun. 5 4913
78	2014	Two interdependent mechanisms of antimicrobial activity allow for efficient killing in nylon-3-based polymeric mimics of innate immunity peptides	Michelle W. Lee, Saswata Chakraborty, Nathan W. Schmidt, Rajan Murgai, Samuel H. Gellman, Gerard C.L. Wong	BBA 1838 2269-2279
77	2013	Antimicrobial peptides and induced membrane curvature: Geometry, coordination chemistry, and molecular engineering	Nathan W. Schmidt, Gerard C. L. Wong	Curr. Opp. in Solid State & Mat. Sci. 17 151
76	2013	Influenza Virus A M2 Protein Generates Negative Gaussian Membrane Curvature Necessary for Budding and Scission	Nathan W. Schmidt, Abhijit Mishra, Jun Wang, William F. DeGrado, Gerard C. L. Wong	J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135 13710
75	2013	Psl trails guide exploration and microcolony formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	Kun Zhao*, Boo Shan Tseng*, Bernard Beckerman, Fan Jin, Maxsim L. Gibiansky, Joe J. Harrison, Erik Luijten, Matthew R. Parsek, Gerard C. L. Wong *Equal contribution	Nature 497 388 -Read Nature News and Views -Read Press Release
74	2013	A Critical Evaluation of Random Copolymer Mimesis of Homogeneous Antimicrobial Peptides	Kan Hu*, Nathan W. Schmidt*, Rui Zhu, Yunjiang Jiang, Ghee Hwee Lai, Gang Wei, Edmund F. Palermo, Kenichi Kuroda, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Lihua Yang *Equal contribution	Macromolecules 46 (5) 1908
73	2013	Earthquake-like dynamics in Myxococcus xanthous social motility	Maxsim L. Gibiansky, Wei Hu, Karin A. Dahmen, Wenyuan Shi, Gerard C. L. Wong	Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110 2330
72	2012	Molecular basis for nanoscopic membrane curvature generation from quantum mechanical models and synthetic transporter sequences	Nathan W. Schmidt, Michael Lis, Kun Zhao, Ghee Hwee Lai, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Gregory N. Tew, Gerard C. L. Wong	J. Am. Chem. Soc 134 19207
71	2012	Arginine in alpha-Defensins: Differential effects on bactericidal activity correspond to geometry of membrane curvature generation and peptide-lipid phase behavior	Nathan W. Schmidt, Kenneth P. Tai, Karishma Kamdar, Abhijit Mishra, Ghee Hwee Lai, Kun Zhao, Andre J. Oulette, and Gerard C. L. Wong	J Biol Chem. 287. 21866
70	2012	Enhanced activity of cyclic transporter sequences driven by phase behavior of peptide-lipid complexes	Kun Zhao, Uh-Joo Choe, Daniel T. Kamei, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Soft Matter 8 6430-6433
69	2012	Molecular solvation dynamics from inelastic x-ray scattering experiments	Robert Coridan and Gerard C. L. Wong	Adv. Chem. Phys. 149. 83-127
68	2012	Dynamics of confined water reconstructed from inelastic x-ray scattering measurements of bulk response functions	Robert Coridan, Nathan W. Schmidt, Ghee Hwee Lai, Peter Abbamonte, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Physical Review E. 85. 031501
67	2011	Small Angle X-ray Scattering Studies of Peptide-Lipid Interactions using the Mouse Paneth Cell ‘±-Defensin Cryptdin-4	Abhijit Mishra, Kenneth P. Tai, Nathan W. Schmidt, Andre J. Ouellette, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Methods Enzymol. 492. 127
66	2011	Translocation of HIV TAT peptide and analogues induced by multiplexed membrane and cytoskeletal interactions	Abhijit Mishra*, Ghee Hwee Lai*, Nathan W. Schmidt, Victor Z. Sun, April R. Rodriguez, Rong Tong, Jianjun Cheng, Timothy J. Deming, Daniel T. Kamei, Gerard C. L. Wong *Equal contribution	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108 16883–16888 -Read Press Release
65	2011	Squalamine as a broad spectrum antiviral agent with therapeutic potential	Michael Zasloff, A. Paige Adams, Bernard Beckerman, Ann Campbell, Ziying Han, Erik Luijten, Isaura Meza, Justin Julander, Abhijit Mishra, Wei Qu, John Taylor, Scott C. Weaver, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108. 15978 -Read Press Release
64	2011	Bacteria use type-IV pili to 'slingshot' on surfaces	Fan Jin*, Jacinta Conrad*, Maxsim Gibiansky, Gerard C. L. Wong *Equal contribution	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108. 12617 -Read Press Release
63	2011	All together now: Integrating biofilm research across disciplines	Gerard C. L. Wong and George A. O’Toole	MRS Bulletin 36 (5) 339-342
62	2011	Criterion for Amino Acid Composition of Defensins and Antimicrobial Peptides Based on Geometry of Membrane Destabilization	Nathan W. Schmidt, Abhijit Mishra, Ghee Hwee Lai, Matthew Davis, Lori K. Sanders, Dat Tran, Angie Garcia, Kenneth P. Tai, Paul B. McCray, Jr., Andre J. Ouelette, Michael E. Selsted, and Gerard C. L. Wong	J. Am. Chem Soc. 133. 6720
61	2011	The Pel polysaccharide can serve a structural and protective role in the biofilm matrix of Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Kelly M. Colvin, Vernita D. Gordon, Keiji Murakami, Daniel J. Wozniak, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Matthew R. Parsek	PLoS Pathogens. 7. e1001264
60	2011	Flagella and pili-mediated near-surface single-cell motility mechanisms in P. aeruginosa	Jacinta C. Conrad*, Maxsim L. Gibiansky*, Fan Jin, Vernita D. Gordon, Dominick A. Motto, Margie A. Mathewson, Wiktor G. Stopka, Daria C. Zelasko, Joshua D. Shrout, and Gerard C. L. Wong *Equal contribution	Biophys J. 100. 1608
59	2010	Bacteria use Type IV Pili to Stand Upright and Detach from Surfaces	Maxsim L. Gibiansky*, Jacinta C. Conrad*, Fan Jin, Vernita D. Gordon, Dominick A. Motto, Margie A. Mathewson, Wiktor G. Stopka, Daria C. Zelasko, Joshua D. Shrout, and Gerard C. L. Wong *Equal contribution	Science. 330. 197 -Read Press Release
58	2010	Ultrafast Imaging and the Phase Problem for Inelastic X-Ray Scattering	Peter Abbamonte, Gerard C. L. Wong, David G. Cahill, James P. Reed, Robert H. Coridan, Nathan W. Schmidt, Ghee Hwee Lai, Young IL Joe, and Diego Casa	Advanced Materials. 22. 1141
57	2010	Electrostatics of strongly charged biological polymers	Gerard C. L. Wong and Lois Pollack	Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry. 61. 171
56	2009	Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides	Nathan Schmidt, Abhijit Mishra, Ghee Hwee Lai, and Gerard C. L. Wong	FEBS letters. 584. 1806
55	2009	Influence of Salts and Natural Organic Matter on the Stability of Bacteriophage MS2	Steven E. Mylon, Claudia I. Rinciog, Nathan Schmidt, Leonardo Gutierrez, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Thanh H. Nguyen	Langmuir. 26. 1035
54	2009	EXAFS studies of catalytic DNA sensors for mercury contamination of water	B. Ravel, S.C. Slimmer, X. Meng, G.C.L. Wong, and Y. Lu	Radiation Physics and Chemistry. 78. S75
53	2009	Hydration Dynamics at Femtosecond Time Scales and Angstrom Length Scales from Inelastic X-Ray Scattering	Robert H. Coridan, Nathan W. Schmidt, Ghee Hwee Lai, Rahul Godawat, Michael Krisch, Shekhar Garde, Peter Abbamonte, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Phys. Rev. Lett.. 103. 237402
52	2009	Cooperativity and Frustration in Protein-Mediated Parallel Actin Bundles	Homin Shin, Kirstin R. Purdy Drew, James R. Bartles, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Gregory M. Grason	Physical Review Letters. 103. 238102
51	2009	Hydration structures near finite-sized nanoscopic objects reconstructed using inelastic x-ray scattering measurements	Robert H. Coridan, Nathan W. Schmidt, Ghee Hwee Lai, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 21. 424115
50	2009	Divalent metal ion triggered activity of a synthetic antimicrobial in cardiolipin membranes	Abhigyan Som, Lihua Yang, Gerard C L Wong, and Gregory N Tew	J Am Chem Soc. 131. 15102-3
49	2009	Inorganic Mercury Detection and controlled release of chelating agents from ion-responsive PEG-liposomes	Mehmet Yigit, Abhijit Mishra, Rong Tong, Jianjun Cheng, Gerard C.L. Wong, and Yi Lu	Chemistry & Biology. 16. 937
48	2009	Reversible cell-specific drug delivery with aptamer-functionalized liposomes	Zehui Cao, Rong Tong, Abhijit Mishra, Weichen Xu, Gerard C L Wong, Jianjun Cheng, and Yi Lu	Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 48. 6494 -Read Press Release
47	2009	Cationic amphiphiles increase activity of aminoglycoside antibiotic tobramycin in the presence of airway polyelectrolytes	Kirstin R Purdy Drew, Lori K Sanders, Zachary W Culumber, Olena Zribi, and Gerard C L Wong	J Am Chem Soc. 131. 486
46	2008	Elasticity-mediated nematiclike bacterial organization in model extracellular DNA matrix	Ivan I. Smalyukh, John Butler, Joshua D. Shrout, Matthew R. Parsek, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Physical Review E. 78. 030701
45	2008	Self-Organized Gels in DNA/F-Actin Mixtures without Crosslinkers : Networks of Induced Nematic Domains with Tunable Density	Ghee Hwee Lai, John C. Butler, Olena V. Zribi, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Thomas E. Angelini, Kirstin R. Purdy, Ramin Golestanian, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Physical Review Letters. 101. 218303
44	2008	Mechanism of a prototypical synthetic membrane-active antimicrobial : Efficient hole-punching via interaction with negative intrinsic curvature lipids	Lihua Yang, Vernita D. Gordon, Dallas R. Trinkle, Nathan W. Schmidt, Matthew A. Davis, Clarabelle DeVries, Abhigyan Som, John E. Cronan Jr, Gregory N. Tew, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105. 20595-600
43	2008	HIV TAT Forms Pores in Membranes by Inducing Saddle-Splay Curvature : Potential Role of Bidentate Hydrogen Bonding	Abhijit Mishra, Vernita D. Gordon, Lihua Yang, Robert Coridan, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 47. 2986
42	2007	Control of electrostatic interactions between F-actin and genetically modified lysozyme in aqueous media	Lori K Sanders, Wujing Xian, Camilo Guíçqueta, Michael J Strohman, Chuck R Vrasich, Erik Luijten, and Gerard C L Wong	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104. 15994
41	2007	Synthetic Antimicrobial Oligomers Induce a Composition-Dependent Topological Transition in Membranes	Lihua Yang, Vernita D. Gordon, Abhijit Mishra, Abhigyan Som, Kirstin R. Purdy, Matthew A. Davis, Gregory N. Tew, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129. 12141
40	2007	Evolution of Growth Modes for Polyelectrolyte Bundles	Ghee Hwee Lai, Rob Coridan, Olena V. Zribi, Ramin Golestanian, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Physical Review Letters. 98. 187802
39	2007	Structural Polymorphism of the Actin-Espin System: A Prototypical System of Filaments and Linkers in Stereocilia	Kirstin R. Purdy, James R. Bartles, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Physical Review Letters. 98. 058105
38	2007	Temperature Dependence of Thermodiffusion in Aqueous Suspensions of Charged Nanoparticles	Shawn A. Putnam, David G. Cahill, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Langmuir. 23. 9221
37	2006	Electrostatics of rigid polyelectrolytes	Gerard C.L. Wong	Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science. 11. 310
36	2006	The effect of salt on self-assembled actin-lysozyme complexes	Camilo Guíçqueta, Lori K Sanders, Gerard C L Wong, and Erik Luijten	Biophys J. 90. 4630
35	2006	Counterions between charged polymers exhibit liquid-like organization and dynamics	Thomas E Angelini, Ramin Golestanian, Robert H Coridan, John C Butler, Alexandre Beraud, Michael Krisch, Harald Sinn, Kenneth S Schweizer, and Gerard C L Wong	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103. 7962
34	2006	Structure and Dynamics of Liquid Crystalline Pattern Formation in Drying Droplets of DNA	Ivan I. Smalyukh, Olena V. Zribi, John C. Butler, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Physical Review Letters. 96. 177801
33	2006	Condensation of DNA-actin polyelectrolyte mixtures driven by ions of different valences	Olena V. Zribi, Hee Kyung, Ramin Golestanian, Tanniemola B. Liverpool, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Physical Review E. 73. 031911
32	2005	Structure and Stability of Self-Assembled Actin-Lysozyme Complexes in Salty Water	Lori K. Sanders, Camilo Gu\'aqueta, Thomas E. Angelini, Jae-Wook Lee, Scott C. Slimmer, Erik Luijten, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Phys. Rev. Lett.. 95. 108302
31	2005	Polymorphism of DNA-anionic liposome complexes reveals hierarchy of ion-mediated interactions	Hongjun Liang, Daniel Harries, and Gerard C L Wong	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102. 11173
30	2005	Structure and dynamics of condensed multivalent ions within polyelectrolyte bundles: a combined x-ray diffraction and solid-state NMR study	Thomas E Angelini, Lori K Sanders, Hongjun Liang, Willy Wriggers, Jay X Tang, and Gerard C L Wong	Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 17. S1123
29	2005	Direct observation of counterion organization in F-actin polyelectrolyte bundles	Thomas E. Angelini, Hongjun Liang, Willy Wriggers, and Gerard C.L. Wong	The European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics. 16. 389
28	2005	Salt-induced condensation in actin-DNA mixtures	O. V. Zribi, H. Kyung, R. Golestanian, T. B. Liverpool, and G. C. L. Wong	EPL (Europhysics Letters). 70. 541
27	2004	Roles of anionic and cationic template components in biomineralization of CdS nanorods using self-assembled DNA-membrane complexes	Hongjun Liang, Thomas E Angelini, Paul V Braun, and Gerard C L Wong	J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 126. 14157
26	2004	MATERIALS SCIENCE: The Soft Sector in Physics	Gerard C. L. Wong	Science. 305. 948
25	2004	Self-assembled virus-membrane complexes	Lihua Yang, Hongjun Liang, Thomas E. Angelini, John Butler, Robert Coridan, Jay X. Tang, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Nat Mater. 3. 615 -Read Nature News and Views
24	2003	Molecular imprinting of biomineralized CdS nanostructures : crystallographic control using self-assembled DNA-membrane templates	Hongjun Liang, Thomas E Angelini, James Ho, Paul V Braun, and Gerard C L Wong	J Am Chem Soc. 125. 11786
23	2003	Like-charge attraction between polyelectrolytes induced by counterion charge density waves	Thomas E. Angelini, Hongjun Liang, Willy Wriggers, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 100. 8634
22	2003	Ion Multivalence and Like-Charge Polyelectrolyte Attraction	John C. Butler, Thomas Angelini, Jay X. Tang, and Gerard C. L. Wong	Phys. Rev. Lett.. 91. 028301
21	2003	Lamellar Phase of Stacked Two-Dimensional Rafts of Actin Filaments	Gerard C. L. Wong, Alison Lin, Jay X. Tang, Youli Li, Paul A. Janmey, and Cyrus R. Safinya	Phys. Rev. Lett.. 91. 018103
20	2001	Controlled Modification of Microstructured Silicon Surfaces for Confinement of Biological Macromolecules and Liquid Crystals	T. Pfohl, J. H. Kim, M. Yasa, H. P. Miller, G. C. L. Wong, F. Bringezu, Z. Wen, L. Wilson, M. W. Kim, Y. Li, and C. R. Safinya	Langmuir. 17. 5343
19	2000	Characterizing the hard x-ray diffraction properties of a GaAs linear Bragg--Fresnel lens	Youli Li, Gerard C. L. Wong, Ryan Case, Cyrus R. Safinya, Ernie Caine, Evelyn Hu, and Partricia Fernandez	Applied Physics Letters. 77. 313
18	2000	Hierarchical Self-Assembly of F-Actin and Cationic Lipid Complexes: Stacked Three-Layer Tubule Networks	Gerard C. L. Wong, Jay X. Tang, Alison Lin, Youli Li, Paul A. Janmey, and Cyrus R. Safinya	Science. 288. 2035
17	1998	Mesoscopic structure of DNA-membrane self-assemblies: microdiffraction and manipulation on lithographic substrates	G. C. L. Wong, Y. Li, I. Koltover, C. R. Safinya, Z. Cai, and W. Yun	Appl. Phys. Lett. 73, 2042-2044 (1998)
16	1998	Structural studies of DNA-cationic lipid complexes confined in lithographically patterned microchannel arrays	Y. Li, G. C. L. Wong, E. Caine, E. L. Hu, and C. R. Safinya	Int. J. Thermophys. 9, 1165-1174 (1998)
15	1998	Bragg-Fresnel optics for hard x-ray microscopy: Development of fabrication process and x-ray characterization at the Advanced Photon Source	Y. Li, G. C. L. Wong, C. R. Safinya, E. Caine, and E. Hu	Rev. Sci. Instrum. 69, 2844-2848 (1998)
14	1998	Thinning transitions and fluctuations of freely suspended smectic-A films as studied by specular and diffuse x-ray scattering	E. A. L. Mol, G. C. L. Wong, J. Petit, F. Rieutord, and W. H. de Jeu	Physica B 248, 191-198 (1998)
13	1997	Induced long-range order in crosslinked `one-dimensional' stacks of fluid monolayers	Gerald C. L. Wong, Wim H. de Jeu, Henry Shao, Keng S. Liang, and Rudolf Zentel	Nature. 389. 576
12	1997	Critical examination of prewetting and surface melting on caprolactam	Gerard C. L. Wong, Wim H. de Jeu, Gertjan Bogels, Erwin P. G. van den Berg, and Piet Bennema	Phys. Rev. B. 55. 1388
11	1997	Thermal Fluctuations of Freely Suspended Smectic-A Films from Mesoscopic to Molecular Length Scales	E. A. L. Mol, G. C. L. Wong, J. M. Petit, F. Rieutord, and W. H. de Jeu	Phys. Rev. Lett.. 79. 3439
10	1996	Orientational Wetting in Hybrid Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers	Gerard C. L. Wong, Jan Commandeur, Hartmut Fischer, and Wim H. de Jeu	Phys. Rev. Lett.. 77. 5221
9	1994	Parallel adatom chains on Si(111): a chemisorption-induced surface reconstruction	G. C. L. Wong, C. A. Lucas, D. Loretto, A. P. Payne, and P. H. Fuoss	Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 991-994 (1994)
8	1994	Direct observation of interface and surface steps in epitaxial films by dark-field transmission electron microscopy	D. Loretto, F. M. Ross, C. A. Lucas, and G. C. L. Wong	Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 1766-1768 (1994).
7	1994	Epitaxial growth mechanisms and structure of CaF2/Si(111)	C. A. Lucas, D. Loretto, and G. C. L. Wong	Phys. Rev. B 50, 14340-14353 (1994).
6	1993	Structural Transitions of the CaF2/Si(111) Interface	C. A. Lucas, G. C. L. Wong, and D. Loretto	Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1826-1829 (1993).
5	1993	CaF2/Si(111) as a model ionic/covalent system: The transition from chemisorption to epitaxy	G. C. L. Wong, D. Loretto, E. Rotenberg, M. A. Olmstead, and C. A. Lucas	Phys. Rev. B 48 , 5716-5719 (1993)
4	1993	Initial stages in the epitaxial growth of NaCl on Ge(001)	C. A. Lucas, G. C. L. Wong, C. S. Dower, F. J. Lamelas, and P. H. Fuoss	Surf. Sci. 286 , 46-55 (1993)
3	1993	Order-disorder c(4x2)-(2x1) transition on Ge(001): an in-situ x-ray scattering study	C. A. Lucas, C. S. Dower, D. F. McMorrow, G. C. L. Wong, F. J. Lamelas, and P. H. Fuoss	Phys. Rev. B 47, 10375-10382 (1993)
2	1990	Solid state amorphization reactions in deformed Ni-Zr multilayered composites	G. C. L. Wong, W. L. Johnson, and E. J. Cotts	J. Mat. Res. 5, 488-497 (1990).
1	1988	Calorimetric observations of amorphous and crystalline Ni-Zr alloy formation by solid state reaction	E. J. Cotts, G. C. L. Wong, and W. L. Johnson	Phys. Rev. B 37 , 9049-9052 (1988).