PUBLICATIONS

Bottleneck size drives the evolution of cooperative traits in an aggregative multicellular myxobacterium

Jyotsna Kalathera, Prakhar Jaiswal, Neha Mandal, Vishwa Patel, Vishwesha Guttal, Sandeep Krishna, Samay Pande

PLOS Biology, (ACCEPTED).

-> We demonstrate that the size of population bottleneck shapes cooperative traits and life-cycle evolution in aggregative multicellular bacteria, linking demography to multicellular strategies.

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Raman spectral predictors of spore germination efficiency in natural isolates of Myxococcus xanthus

Rekha P T, Jyotsna Kalathera, Siva Umapathy, Samay Pande

ACS Analytical Chemistry, 2025, 97:36

-> We show that single-cell Raman spectra can be used to forecast sporulation and germination success of Myxococcus xanthus cells.

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Microbial interactions: A chemical booby trap against predatory amoeba

Vaibhav Sharma, Samay Pande

Current Biology, 2025, 35, 755-757​

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Distinct filament morphology and membrane tethering features of the dual FtsZ paralogs in Odinarchaeota

Jayanti Kumari, Akhilesh Uthaman, Sucharita Bose, Ananya Kundu, Vaibhav Sharma, Soumyajit Dutta, Anubhav Dhar, Srijita Roy, Ramanujam Srinivasan, Samay Pande, Kutti R Vinothkumar, Pananghat Gayathri, Saravanan Palani

The EMBO Journal, 2025, doi: 10.1038/s44318-025-00529-7

-> Reveals how duplicated FtsZs in Odinarchaeota diverged in filament form and membrane tethering—an eco-evolutionary step toward eukaryotic cytoskeletal complexity.

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Coevolutionary history of predation constrains the evolvability of antibiotic resistance in prey bacteria

Saheli Saha, Sneha Sureshkumar, Vaibhav Sharma, Samay Pande

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, 2025, 3:49

​-> Demonstrates that predator–prey coevolution reduces the evolutionary potential of bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance.

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Mass lysis of bacterial predators drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities

Saheli Saha, Jyotsna Kalathera, Thoniparambil Sunil Sumi, Vishwadeep Mane, Sina Zimmermann, Silvio Waschina, Samay Pande

Current Biology, 2025, 35, 1-11

-> The article demonstrates the direct role of microbial predation in the maintenance of antibiotic resistance in antibiotic-free pristine environments.

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Community mixing selects for predation resistance in lab-evolved communities of bacterial prey and social predator Myxococcus xanthus

S Saheli, B Bhat, J M Laloo, S Pande

biorxiv, 2023, DOI:10.1101/2023.03.21.533597

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CRISPR evolves among the winners

S Saha, S Pande

Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01843-7

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Widespread density dependence of bacterial growth under acidic stress

F Fiegna, S Pande, H Peitz, GJ Velicer

biorxiv, 2021, DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.27.461844

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Cooperation and cheating among germinating Spores

S Pande, PP Escriva, YTN Yu, U Sauer, GJ Velicer

Current Biology, 2020, 30 (23), 4745-4752. e4

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Nanotube‐mediated cross‐feeding couples the metabolism of interacting bacterial cells

S Shitut, T Ahsendorf, S Pande, M Egbert, C Kost

Environmental Microbiology, 2019, 21 (4), 1306-1320

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Chimeric synergy in natural social groups of a cooperative microbe

S Pande, GJ Velicer

Current Biology, 2018, 28 (2), 262-267. e3

 

Bacterial unculturability and the formation of intercellular metabolic networks

S Pande, C Kost

Trends in Microbiology, 2017, 25 (5), 349-361

 

Pervasive selection for cooperative cross-feeding in bacterial communities

S Germerodt, K Bohl, A Lück, S Pande, A Schröter, C Kaleta, S Schuster, C Kost

PLoS Computational biology, 2016, 12 (6), e1004986

 

Privatization of cooperative benefits stabilizes mutualistic cross-feeding interactions in spatially structured environments

S Pande, F Kaftan, S Lang, A Svatoš, S Germerodt, C Kost

The ISME journal, 2016,  10 (6), 1413-1423

 

Metabolic cross-feeding via intercellular nanotubes among bacteria

S Pande, S Shitut, L Freund, M Westermann, F Bertels, C Colesie, IB Bischofs, C Kost

Nature Communications, 2015

 

Less is more: selective advantages can explain the prevalent loss of biosynthetic genes in bacteria

G D'Souza, S Waschina, S Pande, K Bohl, C Kaleta, C Kost

Evolution, 2014, 68 (9), 2559-2570

 

Fitness and stability of obligate cross-feeding interactions that emerge upon gene loss in bacteria

S Pande, H Merker, K Bohl, M Reichelt, S Schuster, LF De Figueiredo, C Kaleta, C Kost

The ISME journal, 2014,  8 (5), 953-962

 

Comparison of denitrification between Paracoccus sp. and Diaphorobacter sp.

SS Chakravarthy, S Pande, A Kapoor, AS Nerurkar

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2011, 165 (1), 260-269

 

Characterization of two M17 family members in Escherichia coli, peptidase A and peptidase B

M Bhosale, S Pande, A Kumar, S Kairamkonda, D Nandi

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2010, 395 (1), 76-81

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