Ravi Barabote, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor

  • PhD – Biology (research area: Microbiology)
  • Postdoctoral training: bacteriology, genomics, and bioinformatics – UC San Diego, Los Alamos National Lab, UC Davis

Building Address: 209-B Connaway Hall
Phone Number: 573-884-2082
Email: rdbr7d@missouri.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Molecular biology of bacteria, bacterial physiology, bacterial genetics and genomics, and bioinformatics.

TEACHING

V_PBIO 1500 Microbial World (5 credits, lecture and lab)
V_PBIO 2010 Fundamentals of Microbiology (3 credits, lecture)
V_PBIO 2011 Fundamentals of Microbiology Laboratory (2 credits, lab)
V_PBIO 3557 Microbial Pathogenesis (3 credits, lecture)
V_PBIO 3560 Microbial Physiology (3 credits, lecture)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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  1. Mahato SK, Saini J, Barabote RD. 2020. A putative cystathionine beta-synthase homolog of Mycobacterium smegmatis is involved in de novo cysteine biosynthesis. FASEB J. 34(S1):05992.
  2. Alkahem Albalawi TH, Rhoads DD, Barabote RD. 2017. Draft genome sequence of Anoxybacillus sp. Strain UARK-01, a new thermophilic lignin-utilizing bacterium isolated from soil in Arkansas, USA. Genome Announc. 5(30):e00588-17.
  3. Barabote RD, Parales JV, Guo YY, Labavitch JM, Parales RE, Berry AM. 2010. Xyn10A, a thermostable endoxylanase from Acidothermus cellulolyticus 11B. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010 Nov;76(21):7363-6.
  4. Barabote RD, Xie G, Leu DH, Normand P, Necsulea A, Daubin V, Médigue C, Adney WS, Xu XC, Lapidus A, Parales RE, Detter C, Pujic P, Bruce D, Lavire C, Challacombe JF, Brettin TS, Berry AM. 2009. Complete genome of the cellulolytic thermophile Acidothermus cellulolyticus 11B provides insights into its ecophysiological and evolutionary adaptations. Genome Res. 19(6):1033-43.
  5. Martinez D, Berka RM, Henrissat B, Saloheimo M, Arvas M, Baker SE, Chapman J, Chertkov O, Coutinho PM, Cullen D, Danchin EG, Grigoriev IV, Harris P, Jackson M, Kubicek CP, Han CS, Ho I, Larrondo LF, de Leon AL, Magnuson JK, Merino S, Misra M, Nelson B, Putnam N, Robbertse B, Salamov AA, Schmoll M, Terry A, Thayer N, Westerholm-Parvinen A, Schoch CL, Yao J, Barabote R, Nelson MA, Detter C, Bruce D, Kuske CR, Xie G, Richardson P, Rokhsar DS, Lucas SM, Rubin EM, Dunn-Coleman N, Ward M, Brettin TS. 2008. Genome sequencing and analysis of the biomass-degrading fungus Trichoderma reesei (syn. Hypocrea jecorina). Nat Biotechnol. 26(5):553-60.
  6. Makarova K, Slesarev A, Wolf Y, Sorokin A, Mirkin B, Koonin E, Pavlov A, Pavlova N, Karamychev V, Polouchine N, Shakhova V, Grigoriev I, Lou Y, Rohksar D, Lucas S, Huang K, Goodstein DM, Hawkins T, Plengvidhya V, Welker D, Hughes J, Goh Y, Benson A, Baldwin K, Lee JH, Díaz-Muñiz I, Dosti B, Smeianov V, Wechter W, Barabote R, Lorca G, Altermann E, Barrangou R, Ganesan B, Xie Y, Rawsthorne H, Tamir D, Parker C, Breidt F, Broadbent J, Hutkins R, O’Sullivan D, Steele J, Unlu G, Saier M, Klaenhammer T, Richardson P, Kozyavkin S, Weimer B, Mills D. 2006. Comparative genomics of the lactic acid bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 103(42):15611-6.
  7. Barabote RD, Saier MH Jr. 2005. Comparative genomic analyses of the bacterial phosphotransferase system. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 69(4):608-34.
  8. Barabote RD, Johnson OL, Zetina E, San Francisco SK, Fralick JA, San Francisco MJ. 2003. Erwinia chrysanthemi tolC is involved in resistance to antimicrobial plant chemicals and is essential for phytopathogenesis. J Bacteriol. 185(19):5772-8.