Max Teplitski
Associate Professor
Soil Microbiology
DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH AREAS
Management of Nutrients, Pesticides, and Wastes
Soil Quality/Ecosystem Services
Wetlands and Aquatic Systems
RESEARCH FOCUS
Bacterial cell-to-cell communication and its role in structuring of microbial communities and interactions with eukaryotic hosts. We also focus on the biochemical strategies that eukaryotes use to disrupt gene regulation in environmental and pathogenic bacteria.
COURSES TAUGHT
SOS 6373 - Techniques in Microbial Ecology
SOS 4307/5308 - Ecology of Waterborne Pathogens
SOS 6325 - Rhizosphere Biochemistry (Fall 2007)
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Noel, J.T., Arrach, N., Alagely, A., McClelland, M., Teplitski, M. 2010. Specific responses of Salmonella enterica to tomato varieties and fruit ripeness identified by in vivo expression technology. PLoS One 5: e12406
Teplitski, M., Mathesius, U., Rumbaugh, K.P. 2010. Perception and degradation of N-acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing signals by mammalian and plant cells. Chem Rev. DOI: 10.1021/cr100045m
Gao, M., Barnett, M., Long, S., Teplitski, M. 2010. Role of the Sinorhizobium meliloti global regulator Hfq in gene regulation and symbiosis. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 23:355-365
Alagely, A., Rajamani, S., Teplitski, M. 2010. Luminescent reporters and their applications for the characterization of signals and signal-mimics that alter LasR-mediated Quorum Sensing (Chapter 9). In Quorum Sensing: Methods and Protocols (Rumbaugh, K.P., ed). Series: Methods in Molecular Biology, Human Press (series editor Walker, J.M.)
Krediet, C., Ritchie, K.B., Cohen, M., Lipp, E., Patterson, K., and Teplitski, M. 2009. Utilization of mucus from the coral Acropora palmata by the pathogen Serratia marcescens, environmental and coral commensal bacteria. Appl Env Microbiol 75: 3851-3858
CONTACT INFORMATION 
Genetics Institute, Rm330E, Cancer and Genetics Research Complex, 2033 Mowry Rd, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 32611.
Phone: 352-273-8189
email: maxtep@ufl.edu
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