Dr.
Thomas Lesley Sitter
Computational Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology
lesleysitter (at) hotmail.com
Prager Strasse 53
Leipzig, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Darío A. Ramirez *, T. Lesley Sitter *, Sanni Översti *, María José Herrera-Soto, Nicolás Pastor, Oscar Eduardo Fontana-Silva, Casey L. Kirkpatrick, José Castelleti-Dellepiane, Rodrigo Nores & Kirsten I. Bos (2025). 4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long establishment of Hansen’s disease in the Americas. Nature Ecology & Evolution. TBA(TBA). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02771-y [article][pubmed]
* These authors contributed equally
Rodrigo Barquera *, T Lesley Sitter *, Casey L Kirkpatrick *, Darío A Ramirez *, Arthur Kocher, Maria A Spyrou, Lourdes R Couoh, Jorge A Talavera-González, Mario Castro, Tanya von Hunnius, Evelyn K Guevara, W Derek Hamilton, Patrick Roberts, Erin Scott, Mariana Fabra, Gabriela V Da Peña, Aryel Pacheco, Mónica Rodriguez, Eugenio Aspillaga, Anthi Tiliakou, Elizabeth A Nelson, Karen L Giffin, Raffaela A Bianco, Adam B Rohrlach, María de Los Ángeles García Martínez, Fabiola A Ballesteros Solís, Antti Sajantila, Shelley R Saunders, Rodrigo Nores, Alexander Herbig, Johannes Krause, Kirsten I Bos (2024). Ancient genomes reveal a deep history of treponemal disease in the Americas. Nature. 640, 186–193. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08515-5 [article][pubmed]
* These authors contributed equally
Lesley Sitter, Marion Schoof, Travis R. Glare, Murray P. Cox, Peter C. Fineran, Paul P. Gardner, Mark R. H. Hurst (2024). Serratia-based toxin cluster elements are associated with a type I fimbria. MicrobiologyOpen. 13(1). DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.1395 [article]
Mark R. H. Hurst, Amy Beattie, Aurelie Laugraud, Richard Townsend, Lesley Sitter, Chikako van Koten, Lincoln Harper (2021). Identification of Diverse Toxin Complex Clusters and an eCIS Variant in Serratia proteamaculans Pathovars of the New Zealand Grass Grub (Costelytra Giveni) and Manuka Beetle (Pyronota Spp.) Larvae. Microbiology Spectrum. 9(2):e01123-21. DOI: 10.1128/Spectrum.01123-21 [article][pubmed]
Thomas L. Sitter, Amy L. Vaughan, Marion Schoof, Simon A. Jackson, Travis R. Glare, Murray P. Cox, Peter C. Fineran, Paul P. Gardner, Mark R. H. Hurst (2021). Evolution of virulence in a novel family of transmissible mega-plasmids. Environmental microbiology. 23(9):5289-5304. Special Issue on Pathogen and Antibiotic Resistance Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15595 [article][pubmed]
Thomas L. Sitter (2020). Evolutionary divergence of the insect disease-encoding Serratia plasmid pADAP. [Doctoral dissertation, Lincoln University New Zealand]. DOI: 10.25400/lincolnuninz.12736217.v1