Seth Axen
Research Associate
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kerfeld Lab West

Phone 925.927.2583
saxen@lbl.gov

Publications

• Lassila JK, Bernstein SL, Kinney JN, Axen SD, Kerfeld CA. Assembly of Robust Bacterial Microcompartment Shells using Building Blocks from an Organelle of Unknown Function. J Mol Biol. 2014. pii: S0022-2836(14)00126-0.
  
• Cai F*, Axen SD*, Kerfeld CA. Evidence for the widespread distribution of CRISPR-Cas system in the Phylum Cyanobacteria. RNA Biology. 2013. 10(5):687-93.
  * These authors contributed equally to this work
  
• Shih PM, Wu D, Latifi A, Axen SD, Fewer DP, Talla E, Calteau A, Cai F, Tandeau de Marsac N, Rippka R, Herdman M, Sivonen K, Coursin T, Laurent T, Goodwin L, Nolan M, Davenport KW, Han CS, Rubin EM, Eisen JA, Woyke T, Gugger M, Kerfeld CA. Improving the coverage of the cyanobacterial phylum using diversity-driven genome sequencing. PNAS. 2013. 110(3):1053-8.
  
• Rajeev L, da Rocha UN, Klitgord N, Luning EG, Fortney J, Axen SD, Shih PM, Bouskill NJ, Bowen B, Kerfeld CA, Garcia-Pichel F, Brodie EL, Northen TR, Mukhopadhyay A. Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust. ISME J. 2013. 7(11):2178-91.
  
• Zarzycki J, Axen SD, Kinney JN, Kerfeld CA. Cyanobacterial-based approaches to improving photosynthesis in plants. 2013. J Exp Bot. 64(3):787-98.
  
• Zhang T, Datta S, Eichler J, Ivanova N, Axen SD, Kerfeld CA, Chen F, Sale KL, Simmons B, Rubin E. Identification of a haloalkaliphilic and thermostable cellulase with improved ionic liquid tolerance. Green Chem. 2011. 13.
  
• Kinney JN, Axen SD, Kerfeld CA. Comparative analysis of carboxysome shell proteins. Photosynth Res. 2011. 109(1-3):21-32.
  
• Ditty JL, Kvaal CA, Goodner B, Freyermuth SK, Bailey C, Britton RA, Gordon SG, Heinhorst S, Reed K, Xu Z, Sanders-Lorenz ER, Axen S, Kim E, Johns M, Scott K, Kerfeld CA. Incorporating genomics and bioinformatics across the life sciences curriculum. PLoS Biol. 2010. 8(8).