Contact information Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Avenue, L-452 Livermore, CA 94550 email: bethke2@llnl.gov phone: 925 423 7437

Education

Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, 2022
B.S. in Biology, University of Virginia, 2013

Research

I research how we can manipulate bacterial evolution to preserve or create new functions, with particular focus on horizontal gene transfer at population and community levels.

Recent publications

1. Jonathan H. Bethke, Helena R. Ma, Ryan Tsoi, Li Cheng, Minfeng Xiao, and Lingchong You. Vertical and horizontal gene transfer tradeoffs direct plasmid fitness. Mol. Syst. Biol. 1, (2022). https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.202211300

2. Jonathan H. Bethke, Adam Davidovich, Li Cheng, Allison J. Lopatkin, Wenchen Song, Joshua T. Thaden, Vance G. Fowler Jr., Minfeng Xiao, and Lingchong You. Environmental and genetic determinants of plasmid mobility in pathogenic Escherichia coli. Sci. Adv. 6, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax3173