At Syracuse University

10. Tianzhu Zang, Bobby W.K. Lee, Lisa M. Cannon, Kathryn A. Ritter, Shujia Dai, Dacheng Ren, Thomas K. Wood, and Zhaohui Sunny Zhou, "A Naturally Occurring Brominated Furanone Covalently Modifies and Inactivates LuxS". Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2009. Accepted.

9. Shuyu Hou, Chunhui Zhou, Zhigang Liu, Anne W. Young, Zhengshuang Shi, Dacheng Ren and Neville R. Kallenbach, "Antimicrobial dendrimer active against Escherichia coli biofilms". Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2009, 19(18): 5478-5481. [PubMed]

8. Jiachuan Pan and Dacheng Ren, "Quorum sensing inhibitors: a patent overview". Expert Opinion On Therapeutic Patents (Invited Review). 2009, 19(11). [PubMed]

7. Miao Duo, Mi Zhang, Yan-Yeung Luk and Dacheng Ren, "Inhibition of Candida albicans Growth by Brominated Furanones". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2009, 84(6). [PubMed]

6. Jian Wu†, Shuyu Hou†, Dacheng Ren and Patrick T. Mather, "Antimicrobial Properties of Nanostructured Hydrogel Webs Containing Silver". Biomacromolecules. 2009(10), 2686-2693. †These authors contributed equally. [PubMed]

5. Shuyu Hou, Erik A. Button, Ricky Lei Wu, Yan-Yeung Luk and Dacheng Ren, "Prolonged Control of Patterned Biofilm Formation by Bio-inert Surface Chemistry". Chemical Communication. 2009: 1207-1209. [PubMed] . Highlighted in Chemical Biology [Link].

4. Erik A. Burton, Karen A. Simon, Shuyu Hou, Dacheng Ren, and Yan-Yeung Luk, "Molecular Gradients of Bio-inertness Reveal Mechanistic Difference
between Mammalian Cell Adhesion and Bacterial Biofilm Formation". Langmuir. 2009, 25(3) 1547-1553.[PubMed]

3. Miao Duo, Shuyu Hou, and Dacheng Ren, "Identifying Escherichia coli genes involved in intrinsic multidrug resistance" Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2008, 81(4): 731-741. [PubMed]

2. Yongbin Han, Shuyu Hou, Karen A. Simon, Dacheng Ren, and Yan-Yeung Luk "Identifying the important structural elements of brominated furanones for inhibiting biofilm formation by Escherichia coli" Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 2008,  18: 1006-1010. [PubMed]

1. Shuyu Hou, Erik A. Burton, Karen A. Simon, Dustin Blodgett, Yan-Yeung Luk, Dacheng Ren, "Inhibiting Escherichia coli Biofilm Formation by Self-Assembled Monolayers of Functional Alkanethiols on Gold." Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2007, 73::4300-4307. [PubMed]

Previously

13. Andres Gonzalez, Rongju Zuo, Dacheng Ren, and T. K. Wood, "Hha, YbaJ, and OmpA Regulate Escherichia coli K12 Biofilm Formation and Conjugation Plasmids Abolish Motility," Biotechnol. Bioengr.,93: 188-200, (2006). [PubMed]

12. Jinpian Diao, Dacheng Ren, James R. Engstrom, and Kelvin H. Lee "A Surface Modification Strategy on Silicon Nitride for Developing Biosensors Made of Giant Magnetoresistive Materials". Analytical Biochemistry, 343: 322-328 (2005) [PubMed]

11.    Dacheng Ren, Rongjun Zuo, Laura A. Bedzyk, Rick W. Ye, Gary Eldridge, Mark Pasmore, and Thomas K. Wood “Differential Gene Expression to Investigate Escherichia coli Biofilm Inhibition by Plant Extract Ursolic Acid”. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71: 4022-4034 (2005). [PubMed]

10. Marcus B. Jones, Rachana Jani, Dacheng Ren, Thomas K. Wood, and Martin J. Blaser "Inhibition of Bacillus anthracis growth and virulence gene expression by inhibitors of quorum-sensing". Journal of Infectious Diseases, 191: 1881-1888 (2005). [PubMed]

9. Dacheng Ren, Rongjun Zuo, and Thomas K. Wood "Quorum-Sensing Antagonist (5Z)-4-Bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone Influences Siderophore Biosynthesis in Pseudomonas putida and Pseudomonas aeruginosa". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 66(6): 689-695 (2005). [PubMed]

8. Dacheng Ren and Thomas K. Wood "(5Z)-4-Bromo-5-(Bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone Reduces Corrosion from Desulfotomaculum orientis". Environmental Microbiology, 6(5): 535-540 (2004). [PubMed]

7. Dacheng Ren, Laura A. Bedzyk, Rick W. Ye, Stuart M. Thomas, and Thomas K. Wood "Stationary-Phase Signals Affect Autoinducer-2 and Gene Expression in Escherichia coli". Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70(4): 2038-2043 (2004). [PubMed]

6. Dacheng Ren, Laura A. Bedzyk, Peter Setlow, Dacre F. England, Staffan Kjelleberg, Stuart M. Thomas, Rick W. Ye, and Thomas K. Wood "Differential Gene Expression to Investigate the Effect of (5Z)-4-Bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone on Bacillus subtilis". Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70(8): 4941-4949 (2004). [PubMed]

5. Dacheng Ren, Laura A. Bedzyk, Rick Ye, Stuart M. Thomas, and Thomas K. Wood "Differential gene expression shows natural brominated furanones interfere with the autoinducer-2 bacterial signaling system of Escherichia coli". Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 88(5):630-642 (2004). [PubMed]

4. Dacheng Ren, Laura A. Bedzyk, Rick Ye, Stuart M. Thomas, and Thomas K. Wood "Gene Expression in Escherichia coli Biofilms". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 64(4):515-524 (2004). [PubMed]

3. Dacheng Ren, Laura A. Bedzyk, Peter Setlow, Stuart M. Thomas, Rick W. Ye, and Thomas K. Wood "Gene Expression in Bacillus subtilis Surface Biofilms with and without Sporulation and the Importance of yveR for Biofilm Maintenance". Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 86(3): 344-364 (2004). [PubMed]

2. Dacheng Ren, James J. Sims, and Thomas K. Wood. Inhibition of Biofilm Formation and Swarming of Bacillus subtilis by (5Z)-4-Bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone. Letters in Applied Microbiology 34: 293-299 (2002). [PubMed]

1. Dacheng Ren, James J. Sims, and Thomas K. Wood. Inhibition of Biofilm Formation and Swarming of Escherichia coli by (5Z)-4-Bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-butyl-2(5H)-furanone. Environmental Microbiology 3(11): 731-736 (2001). [PubMed]