Title

Birgit Pruess

Position

Professor

Extension Leadership Team

Part time

Birgit.Pruess@ndsu.edu

Web URL

https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/ag-home/directory/birgit-pruess

Offices

Microbiological Sciences

Mailing address:

NDSU Dept. 7690, PO Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050

Physical address:

Van Es Hall 108A, NDSU
Fargo, ND 58102

701-231-7848

Education

Associations

Professional Interests

Bacterial motility has been at the core of my research program for three decades. The most recent research project is new and deals with the impact bacterial motility has on recruitment of soil bacteria to plant roots. Plants exude metabolic intermediates through their root system in the soil, where soil beneficial bacteria use these compounds to chemotax towards the roots.

We are currently investigating the possibility to add previously identified plant root exudates to seeds in addition to plant beneficial bacteria to help such bacteria colonize the root and compete the natural microflora of the soil. This is done in peas, tomatoes, and cucumbers.

Previous Employment

Courses Taught

Recent Publications

S.M. Horne and B.M. Prüß. 2022. A wash of ethyl acetoacetate reduces externally added Salmonella enteria on tomatoes. Antibiotics. 11, 1134.

B.M. Prüß. 2022. Variants of SARS CoV-2: mutations, transmissibility, virulence, drug resistance, and antibody/vaccine sensitivity. Frontiers in Bioscience Landmark. 27: 065.

Bauer, E.S., S.M. Horne, and B.M. Prüß. 2021. Ethyl acetoacetate added to the wash water of chicken reduces spoilage bacteria, as well as exterally added Salmonella spec. and Campylobacter spec. EC Microbiology. 17.12:18-28.

Ramsey, J., B. McIntosh, B., D. Renfro, .....B.M. Prüß, ..... J. Hu. 2021. Crowdsourcing biocuration: the Community Assessment of Community Annotation with Ontologies (CACAO). PloS Comput. Biol. 17: e1009463.

S.M. Horne, A. Ugrinov, and B.M. Prüß. 2021. The food anti-microbials β-phenylethylamine and ethyl acetoacetate do not change during the heating process. In Development of Novel Anti-Microbials to Reduce Bacterial Contamination of Food. Special Topics Editor, B.M. Prüß. Antibiotics 10:418.

B.M. Prüß. 2021. The impact of diet and antibiotics on the gut microbiome: distance education variant. CourseSource. Doi.org/10.24918/cs/2021.25.

B.M. Prüß. 2021. Current state of the first Covid-19 vaccines. In Vaccines: Uptake and Equity in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Special Topics Editor, B. Rath. Vaccines. 9: 30.

B.M. Prüß. 2020. Microbes in our food, an ongoing problem with new solutions. In Development of Novel Anti-Microbials to Reduce Bacterial Contamination of Food. Special Topics Editor, B.M. Prüß. Antibiotics 9:584.

B.M. Prüß. 2020. Current status of drug development against SARS CoV-2 infections. Med. Res. Arch. 8:1-15.

S.M. Horne, E. Khadem, and B.M. Prüß. 2020. Ethyl acetoacetate and β-phenylethylamine inhibit spoilage bacteria in ground beef. EC Microbiol. 16.7:6-18.

B.M. Prüß. 2020. Molecular aspects of SARS CoV-2 that impact public health. EC Microbiol. 16.5:59-65.

Awards and Honors

Birgit Pruess

Microbiological Sciences

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