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Contact Info
Office: 1127 Microbiology Bldg
Phone: 301-405-0075
Cordelia Weiss
Lecturer

Teaching

The Public Microbe (BSCI 213)

Research Interests

Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in bacteria; mechanisms of bacterial RNA degradation; second-messenger signaling; applications of microscopy methods, mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance

Education

B.S., Virginia Tech, 2012

Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2019

Postdoctoral Training, Imperial College London, 2020-2024

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Latest Publications

Myers TM,Ingle S,Weiss CA,Sondermann H,Lee VT,Bechhofer DH,Winkler WC
Bacillus subtilis NrnB is expressed during sporulation and acts as a unique 3'-5' exonuclease.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Oct 13;51(18):9804-9820. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad662. Epub
Weiss CA,Myers TM,Wu CH,Jenkins C,Sondermann H,Lee VT,Winkler WC
NrnA is a 5'-3' exonuclease that processes short RNA substrates in vivo and in vitro.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Nov 28;50(21):12369-12388. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac1091. Epub
Kim SK,Lormand JD,Weiss CA,Eger KA,Turdiev H,Turdiev A,Winkler WC,Sondermann H,Lee VT
Correction: A dedicated diribonuclease resolves a key bottleneck for the terminal step of RNA degradation.
Elife. 2022 Jan 28;11:. doi: 10.7554/eLife.77091. Epub 2022 Jan 28
Weiss CA,Winkler WC
Riboswitch-Mediated Detection of Metabolite Fluctuations During Live Cell Imaging of Bacteria.
Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2323:153-170. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1499-0_12. Epub
Weiss CA,Hoberg JA,Liu K,Tu BP,Winkler WC
Single-Cell Microscopy Reveals That Levels of Cyclic di-GMP Vary among Bacillus subtilis Subpopulations.
J Bacteriol. 2019 Aug 15;201(16):. doi: 10.1128/JB.00247-19. Epub 2019 Jul 24
Kim SK,Lormand JD,Weiss CA,Eger KA,Turdiev H,Turdiev A,Winkler WC,Sondermann H,Lee VT
A dedicated diribonucleotidase resolves a key bottleneck for the terminal step of RNA degradation.
Elife. 2019 Jun 21;8:. doi: 10.7554/eLife.46313. Epub 2019 Jun 21
Orr MW,Weiss CA,Severin GB,Turdiev H,Kim SK,Turdiev A,Liu K,Tu BP,Waters CM,Winkler WC,Lee VT
A Subset of Exoribonucleases Serve as Degradative Enzymes for pGpG in c-di-GMP Signaling.
J Bacteriol. 2018 Dec 15;200(24):. doi: 10.1128/JB.00300-18. Epub 2018 Nov 26