
Publications
2025
​19. The avian lung mycobiome: phylogenetic and ecological drivers of lung-fungal communities and their potential pathogens. Salazar-Hamm PS, Gadek CR, Mann MA, Steinberg M, Montoya K, Behnia M, Gyllenhaal E, Brady S, Takano O, Williamson J, Witt C, Natvig DO.
Preprint at https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5214380/v1 (In revision).
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18. Multi-drug resistant Shigella flexneri outbreak associated with a high-mortality spillover event into nonhuman primates.
Shrum Davis S, Salazar-Hamm PS, Edge K, Griego-Fisher A, Lugo F, Wenzel N, Malone D, Bradford C, Plymesser K, Baker M, Schwalm K, Lathrop S, Smelser C, Dinwiddie D, Domman D.
Preprint at https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4682172/v1. (In revision)
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17. Subterranean marvels: Microbial communities in caves and underground mines and their promise for natural product discovery. Salazar-Hamm PS, Homan FE, Good SA, Hathaway JJM, Clements AE, Haugh EG, Caesar LK.
Natural Products Reports, accepted.
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2024​
16. The impact of climate change on human fungal pathogens distribution and disease incidence.
Salazar-Hamm PS and Torres-Cruz TJ.
Current Clinical Microbiology Reports, 1–13.
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15. Choclo virus (CHOV) recovered from deep metatranscriptomics of archived museum tissues.
Salazar-Hamm PS, Johnson WL, Nofchissey RA, Salazar JR, Gonzalez P, Dunnum JL, Armien B, Cook JA, Domman DB, Dinwiddie DL. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18(1), e0011672.
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Marshall Hathaway JJ, Salazar-Hamm PS, Caimi NA, Natvig DO, Beucher DC, Northup DE.
Geomicrobiology Journal, 41(1), 82–97.
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2023​
Amses KR, Desiró A, Bryson AE, Grigoriev I, Mondo S, Lipzen A, LaButt K, Singan V, Salazar-Hamm PS, King J, Ballou ER, Pawlowska TE, Adeleke R, Bonito G, Uehling J.
Fungal Genetics and Biology, 103838.
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12. Advancing the central role of non-model biorepositories in predictive modeling of emerging pathogens.
Colella JP, Cobos ME, Salinas I, Cook JA, The PICANTE Consortium​​*
PLOS Path, 19(6), e1011410.
*PICANTE Consortium member
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2022
Salazar-Hamm PS, Montoya KN, Montoya L, Cook K, Liphardt S, Taylor JW, Cook JA, Natvig DO.
Front Fungal Biol, 3:996574.
Salazar-Hamm PS, Marshall Hathaway JJ, Winter A, Caimi NA, Beucher DC, Valdez EW, Northup DE.
FEMS Microbes, 3, 1–11.
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2021​
Gorris ME, Van Dyke MCC, Carey A, Hamm PS, Mead HL, Uehling JK.
Current Clin Microbiol Rep.
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2020
8. Differential thermotolerance adaptation between species of Coccidioides.
Mead HL, Hamm PS, Shaffer IN, Teixeira M, Wendel C, Wiederhold NP, Thompson GR, Muñiz-Salazar R, Castañón Olivares LR, Keim PK, Terriquez J, Galgiani JN, Orbach MJ, Barker BM.
J Fungi, 6(4), 366.
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7. Streptomyces buecherae sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from multiple bat species.
Hamm PS, Dunlap CA, Mullowney MW, Caimi NA, Valdez EW, Kellher NL, Thomson RJ, Porras-Alfaro A, Northup DE.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,113(12), 2213–2221.
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Hamm PS, Taylor JW, Cook JA, Natvig D.
PLOS Path, 16(7), e1008684.
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5. Keratinophilic fungi: specialized fungal communities in a desert ecosystem identified using cultured-based and Illumina sequencing approaches.
Hamm PS, Mueller RC, Kuske CR, Porras-Alfaro A.
Microbiol Res, 239, 126530.
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2019​
Hamm PS, Hutchinson MI, Leonard P, Melman S., Natvig DO.
J Fungi, 5(74), 1–11.
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3. Streptomyces corynorhini sp. nov., isolated from Townsend's big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii).
Hamm PS, Cami NA, Northup DE, Valdez EW, Buecher DC, Dunlap CA, Labeda DP, Porras-Alfaro A.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 112(9), 1297–1305.
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2017​
2. Western bats as reservoirs of novel Streptomyces species with antifungal activity.
Hamm PS, Cami NA, Northup DE, Valdez EW, Buecher DC, Dunlap CA, Labeda DP, Lueschow S, Porras-Alfaro A.
Appl Environ Microbiol, 83(5), e03057–16.
*Editor's spotlight article and cover photo
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1. Fungal diversity, community structure and their functional roles in desert soils.
Porras-Alfaro A, Muniania-Nninga C, Hamm PS, Torres-Cruz TJ, Kuske CL.
In: Steven B (ed). The Biology of Arid Soils. DeGruyter. Germany.
Presentations

Western Illinois University Biology Symposium 2014

Western Illinois University Leslie Malpass Library Lecture Series 2014

Coccidioidomycosis Annual Meeting 2019

Argonne National Lab Soil Metagenomics Meeting 2015

Western Illinois University Undergraduate Research Day with Andrea Porras-Alfaro 2015


Mycological Society of America Meeting with my advisor Andrea Porras-Alfaro 2014

Western Illinois University Biology Day "Dung Lovers" interactive display with Terry Torres-Cruz 2015
