Publications

2025

21. Biochemometric analysis of bat skin microbiome-associated Streptomyces buecherae identifies polyether antibiotics active against the bat pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans

Clements AE, Lee AG , Otoo BN, Regalado RR, Dainko DC, Keller NP, Salazar-Hamm PS, Caesar LK.

Natural Product Communications, 20(9).

20. The epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) and the disease ecology of Coccidioides spp. in New Mexico (2006–2023)

Salazar-Hamm PS, Shrum Davis S, Catalán-Dibene J, Romero-Olivares AL, Edge K, Bartlow AW, Natvig DO, Gorris M.

Pathogens 14(6), 607.

19. 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.

Nature Communications, 16, 4280.

18. Phylogenetic and ecological drivers of the avian lung mycobiome and its potentially pathogenic component.

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.

Communications Biology, 8, 634.

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, 42(3), 592–622

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.

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.

14. Comparison of fungal and bacterial microbiomes of bats and their cave roosting environments at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, USA.

Marshall Hathaway JJ, Salazar-Hamm PS, Caimi NA, Natvig DO, Beucher DC, Northup DE.

Geomicrobiology Journal, 41(1), 82–97.

2023

13. Convergent reductive evolution and host adaptation in Mycoavidus bacterial endosymbionts of Mortierellaceae fungi.

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.

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

2022

11. Breathing can be dangerous: Opportunistic fungal pathogens and the diverse community of the small mammal lung mycobiome.

Salazar-Hamm PS, Montoya KN, Montoya L, Cook K, Liphardt S, Taylor JW, Cook JA, Natvig DO.

Front Fungal Biol, 3:996574.

10. Great diversity of KSα sequences from bat-associated microbiota suggest novel sources of uncharacterized natural products.

Salazar-Hamm PS, Marshall Hathaway JJ, Winter A, Caimi NA, Beucher DC, Valdez EW, Northup DE.

FEMS Microbes, 3, 1–11.

2021

9. A review of Coccidioides research, outstanding questions in the field, and contributions by women scientists.

Gorris ME, Van Dyke MCC, Carey A, Hamm PS, Mead HL, Uehling JK.

Current Clin Microbiol Rep.

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.

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.

6. Decades-old studies of fungi associated with small-mammal lungs and modern DNA sequencing approaches help define the nature of the lung mycobiome.

Hamm PS, Taylor JW, Cook JA, Natvig D.

PLOS Path, 16(7), e1008684.

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.

2019

4. First analysis of human Coccidioides isolates from New Mexico and the Southwest Four Corners Region: Implications for the distributions of C. posadasii and C. immitis and human groups at risk.