Li K, Cho YI^#, Tran MA, Wiedemann C, Zhang S, Koweek RS, Hoàng NK, Hamrick GS, Bowen MA, Kokona B, Stallforth P, Beld J, Hellmich UA^#, Charkoudian LK^# (2025) Strategic acyl carrier protein engineering enables functional type II polyketide synthase reconstitution in vitro. ACS Chem Biol 20(1), 197-207.

Zhang S, Huang Y, Nachawati R, Huber P, Walther G, Vilotijević I, Stallforth P^# (2025) Pangenome analysis of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae reveals unique natural products for niche adaptation. Angew Chem Int Ed 64(25), e202503679.

Zhang S, Huang Y, Schlabach K, Tran MA, Nachawati R, Bader N, Komor AJ, Hertweck C, Schindelin H, Lakemeyer M, Hellmich UA^#, Stallforth P^# (2025) Microbial DL-peptidases enable predator defense and facilitate structure elucidation of complex natural products. J Am Chem Soc [Accepted]

Zhang S, Schlabach K, Pérez Carrillo VH, Ibrahim A, Nayem S, Komor A, Mukherji R, Chowdhury S, Reimer L, Trottmann F, Vlot AC, Hertweck C, Hellmich UA, Stallforth P (2025) A chemical radar allows bacteria to detect and kill predators. Cell 188(9), 2495-2504.

Zhang S, Stallforth P (2024) Biofilms and exopolysaccharides in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: pathogenesis, immune evasion, and lung–brain signaling during pneumonia. Signal Transduc Target Ther 9(1), 204. (Review)

Klapper M^*, Hübner A^*, Ibrahim A^*, Wasmuth I, Borry M, Haensch VG, Zhang S, Al-Jammal WK, Suma H, Fellows Yates JA, Frangenberg J, Velsko IM, Chowdhury S, Herbst R, Bratovanov EV, Dahse HM, Horch T, Hertweck C, González Morales MR, Straus LG, Vilotijevic I, Warinner C^#, Stallforth P^# (2023) Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper paleolithic. Science 380(6645), 619-624.

Günther M^*, Reimer C^*, Herbst R^*, Kufs JE, Rautschek J, Ueberschaar N, Zhang S, Peschel G, Reimer L, Regestein L, Valiante V, Hillmann F^#, Stallforth P^# (2022) Yellow polyketide pigment suppresses premature hatching in social amoeba. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 119(43), e2116122119.

Zhang S, Mukherji R, Chowdhury S, Reimer L, Stallforth P (2021) Lipopeptide-mediated bacterial interaction enables cooperative predator defense. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 118(6), e2013759118.

Klapper M, Schlabach K, Paschold A, Zhang S, Chowdhury S, Menzel KD, Rosenbaum MA, Stallforth P (2020) Biosynthesis of pseudomonas-derived butenolides. Angew Chem Int Ed 59(14), 5607-5610.

Mukherji R, Zhang S, Chowdhury S, Stallforth P (2020) Chimeric LuxR transcription factors rewire natural product regulation. Angew Chem Int Ed 59(15), 6192-6195.