Peek behind the paper: Cloning vectors for gene delivery, integration, and expression in Campylobacter jejuni

Nereus Gunther is a molecular biologist at the Agricultural Research Service within the US Department of Agriculture (Washington D.C., USA), where part of his research focuses on Campylobacter and its persistence within foods and food processing environments. Over the last decade, Campylobacter has been the most common cause of bacterial gastrointestinal disease transmitted through contaminated food in the developed world and causes diarrhea, among other symptoms. Gunther’s research focuses on the effects of polyphosphate usage in poultry processing on Campylobacter survival, methods to eliminate the bacteria from chicken livers, and comparative proteomic techniques. The Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) species is...