Jay Lennon

Professor of Biology
Indiana University

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Publications

  • Karakoç et al., 2026

    Karakoç, C., Shoemaker, W.R. & Lennon, J.T. (2026) Evolutionary bioenergetics of sporulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 10;123(6):e2524274123.

     

     

    https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2524274123

  • Măgălie et al., 2026

    Măgălie A, Marantos A, O’Brien JM, Schwartz DA, Marchi J, Lennon JT, Weitz JS. (2026) Phage infection fronts trigger early sporulation and viral entrapment in bacterial populations. ISME J. 20(1):wrag023.

     

     

    https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrag023

  • Mueller et al., 2026

    Mueller, E.A. & Lennon, J.T. (2026). Metabolic inequality in microbial communities. bioRxiv.

    https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.14.718602

  • Lennon et al, 2025

    Lennon, J. T., Lehmkuhl, B. K., Chen, L., Illingworth, M., Kuo, V., & Muscarella, M.E. (2025). Resuscitation-promoting factor (Rpf) terminates dormancy among diverse soil bacteria. mSystems 10:e01517-24.

    https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01517-24

  • Mueller et al., 2025

    Mueller, E. A., & Lennon, J. T. (2025). Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning. Ecology Letters, 28 (2): e70093.

    https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70093

  • Mueller et al., 2025

    Mueller, E.A., van der Elst, L.A., Gumennik, A., & Lennon, J.T. (2025). The Enterostat: A 3D-printed bioreactor for simulating gut microbiome dynamics. bioRxiv.

    https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.21.671663

  • Zang et al., 2025

    Zang, Z., Zhang, C., Park, K. J., Schwartz, D. A., Podicheti, R., Lennon, J. T., & Gerdt, J. P. (2025). Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection. Nature Microbiology, 10: 362-373.

     

    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01910-8

  • Hill et al., 2024

    Hill, C. A., McMullen, J. G., & Lennon, J. T. (2024). Nitrogen enrichment alters selection on rhizobial genes. bioRxiv.

    https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.25.625319

  • Lennon et al., 2024

    Lennon, J. T., Abramoff, R.Z., Allison, S. D., Burckhardt, R. M., DeAngelis, K. M., Dunne, J. P., Frey, S. D., Friedlingstein, P., Hawkes, C. V., Hungate, B. A., Khurana, S., Kivlin, S. N., Levine, N. M., Manzoni, S., Martiny, A. C., Martiny, J. B. H., Nguyen, N. K., Rawat, M., Talmy, D., Todd-Brown, K., Vogt, M., Wieder, W. R., Zakem, E. J. (2024). Priorities, opportunities, and challenges for integrating microorganisms into Earth system models for climate change prediction. mBio, 15 (5):e0045524.

    https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00455-24

  • Fishman et al., 2023

    Fishman, F. J., & Lennon, J. T. (2023). Macroevolutionary constraints on global microbial diversity. Ecology and Evolution, 13(8), e10403.

    https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10403

  • Măgălie et al., 2023

    Măgălie, A., Schwartz, D. A., Lennon, J. T., & Weitz, J. S. (2023). Optimal dormancy strategies in fluctuating environments given delays in phenotypic switching. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 561, Article 111413.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2023.111413

  • Schwartz et al., 2023

    Schwartz, D. A., Rodríguez-Ramos, J. A., Shaffer, M., Flynn, R. M., Daly, R. A., Wrighton, K. C., & Lennon, J. T. (2023). Human-gut phages harbor sporulation genes. mBio, 14(3).

    https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00182-23

  • Schwartz et al, 2023

    Schwartz, D. A., Shoemaker, W. R., Măgălie, A., Weitz, J. S., & Lennon, J. T. (2023). Bacteria-phage coevolution with a seed bank. The ISME Journal, Volume 17 (Issue 8), pages 1315–1325.

    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01449-2

  • Wisnoski & Lennon, 2023

    Wisnoski, N. I., & Lennon, J. T. (2023). Scaling up and down: Movement ecology for microorganisms. Trends in Microbiology, 31(3), 242-253.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2022.09.016

  • Bolin et al., 2022

    Bolin, L. G., Lennon, J. T., & Lau, J. A. (2022). Traits of soil bacteria predict plant responses to soil moisture. Ecology, 104(2).

    https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3893

  • McMullen & Lennon, 2022

    McMullen, II, J. G., & Lennon, J. T. (2022). Mark‐recapture of microorganisms. Environmental Microbiology, 25(1), 150-157.

    https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16267

  • Schwartz et al., 2022

    Schwartz, D. A., Lehmkuhl, B. K., & Lennon, J. T. (2022). Phage-encoded sigma factors alter bacterial dormancy. mSphere, 7(4).

    https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00297-22