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Selected Publications
*student/postdoc supervised (undergrad underlined) | †equal contributor | #corresponding author
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Antibiotic Resistance and Environmental Health

1. You Y, Song L, Nonyane BAS, Price LB, Silbergeld EK. Genomic differences between nasal Staphylococcus aureus from hog slaughterhouse workers and their communities. PLoS ONE 2018, 13(3), e0193820. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0193820
2. You Y, Silbergeld EK. Learning from agriculture: understanding low-dose antimicrobials as drivers of resistome expansion. Frontiers in Microbiology 2014, 5, 284. DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00284
3. ​You Y#, Hilpert M, Ward WJ. Detection of a common and persistent tet(L)-carrying plasmid in chicken-waste-impacted farm soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2012, 78(9), 3203-3213. DOI:10.1128/AEM.07763-11
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Sustainable Food-Energy-Water Nexus

1. Yang H*, Kerner P*, Liang X, Struhs E, Mirkouei A, You Y#. Biochar amendment modulates root metabolome and rhizosphere microbiome of wheat. Biochar 2025. DOI:10.1007/s42773-025-00434-6
2. Kerner P*, Struhs E*, Mirkouei A, Aho K, Lohse KA, Dungan R, You Y#. Microbial Responses to Biochar Soil Amendment: A Three-level Meta-analysis. Environmental Science & Technology 2023. DOI:10.1021/acs.est.3c04201
3. Struhs E*, Mirkouei A, You Y, Mohajeri A. Techno-economic and environmental assessments for nutrient-rich biochar production from cattle manure: A case study in Idaho, USA. Applied Energy 2020, 279, 115782. DOI:10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115782​
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Sustainable Nanotechnology​​​​

1. You Y#, Kerner P*, Shanmugam S, Khodakovskaya M. Differential effects of carbon nanotube and graphene on the tomato rhizosphere microbiome. Environmental Science: Nano 2023.​ DOI:10.1039/D2EN01026G
   Emerging Investigator Series–Environmental Science: Nano
   ​Inside Front Cover Article
2. Wu F, You Y, Werner D, Jiao S, Hu J, Zhang X, Wan Y, Liu J, Wang B, Wang X. Carbon nanomaterials affect carbon cycle-related functions of the soil microbial community and the coupling of nutrient cycles. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2020, 390, 122144. DOI:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122144​
3. You Y#, Das KK*, Guo H, Chang C-W, Navas-Moreno M, Chan J, Verburg P, Poulson SR, Wang X, Xing B, Yang Y. Microbial transformation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes by Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1. Environmental Science & Technology 2017, 51(4), 2068-2076. DOI:10.1021/acs.est.6b04523

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​Geomicrobiology & Biogeochemistry

1. Kemajou-Tchamba AL, Bond CT, Nave BA, Utzman C, Ibal J*, Peterson DM, Wolford M, Smith C, Jones N, Atkinson CL, Seybold EC, Ramos RJ, Burgin AJ, Zeglin LH, You Y, Aho K, Kuehn KA, Jackson CR. Streambed microbial activity and its spatial distribution in two intermittent stream networks. Microorganisms 2025. DOI:10.3390/microorganisms14010071
2. Ahamed F, You Y, Burgin A, Stegen JC, Scheibe TD, Song H. Exploring the determinants of organic matter bioavailability through substrate-explicit modeling. Frontiers in Water 2023. DOI:10.3389/frwa.2023.1169701
3. Dunham-Cheatham S, You Y†#. General Geochemistry and Microbiology Techniques. In Analytical Geomicrobiology: A Handbook of Instrumental Techniques, JPL Kenney, H Veeramani & DS Alessi (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN:9781107070332