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Queen's University: Kingston, ON, CA

2019-07-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Department of Biology)
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University of Florence: Sesto Fiorentina, Firenze, IT

2017-05-01 to 2019-06-30 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Biology)
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CNRS Délégation Ile-de-France Sud: Gif-sur-Yvette, Île-de-France, FR

2018-05-01 to 2018-06-30 | Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell)
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McMaster University: Hamilton, ON, CA

2012-09-01 to 2017-04-30 | PhD Biology (Department of Biology)
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George C diCenzo

McMaster University: Hamilton, ON, CA

2008-09-01 to 2012-04-30 | B.Sc. Honours Molecular Biology and Genetics (Department of Biology)
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Perturbation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa peptidoglycan recycling by anti-folates and design of a dual-action inhibitor

mBio
2025-03-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Luke N. Yaeger; David Sychantha; Princeton Luong; Shahrokh Shekarriz; Océane Goncalves; Annamaria Dobrin; Michael R. Ranieri; Ryan P. Lamers; Hanjeong Harvey; George C. diCenzo et al.
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BEVA2.0: modular assembly of golden gate-compatible vectors with expanded utility for genetic engineering

Canadian Journal of Microbiology
2025-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Barney A. Geddes; Riley Williamson; Jake Schumacher; Ahmad Ardi; Garrett Levin; Emily Červenka; Rui Huang; George C. diCenzo
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BEVA2.0: Modular Assembly of Golden Gate-Compatible Vectors with Expanded Utility for Genetic Engineering

2024-12-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Barney A. Geddes; Riley Williamson; Jake Schumacher; Ahmad Ardi; Garrett Levin; Emily Červenka; Rui Huang; George C. diCenzo
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Identifying functional multi-host shuttle plasmids to advance synthetic biology applications in Mesorhizobium and Bradyrhizobium

Canadian Journal of Microbiology
2024-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jordyn S. Meaney; Aakanx K. Panchal; Aiden J. Wilcox; George C. diCenzo; Bogumil J. Karas
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Comparative genomic analysis of Bradyrhizobium strains with natural variability in the efficiency of nitrogen fixation, competitiveness, and adaptation to stressful edaphoclimatic conditions

Microbiology Spectrum
2024-07-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Milena Serenato Klepa; George Colin diCenzo; Mariangela Hungria; Victor Gonzalez
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Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
2024-04-15 | Journal article
Contributors: George C. diCenzo; Yuqi Yang; J. Peter W. Young; Nemanja Kuzmanović
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Taxonomic distribution of SbmA/BacA and BacA-like antimicrobial peptide transporters suggests independent recruitment and convergent evolution in host-microbe interactions

2024-02-25 | Preprint
Contributors: Nicholas T. Smith; Amira Boukherissa; Kiera Antaya; Graeme W. Howe; Ricardo C Rodríguez de la Vega; Jacqui A. Shykoff; Benoît Alunni; George C. diCenzo
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Comparative genomic analysis of Bradyrhizobium strains with natural variability in the efficiency of nitrogen fixation, competitiveness, and adaptation to stressful edaphoclimatic conditions

2024-01-10 | Preprint
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Contributors: Milena Serenato Klepa; George Colin diCenzo; Mariangela Hungria
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Identifying functional multi-host shuttle plasmids to advance synthetic biology applications in Mesorhizobium and Bradyrhizobium

2023-12-21 | Preprint
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Contributors: Jordyn S. Meaney; Aakanx K. Panchal; Aiden J. Wilcox; George C. diCenzo; Bogumil J. Karas
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Metabolic connections between folate and peptidoglycan pathways in Pseudomonas aeruginosa inform rational design of a dual-action inhibitor

2023-11-22 | Preprint
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Contributors: Luke N. Yaeger; David Sychantha; Princeton Luong; Shahrokh Shekarriz; Océane Goncalves; Annamaria Dobrin; Michael R. Ranieri; et al.
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Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 genus type strains

2023-11-16 | Preprint
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Contributors: George C. diCenzo; Yuqi Yang; J. Peter W. Young; Nemanja Kuzmanovic
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A genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of soybean and Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens reveals the cost-benefit of nitrogen fixation

New Phytologist
2023-10 | Journal article
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Contributors: Bethany L. Holland; Megan L. Matthews; Pedro Bota; Lee J. Sweetlove; Stephen P. Long; George C. diCenzo
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Diversity and Evolutionary History of Ti Plasmids of “tumorigenes” Clade of Rhizobium spp. and Their Differentiation from Other Ti and Ri Plasmids

Genome Biology and Evolution
2023-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Nemanja Kuzmanović; Jacqueline Wolf; Sabine Eva Will; Kornelia Smalla; George C diCenzo; Meina Neumann-Schaal; Howard Ochman
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Complete genome sequences of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. phaseoli BT01, Rhizobium sp. strain BT03, and Rhizobium sp. strain BT04, isolated from black turtle bean nodules in Ontario, Canada

Microbiology Resource Announcements
2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Sabhjeet Kaur; Christie CE; George C diCenzo
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Complete Genome Sequences of the Species Type Strains Sinorhizobium garamanticum LMG 24692 and Sinorhizobium numidicum LMG 27395 and CIP 109850

Microbiology Resource Announcements
2023-06-20 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2576-098X
Contributors: Sabhjeet Kaur; Daniel Espinosa-Sáiz; Encarna Velázquez; Esther Menendez; George C diCenzo
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Independent origins and evolution of the secondary replicons of the class Gammaproteobacteria

Microbial Genomics
2023-05-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Christopher Riccardi; Piotr Koper; Gabriel Innocenti; George C. diCenzo; Marco Fondi; Alessio Mengoni; Elena Perrin
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Genomics of the “tumorigenes” clade of the family Rhizobiaceae and description of Rhizobium rhododendri sp. nov.

MicrobiologyOpen
2023-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Nemanja Kuzmanović; George C. diCenzo; Boyke Bunk; Cathrin Spröer; Anja Frühling; Meina Neumann‐Schaal; Jörg Overmann; Kornelia Smalla
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The evolutionary ecology of rhizobia: multiple facets of competition before, during, and after symbiosis with legumes

Current Opinion in Microbiology
2023-04-01 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 1369-5274
Contributors: Liana T Burghardt; George C diCenzo
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Whole genome assemblies of Zophobas morio and Tenebrio molitor

G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
2023-04-01 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 2160-1836
Contributors: Sabhjeet Kaur; Sydnie A Stinson; George C diCenzo
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Whole genome assemblies ofZophobas morioandTenebrio molitor

2022-12-22 | Preprint
Contributors: Sabhjeet Kaur; Sydnie A Stinson; George C diCenzo
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Whole genome sequencing of mesorhizobia isolated from northern Canada

Canadian Journal of Microbiology
2022-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Yi Fan Duan; Paul Grogan; Virginia K Walker; George C diCenzo
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Cold‐inducible promoter‐driven knockdown of Brachypodium antifreeze proteins confers freezing and phytopathogen susceptibility

Plant Direct
2022-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Collin L. Juurakko; Melissa Bredow; George C. diCenzo; Virginia K. Walker
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Pervasive RNA Regulation of Metabolism Enhances the Root Colonization Ability of Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiotic a-Rhizobia

mBio
2022-02-22 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 2150-7511
Contributors: Natalia I. García-Tomsig; Marta Robledo; George C. diCenzo; Alessio Mengoni; Vicenta Millán; Alexandra Peregrina; Alejandro Uceta; José I. Jiménez-Zurdo
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Brachypodium antifreeze protein gene products inhibit ice recrystallization, attenuate ice nucleation, and reduce immune response

2022-02-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Collin L. Juurakko; George C. diCenzo; Virginia K. Walker
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Cold-inducible promoter-driven knockdown of Brachypodium antifreeze proteins confers freeze sensitivity

2022-02-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Collin L. Juurakko; Melissa Bredow; George C. diCenzo; Virginia K. Walker
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Reference nodule transcriptomes for Melilotus officinalis and Medicago sativa cv. Algonquin

2022-02-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Rui Huang; Wayne A Snedden; George C diCenzo
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Cold Acclimation in Brachypodium Is Accompanied by Changes in Above-Ground Bacterial and Fungal Communities

Plants
2021-12-20 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 2223-7747
Contributors: Collin L. Juurakko; George C. diCenzo; Virginia K. Walker
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Cold acclimation and prospects for cold-resilient crops

Plant Stress
2021-12-01 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 2667-064X
Contributors: Collin L. Juurakko; George C. diCenzo; Virginia K. Walker
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Taxonomy of Rhizobiaceae revisited: proposal of a new framework for genus delimitation

2021-08-03 | Other
Contributors: Nemanja Kuzmanović; Camilla Fagorzi; Alessio Mengoni; Florent Lassalle; George C diCenzo
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Proteobacteria Contain Diverse flg22 Epitopes That Elicit Varying Immune Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®
2021-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Janis H. T. Cheng; Melissa Bredow; Jacqueline Monaghan; George C. diCenzo
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TheBrachypodium distachyoncold-acclimated plasma membrane proteome is primed for stress resistance

2021-04-23 | Preprint
Contributors: Collin L. Juurakko; Melissa Bredow; Takato Nakayama; Hiroyuki Imai; Yukio Kawamura; George C. diCenzo; Matsuo Uemura; Virginia K. Walker
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DNA methylation inEnsiferspecies during free-living growth and during nitrogen-fixing symbiosis withMedicagospp.

2021-03-08 | Preprint
Contributors: George C. diCenzo; Lisa Cangioli; Quentin Nicoud; Janis H.T. Cheng; Matthew J. Blow; Nicole Shapiro; Tanja Woyke; Emanuele G Biondi; Benoît Alunni; Alessio Mengoni et al.
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Nonadditive Transcriptomic Signatures of Genotype-by-Genotype Interactions during the Initiation of Plant-Rhizobium Symbiosis.

mSystems
2021-02-23 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 2379-5077
Contributors: Camilla Fagorzi; Giovanni Bacci; Rui Huang; Lisa Cangioli; Alice Checcucci; Margherita Fini; Elena Perrin; et al.
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Minimal gene set from Sinorhizobium ( Ensifer ) meliloti pSymA required for efficient symbiosis with Medicago

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-01-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Barney A. Geddes; Jason V. S. Kearsley; Jiarui Huang; Maryam Zamani; Zahed Muhammed; Leah Sather; Aakanx K. Panchal; George C. diCenzo; Turlough M. Finan
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The genomes of rhizobia

Advances in Botanical Research
2020 | Book chapter
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Contributors: Barney A. Geddes; Jason V. S. Kearsley; Richard A. Morton; George C. diCenzo; Turlough M. Finan
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Tn-Core: Functionally Interpreting Transposon-Sequencing Data with Metabolic Network Analysis.

Computational Methods in Synthetic Biology. Methods in Molecular Biology
2020 | Book chapter
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Contributors: George C. diCenzo; Marco Galardini; Marco Fondi
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Symbiotic and Nonsymbiotic Members of the Genus Ensifer (syn. Sinorhizobium) Are Separated into Two Clades Based on Comparative Genomics and High-Throughput Phenotyping

Genome Biology and Evolution
2020-12-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Camilla Fagorzi; Alexandru Ilie; Francesca Decorosi; Lisa Cangioli; Carlo Viti; Alessio Mengoni; George C diCenzo; Esperanza Martinez-Romero
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Proteobacteria encode diverse flg22 peptides that elicit varying immune responses inArabidopsis thaliana

2020-11-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Janis H.T. Cheng; Melissa Bredow; Jacqueline Monaghan; George C. diCenzo
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Rhizobium indicum sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of pea (Pisum sativum) cultivated in the Indian trans-Himalayas

Systematic and Applied Microbiology
2020-09-01 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 0723-2020
Contributors: Praveen Rahi; Pranoti Giram; Diptaraj Chaudhari; George C. diCenzo; Shashi Kiran; Aastha Khullar; Mahima Chandel; et al.
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Dissecting transcriptomic signatures of genotype x genotype interactions during the initiation of plant-rhizobium symbiosis

2020-06-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Camilla Fagorzi; Giovanni Bacci; Rui Huang; Lisa Cangioli; Alice Checcucci; Margherita Fini; Elena Perrin; Chiara Natali; George Colin diCenzo; Alessio Mengoni
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Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of the symbiosis between a leguminous plant and a nitrogen-fixing bacterium

Nature Communications
2020-05-22 | Journal article
Contributors: George C. diCenzo; Michelangelo Tesi; Thomas Pfau; Alessio Mengoni; Marco Fondi
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Genomic Diversity and Evolution of Rhizobia

Microbial Diversity in the Genomic Era
2019 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9780128148495
Contributors: Alice Checcucci; George C. diCenzo; Elena Perrin; Marco Bazzicalupo; Alessio Mengoni
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Multidisciplinary approaches for studying rhizobium–legume symbioses

Canadian Journal of Microbiology
2019 | Journal article
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Contributors: Dicenzo, G.C.; Zamani, M.; Checcucci, A.; Fondi, M.; Griffitts, J.S.; Finan, T.M.; Mengoni, A.
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Tn-Core: a toolbox for integrating Tn-seq gene essentiality data and constraint-based metabolic modelling.

ACS synthetic biology
2019 | Journal article
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A Virtual Nodule Environment (ViNE) for modelling the inter-kingdom metabolic integration during symbiotic nitrogen fixation

2019-09-11 | Other
Contributors: George C diCenzo; Michelangelo Tesi; Thomas Pfau; Alessio Mengoni; Marco Fondi
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Deciphering the Symbiotic Plant Microbiome: Translating the Most Recent Discoveries on Rhizobia for the Improvement of Agricultural Practices in Metal-Contaminated and High Saline Lands

Agronomy
2019-09-10 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 2073-4395
Contributors: Bellabarba, Agnese; Fagorzi, Camilla; diCenzo, George C.; Pini, Francesco; Viti, Carlo; Checcucci, Alice
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Size-defined synthesis of magnetic nanorods by Salvia hispanica essential oil with electromagnetic excitation properties useful in microwave imagining

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
2019-06 | Journal article
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Chromids aid genome expansion and functional diversification in the family Burkholderiaceae.

Molecular biology and evolution
2019-01 | Journal article
Contributors: diCenzo GC; Mengoni A; Perrin E
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Fermented juices as reducing and capping agents for the biosynthesis of size-defined spherical gold nanoparticles

Journal of Saudi Chemical Society
2018 | Journal article
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Contributors: Dzimitrowicz, A.; Jamroz, P.; diCenzo, G.C.; Gil, W.; Bojszczak, W.; Motyka, A.; Pogoda, D.; Pohl, P.
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Succinate transport is not essential for symbiotic nitrogen fixation by Sinorhizobium meliloti or Rhizobium leguminosarum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2018 | Journal article
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Contributors: Mitsch, M.J.; diCenzo, G.C.; Cowie, A.; Finan, T.M.
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