Bart C Weimer

Bart C Weimer

Department Chair and Professor and Agronomist

Population Health & Reproduction

Office
4023 VM3B, Davis, CA 95616

Education
1990, PhD, Utah State University,
1986, BS, University of Arizona,
1993, Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne (Australia), Melbourne Austraila
Active Research Grants
Co-Principal Investigator, Genetic and microbial determinants of nitrogen fixation in a Sierra Mixe landrace of maize, Alan Bennett, Allen Van Deyneze (Principal Investigator), Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR)
Co-Principal Investigator, Equine placentitis: New approaches to an old problem, Dini, Pouya (Principal Investigator), Grayson-Jockey Club
Honors and Awards
1995 President, Institute for Food Technology, Bonneville Section
1995 Researcher of the Year, Utah State University, College of Family Life
1996 Winder Chair in Food Sciences, Utah State University, Nutrition & Food Sciences
1999 Researcher of the Year, Utah State University, College of Family Life
2001-2004 Winder Chair in Food Sciences, Utah State University, Nutrition & Food Sciences
2002 Inducted into International Who's Who Historical Society
2003 Inducted into Empire Who's Who
2006 Inducted into Academic Keys Who's Who in Agriculture Higher Education
2008 Researcher of the Year, Utah State University, Nutrition & Food Sciences
2010 Best Agronomic Paper, Canadian Agronomic Society
2010-2013 Agilent Thought Leader Award
2012 HHS Innovate - 100K pathogen genome sequencing project
2015 IBM Shared University Research Award
2015 FDA Food Safety Grand Challenge Finalist (1/5 of over 100 applicants)
2016 IBM Shared University Research Award
2018 Journal of Breath Research manuscript selected for Highlight Issue
2021 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society Fellowship; to acknowledge scientific research excellence with the purpose of supporting companions in zealous research."
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
2022 Weimer BC: Lactic Acid Bacteria: Physiology and Stress Responses, McSweeney PLH, McNamara JP, (ed), Encycolpedia of Dairy Sciences (3rd Edition), . 238-248.
2020 Coolbear T, Wilkinson MG, Weimer BC^: Lactic Acid Bacteria in Flavor Development, McSweeney PLH, McNamara JP, (ed), Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences 3rd Edition, NYC, NY. 181-186.
2020 Chen P, Bandoy DJD, Weimer BC^: Bacterial epigenomics: epigenetics in the age of population genomics, Tettelin H, Medini D, (ed), The Pan-Genome - Diversity, Dynamics and Evolution of Genomes, NYC, NY. .
2019 Kaufman JH, Elkins CA, Davis M, Weis AM, Huang BC, Mammel MK, Patel IR, Beck KL, Edlund S, Chambliss D, Douglas J, Bianco S, Kunitomi M, Weimer BC: Insular Microbiogeography, Chapter 4, Marco D, (ed), Microbial Ecology: Current Advances from Genomics, Metagenomics and Other Omics, . .
2017 Ganesan B, Weimer BC^: Amino Acid Catabolism and Its Relationship to Cheese Flavor Outcomes, Chapter 19, Fox PF, McSweeney PLH, Everett DW, Cotter P, (ed), Cheese: Chemistry, Physics & Microbiology Volume 1, 4th Edition, . 483-516.
Research Focus
My research program is focused on bacteria population genomics coupled to ecology and epidemology. The intersection of these areas is the central focus for my group to study host association, bacterial pathogenesis, and long-term persistance from metabolic shifts that are important in food and the environment. This programmatic theme is supported by these core areas of interest:
  • Population genomics in bacteria - 100K Pathogen Genome Project
  • Metagenomics of food, environments, humans, and animals;
  • Metabolism of pathogens during infection;
  • Computational estimation of regulatory networks for metabolic control analysis using flux, gene expression ane metabolomics
Specialty Focus
Microbiology, systems biology, infectious disease, genomics, genomic diversity, antimicrobial resistance, food safety
Ten Recent Publications

2022
Pinho RM, Garas LC, Huang BC, Weimer BC, Maga EA
Malnourishment affects gene expression along the length of the small intestine

2022
Hurtado R, Barh D, Weimer BC^, Viana MVC, Profeta R, Sousa TJ, Aburjaile FF, Quino W, Souza RP, Mestanza O, Gavilán RG, Azevedo V
WGS-based lineage and antimicrobial resistance pattern of Salmonella Typhimurium isolated during 2000-2017 in Peru

2022
Chang R, Pandey P, James P, Pandey P, Li Y, Zhang R, Weimer BC
Assessment impacts of Ozone on Salmonella Typhimurium and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in liquid dairy waste

2022
Aguilar-Zamora E, Weimer BC, Torres RC, Gómez-Delgado A, Ortiz-Olvera N, Aparicio-Ozores G, Barbero-Becerra VJ, Torres J, Camorlinga-Ponce M
Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance in hospitalized patients from Mexico

2022
Monteiro HF, Zhou Z, Gomes MS, Peixoto PMG, Bonsaglia ECR, Canisso IF, Weimer BC, Lima FS
Rumen and lower gut microbiomes relationship with feed efficiency and production traits throughout the lactation of Holstein dairy cows

2021
van Oosterhout C, Stephenson JF, Weimer B, Ly H, Hall N, Tyler KM
COVID-19 adaptive evolution during the pandemic – Implications of new SARS-CoV-2 variants on public health policies

2021
Wang Y, Pandey P, Chiu C, Jeannotte R, Kuppu S, Zhang R, Pereira R, Weimer BC, Nitin N, Aly SS
Quantification of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic in dairy manure

2021
Flores-Valdez M, Ares MA, Rosales-Reyes R, Torres J, Girón JA, Weimer BC, Mendez-Tenorio A, De la Cruz MA
Whole Genome Sequencing of Pediatric Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains Reveals Important Insights Into Their Virulence-Associated Traits.

2021
Santos-Medellín C, Liechty Z, Edwards J, Nguyen B, Huang B, Weimer BC, Sundaresan V
Prolonged drought imparts lasting compositional changes to the rice root microbiome.

2021
Miller JJ, Weimer BC, Timme R, Lüdeke CHM, Pettengill JB, Bandoy DD, Weis AM, Kaufman J, Huang BC, Payne J, Strain E, Jones JL
Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Patterns of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strains from North America Inferred from Whole-Genome Sequence Data.