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Bacterial Cell Envelopes

The Pavelka laboratory studies the genetics and biochemistry of the cell envelopes of mycobacteria and Gram-negative bacteria. Our primary goals are to understand how bacterial cell envelopes are assembled and maintained in a variety of pathogenic bacteria. Our laboratory also develops genetic tools for our work in cell envelope biology.

Martin Pavelka, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Lab Members

Projects

Assembly of the mycobacterial peptidoglycan

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Publications

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1. Baran TM
2. Wirth KT
3. Byrne MM
4. Gertsen B
5. Wang EY
6. Hawryluk DS
7. Pavelka MS
8. Wilson NA
Laparoscopic Methylene Blue Photodynamic Therapy for Intraabdominal Infection: A Preclinical Feasibility Study in a Rabbit Model of Perforated Appendicitis.; Lasers in surgery and medicine. 2026 Jun 09.
1. Marotzke S
2. Gupta D
3. Wang RP
4. Pavelka M
5. Dziarzhytski S
6. von Korff Schmising C
7. Jana S
8. Thielemann-Kühn N
9. Amrhein T
10. Weinelt M
11. Vaskivskyi I
12. Knut R
13. Engel D
14. Scheppe V
15. Braune M
16. Ilchen M
17. Savio S
18. Otto T
19. Tiedtke K
20. Alisauskas S
21. Tajalli A
22. Cirmi G
23. Cankaya H
24. Vagin P
25. Götze K
26. Rönsch-Schulenburg J
27. Schneidmiller E
28. Schüßler-Langeheine C
29. Dürr HA
30. Beye M
31. Brenner G
32. Pontius N
Erratum: "First experiments with ultrashort, circularly polarized soft x-ray pulses at FLASH2" [Struct. Dyn. 12, 034301 (2025)].; Structural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.); Vol 13(3), pp. 039901. 2026 May 07.
1. Wirth KT
2. Loszko AF
3. Byrne MM
4. Wakeman DS
5. Pavelka MS
6. Baran TM
7. Wilson NA
Linking Antimicrobial Agent Resistance Profiles to Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Perforated Appendicitis.; Surgical infections. 2026 Feb 25.

Affiliations

Contact Us

Pavelka Laboratory
601 Elmwood Ave
Rochester, NY 14642

Martin_Pavelka@URMC.Rochester.edu

(585) 275-4670