Research Publications and Presentations
New and Current Microbiological Tools for Ecosystem Ecologists: Towards a Goal of Linking Structure and Function (with Rebecca E. Drenovsky, Katharine M. Batten, and Krassimira Hristova), American Midland Naturalist (2008)
Interest in the relationships between soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions is growing with increasing...
Effect of Ethanol on Microbial Community Structure and Function During Natural Attenuation of Benzene, Toluene, and o-Xylene in a Sulfate-Reducing Aquifer, Environmental Science & Technology (2008)
Ethanol (EtOH) is a commonly used fuel oxygenate in reformulated gasoline and is an alternative...
Preferential Killing of Cancer Cells and Activated Human T Cells Using ZnO Nanoparticles (with Cory Hanley, Janet Layne, Alex Punnoose, K. M. Reddy, Isaac Coombs, Andrew Coombs, and Denise Wingett), Nanotechnology (2008)
Abstract Nanoparticles are increasingly being recognized for their potential utility in biological applications including nanomedicine....
Selective Toxicity of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles to Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Systems (with K. M. Reddy, Jason Bell, Denise G. Wingett, Cory Hanley, and Alex Punnoose), Applied Physics Letters (2007)
We report on the toxicity of ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) to gram-negative and gram-positive bacterial systems,...
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Relative Strengths of Relationships Between Plant, Microbial, and Environmental Parameters in Heavy-Metal Contaminated Floodplain Soil (with Philip W. Ramsey, Sean M. Gibbons, Peter Rice, Daniel L. Mummey, Johnnie N. Moore, Matthias C. Rillig, and James E. Gannon), Pedobiologia (2012)
We used a combination of sampling and statistical approaches to investigate the relative influence of...
Use of Microcalorimetry to Determine the Costs and Benefits to Pseudomonas putida Strain KT2440 of Harboring Cadmium Efflux Genes (with Sean M. Gibbons, Michele A. McGuirl, Sergio E. Morales, Anu Hynninen, Philip W. Ramsey, and James E. Gannon), Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2011)
A novel microcalorimetric approach was used to analyze the responses of a metal-tolerant soil bacterium...
Electrostatic Interactions Affect Nanoparticle-Mediated Toxicity to Gram-Negative Bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, Langmuir (2010)
Nanoscale materials can have cytotoxic effects. Here we present the first combined empirical and theoretical...
Hyporheic Microbial Community Development Is a Sensitive Indicator of Metal Contamination (with Philip W. Ramsey, Sean M. Gibbons, Chris Frazar, Matthias C. Rillig, Johnnie N. Moore, James E. Gannon, and William E. Holben), Environmental Science & Technology (2009)
Accurate natural resource damage assessment necessitates monitoring organisms or communities that respond most sensitively to...
Fluorescent Dye Encapsulated ZnO Particles with Cell-Specific Toxicity for Potential Use in Biomedical Applications (with Hua Wang, Denise Wingett, Mark H. Engelhard, K. M. Reddy, Paul Turner, Janet Layne, Cory Hanley, Jason Bell, Dmitri Tenne, Chongmin Wang, and Alex Punnoose), Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Medicine (2009)
Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-encapsulated SiO2 core-shell particles with a nanoscale ZnO finishing layer have been synthesized...