Articles

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A Cultured Greigite-Producing Magnetotactic Bacterium in a Novel Group of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria (with Christopher T. Lefèvre, Nicholas Menguy, Fernanda Abreu, Ulysses Lins, Mihály Pósfai, Tanya Prozorov, David Pignol, and Dennis A. Bazylinski), Science Magazine (2011)

Magnetotactic bacteria contain magnetosomes—intracellular, membrane-bounded, magnetic nanocrystals of magnetite (Fe3O4) or greigite (Fe3S4)—that cause the...

 

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Morphological features of elongated-anisotropic magnetosome crystals in magnetotactic bacteria of the Nitrospirae phylum and the Deltaproteobacteria class (with Christopher T. Lefèvre, Mihály Pósfai, Fernanda Abreu, Ulysses Lins, and Dennis A. Bazlinski), Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2011)

High resolution transmission electron microscopy was used to study the crystallographic habits of the elongated...

 

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Isolation of obligately alkaliphilic magnetotactic bacteria from extremely alkaline environments (with Christopher T. Lefevre, Mihály Pósfai, Tanya Prozorov, and Dennis A. Bazylinski), Environmental Microbiology (2011)

Large numbers of magnetotactic bacteria were discovered in mud and water samples collected from a...

 

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Culture-Independent Characterization of a Novel, Uncultivated Magnetotactic Member of the Nitrospirae Phylum (with Christopher T. Lefevre, Fernanda Abreu, Ulysses Lins, and Dennis A. Bazylinski), Environmental Microbiology (2011)

A magnetotactic bacterium, designated strain LO-1, of the Nitrospirae phylum was detected and concentrated from...

 

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Moderately Thermophilic Magnetotactic Bacteria from Hot Springs in Nevada (with Christopher T. Lefevre, Fernanda Abreu, Marian L. Schimdt, Ulysses Lins, Brian P. Hedlund, and Dennis A. Bazylinski), Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2010)

Populations of a moderately thermophilic magnetotactic bacterium were discovered in Great Boiling Springs, Nevada, ranging...

 

Contributions to Books

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Biologically-Controlled Mineralization of Magnetic Iron Minerals by Magnetotactic Bacteria (with D. A. Bazylinski), Environmental Microbe-Metal Interactions (2000)
 

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Biological Effects of Static Magnetic Fields (with Robert P, Liburdy), Handbook of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (1996)
 

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Structure and Function of Magnetosomes in Magnetotactic Bateria (with Dennis A. Bazylinski), Design and Processing of Materials by Biomimetics (1995)

Magnetotactic bacteria contain magnetosomes, which are mineral particles enclosed my membranes. The particles are ferrimagnetic...

 

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Magnetic Fine Particles in Biological Systems (with Dominic P.E. Dickson), Magnetic Properties of Fine Particles: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Studies of Magnetic Properties of Fine Particles and Their Relevance to Materials Science (1991)

Two examples of biological magnetic fine particles are considered: iron-storage proteins and magnetotactic bacteria. These...

 

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Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Fe2+ Binding to Apo and Holo Mammalian Ferritin (with Gerald D. Watt and Georgia C. Papaefthymiou), Proceedings of the First Latin-American Conference, Applications of the Mossbauer Effect, Rio de Janeiro (1990)

The anaerobic binding of Fe2+ to apo and holo Mammalian ferritin has been studied in...

 

Presentations

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Mossbauer Study of an Intramolecular Antiferromagnet (with R. Lechan and C. R. Abeledo), 17th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (1971)

Mossbauer measurements at 4.2 ≤T ≤ 22 K and OsHosBO kOe are + reported in...