Publications

Centers for Oceans & Human Health

1. Acinas, S.G, Sarma-Rupavtarm, R., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Polz, M.F.,  2005. PCR induced sequence artifacts and bias: insights from two 16S rRNA clone libraries constructed from the same sample. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71:8966-8969.
2. Anderson, D.M., Keafer, B.A., McGillicuddy, D.J., Mickelson, M.J., Keay, K.E., Libby, P.S., Manning, J.P., Mayo, C.A., Whittaker, D.K., Hickey, J.M., He, R., Lynch, D.R., Smith, K.W., 2005.  Initial observations of the 2005 Alexandrium fundyense bloom in southern New England: General patterns and mechanisms. Deep-Sea Research II, 52, 2856-2876.
3. Backer LC, Fleming LE. Epidemiology and Oceans and Human Health. in Walsh, P.J., S.L. Smith, L.E. Fleming, H. Solo-Gabriele, W.H. Gerwick (eds.) in press. Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York.
4. Backer, L.C. and D.J. McGillicuddy, Jr. Harmful Algal Blooms: At the Interface Between Coastal Oceanography and Human Health. Oceanography 19 94-106.
5. Baums IB, Goodwin KD, Kiesling T, Wanless D, Fell JW. Luminex Detection of Fecal Indicators in River Samples, Marine Recreational Water, and Beach Sand.  Marine Pollution Bulletin. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2006.12.018 (2007), in press.
6. Becker, J. W., Brandon M. L. and M. S.Rappé. 2006. Cultivating microorganisms from dilute aquatic environments:  melding traditional methodology with new cultivation techniques and molecular methods.  Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd Edition.  ASM Press.
7. Betancourt, W and R. Fujioka. 2006. Bacteroides as reliable molecular markers of sewage contamination in Hawaii’s environmental water. Water Science and Technology 54: (3) 101-107.
8. Bienfang PK, Bidigare RR, Laws EA, Moeller P. Ciguatera. in Walsh, P.J., S.L. Smith, L.E. Fleming, H. Solo-Gabriele, W.H. Gerwick (eds.) in press. Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York.
9. Block CN, Shibata T, Solo-Gabriele, HM, Townsend, TG.  2006. Use of handheld X-ray fluorescence spectrometry units for identification of arsenic in treated wood. Environmental Pollution. 1-7, in press.

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10. Brand LE, Compton A.  2006. Long-term increase in Karenia brevis abundance along the southwest Florida coast. Harmful Algae Harmful Algae 7: 232-252.
11. Brandon, M. L., J. W. Becker andM. S. Rappé. 2006. Isolation of aquatic microorganisms via high throughput cultivation methods.  Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual, 3rd Edition.
12. Chinowsky TM, Soelberg SD, Baker P, Swanson NR, Kauffman P, Mactutis A, Grow MS, Atmar R, Yee SS, Furlong CE.  Portable 24-analyte surface plasmon resonance .
13. instruments for rapid, versatile biodetection.  Biosen and Bioelectron (in press: DOI:10.1016/j.bios.2006.11.026) .
14. Cox, P. A., S. A. Banack, S. J. Murch, U. Rasmussen, G. Tien, R. R. Bidigare, J. S. Metcalf, L. F. Morrison, G. A. Codd and B. Bergman. 2005. Diverse taxa of cyanobacteria produce b-N-methylamino-L-alanine, a neurotoxic amino acid. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 5074-5078.  http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/14/5074 (http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/14/5074)
15. Cox, P. A., S. A. Banack, S. Murch, P. Nunn, W. Bradley, D. Mash, S. Papapetropoulos, L. Olaf, S. Conradi, B. Bergman, U. Rasmussen, R. Bidigare, G. Codd, J. S. Metcalf, H. Johnson, R. Speth and J. H. Weiss. 2005. Reply to "Lack of beta-methylamino-L-Alanine in brain from controls, AD, or Chamorros with PDC" Neurology www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/65/5/768 (http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/65/5/768) .
16. Dickey, T.D. and R. R. Bidigare, 2005. "Interdisciplinary oceanographic observations: The wave of the future,", Sci. Mar. 69 (Suppl.1): 23-42.
17. Dubey B, Solo-Gabriele HM, Townsend TG.  2006. Quantities of Arsenic-Treated Wood in Demolition Debris Generated by Hurricane Katrina.  Environ. Sci. & Technol. in press.
18. Elmir SM, Wright ME, Solo-Gabriele HM, Abdelzaher A, Fleming LE, Miller G, Rybolowik M, Shih M-T P, Pillai SP, Cooper JA, Quaye EA. 2007. Quantitative Evaluation of Bacteria Released by Bathers in a Marine Water. Water Research, 41: 3-10.
19. Erdner, D.L. and D.M. Anderson. 2006. Global transcriptional profiling of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense using Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing. BMC Genomics 7:88 (1-11).

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20. Feichter J, Steffen K L, Mooers CNK, Haus, BK. Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in a South Florida Tidal Inlet. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Sciences.  2006: vol. 70: 297-306.
21. Fleisher JM, Kay D. Risk perception bias, self-reporting of Illness, and the validity of reported results in an epidemiologic study of recreational water associated illnesses. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2006: vol. 52: 264-268.
22. Fleming LE, Broad K, Clement A, Dewailly E, Elmir S, Knap A, Pomponi SA, Smith S, Solo Gabriele H, Walsh P. Oceans and Human Health: Emerging Public Health Risks in the Marine Environment. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2006:53:545-560.
23. Fleming LE, Laws E. The Overview of Oceans and Human. Oceanography 2006;19(2):18-23.
24. Fleming LE, Solo Gabriele H, Elmir S, Shibata T, Squicciarini D, Quirino W, Arguello M, Van De Bogart G. A Pilot Study of Microbial Contamination of Subtropical Recreational Waters. Fl J Env Health March 2004;29-33.
25. Fujioka, R. S. and T. M. Unutoa. 2006. Comparative stability and growth requirements of S. aureus and fecal indicator bacteria in seawater. Water Science and Technology 54: (3) 169-175.
26. Furlong CE, Stevens RC, Soelberg SD, Yee N, Geiss G, Katze MG, Near S, Yee S, Chinowsky T. "Adaptation of near real time biosensor systems for monitoring cabin air quality." Contaminated Air Protection Conference: Proceedings of a Conference, held at Imperial College, London, 20-21 April 2005, Winder, C., editor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 255-270.
27. Giordano G, White C, Kavanagh TJ, Costa LG. Low concentration of domoic acid (DA) induces mitochondrially mediated apoptotic death in mouse cerebellar granule cells. Toxicologist 2006.
28. Giordano G, White CC, McConnachie LA, Fernandez C, Kavanagh TJ, Costa LG. Neurotoxicity of domoic acid in cerebellar granule neurons in a genetic model of glutathione deficiency. Mol. Pharmacol. 2006, 70:2116-2126.
29. Goodwin K, Litaker W. Emerging Technologies. . in Walsh, P.J., S.L. Smith, L.E. Fleming, H. Solo-Gabriele, W.H. Gerwick (eds.) in press. Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York .

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30. Hou, A., Laws, E.A., Gambrell, R.P., Bae, H-S., Tan,M., DeLaune, R.D., Li, Y., and Roberts, H. 2006. Pathogens Indicator Microbes and Heavy Metals in Lake Pontchartrain Following Hurricane Katrina. Environmental Science and Technology 40(19): 5904-5910.
31. Hunt, D.E., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Acinas, S.G., Gauthier, C., Bertilsson, S., Polz, M.F.  2006. Evaluation of 23S rRNA PCR Primers for use in Phylogenetic Studies of Bacterial Diversity. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:2221-2225.
32. Judd N, Griffith WC, Faustman EM. "Contribution of PCB exposure from fish consumption to total dioxin-like dietary exposure." Regul Toxicol Pharmacol. 2004 Oct;40(2):125-35.
33. Judd NL, Drew CH, Acharya C, Mitchell TA, Donatuto JL, Burns GW, Burbacher TM, Faustman EM;."Marine Resources for Future Generations. Framing scientific analyses for risk management of environmental hazards by communities: case studies with seafood safety issues." Environ Health Perspect. 2005 Nov;113(11):1502-8.
34. Klepac-Ceraj, V., Ceraj, I., Polz, M.F.  2006. CLUSTERER: extendable java application for sequence grouping and cluster analyses. Online J. Bioinf. 7:15-21.
35. LaGier MJ, Fell JW, Goodwin KD. Electrochemical Detection of Harmful Algae and Other Microbial Contaminants in Coastal Waters Using Hand-held Biosensors. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2007:doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2006.12.017.
36. Laws, E. A. 2006. Case study: Cholera. Oceanography 19(2): 81-83.
37. Laws, E. A. 2007. Climate change, oceans, and human health. Ocean Yearbook 21 in press
38. Laws EA. Oceanography, Oceans and Human Health. in Walsh, P.J., S.L. Smith, L.E. Fleming, H. Solo-Gabriele, W.H. Gerwick (eds.) in press. Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York.
39. Marcelino, L., Backman, V., Donaldson, A., Steadman, C., Thompson, J.R., Paccocha-Preheim, S., Lien, C., Lim, E., Veneziano, D., Polz, M.F.  2006. Accurate identification of low abundant targets amidst similar sequences by revealing hidden correlations in oligonucleotide microarray data. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103(37):13629-13634.

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40. Messerli, S.M. and Greenberg, R.M. 2006. Cnidarian toxins acting on voltage-gated ion channels. Marine Drugs, 4, 70-81.
41. Nagai, S., L. McCauley, N. Yasuda, D.L. Erdner, D.M. Kulis, Y. Matsuyama, S. Itakura and D.M. Anderson.  2006. Development of microsatellite markers in the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum (Dinophyceae). Molecular Ecology Notes. 6: 756-758.
42. Olascoaga MJ, Rypina II, Brown MG, Beron-Vera FJ, Kocak H, Brand LE, Halliwell GR, Shay LK. 2006.  Persistent transport barrier on the West Florida Shelf. Geophys. Res. Let. 33, L22603,doi:10.1029/2006GL027800/.
43. Polz, M.F., Hunt, D.E., Preheim, S.P., Weinreich, D.M.  2006. Patterns and mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in marine microbes. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B.  361:2009-2021.
44. Pope, W. H., Weigele, P. R., Chang, J., Pedulla, M. L., Ford, M. E., Houtz, J. M., Jiang, W., Chiu, W., Hatfull, G. F., Hendrix, R. W., and King, J. 2007. Genome Sequence, Structural Proteins, and Capsid Organization of the Cyanophage Syn5: A "Horned" Bacteriophage of Marine Synechococcus Journal of Molecular Biology (in press).
45. Ralston D.K., McGillicuddy, D.J. and D.W. Townsend. Asynchronous vertical migration and bimodal distribution of motile phytoplankton. Submitted, Journal of Plankton Research.
46. Shibata T, Solo Gabriele HM, Fleming LE, Elmir S. Monitoring Marine Recreational Water Quality Using Multiple Microbial Indicators in an Urban Tropical Environment. Water Research 2004;38:3119-3131.
47. Shibata T, Solo-Gabriele HM, Fleming LE, Cai Y, Townsend TG. 2007. A mass balance approach for evaluating leachable arsenic and chromium from an in- service CCA-treated wood structure. Science of the Total Environment.  372:624–635.
48. Shimeta, J, R. J. Gast, J. M. Rose. 2007. Community structure of marine sedimentary protists in relation to flow and grain size. Aquatic Microbial Ecology in press.
49. Soelberg SD, Chinowsky T, Geiss G, Spinell CB, Stevens R, Near S, Kauffman P, Yee S, Furlong CE. "A surface plasmon resonance (SPR) –based sensor system for real-time monitoring of analytes that range in size from small organics to whole cells." J Industrial Microbiol, 2005, 32:669-74.

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50. Sogin, M. H. G. Morrison, J. A. Huber, D. M. Welch, S. M. Huse, P. R. Neal, J. M. Arrieta, and G. J. Herndl 2006. Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103 12115-12120.
51. Stevens RC, Soelberg SD,. Eberhart B-TL, Spencer S, Wekell JC, Chinowsky TM, Trainer VL, Furlong CE. 2007.  Detection of the toxin domoic acid from clam extracts using a portable surface plasmon resonance biosensor.  Harmful Algae 6:166-17.
52. Stotts, S, O Nigro, TL Fowler, RS Fujioka, and GF Steward. 2005. Virulence and antibiotic resistance gene combinations among Staphylococcus aureus isolates from coastal waters of Oahu, Hawaii.  Journal of Young Investigators 16(2) http://www.jyi.org/research/re.php?id=148 (http://www.jyi.org/research/re.php?id=148) .
53. Thompson, J.T., Marcelino, L., Polz, M.F.  2005.  Diversity and sources of human bacterial pathogens and overview of methods of their detection and quantification. In: Shimshon Belkin and Rita Colwell (Eds.), Ocean and Health: Pathogens in the Marine Environment.  Springer.  p. 464.
54. Toledo, G., W. Green, R. A. Gonzalez, L. Christoffersen, M. Podar, H. W. Chang, T. Hemscheidt, H. Trapido-Rosenthal, J. M. Short, Robert R. Bidigare and E. J. Mathur. 2006. Case Study: High throughput cultivation for isolation of novel marine microorganisms. Oceanography 19(2): 120-125.
55. Trainer VL, Bill BD. "Characterization of a domoic acid binding site from Pacific razor clam." Aquat Toxicol. 2004 Aug 10;69(2):125-32.
56. Trainer, V. B. Hickey and S. Bates. Diatoms. in Walsh, P.J., S.L. Smith, L.E. Fleming, H. Solo-Gabriele, W.H. Gerwick (eds.) in press. Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York.
57. Vogel C, Rogerson A, Schatz S, Laubach H, Tallman A, Fell. Prevalence of Yeasts In Beach Sand At Three Bathing Beaches In South Florida. Water Research.  In press.
58. Wang, G. Y., W. P Tang and R. R. Bidigare. 2005. Terpenoids as therapeutic drugs and pharmaceutical agents. In: Natural products as therapeutical drugs and preventive medicines (L. Zhang and A. L. Demain, Eds.), Humana Press, New Jersey, pp. 191-221.
59. Walsh, P.J., S.L. Smith, L.E. Fleming, H. Solo-Gabriele, W.H. Gerwick (eds.) in press. Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York.
60. Weigele, P. W., Pope, W. H., Pedulla, M. L., Houtz, J. M., Smith, A. L., King, J., Hatfull, G., Lawrence, J. G., and Hendrix, R. W. Genomic sequence and analysis of Syn9, a cyanophage infecting marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. Environmental Microbiology in press.
61. Workman M., O. D. Nigro and G. F. Steward 2007. Identification of prophages in coastal water isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Young Investigators 16(2) http://www.jyi.org/research/re.php?id=844.
62. Yu X, Griffith WC, Hanspers K, Dillman JF 3rd, Ong H, Vredevoogd MA, Faustman EM. A system-based approach to interpret dose- and time-dependent microarray data: quantitative integration of gene ontology analysis for risk assessment. Toxicol Sci. 2006; 92(2):560-77.

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