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The Social Interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Creator:: Smith, Parker
Abstract:: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous environmental microbe, opportunistic pathogen, and a highly social organism. P. aeruginosa utilizes a wide array of cooperative behaviors to adapt to the environmental conditions around it. These behaviors include quorum sensing (QS), a form a cell-to-cell signaling that coordinates the expression of secreted products in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Multiple Stressors Drive Changes in Coral Microbiome Diversity and Composition Demonstrating the Role of a Bacterial Symbiont in Microbial Community Sensitivity and Resilience

Creator:: Maher, Rebecca L.
Abstract:: On coral reefs, disturbances rarely occur in isolation. Global stressors such as increasing seawater temperature often coincide with local stressors like nutrient pollution. In the face of increasing anthropogenic stress, corals can function as environmental sentinels, although little is known about how multiple stressors interact to disrupt their associated bacterial...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Outliers: The Unusual Characteristics of Marine Carbon-Oxidizing Bacterial Cells Adapted to Oligotrophic Conditions

Creator:: Noell, Stephen E.
Abstract:: Oligotrophic bacteria are adapted to low nutrient concentrations. As most of the ocean is oligotrophic (low in nutrients), oligotrophic bacteria thrive in the ocean and make up the majority of planktonic cells. Because of this, oligotrophs are crucial to oceanic nutrient cycles. However, marine oligotrophic bacteria are dwarfed by their...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The Genomic Capabilities of Microbial Communities Track Seasonal Variation in Arctic Lagoons

Creator:: Baker, Kristina D.
Abstract:: The lagoons spanning Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast provide a unique habitat for arctic wildlife. These lagoons and the food webs they support face extreme seasonality with nine months of ice cover followed by a spring thaw that pulses a large amount of freshwater and nutrients into the lagoons. Bacteria link...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Strategies for Altering Energy Flux in Thalassiosira pseudonana Elucidated by Transcriptomics

Creator:: Pombrol, Michelle
Abstract:: Diatoms play a major role in ocean biogeochemical cycles and are important tools in bioengineering for natural products and nanotechnology. Diatoms and other algae growing at varying resource-limited growth rates allocate carbon to different metabolic pathways to optimize growth; however, the molecular mechanisms controlling these pathway gating strategies are not...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Exploring the toxigenicity and genetic similarity of Detroit Reservoir’s recurring cyanobacterial bloom in 2017 and 2018

Creator:: Godbole, Tejas R.
Abstract:: In order to understand the ability of Detroit Reservoir’s recurring cyanobacterial bloom to produce toxins, and determine the genetic similarity of the bloom from year to year, environmental samples were taken from the Detroit Reservoir bloom biomass in the summers of 2017 and 2018. DNA from these samples was sequenced,...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

Analysis of Mutations Affecting Cooperation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Populations

Creator:: Robinson, Tanner M.
Abstract:: In a process called quorum sensing (QS), the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses small diffusible signals to coordinate cooperative behaviors via secreted “public goods”. Under QS-dependent growth conditions, social cheaters arise with mutations in lasR, the gene for the primary QS signal receptor. These cheaters do not produce public goods....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Impact of Igneous Mineralogy on the Composition and Metabolic Function of Microbial Biofilms in a Thermal Suboceanic Crustal Aquifer

Creator:: Smith, Amy R.
Abstract:: Igneous oceanic crust encompasses ~60% of Earth’s surface and is composed of basalt glass and mafic, ultramafic, and felsic minerals. A vast marine aquifer lies within the crust, exchanging geochemically altered fluids with seawater from the overlying ocean at ridge crests, flanks, seamounts, and outcrops where permeable crust is exposed....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Social Evolution and Regulatory Architecture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing

Creator:: Asfahl, Kyle L.
Abstract:: Cell-cell communication in bacteria is understood to facilitate the coordination of population-wide cooperative behavior in the form of concerted gene expression. The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses such a communication mechanism to regulate a large group of genes important to virulence strategies in this bacterium. This general mechanism of communication...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Transcriptome Responses of the Nitrifying Bacteria Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrobacter hamburgensis to Low Oxygen

Creator:: Dobie, Michael
Abstract:: Nitrification is the process within the global Nitrogen Cycle where ammonia (NH3) is oxidized to nitrate (NO₃⁻) and can be carried out by two distinct groups of bacteria. The ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) first oxidize NH₃ to nitrite (NO₂⁻), and second, the nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) oxidize NO₂⁻ to NO₃⁻. In aerobic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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The Social Interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Multiple Stressors Drive Changes in Coral Microbiome Diversity and Composition Demonstrating the Role of a Bacterial Symbiont in Microbial Community Sensitivity and Resilience

Outliers: The Unusual Characteristics of Marine Carbon-Oxidizing Bacterial Cells Adapted to Oligotrophic Conditions

The Genomic Capabilities of Microbial Communities Track Seasonal Variation in Arctic Lagoons

Strategies for Altering Energy Flux in Thalassiosira pseudonana Elucidated by Transcriptomics

Exploring the toxigenicity and genetic similarity of Detroit Reservoir’s recurring cyanobacterial bloom in 2017 and 2018

Analysis of Mutations Affecting Cooperation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Populations

Impact of Igneous Mineralogy on the Composition and Metabolic Function of Microbial Biofilms in a Thermal Suboceanic Crustal Aquifer

Social Evolution and Regulatory Architecture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing

Transcriptome Responses of the Nitrifying Bacteria Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrobacter hamburgensis to Low Oxygen

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