Publications
Antimicrobial surfaces containing cationic nanoparticles: how immobilized, clustered, and protruding cationic charge presentation affects killing activity and kinetics.. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces. 125:255-63.
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2015. Biodegradation of low concentrations of 1,2-dibromoethane in groundwater is enhanced by phenol.. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 98(3):1329-38.
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2014. Easy come easy go: surfaces containing immobilized nanoparticles or isolated polycation chains facilitate removal of captured Staphylococcus aureus by retarding bacterial bond maturation.. ACS Nano. 8(2):1180-90.
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2014. Land use change alters functional gene diversity, composition and abundance in Amazon forest soil microbial communities.. Mol Ecol. 23(12):2988-99.
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2014. Links between plant and fungal communities across a deforestation chronosequence in the Amazon rainforest.. ISME J. 8(7):1548-50.
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2014. Response of free-living nitrogen-fixing microorganisms to land use change in the Amazon rainforest.. Appl Environ Microbiol. 80(1):281-8.
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2014. Conversion of the Amazon rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 110(3):988-93.
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2013. Identification and characterization of a NaCl-responsive genetic locus involved in survival during desiccation in Sinorhizobium meliloti.. Appl Environ Microbiol. 79(18):5693-700.
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2013. Biodegradation of ethylene dibromide (1,2-dibromoethane [EDB]) in microcosms simulating in situ and biostimulated conditions.. J Hazard Mater. 209-210:92-8.
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2012. How Bacteria Adhere to Brushy PEG Surfaces: Clinging to Flaws and Compressing the Brush.. Macromolecules. 45(20):8373-8381.
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2012. Molecular approach to evaluate biostimulation of 1,2-dibromoethane in contaminated groundwater.. Bioresour Technol. 123C:207-213.
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2012. New bactericidal surgical suture coating.. Langmuir. 28(33):12134-9.
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2012. Phytoprotective influence of bacteria on growth and cadmium accumulation in the aquatic plant Lemna minor.. Water Res. 44(17):4970-9.
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2010. The role of nano-scale heterogeneous electrostatic interactions in initial bacterial adhesion from flow: a case study with Staphylococcus aureus.. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces. 76(2):489-95.
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2010. Antimicrobial polymers prepared by ring-opening metathesis polymerization: manipulating antimicrobial properties by organic counterion and charge density variation.. Chemistry. 15(43):11715-22.
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2009. Comparison of facially amphiphilic versus segregated monomers in the design of antibacterial copolymers.. Chemistry. 15(2):433-9.
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2009. "Doubly selective" antimicrobial polymers: how do they differentiate between bacteria? Chemistry. 15(43):11710-4.
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2009. Hydrogenotrophic denitrification and perchlorate reduction in ion exchange brines using membrane biofilm reactors.. Biotechnol Bioeng. 104(3):483-91.
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2009. Hydrophilic modifications of an amphiphilic polynorbornene and the effects on its hemolytic and antibacterial activity.. Biomacromolecules. 10(2):353-9.
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2009. Antimicrobial polymers prepared by ROMP with unprecedented selectivity: a molecular construction kit approach.. J Am Chem Soc. 130(30):9836-43.
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2008. Investigating the effect of increasing charge density on the hemolytic activity of synthetic antimicrobial polymers.. Biomacromolecules. 9(10):2805-10.
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2008. Synthetic mimic of antimicrobial peptide with nonmembrane-disrupting antibacterial properties.. Biomacromolecules. 9(11):2980-3.
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2008. Arsenic sequestration by nitrate respiring microbial communities in urban lake sediments.. Chemosphere. 70(2):329-36.
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Department of Microbiology