Follow the links, which identify the undergraduate student authors, to learn more about their research. 

Billington SJ, Esmay PA, Songer JG, Jost BH. 2002. Identification and role in virulence of putative iron acquisition genes from Cornyebacterium pseudotuberculosis. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2002 Feb 19;208(1):41-5.

Brentlinger KL, Hafenstein S, Novak CR, Fane BA, Borgon R, McKenna R, Agbandje-McKenna M. 2002.  Microviridae, a family divided: isolation, characterization, and genome sequence of øMH2K, a bacteriophage of the obligate intracellular parasitic bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. J Bacteriol. 184: 1089-94.

Esmay PA, Billington SJ, Link M, Songer JG, Jost  BH. 2003 The Arcanobacterium pyogenes collagen binding  protein, CbpA, promotes adhesion to host cells. Infection and  Immunity 71:4368-74. 

Galeano B, Korff E, Nicholson WL. 2003. Inactivation of vegetative cells, but not spores, of Bacillus anthracis, B. cereus, and B. subtilis on stainless steel surfaces coated with an antimicrobial silver/zinc-containing zeolite formulation. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. (in press).

Link L, Sawyer J, Venkateswaran K, Nicholson WL. 2003. Extremespore UV resistance of Bacillus pumilus isolates obtained from an ultra-clean Spacecraft Assembly Facility. Microbial Ecology, currently undergoing peer review.

Mastrapa, RME. Glanzberg H, Head JN , Melosh HJ,  Nicholson WL.  2001. Survival of bacteria exposed to extreme acceleration: implications forpanspermia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 189: 1-8.

Nicholson WL, Galeano B. 2003.  UV resistance of Bacillus anthracis spores revisited: validation of Bacillus subtilis spores as UV surrogates for spores of B. anthracis Sterne.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69: 1327-1330.

Ortega YR, Nagle R, Gilman RH, Watanabe J, Miyagui J, Quispe H, Kanagusuku P, Roxas C, Sterling CR. 1997. Pathologic and clinical findings in patients with cyclosporiasis and a description of intracellular parasite life-cycle stages. J Infect Dis. 176: 1584-9.

Ortega YR, Roxas CR, Gilman RH, Miller NJ, Cabrera L, Taquiri C, Sterling CR.  1997. Isolation of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis from vegetables collected in markets of an endemic region in Peru. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 57: 683-6.

Reed C, Sturbaum GD, Hoover PJ, Sterling CR. 2002. Cryptosporidium parvum mixed genotypes detected by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Appl Environ Microbiol. 68: 427-9.

Sturbaum GD, Reed C, Hoover PJ, Jost BH, Marshall MM, Sterling CR. 2001. Species-specific, nested PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism detection of single Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts. Appl Environ Microbiol. 67: 2665-8.