Recent Papers
Benardini, J III, E Hagerman, T Green, R Sumner, K Venkateswaran, and RL Crawford. 2008. Viral populations within the International Space Station's internal active thermal control system ground support and potential flight hardware. SAE 2007 Trans. J. Aerosp. In press.
Johnson, AK, AM Zawadzka, LA Deobald, RL Crawford, and AJ Paszczynski. 2008. Novel method for immobilization of enzymes to magnetic nanoparticles. J. Nanopart. Res. 10:1009-1025.
Vandecasteele, FPJ, TF Hess, and RL Crawford. 2007. Using a genetic algorithm to drive a microbial ecosystem in a desirable direction. Environ. Microbiol. 10(7):1823-1830.
Hurst CJ, RL Crawford, JL Garland, AL Mills, SK Schmidt, and LD Stetzenbach (eds). 2007. Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd ed., 1293 pp. ASM Press, Washington, DC.
Vandecasteele, FPJ, TF Hess, and RL Crawford. 2007. Using genetic algorithms to optimize functions of microbial systems, p. 1072-1078. In Hurst CJ, RL Crawford, JL Garland, AL Mills, SK Schmidt, and LD Stetzenbach (eds). 2007. Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd ed. ASM Press, Washington, DC.
Newcombe DA, and RL Crawford. 2007. Transformation and fate of 2,4,6-trinitoluene (TNT) in anaerobic bioslurry reactors under various aeration schemes: Implications for the decontamination of soils. Biodegradation 18:741-754.
Crawford RL, and DA Newcombe. 2007. The potential for extant life in the soils of Mars, p, 225-243. In P Dion and CS Nautiyal (ed.), Microbiology of extreme soils (Soil Biology), Springer-Verlag, New York.
Zawadzka AM, RL Crawford, and AJ Paszczynski. 2007. Pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylic acid) reduces chromium(VI) and precipitates mercury, cadmium, lead and arsenic. BioMetals 20:145-158.
Vandecasteele FP, RL Crawford, and TF Hess. 2007. Demonstrating the suitability of genetic algorithms for driving microbial ecosystems in desirable directions. Ant. von Leeuwenhoek 92:83-93.
Crawford RL, CM Jung, and JL Strap. 2007. The recent evolution of pentachlorophenol (PCP)-4-monooxygenase (PcpB) and associated pathways for bacterial degradation of PCP. Biodegradation 18:525-539.
Zawadzka AM, FJP Vandecasteele, RL Crawford, and AJ Paszczynski. 2006. Identification of siderophores of Pseudomonas stutzeri. Can. J. Microbiol. 52:1164-1176.
Ball CL, and RL Crawford. 2006. Bacterial diversity within the planktonic community of an artesian water supply. Can. J. Microbiol. 52:246-259.
Kuhlman KR, WG Fusco, MT La Duc, LB Allenbach, CL Ball, GM Kuhlman, RC Anderson, IK Erickson, T Stuecker, J Benardini, JL Strap, and RL Crawford. 2006. Diversity of microorganisms within rock varnish in the Whipple Mountains, California. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72(2):1708-1715. Perumbakkam S, TF Hess, and RL Crawford. 2006. A bioremediation approach using natural transformation in pure-culture and mixed population biofilms. Biodegradation 17:545-557.
Zawadzka AM, RL Crawford, and AJ Paszczynski. 2006. Pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylic acid) produced by Pseudomonas stutzeri KC reduces and precipitates selenium and tellurium oxyanions. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72(5):3119-3129.
Crawford RL. 2005. Minireview: Microbial diversity and its relationship to planetary protection. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71(8):4163-4168. Erwin DP, IK Erickson, ME Delwiche, FS Colwell, JL Strap, and RL Crawford. 2005. Diversity of oxygenase genes from methane- and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71(4):2016-2025.
Kuhlman KR, LB Allenbach, CL Ball, WG Fusco, MT La Duc, GM Kuhlman, RC Anderson, T Stuecker, IK Erickson, J Benardini, and RL Crawford. 2005. Enumeration, isolation, and characterization of ultraviolet (UV-C) resistant bacteria from rock varnish in the Whipple Mountains, California. Icarus 174:585-595.
Jung CM, DA Newcombe, DL Crawford, and RL Crawford. 2004. Detection and decontamination of residual energetics from ordnance and explosives scrap. Biodegradation 15:41-48.
Lewis TA, DA Newcombe, and RL Crawford. 2004. Bioremediation of soils contaminated with explosives. J. Environ. Manage. 70:291-307. Paszczynski A, J Sebat, D Erwin, and RL Crawford. 2004. Biotransformation of carbon tetrachloride by facultative anaerobic bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri. In Nakano MM and P Zuber (eds.) Strict and Facultative Anaerobes: Medical and Environmental Aspects. Horizon Bioscience, England, p. 317-328.
Vandecasteele FPJ, TF Hess, and RL Crawford. 2004. Constructing microbial consortia with minimal growth using a genetic algorithm. In G. R. Raidl et al. (eds.), EvoBIO Workshops 2004, LNCS 3005. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, p.123-129.
Yoon JW, SA Minnich, JS Ahn, YH Park, A Paszczynski, and CJ Hovde. 2004. Thermoregulation of the Escherichia coli O157:H7 pO157 ecf operon and lipid A myristoyl transferase activity involves intrinsically curved DNA. Molecular Microbiol. 51(2):419-435.
Brandon MS, AJ Paszczynski, R Korus, and RL Crawford. 2003. The determination of the stability constant for the iron(II) complex of the biochelator pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylatic acid). Biodegradation 14:73-82.
Hess TF, TS Renn, RJ Watts, and AJ Paszczynski. 2003. Studies on nitroaromatic compound degradation in modified Fenton reactions by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS-MS). The Analyst 128:156-160.
Vandecasteele FPJ, TF Hess, and RL Crawford. 2003. Constructing microbial consortia with optimal biomass production using a genetic algorithm. 2003. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO): Late-breaking papers, p. 299-302.
Newcombe D, A Paszczynski, W Gajewska, M Kröger, G Feis, and RL Crawford. 2002. Production of small molecular weight catalysts and the mechanism of trinitrotoluene degradation by several Gloeophyllum species. Enz. Microb. Technol. 30:506-517.
Lewis TA, AJ Paszczynski, SW Gordon-Wylie, S Jeedigunta, C-H Lee, and RL Crawford. 2001. Carbon tetrachloride dechlorination by the bacterial transistion metal chelators pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylic acid). Environ. Sci. Technol. 35:552-559.
Lewis TA, MS Cortese, JL Sebat, TL Green, C-H Lee, and RL Crawford. 2000. A Pseudomonas stutzeri gene cluster encoding the biosynthesis of the CCl4-dechlorination agent pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylic acid). Environ. Microbiol. 2(4):407-416.
Lee C-H, TA Lewis, A Paszczynski, and RL Crawford. 1999. Identification of an extracellular tetrachloride dehalogenation from Pseudomonas stutzeri strain KC as pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylate). Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 261:562-566. |