FAREWELL JAY, December 2003

Jarrod Pollack, a member of Coates Lab since before we moved from Southern Illinois to UC-Berkeley, is leaving after many years of hard work. We all wish him good luck.

NABIR Research Grants Awarded, August, 2001

NABIR Research Grants Awarded, August, 2001

"Benzene Busters," from Fall 2001 issue of SIUC Perspectives.

"Bugs make a meal of benzene."
New found bacteria could remove benzene from the environment," from the June 28 issue of Nature. Coates, J. D. et al. Anaerobic benzene oxidation coupled to nitrate reduction in pure culture by two strains of Dechloromonas. Nature, 411, 1039 - 1043, (2001).

Recent Publications and Articles

O'Connor, Susan M.; Coates, John D. Universal immunoprobe for (per)chlorate-reducing bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2002), 68(6),3108-3113.

Lack, Joseph G.; Chaudhuri, Swades K.; Kelly, Shelly D.; Kemner, Kenneth M.; O'Connor, Susan M.; Coates, John D. Immobilization of radionuclides and heavy metals through anaerobic bio-oxidation of Fe(II). Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2002), 68(6), 2704-2710.

Coates, John D.; Cole, Kimberly A.; Chakraborty, Romy; O'Connor, Susan M.; Achenbach, Laurie A. Diversity and ubiquity of bacteria capable of utilizing humic substances as electron donors for anaerobic respiration. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2002), 68(5), 2445-2452.

Lack, J. G.; Chaudhuri, S. K.; Chakraborty, R.; Achenbach, L. A.; Coates, J. D. Anaerobic biooxidation of Fe(II) by Dechlorosoma suillum. Microbial Ecology (2002), 424-431.

Coates, John D.; Achenbach, Laurie A. The biogeochemistry of aquifer systems. Manual of Environmental Microbiology (2nd Edition)(2002), 719-727.

Kelly, S. D.; Kemner, K. M.; O'Loughlin, Edward J.; Fein, J. B.; Fowle, D. A.; Boyanov, M. I.; Bunker, B. A.; Yee, N.; Coates, John D. XAFS investigations of interactions of U(VI) with Bacillus subtilis, green rust, and bio-oxidizing Dechlorosoma suillum. Abstracts of Papers, 222nd ACS National Meeting (2001), Chicago, IL, United States, August 26-30, 2001.

Coates, John D.; Chakraborty, Romy; O'Connor, Susan M.; Schmidt, Claudia; Thieme, Jurgen. The geochemical effects of microbial humic substances reduction. Acta Hydrochimica et Hydrobiologica (2001), 28(7), 420-427.

Recent Abstracts

Follow the links below to abstracts from the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, held May 19-23, 2002, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Anaerobic hydrocarbon oxidation by Dechloromonas Strain RCB; Romy Chakraborty, Susan M. O'Connor, and John D. Coates.

Kinetics studies on the microbial reduction of perchlorate by Dechlorosoma suillm Strain PS; Swades K.Chaudhuri and John D. Coates. Presented by Karrie Weber.

Nitrate-dependant microbial humic substances oxidation in marine environments; Kim A. Cole, Romy Chakraborty, Susan O'Connor, Melissa Rice, Laurie A. Achenbach, and John D. Coates.

Microbial Fe Reduction by a Novel Alkaliphilic, Halotolerant Isolate, Strain SFB; Jarrod Pollock, Joseph Lack , Laurie A. Achenbach, Melanie Mormile, and John D. Coates.