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CBB Member Laura Hug, Biology, Hug Research Group

CBB Member Laura Hug, Biology, Hug Research Group

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CBB Member Brian Dixon, Biology, Dixon Research Group

CBB Member Brian Dixon, Biology, Dixon Research Group

CBB Member Laura Hug, Biology, Hug Research Group
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CBB Member Laura Hug, Biology, Hug Research Group
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CBB Member Brian Dixon, Biology, Dixon Research Group

Learn how CBB researchers are exploring Environmental Biotechnology:

CBB Researchers

Stories

Press/Media
  • "UݮƵ scientist discovers new form of Botox," , Andrew Doxey, January 26, 2018
  • "Piercing life together - microbial diversity and function through meta-omic analyses," , Laura Hug, October 23, 2015
  • "Mining microbial metagenomes," , Trevor Charles, September 30, 2014
  • "Biofuels and waste treatment," , Murray Moo-Young, September 29, 2014
  • "Biofuels and waste management," , Eric Prouzet, September 29, 2014
  • "Dr. Michael Tam - WIN Researcher Profile," , Michael Tam, September 24, 2014
  • "WISE Lecture Series - Microalgae for energy production," , Eric Prouzet, May 22, 2014
  • "Nanotechnology - a tiny solution to the global water crisis," , Frank Gu, April 5, 2014
  • "ݮƵ Engineering Research: Water Treatment," , Frank Gu, December 8, 2013
  • "Science scoop - for the love of fish!" , Brian Dixon, October 9, 2013
  • "Mining metagenomes for bioplastics and other useful bioproducts," , Trevor Charles, September 19, 2013

Publications by CBB Researchers
  • S. L. Semple, I. M. Mulder, T. Rodriguez-Ramos, M. Power and B. Dixon, ","Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology,vol. 205, pp. 1-9, 2018.
  • Zhang Y, Ward V, Dennis D, Plechkova NV, Armenta R, Rehmann L. .Materials. 2018; 11(10):1986.
  • Pinheiro, M., & Bols, N. C. (2018). Activation of an Aquareovirus, Chum Salmon Reovirus (CSV), by the Ciliates Tetrahymena thermophila and T. canadensis.
  • Semple, S. L., Eshaque, S., Fujiki, K., Tang, C., Mitchell, L., Bols, N. C., & Dixon, B. (2018). CK-2 of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) has two differentially regulated alleles that encode a functional chemokine.Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology.
  • Hamilton, M. E., Bols, N. C., & Duncker, B. P. (2018). The characterization of γH2AX and p53 as biomarkers of genotoxic stress in a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) brain cell line.
  • Bols, N. C., Pham, P. H., Dayeh, V. R., & Lee, L. E. (2017). Invitromatics, invitrome, and invitroomics: introduction of three new terms for in vitro biology and illustration of their use with the cell lines from rainbow trout.
  • Pham, P. H., Tong, W. W., Misk, E., Jones, G., Lumsden, J. S., & Bols, N. C. (2017). Atlantic salmon endothelial cells from the heart were more susceptible than fibroblasts from the bulbus arteriosus to four RNA viruses but protected from two viruses by dsRNA pretreatment.
  • Semple, S. L., Vo, N. T. K., Li, A. R., Pham, P. H., Bols, N. C., & Dixon, B. (2017). Development and use of an Arctic charr cell line to study antiviral responses at extremely low temperatures.
  • Pham, P. H., Sokeechand, B. S., Garver, K. A., Jones, G., Lumsden, J. S., & Bols, N. C. (2017). Fish viruses stored in RNALater can remain infectious and even be temporarily protected from inactivation by heat or by tissue homogenates
  • Bloch, S. R., Kim, J. J., Pham, P. H., Hodson, P. V., Lee, L. E., & Bols, N. C. (2017). Responses of an American eel brain endothelial-like cell line to selenium deprivation and to selenite, selenate, and selenomethionine additions in different exposure media.
  • Pham, P. H., Vo, N. T., Tan, E. J., Russell, S., Jones, G., Lumsden, J. S., & Bols, N. C. (2017). Development of an Atlantic salmon heart endothelial cell line (ASHe) that responds to lysophosphatidic acid (LPA).
  • Kuc, C., Richard, D. J., Johnson, S., Bragg, L., Servos, M. R., Doxey, A. C., & Craig, P. M. (2017). Rainbow trout exposed to benzo [a] pyrene yields conserved microRNA binding sites in DNA methyltransferases across 500 million years of evolution.
  • Coyotzi, S., Doxey, A. C., Clark, I. D., Lapen, D. R., Van Cappellen, P., & Neufeld, J. D. (2017). Agricultural soil denitrifiers possess extensive nitrite reductase gene diversity.
  • Kumaresan, D., Stephenson, J., Doxey, A. C., Bandukwala, H., Brooks, E., Hillebrand-Voiculescu, A., ... & Murrell, J. C. (2018). Aerobic proteobacterial methylotrophs in Movile Cave: genomic and metagenomic analyses.
  • Mansfield, M. J., Wentz, T. G., Zhang, S., Lee, E. J., Dong, M., Sharma, S. K., & Doxey, A. C. (2017). Newly identified relatives of botulinum neurotoxins shed light on their molecular evolution.
  • Sever, L., Vo, N. T., Bols, N. C., & Dixon, B. (2018). Tapasin's protein interactions in the rainbow trout peptide-loading complex.
  • Loggie, J. W., Garner, S. R., Partridge, C. G., Dixon, B., Knapp, R., & Neff, B. D. (2018). A test of the effects of androgens on immunity: No relationship between 11-ketotestosterone and immune performance in bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus).
  • Semple, S. L., Kellendonk, C. J., Al-Hussinee, L., MacInnes, J. I., Lumsden, J. S., & Dixon, B. (2018). Serum IgM, MH class IIβ genotype and respiratory burst activity do not differ between rainbow trout families displaying resistance or susceptibility to the coldwater pathogen, Flavobacterium psychrophilum.
  • Figueroa, C., Bustos, P., Torrealba, D., Dixon, B., Soto, C., Conejeros, P., & Gallardo, J. A. (2017). Coinfection takes its toll: Sea lice override the protective effects of vaccination against a bacterial pathogen in Atlantic salmon.
  • Abram, Q. H., Dixon, B., & Katzenback, B. A. (2017). Impacts of Low Temperature on the Teleost Immune System.
  • Naahidi, S., Jafari, M., Logan, M., Wang, Y., Yuan, Y., Bae, H., Dixon, B., ... & Chen, P. (2017). Biocompatibility of hydrogel-based scaffolds for tissue engineering applications.
  • Currie, R., Nikolic, D., Petkovska, M., & Simakov, D. S. (2018). CO2 Conversion Enhancement in a Periodically Operated Sabatier Reactor: Nonlinear Frequency Response Analysis and Simulation‐based Study.
  • Simakov, D. S., & Román‐Leshkov, Y. (2018). Highly Efficient Methane Reforming over a Low‐loading Ru/γ‐Al2O3 Catalyst in a Pd‐Ag Membrane Reactor.
  • Walker, S. B., Sun, D., Kidon, D., Siddiqui, A., Kuner, A., Fowler, M., & Simakov, D. S. (2018). Upgrading biogas produced at dairy farms into renewable natural gas by methanation.
  • Simakov, D. S. (2017).Renewable Synthetic Fuels and Chemicals from Carbon Dioxide: Fundamentals, Catalysis, Design Considerations and Technological Challenges.
  • Sun, D., & Simakov, D. S. (2017). Thermal management of a Sabatier reactor for CO2 conversion into CH4: Simulation-based analysis.
  • Simakov, D. S. (2017). Thermocatalytic Conversion of CO2. In
  • Simakov, D. S. (2017). Biological Conversion of CO2. In
  • Simakov, D. S. (2017). Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2. In
  • Bedford, E. E., Boujday, S., Pradier, C. M., & Gu, F. X. (2018). Spiky gold shells on magnetic particles for DNA biosensors.
  • Leshuk, T., Krishnakumar, H., de Oliveira Livera, D., & Gu, F. (2018). Floating Photocatalysts for Passive Solar Degradation of Naphthenic Acids in Oil Sands Process-Affected Water.
  • de Oliveira Livera, D., Leshuk, T., Peru, K. M., Headley, J. V., & Gu, F. (2018). Structure-reactivity relationship of naphthenic acids in the photocatalytic degradation process.
  • Holmes, A. B., & Gu, F. X. (2018). Real-time monitoring of nanoscale TiO2 concentration by spectrophotometry: Implications of agglomeration due to natural organic matter and multivalent ions.
  • Leshuk, T., Holmes, A., Ranatunga, D., Chen, P. Z., Jiang, Y., & Gu, F. (2018). Magnetic flocculation for nanoparticle separation and catalyst recycling.
  • Xu, J., Zhang, S., Machado, A., Lecommandoux, S., Sandre, O., Gu, F., & Colin, A. (2017). Controllable microfluidic production of drug-loaded PLGA nanoparticles using partially water-miscible mixed solvent microdroplets as a precursor.
  • Leshuk, T., de Oliveira Livera, D., Peru, K. M., Headley, J. V., Vijayaraghavan, S., Wong, T., & Gu, F. (2016). Photocatalytic degradation kinetics of naphthenic acids in oil sands process-affected water: Multifactorial determination of significant factors.’
  • Bauer, A. E., Frank, R. A., Headley, J. V., Peru, K. M., Farwell, A. J., & Dixon, D. G. (2017). Toxicity of oil sands acid-extractable organic fractions to freshwater fish: Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow) and Oryzias latipes (Japanese medaka).
  • Olvera, O. G., Valenzuela, P., Dixon, D. G., & Asselin, E. (2017). Effect of cysteine on the electrochemical dissolution of chalcopyrite.
  • Dyer, L. G., Sauber, M., Dixon, D. G., & Asselin, E. (2017). On the refractory nature of precious metal tellurides.
  • Elbeshbishy, E., Dhar, B. R., Nakhla, G., & Lee, H. S. (2017). A critical review on inhibition of dark biohydrogen fermentation.
  • Dhar, B. R., Sim, J., Ryu, H., Ren, H., Santo Domingo, J. W., Chae, J., & Lee, H. S. (2017). Microbial activity influences electrical conductivity of biofilm anode.
  • Lopez, A., Zhang, Y., & Liu, J. (2017). Tuning DNA adsorption affinity and density on metal oxide and phosphate for improved arsenate detection.
  • Rahman, M. S., Xu, C. C., Ma, K., Guo, H., & Qin, W. (2017). Utilization of by-product glycerol from bio-diesel plants as feedstock for 2, 3-butanediol accumulation and biosynthesis genes response of Klebsiella variicola SW3.
  • Chen, J., Wu, D., Tam, K. C., Pan, K., & Zheng, Z. (2017). Effect of surface modification of cellulose nanocrystal on nonisothermal crystallization of poly (β-hydroxybutyrate) composites.
  • Grishkewich, N., Mohammed, N., Tang, J., & Tam, K. C. (2017). Recent advances in the application of cellulose nanocrystals.
  • Mohammed, N., Grishkewich, N., & Tam, K. C. (2018). Cellulose Nanomaterials: Promising Sustainable Nanomaterials for Application in Water/Wastewater Treatment Processes.
  • Westbrook, A. W., Ren, X., Moo‐Young, M., & Chou, C. P. (2018). Engineering of cell membrane to enhance heterologous production of hyaluronic acid in Bacillus subtilis.
  • Elhadidy, A. M., Van Dyke, M. I., Chen, F., Peldszus, S., & Huck, P. M. (2017). Development and application of an improved protocol to characterize biofilms in biologically active drinking water filters.Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology,3(2), 249-261.
  • Banihashemi, A., Van Dyke, M. I., & Huck, P. M. (2017). Application of long amplicon propidium monoazide-PCR to assess the effects of temperature and background microbiota on pathogens in river water.
  • Yuan, J., Van Dyke, M. I., & Huck, P. M. (2017). Identification of critical contaminants in wastewater effluent for managed aquifer recharge.
  • Peleato, N. M., Legge, R. L., & Andrews, R. C. (2018). Neural networks for dimensionality reduction of fluorescence spectra and prediction of drinking water disinfection by-products.
  • Tabtabaei, S., Vitelli, M., Rajabzadeh, A. R., & Legge, R. L. (2017). Analysis of protein enrichment during single-and multi-stage tribo-electrostatic bioseparation processes for dry fractionation of legume flour.
  • Peleato, N. M., Legge, R. L., & Andrews, R. C. (2017). Investigation of fluorescence methods for rapid detection of municipal wastewater impact on drinking water sources.
  • D’Alessio, M., Nordeste, R., Doxey, A. C., & Charles, T. C. (2017). Transcriptome Analysis of Polyhydroxybutyrate Cycle Mutants Reveals Discrete Loci Connecting Nitrogen Utilization and Carbon Storage in Sinorhizobium meliloti.
  • Charles, T. C., Liles, M. R., & Sessitsch, A. (Eds.). (2017).Functional Metagenomics: Tools and Applications.
  • Ali, S., Charles, T. C., & Glick, B. R. (2017). Endophytic phytohormones and their role in plant growth promotion. In
  • Nett, R. S., Montanares, M., Marcassa, A., Lu, X., Nagel, R., Charles, T. C., ... & Peters, R. J. (2017). Elucidation of gibberellin biosynthesis in bacteria reveals convergent evolution.
  • So, H., Cebula, D. A., & Karanassios, V. (2017, May). Towards chromium speciation in lake-waters by microplasma-optical emission spectrometry. In

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