Curriculum Vitae for Kenneth H. Nealson (September 24, 2017)

Personal Information:

Dr. Kenneth H. Nealson

Wrigley Professor of Environmental Sciences

University of Southern California

Department of Earth Sciences, SHS 560

Los Angeles, CA 90089

Phone:213-821-2271

Email:knealson@usc.edu

Mobile:323-614-3773

Education:

BS BiochemistryU. of Chicago1965

MS BotanyU. of Chicago1966

Ph.D. Microbiology U. of Chicago1969

Postdoc Harvard Univ.1972

Employment:

UCSD Scripps Inst. Oceanog. (Asst. to Full Prof)1973 - 1985

U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Distinguished Prof)1985 – 1997

Caltech/JPL (Adjunct Professor & Senior Scientist)1997 – 2001

USC (Wrigley Chair of Environmental Sci.)2001 – present

Honors and Awards:

NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1970 - 1972

Guggenheim Fellowship for Sabbatical Leave, 1981

Elected Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, Nov. 1993

NRL Distinguished Visiting Researcher Award, Jan., 1996

NASA Special leadership award: JPL ($2,500 prize), June, 2000

Cecil and Ida Green Fellow of the Carnegie Inst. of Washington, 2000

Proctor and Gamble Award for Environmental Micro. Amer. Soc. Micro., 2003

Selman Waksman Outstanding Educator Award, Soc. Industrial Micro, 2004

Elected President: International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME), 2007

David C. White Award for Research and Mentoring, Amer. Soc. Micro, 2010

Elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2012

Elected Fellow of American Assoc. Adv. Science (AAAS), 2013

Reuters top 1% cited Scientists in my field for (2014)

USC Raubenheimer Award for Teaching and Research (2016)

National and International Service:

Member, Mars Exploration Science Working Group, NASA 1998-present

Member, Science Advisory Board, Max Planck Inst. Marine Microbiology,

Bremen, Germany – 2007 - 2013

Member, Science Advisory Board, Synthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA –

2004 - present

Member, Board of Trustees, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, CA,

2004 - present

Member, Science Advisory Board, Japanese Marine Science & Technology

(JAMSTEC) – 2007 - 2013

Member, Chikyu IODP International Board, JAMSTEC – 2013 – present

Member Science Team: Curiosity Mission (NASA, JPL). 2014-2015

Ph.D. Students Trained in my Laboratory (30 total):

Aguilar, C. (UW Milw.), Barge, L. (Caltech/JPL), Bretschger, O. (JCVI); Burdige, D. (U. So. Carolina), Chellamuthu, P. (current), Cohn, Dan (Cedars Sinai, LA), Dunlap, P.(U. Mich.); Flood, B. (current), Frantz, C. (Current); French, S. (Univ. Va), Harris, H.W. (current); Haygood, M. (Oregon Res. Inst.); Hodson, R. (UGa), Hsu, L. (postdoc, NRL), Karl, David, (U. Hawaii), Krause, B. (Millipore), Leisman, G. (UNC); Liu, J. (Business), McCrow, J. (JCVI), Moser, D. (DRI), Ruby, E.G. (U. Wisc), Salas, E. (Rice Univ.); Schelble, R. (Exxon), Scott, J. (Dartmouth), Tebo, Brad (Oregon Res. Inst), Vidal, F. (UNAM, Mexico City) Waters, Michael (NIST)

Presently, I have 2 graduate students in my laboratory at USC

Bonita Lam – MEB (4th year)

Casey Barr – Earth Science (3rd year)

Postdoctoral Fellows Trained in my Laboratory (30 total):

Akimoto, A. (USC); Bakermans, C. (Penn St. Altoona), Bermudes, D. (Yale), Bleakley, B. (So.Dak. Univ); Cohen, Y. (Hebrew Univ), Cox, Lea (UCSB), El-Naggar, M. (USC), Frackman, S. (Pharmacia), Gaidos, E. (U. Hawaii), Kan, JJ (USC), Kepkay, P. (Dalhousie), Kostka, J. (GeorgiaTech), Lanoil, B. (Univ. Calgary), Li, R. (USC); Look, S. (NIH), Myers, C. (Med. Coll. Wisc.), Popa, R. (Portland State U.), Reimers, C. (Oregon St. U), Rosson, R. (Biotech. Resources), Rowe, R. (USC); Saffarini, D. (UW Milw.), Schmidt, T. (Mich.St.U), Souza, V. (U. Lerida, Sp.), Stein, L. (U. Calgary), Sun, H. (DRI)

Presently I have 4 postdoctoral scholars in my laboratory at USC.

Dr. Reed Li from Taiwan University

Dr. Annette Rowe from Cornell University

Dr. Lina Bird from MIT

Dr. Roman Barco from USC

Recent Successes:

Dr. Moh El-Naggar – postdoc – now Professor of Physics, USC

Dr. Rohit Bhartia – Ph.D. student – now senior scientist at JPL,

PI of an instrument that will fly on the Mars 2020 Mission.

Dr. Jeff McLean – Ph.D. student – now Asst. Professor, Univ. Washington

Dr. Akihira Okamoto – postdoc – now Asst. Professor, Tokyo University

Dr. H. Wayne Harris, Ph.D. student – now postdoc at LLNL

Invited Lectures:

Over the past 30 years, I have chaired three different Gordon Conferences (GRCs), and given on the average, one talk at a GRC each year. In addition, I present 6-8 seminars at universities or Science Institutes each year and 1-3 plenary or keynote lectures at national and international meetings each year.

2014/15 Lectures:

August 15, Plenary Speaker, Soc. Indus. Microbiology, San Diego, CA.

“Electromicrobiology and Bacterial Behavior”

August 30, Keynote Lecture, Nobel Workshop on Biofilms, Stockholm. –

“Surface Electrochemistry and Biofilm Formation”

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

April 14, 2014: Invited Pleanary Speaker at: International Symposium on Microbial

Electrochemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, China

April 15, 2014: Invited Special Lecture at Tsinghua Environmental Forum,

Tsinghua University, Tsinghua, China

April 16, 2014: Special Seminar: Recent Developments in Microbe/Surface Interactions

Tokayo University, Electrochemistry Department, Tokyo, Japan

May 22, 2014: Plenary Lecture: Metals and Microbes (session chair),

“Bacterial Electricians and their metal interactions”

American Soc. Microbiology Meeting, Boston, MA

August 22, 2014 Keynote Lecture, Int. Soc. Microbiol. Soc.,

“Electromicrobiology as an emerging field”, Montreal, CA

June 2015. Keynote Lecture. “New Windows of Metabolism”

Japan Forum on Ocean Science

July 2015. Invited Lecture: Electromicrobiology

NanYang Technical University, Singapore

July 2015. Plenary Lecturer, ICBIC meeting, Beijing, China

October 8, 2015. Royal Society of Medicine; Special Lecture, London, UK

November 14, 2015. TED talk, Electromicrobiology, Palm Springs, CA

2015/2016 Lectures:

December 7, Keck Inst. Space Science, Methane on Mars, Invited talk

July 13, 2016. SCELSE (Singapore): Invited Lecture: Electromicrobiology

July 14, 2016, SCLSE: Invited Lecture: Extreme Environments

July 19, 2016, Univ. Tokyo: Plenary Lecture – Electromicrobiology Workshop.

Funding:

1. Office of Naval Research: Mechanisms of Electron Transport ~ $100K/year for KHN

I am a Co-I on this grant, which is headed by Professor Paul Weiss from UCLA

2. Air Force Office of Scientific Research: Extracellular Electron Transport in the

Human Microbiome and the natural environment.

This is a three-year grant, beginning in August of 2014. ~ $200K/year for KHN

I am a Co-I on this grant, which is headed by Professor Steven Finkel at USC

3. NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). Subsurface (Deep) life ~ 100K/year for KHN

I am a Co-I on this 5-year grant (in its second year), Prof. Jan Amend (USC) is PI

4. National Science Foundation: Studies of hyperalkaline life. ~ 50K/year for KHN

I am a Co-I on this 3 year grant beginning 9/1; Dr. Shino Suzuki (JCVI) is PI

5. NASA Instrumentation Grant. Mars Instrument Development -- ~ 50K/year for KHN

I am a Co-I on this grant,; A former Ph.D. student, Dr. R. Bhartia is the PI

This is a 5-year grant to prepare and test an instrument to be launched on the 2020 mission to Mars!

Teaching:

Process of Change in Science. Thematic Option Core103: 40 students

Geobiology. BISC 483; Undergrad/Grad course: 25 students

Adaptation & Evolution. BISC 485; Undergrad/Grad course. 25 students

Growth and Maintenance of Microbes (special course taught with G.J. Kuenen) on demand – usually teach this every second year to a small group of graduate students.

For the fourth year, I taught in the undergraduate honors course curriculum (Thematic Option: Core 103 series). My course (42 undergraduates) is called “The Progress of Change in Science”, and uses my connections to NASA to bring home science to these non-majors. We go to JPL, and discuss major missions, beginning with the view of the world by Aristotle, and ending with the Mars Rovers now on the surface of Mars. Through this journey, we learn to distinguish good science from bad, and to understand how “the truth” changes as technology provides new ways to measure and analyze data. The course has received rave reviews from the students, and I enjoy it immensely.

I was chair of the Ph.D. Committee of several students who finished their degrees and who have moved on to other positions:

Dr. Jeff McLean: Geobiology Thesis – Assistant Professor, Univ. Washington

Dr. H. Wayne Harris: Geobiology Thesis – Postdoc at Lawrence Livermore Labs

Dr. Rohit Bhartia: Electromicrobiology Thesis – Senior Scientist, Jet Propul. Lab

Dr. Prithiviraj Chellamuthu: Thesis – Bioremediation – Postdoc, USC

I acted as chair for two students who were working towards their Ph.D. degrees during the 2013/2014 Academic year. Listed below are the students, with their area of expertise.

Ms Bonita R. Lam, second year Marine Sciences Major – MEB

Mr. Casey Barr, first year Earth Scienes major – ES

I also presented lectures in several courses taught

I had 4 undergraduate researchers in the lab (as I usually do), who were active in doing projects during the year. These students are mentored by graduate students and/or postdocs, which provides wonderful training for all who are involved. I also had one summer researcher (undergrad from Caltech) in the NSF-sponsored REU program. He did a great job, as did a graduate student (Bonita Lam) and a postdoc (Annie Rowe) who mentored him.

In addition, I presented lectures for colleagues in the departments of: Biology, Marine Biology, Earth Science, and Physics, as well as a special tutorial to students at the Annenberg School, and a special lecture to the Engineering undergraduates., and have lab demonstrations for two other courses:

Dr. Robert Baker’s interdisciplinary science course

Dr. K. C. Cole’s course in science writing

Finally, I gave the “Honors Colloquium Lecture” to the bioengineering students.

In the summer, I gave lectures in the International Geobiology Course on Catalina Island, was an invited lecturer at the Marine Biology Laboratory (in Woods Hole) course in Microbial Diversity, and Lectured at the International Biofilms Course at NTU in Singapore.

In addition to the USC teaching, I lectured in courses for Dr. Dianne Newman at Caltech, taught a seminar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and was an invited Instructor at both the International Biofilms course at NTU in Singapore, and the International Geobiology Course at Catalina Island (USC).

Major Accomplishments of the Nealson Lab:

1. Quorum sensing

My thesis work and postdoctoral studies were focused on the regulation of light emission by bioluminescent bacteria. This led to the publication of papers proposing a control system called autoinduction (later changed to quorum sensing). In the subsequent 10 years, my laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography accomplished the following:

a. isolation and identification of the active autoinducer molecule,

AI-1 (homoserine lactone)

b. demonstration that AI-1 was active from the outside of the cell

c. cloning of the AI genes and expression in E. coli (luxR & luxI)

d. publication of the AI model

2. Metal cycling and biogeochemistry

After the work on autoinduction was “finished”, I moved to the area of geobiology and metal cycling, isolating microbes that were active in the oxidation and reduction of manganese. During this work, the microbe Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 was isolated, and shown to be capable of growth with solid metal oxides as an electron acceptor (breathing rocks as !!). This introduced the process of extracellular electron transport (EET), which took nearly 20 years to elucidate to a level that “made sense” biochemically. It is now clear that EET is far more common than was originally imagined, and that very elegant biochemical strategies have been designed to move electrons from the cytoplasm to the cell exterior where they can take part in extracellular redox chemistry. Working with many colleagues, a great deal of progress was made:

a. identification of the outer membrane proteins involved in EET

b. identification of the genes coding for these proteins

c. elucidation of the complex gene regulation controlling EET

d. study of the behavior of microbes as it is related to EET

3. Electromicrobiology

The metal cycling work led to another area I call electromicrobiology. It was discovered that instead of solid metal oxides, Shewanella could use properly charged (poised) electrodes as electron acceptors for respiration (breathing electrodes !!). This led to an entire set of projects in which Shewanella (and other bacteria) were used to power fuel cells and do many other things. The concept that electron flow can occur to electrodes has grown to include the study of corrosion, biofilm electron flow, devices for metal bioremediation, and many other uses. It also became clear from the study of microbial fuel cells that electrons could be taken up (as a source of energy) from properly charged electrodes, leading to another area of active research (powering microbial metabolism with electricity!). In particular, we have focused on the importance of surface charge (potential) for attachment, growth and biofilm formation by microbes. Electromicrobiology is attracting a lot of attention these days!

Ongoing Areas of Work in the Nealson Lab:

1. Electromicrobiology

We continue to work on various aspects of electromicrobiology, with studies of gene regulation of electricity producing communities, and the use of electrodes to isolate heretofore uncultivated microbes. We are using both anodic (electron accepting) and cathodic (electron donating) electrodes to stimulate the growth of microbes, many of which have not previously been cultivated. We also are continuing our studies of microbial behavior in response to charged surfaces. Finally, in collaboration with colleagues in the department of physics at USC, we are studying the role of conductive “nanowires” produced by cells, and often see connecting two or more cells together.

2. Life at high pH

We have been involved for about 5 years in a project at a serpentinization site in northern California, where the conditions are so harsh (pH = 12; Eh = -500 mV; “no” electron acceptors; very low Na, CO2, and organics; very high Ca++) that we expected little or no life. We have characterized the community diversity of these waters, and seen many very unusual microbes that are now being studied in terms of their genomic information. Metagenomic studies are allowing the construction of the genomes of the few major taxa, revealing some extremely unusual (perhaps unique) metabolic abilities.

3. Life in the Deep Subsurface

A new area of work in the lab involves the characterization of microbes from the deep subsurface: work that is only now beginning in earnest in the Nealson lab. This work is taking place as part of a NASA Astrobiology Institute grant at USC, and involves using electromicrobiology approaches to cultivate new organisms and to characterize the environment.

4. Mars science

I am a member of the Mars Science Laboratory science team, discussing results of the MSL experiments and measurements, and a co-author on several publications from data obtained during the Curiosity Mission.

I also am a Co-PI as a member of the SHERLOC group to build and deploy an instrument (deep UV spectrometer with Raman) for the 2020 Mars rover mission.

Publications:

My laboratory has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers, and I have edited 3 published books. I have about 15 patents submitted, and many reports from summer courses. (H- Factor = 107) Publications from the past 10 years (2007/2017) are listed below. High profile journals are in Bold Print.

2007:

1. Rusch, D.B., Halpern, A.L., Heidelberg, K.B., Sutton, G., Williamson, S., Yooseph, S., Wu, D., Eisen, J.A., Hoffman, J.M., Howard, C.H., Foote, C., Dill, B.A., Remington, K., Beeson, K. Tran, B., Smith, H., Baden-Tillson, H., Stewart, C., Thorpe, J., Freemen, J., Andrews-Pfannkoch, C., SVenter, J.E., Li, K. Kravitz, S., Heidelberg, J.F., Utterback, T. Rogers, Y-H. Falcon, L.I., Souza, V., Bonilla-Rosso, G. Eguiarte, L.E., Karl, D.M., Sathyendranath, S., Platt, T., Bermingham, E., Gallardo, V., Tamayo-Castillo, G., Ferrari, M.R., Strausberg, R.L., Nealson, K., Friedman, R., Frazier, M., and Venter, J.C. The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific. PLoS Biology5(3):e77.doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050077.

2. Boldareva, E.N., I.A. Bryantseva, A. Tsapin, K. Nealson, D.Yu. Sorokin, T.P. Tourova, V.A. Boichenko, I.N. Stadnichuk, and V.M. Gorlenko. 2007. The new alkaliphilic Bacteriochlorophyll a-containing bacterium Roseinanatronobacter monicus sp. No. from the hypersaline soda Mono Lake (California, U.S.). Microbiology. 76:82-92.

3. Davis K.J., A. Lüttge, and K. H. Nealson. 2007. Calcite and dolomite dissolution rates in the context of microbe-mineral surface interactions. Geobiology 5:191-205

4. Rabaey, K., J. Rodriquez, L. Blackall, J. Keller, P. Gross, D. Batstone, W. Verstraete, and K. H. Nealson. 2007. Microbial eology meets electrochemistry: electricity-driven and driving communities. The ISME Journal 1:9-18.

5. Nealson, K.H. and J.C. Venter. 2007. Metagenomics and the global ocean survey: what’s in it for us, and why should we care. The ISME Journal 1:185-187.

6. Popa, R., P.K. Weber, J. Pett-Ridge, J.A. Finzi, S.J. Fallon, I. D. Hutcheon, K.H. Nealson, and D.G. Capone. 2007. Carbon and nitrogen fixation and metabolite exchange in and between individual cells of Anabaena oscillarioides. The ISME Journal 1:354-360

7. Bretschger, O., A. Obraztsova, C.A. Sturm, I.S. Chang, Y.A. Gorby, S.B. Reed, B.E. Culley, C.L. Reardon, S. Barua, M.f. Romine, J. Zhou, A. A. Beliaev, R. Bouhenni, D. Saffarini, F. Mansfeld, B-H. Kim, J.K. Fredrickson, and K.H. Nealson. 2007. Current production and metal oxide reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 wild type and mutants. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73:7003-7012.

2008:

8. Pinchuk, G.E., C. Ammons, D.E. Culley, S-M. W. Li, J.S. McLean, M.F. Romine, K.H. Nealson, J.K. Fredrickson, and A. Beliaev. 2008. Utilization of DNA as a sole source of phosphorus, carbon, and energy by Shewanella spp.: ecological and physiological implications for dissimilatory metal reduction. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:1198-1208.

9. Manohar, A.K., O. Bretschger, K.H. Nealson, and F. Mansfeld. 2008. The polarization behavior of the anode in a microbial fuel cell. Electrochem. Acta. 3508-3513.

10. Nealson, K.H. 2008. A Korarchaeote yields to genome sequencing. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105: 8805-8806.

11. Manohar, A.K., O. Bretschger, K.H. Nealson, and F. Mansfeld. 2008. The Use of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) in the Evaluation of the Electrochemical Properties of a Microbial Fuel Cell. Bioelectrochemistry 72:149 - 159.

12. Kus, E., K. Nealson, and F. Mansfield. 2008. The effect of different exposure conditions on biofilm/copper properties. Corrosion Science 49: 3421-3427

13. Kus, E., K. Nealson, and F. Mansfeld. 2008. The bacterial battery and the effect of different exposure conditions on biofilm properties. Electrochem. Acta. 54:47-52.

14. Waters, M.S., C.A. Sturm, M.Y. El-Naggar, A. Luttge, F.E. Udwadia, D.G. Cvitkovitch, S.D. Goodman, and K.H. Nealson. 2008. In search of the microbe/mineral interface: quantitative analysis of bacteria on metal surface using vertical scanning Interferometry. Geobiology 6:254-262.

15. Fredrickson, J.K., M.F. Romine, A.S. Beliaev, J.M. Auchtung, M.E. Driscoll, T.S. Gardner, K.H. Nealson, A.L. Osterman, G. Pinchuk, J.L. Reed, D.A. Rodionov, J.L.M. Rodrigues, D.A. Saffarini, M. H. Serres, A.M. Spormann, I.G. Zhulin, and J. M. Tiedje. 2008. Towards Environmental Systems Biology of Shewanella. Nature Rev. Microbiol. 6:592-603

16. El-Naggar, M., Y. A. Gorby, W. Xia, and K.H. Nealson. 2008. The Molecular Density of States in Bacterial Nanowires., Biophys. J. 95:10-12.

17. Borg, L.E., DesMarais, D.J., Beaty, D.W., Aharonson, O., Benner, S.A., Bogard, D.D., Bridges, J.C., Rudney, C.J., Calvin, W.M., Clark, B.C., Eigenbrode, J.L., Grady, M.M., Head, J.W., Hemming, S.R., Hinners, N.W., Hipkin, V., MacPherson, G.J., Marinangeli, L., McLennan, S.M., McSween, H.Y., Moersch, J.E., Nealson, K.H., Pratt, L.M., Righter, K., Ruff, S.W., Shearer, C.K., Steele, A., Sumner, D.Y., Symes, S.J., Vago, J.L., and Westall, F. 2008. Science priorities for Mars sample return. Astrobiology 8:489-536.

18. Bhartia, R., W.F. Hug, E.C. Salas, R.D. Reid, K. K. Sijapati, A. Tsapin, W. Abbey, P.G. Conrad, K.H. Nealson, and A.L. Lane. 2008. Classification of Organic and Biological Materials with Deep UV Excitation. Appl. Spectroscopy 62:1070-1077.

19. Schelble, R.T., J.A. Hall, K.H. Nealson, and A. Steele. 2008. DNA perseverance of microorganisms exposed to silica: an experimental study. Geobiology. 6:503-511.

20. Biffinger, J.C., J. Pietron, O. Bretschger, L. J. Nadeau, G.R. Johnson, C.C. Williams, K.H. Nealson, and B.R. Ringeisen. 2008. The influence of acidity on microbial fuel cells containing Shewanella oneidensis. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 24:906-911.

2009:

21. Waters, M.S., M.Y. El-Naggar, L. Hsu, C.A. Sturm, A. Luttge, F.E. Udwadia, D.G. Cvitkovitch, S.D. Goodman, and K.H. Nealson. 2009. Simultaneous interferometric measurement of corrosive or demineralizing bacteria and their mineral interfaces. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:1445-1449.

22. Nealson, K.H. and W. Berelson. 2009. Sediment habitats, including watery. Encyclopedia of Microbiology. Pp 350-360. Oxford:Elsevier

23. Finzi-Hart, J.A., J. Pett-Ridge, P.Weber, R. Popa, S.J. Fallon, T. Gunderson, I. Hutcheon, K. Nealson, and D.G. Capone 2009. Fixation and fate of C and N in the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium using nanometer Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106:6345-6350

24. Gao, H., Z.K. Yang, S. Barua, S. B. Reed, M.F. Romine, K.H. Nealson, J.K. Fredrickson, J.M. Tiedje, and J. Zhou. 2009. Reduction of nitrate in Shewanella oneidensis depends on atypical NAP and NRF systems with NapB as a preferred electron transport protein from CymA to NapA. The ISME J. 3:966-976.

25. He, Z., J. Kan, Y. Wang, Y. Huang, F. Mansfeld, and K.H. Nealson. 2009. Electricity production coupled to ammonium in a microbial fuel cell. Env. Sci. Technol. 43: 3391-3397.

26. He, J., J. Kan, F. Mansfeld, L. Angenent, and K. Nealson. 2009. Self-sustained phototrophic microbial fuel cells based on the synergistic cooperation between photosynthetic microorganisms and heterotrophic bacteria. Envir. Sci. Technol. 43: 1648-1654.

27. Biffinger, J.C, B. R. Ringeisen; M. Ribbens; S, Finkel; K. Nealson, and J. J. Pietron. 2009. Characterization of electrochemically active bacteria (EAB) utilizing a high-throughput voltage-based screening assay Biotechnology and Bioengineering 102: 436-444.

28. Nealson, K.H. 2009. Taking the concept to the limit: uncultivable bacteria and astrobiology. Microbiol. Monographs 10: 195-204.

29. Popa, R., W. Fang, K.H. Nealson, V. S-Egipsy, T.S. Berquo, S.K. Banerjee, L.R. Penn. 2009. Effect of oxidative stress on the growth of magnetic particles in Magnetospirillum magneticum. Internat. Microbiol. 12: 49-57.

30. Salas, E.C., W.M. Berelson, D.E. Hammond, A.R. Kampf and K. H. Nealson. 2009. The impact of bacterial strain on the products of dissimilatory iron reduction. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. (in press: doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.10.039)

31. Salas, E.C., W.M. Berelson, D.E. Hammond, A.R. Kampf, and K. H. Nealson. 2009. The influence of carbon source on the products of dissimilatory iron reduction. Geomicrobiol. J. 26:451-462. `

32. Schubbe, S., T. J. Williams, G. Xie, H. E. Kiss, T.S. Brettin, D. Martinez, C.A. Ross, D. Schuler, B. L. Cox, K.H. Nealson, and D.A. Bazylinski. 2009. Complete genome sequence of the chemolithoautotrophic marine magnetotactic coccus strain MC-1. Appl. Envion. Microbiol. 75: 4835-4852.

33. Namsaraev, Z., V. Akimov, E. Barinova, A. Tasapin, K. Nealson, and V. Gorlenko. 2009. Marinospirillum celere sp. Nov., a novel alkaliphilic helical bacterium isolated from Mono Lake. Int. J. Syst. Environ. Microbiol. 59:2329 – 2332 (on line publication: doi: ijs.0.006825-0[pii])

34. Prakash, G., F. Viva, O. Bretschger, B. Yang, M. Ell-Naggar, and K. Nealson. 2009. Inoculation procedures and characterization of membrane electrode assemblies for microbial fuel cells. J. Power Sources (in press published on line: doi:10.1016/j.powsour.2009.06.081).

35. Waters, M.S., E.C. Salas, S.D. Goodman, F.E. Udwadia, and K.H. Nealson. 2009. Early detection of oxidized surfaces using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 as a tool. Biofouling. 25:163-172.

36. Konstantinidis, K., et al. 2009. Comparative systems biology across an evolutionary gradient within the Shewanella genus. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 106: 15909-15914.

37. Hand, K.P., C.F. Chyba, J.C. Priscu, R. W. Carlson, and K. H. Nealson. 2009. Astrobiology and the potential for life on Europa. Pp. 589-629. In: Europa. Editors: R.T. Pappalardo, W.B. McKinnon, and K. Khurana. Univ. Ariz. Press. Tucson, AZ. 727 pp.

2010:

38. Harris, H.W., M.Y. El-Naggar, O. Bretschger, M.J. Ward, M. F. Romine, A.Y. Obraztsova, and K.H. Nealson. 2010. Electrokinesis is a microbial behavior that requires extracellular electron transport. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 107:326-331

39. Jang, J.K., I.S. Chang, H.Y. Hwang, Y.F. Choo, J. Lee, K.S. Cho, J.Y. Lee, K.S. Cho, B.H. Kim, and K.H. Nealson. 2010. Electricity generation coupled to oxidation of propionate in a microbial fuel cell. Biotechnol. Lett. 32:79-85

40. Nealson, K.H. 2010. Sediment reactions defy dogma. Nature 463:1033-1034.

41. Salas, E.C., W.M. Berelson, D.E. Hammond, A.R. Kampf, and K.H. Nealson. 2010. The impact of bacterial strain on the products of dissimilatory iron reduction. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 74:574-583.

42. Karpinets, T.V., A.Y Obraztsova, Y. Wang, D.D. Schmoyer, G.H. Kora, B.H. Park, M.H. Serres, M.F. Ropmine, M.L. Land, T.B. Kothe, J.K. Fredrickson, K.H. Nealson, and E.C. Uberbacher 2010. Conserved synteny at the protein family level reveals genes underlying Shewanella species’ cold tolerance and predicts their novel phenotypes. Funct. Integr. Genomics 10: 97 – 110. (DOI 10.1007/s10143-009-0142-y)

43. Bretschger, O., A.C.M. Cheung, F. Mansfeld, and K.H. Nealson. 2010. Comparative microbial fuel cell evaluations of Shewanella spp. Electroanalysis 22: 883-894.

44. McLean, J.S., G. Wanger, Y.A. Gorby, M. Wainstein, J. McQuaid, Shun’ichi Ishii, O. Bretschger, H. Beyanal, K.H. Nealson. 2010. Quantification of electron transfer rats to a solid phase electron acceptor through the stages of biofilm formation from single cells to multicellular communities. Env. Sci. Technol. 44:2721-2717.

45. Barge, L.M., K.H. Nealson, and J. Petruska. 2010. Organic influences on inorganic patterns of diffusion-controlled precipitation in gels. Chem. Physics Lett. 493: 340-345.

46. El-Naggar, M. , G. Wanger, K.M. Leung, T.D. Yuzvinsky, G. Southam, J. Yang, W.M. Lau, K.H. Nealson, and Y.A. Gorby. 2010. Electrical Transport Along Bacterial Nanowires from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 107:18127-18131.

47. Bhartia, R., E.C. Salas, W.F. Hug, R.D. Reid, A.L. Lane, K.J. Edwards, and K.H. Nealson. 2010. Label-free imaging with deep UV laser induced native fluorescence. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76:7231-7237

48. Biffinger, J.C., L.A. Fitzgerald, R. Ray, B.J. Little, S.E. Lizewski, E.R. Petersen, B.R. Ringeisen, W.C. Sanders, P.E. Sheehan, J.J. Pietron, J.W. Baldwin, L.J. Nadeau, G.R. Johnson, M. Ribbens, S.E. Finkel, K.H. Nealson. 2010. The utility of Shewanella japonica for microbial fuel cells. Bioresource Technol. 102:290-297.

49. Rodionov, D. , C. Yang, X. Li, I. Rodionova, Y. Wang, A.Y. Obraztsova, O. P. Zagnitko, R. Overbeek, M. F. Romine, S. Reed, J.K. Fredrickson, K.H. Nealson, A.L. Osterman. 2010. Genomic encyclopedia of sugar utilization pathways in the Shewanella genus. BMC Genomics 2010, 11:494

50. Nealson, K.H. 2010. A glance toward the future: where do we go from here. Pp 333-336 In: Stable Isotope Probing and Related Technologies. (ed. By: Murrell, J.C. and A.S. Whitely). ASM Press, Washington, DC.345 pages.

51. Lovalvo, D., S.R. Clingenpeel, S. McGinnis, R.E. Macur, J.D. Varley, W.P. Inskeep, J. Glime, K. Nealson, and T.R. McDermott. 2010. A geothermal-linked biological oasis in Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 2010. Geobiology *:327-336.

52. Yooseph, S., K.H. Nealson, D.B. Rusch, J.P. McCrow, C.I. Dupont, M. Kim, J. Johnson, R. Montgomery, S. Ferriera, K. Beeson, S.J. Williamson, A. Tovchigrechko, A.E. Allen, L.A. Zeigler, G. Sutton, E. Eisenstadt, Y-H. Rogers, R. Friedman, M. Frazier, and J.C. Venter. 2010. Genomic and functional adaptation in surface ocean planktonic prokaryotes Nature 468: 60-66.

2011:

53. Barge, L.M., D.E. Hammond, M.A. Chan, S. Potter, J. Petruska,, and K.H. Nealson. 2011. Precipitation patterns formed by self organizing processes in porous media. Geofluids, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-81232010.00324.x

54. Kan, J., L. Hsu, A.C.M. Cheung, M. Pirbazari, and K.H. Nealson. 2011. Current production by bacterial communities in microbial fuel cells enriched from wastewater sludge with different electron donors. Env. Sci. Technol. 45: 1139-1146.

55. Kan, J. B. Flood, J.P. McCrow, J.S. Kim, L. Tan, and K.H. Nealson. 2011. A rapid fingerprinting approach to distinguish bet5ween closely related strains of Shewanella. J. Microbiol. Methods. 86: 62-68.

56. Meister, P., O. Johnson, F. Corsetti, and K.H. Nealson. 2011. Magnesium inhibition controls spherical carbonate precipitation in ultrabasic springwater (Cedars, California) and culture experiments. Pp. 101-121 In: Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology (Ed. J. Reitner). Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 131, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-10415-2_6, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.

57. Kan, J., S. Clingenpeel, R.E. Macur, W.P. Inskeep, D. Lovalvo, J. Varley, Y. Gorby, T.R. McDermott, and K. Nealson. 2011. Archaea in Yellowstone Lake. The ISME J. 2011, 1-12.

58. Meister, P., C. Reyes, W. Beaumont, M. Rincon, L. Collins, W. Berelson, L. Stott, F. Corsetti, and K.H. Nealson. 2011. Calcium and magnesium-limited dolomite precipitation at Deep Springs Lake, CA. Sedimentology. (in press)

59. Dorn, E.D., K.H. Nealson, and C. Adami. 2011. Monomer abundance distribution patterns as a universal biosignature: examples from terrestrial and digital life. J. Mol. Evol. J. Mol. Evol. 72: 283-295.

60. Clingenpeel, S., R.E. Macur, J. Kan, W.P. Inskeep, D. Lovalvo, J. Varley, E. Mathur, K. Nealson, Y. Gorby, H. Jiang, T. LaFracois, and T.R. McDermott. 2011. Yellowstone Lake: High energy geochemistry and rich bacterial diversity. Environmental Microbiol. 13: 2172-2185.

61. Nealson, K.H. and S.E. Finkel. 2011. Electron flow and biofilms. MRS Bull. 36:380-384.

62. Kim, S.S., J.R. Bargar, K.H. Nealson, B.E. Flood, J.L. Kirschvink, T.D. Raub, B.M. Tebo, and M. Villalobos. 2011. Searching for biosignatures using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) analysis of manganese oxides. Astrobiology. 11:775-786.

63. Kan, J. Wang, Y., A. Obraztsova, G. Rosen, J. Leather, K.G. Scheckel, K.H. Nealson, and Y.M. Arias-Thode. 2011. Marine microbial community response to inorganic and organic sediment 2011. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf. 74:1931-1941.

64. Kan, J., P. Chellamuthu, A. Obraztsova, J.E. Moore, and K.H. Nealson. 2011. Diverse bacterial groups are associated with corrosive lesions at a Granite Mountain Record Vault (GMRV). J. Appl. Microbiol. 111: 329-337.

65. Higgins, S.R., D. Foerster, A. Cheung, C. Lau, O. Bretschger, S.D. Minteer, P. Atanassov, K. Nealson, and M.J. Cooney. 2011. Fabrication of macroporous chitosan scaffolds doped with carbon nanotubes and their characterization in microbial fuel cell operation. Enzyme and Microbioal Technol. 48:458-465.

2012:

66. Dupont, C.L., D. Rusch, S. Yooseph, M.J. Lombardo, R.R. Alexander, R. Valas, M. Novotny, J. Yee-Greenbaum, J.D. Selengut, D.H. Faft, A.L. Halpern, R.S. Lasken, K. Nealson, R. Friedman, and J. C. Venter. 2012 Genomic insights to SAR86, an abundant and uncultivated marine bacterial lineage. ISME J. 6:1186-1189. doi: 10.1038/isme.2011.189

67. Huang, Y., Z. He, J. Kan, A.K. Manohar, K.H. Nealson, and F. Mansfeld. 2012. Electricity generation from a floating microbial fuel cell. Bioresour. Technol. 114: 308-313.

68. Boxe, C.S., K.P. Hand, K.H. Nealson, and Y.L. Yung. 2012. An active nitrogen cycle on Mars sufficient to support a subsurface biosphere. Int. J. Astrobiol. 11:109-115.

69. Boxe, C.S., K. P. Hand, K.H. Nealson, Y.L. Yung, A.S. Yen and A. Saiz-Lopez. 2012. Adsorbed water and thin liquid films on Mars. Int. J. Astrobiol. 11:169-175.

70. Ishii, S. S. Suzuki, T.M. Norden-Krichmar, K.H. Nealson, Y. Sekiguchi, Y.A. Gorby, and O. Bretschger. 2012. Functionally stable and phylogenetically diverse microbial enrichments from microbial fuel cells during wastewater treatment. PLoS One 7:e30495.

71. Bretschger, O., L. Hsu, M. Ghassemian, P. Chellamuthu, A.C.M. Cheung, C.M. Frantz, M. Pirbazari, and K.H. Nealson. 2012. Differential redox activity and protein expression as function of extracellular electron transfer in microbial fuel cells using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. DOI:a10.1002/cssc.200

72. Ziegler-Allen, L., E.E. Allen, J.H. Badger, J.P. McCrow, I.T. Paulsen, L.D. Elbourne, M. Thiagarajan, D.B. Rusch, K.H. Nealson, S.J. Williamson, J.C. Venter, and A.E. Allen. 2012. Influence of nutrients and currents on the genomic composition of microbes across an upwelling mosaic. ISME J. 6:1403-1414.

73. Hsu, L., S.A. Masuda, K.H. Nealson, and M. Pirbazari. 2012. Evaluation of microbial fuel cell Shewanella biocathodes for treatment of chromate contamination. Royal Soc Chem Advances. 2:5844-5855. DOI:10:1039/c2ra20478a

74. Wierzchos, J. A.F. Davila, O. Artieda, B. Camara-Gallego los Rios, K.H. Nealson, S. Valea, M. T. Garcia-Gonzalez, C. Ascaso. 2012. Ignimbrite as a substrate for endolithic life in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert: implications or the search for life on Mars. Icarus (available on line: June 15).

75. Harris, H.W., M.Y. El-Naggar, and K.H. Nealson. 2012. Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 chemotaxis proteins and electron transport chain components essential for congregation near insoluble electron acceptors. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 40:1167-1177.

2013 Publications

76. Futamata, H., O. Bretschger, A. Cheung, J. Kan, R. Owen, and K.H. Nealson. 2013. Adaptation of soil microbes during establishment of microbial fuel cell consortium fed with lactate. J. Biosci. Bioeng. 115:58 – 63.

77. Nealson, K. and S. Yooseph. 2013. Microbial diversity of the oceanic surface picoplankton: insights from the Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Program. In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 2nd Ed. 5:292-298. Elsevier, (in press).

78. McFall-Ngai, M. M. Hadfield, T. Bosch, H. Carey, T. Domazet-Loso, A. Douglas, N. Dubilier, G. Eberl, T. Fukami, S. Gilbert, U. Hentschel, N. King, S. Kjelleberg, A.H. Knoll, N. Kremer, S. Mazmanian, J. Metcalf, K. Nealson, N. Pierce, J. Rawls, A. Reid, E. Ruby, M. Rumpho, J. Sanders, D. Tautz, and J. Wernegreen. 2013. Animals in a Bacterial World: An Imperative for the Life Sciences. PNAS 110:3229-3236 (doi/10.1073/pnas.1218525110)

79. Ishii, S., S. Suzuki, T. M. Norden-Krichmar, A. Tenney, P.S.G. Chain, M.B. Scholz, K.H. Nealson, and O. Bretschger. 2013. A novel metatranscriptomic approach to identify gene expression dynamics during extracellular electron transfer. Nature Comm. (4:1601) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2615

80. Morrill, P.L. J. G. Kuenen, O. J. Johnson, S. Suzuki, A. Rietze, A. L Sessions, M. L. Fogel, K. H. Nealson. 2013. Geochemistry and geobiology of a present-day serpentinization site in California: The Cedars, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 109:222-240.

81. Riedel, T., W.M. Berelson, K. H. Nealson, and S.E. Finkel. 2013. Oxygen Consumption Rates of Bacteria under Nutrient-Limited Conditions Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79: 4921-4931.

82. Okomoto, A., K. Hashimoto, K. H. Nealson, and R. Nakamura. 2013. Rate enhancement of bacterial extracellular electron transport involves bound flavin semiquinones. PNAS 110:7856-7861

83. Lin, W., Y. Wang, Y. Gorbv, K. Nealson, and Y. Pan. 2013. Integrating niche-based process and spatial process in biogeography of magnetotactic bacteria. Scientific Reports 3:1643 DOI: 10.1038/srep06143.

84. McLean, J.S., M-J Lombardo, M.G. Ziegler, M. Novotny, J. Yee-Greenbaum, J. H. Badger, G. Tesler, S. Nurk, V. Lesin, D. Brami, A.P. Hall, A. Edlund, L. Z. Allen, S. Durkin, S. Reed, F. Torriani, K. H. Nealson, P.A. Pevzner. R. Friedman, J.C. Venter, and R. Lasken. 2013. Genome of the pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis recovered from a biofilm in a hospital sink using a high-throughput single-cell genomics platform. Genome Research 23:000-000 (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ISSN 1088-9051/13.

85. McLean, J. S., M-J. Lombardo, J.H. Badger, A. Edlund, M. Novotny, J. Yee-Greenbaum, N. Vyahhi, A. Hall, C.L. Dupont, M.G. Ziegler, H. Chitsaz, A.E. Allen, G. Tesler, S. Yooseph, P.A. Pevzner, R. Friedman, K. H. Nealson, J.C. Venter, and R.S. Lasken. 2013. Candidate Division TM6 Genome Recovered from a Hospital Restroom Biofilm Represents a New Class of Proteobacteria: Etaproteobacteria PNAS 110: E2390-2399 (doi/10.1073/pnas.1219809110)

86. Suzuki, S., S. Ishii, A. Wu, A. Cheung, G. Wanger, A. Tenney, J. G. Kuenen, and K. H. Nealson 2013. The Cedars actively serpentinizing ecosystem: Comparison of microbial diversity in the ultra-basic, ultra-reducing and low salinity serpentinizing ecosystem. PNAS 110: 15336-15341 (doi/10.1073/pnas.1302426110).

87. Umino, S. K.H. Nealson, and B. Wood. 2013. Drilling to Earth’s Mantle. Phys. Today Aug: 36-41.

88. Edlund, A. Y. Yang, A. Hall, L. Gou, R. Lux, X. He, K.E. Nelson, K.H. Nealson, S. Yooseph, W. Shi, and J.S. McLean. An in vitro biofilm model maintaining a highly reproducible species and metabolic diversity approaching that of the human oral microbiome. Microbiome 2013, 1:25

89. Ishii, S., S. Suzuki, T. M. Norden-Krichmar, A. Wu, Y. Yamanaka, K. H. Nealson, and O. Bretschger. 2013. Identifying the microbial communities and operational conditions for optimized water treatment in microbial fuel cells. Water Res. 47:7120-7130. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2013.07.048.

90. Kan, J., A. Obraztsova, Y. Wang, J. Leather, K. Scheckel, K. Nealson, and Y. M. Arias-Thode. 2013. Apatite and Chitin Amendments Promote Microbial Activity and Augment Zinc Removal in Marine Sediments. OJ Metal 3:51.2000

91. Jang, J.K., O. Bretschger, L. Hsu, and K.H. Nealson. 2013. Electricity generation by microbial fueld cell using microorganisms as catalysts in the Cathode. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 23:1765-1773.

92. Williams, R.M.E., J.P. Grotzinger, W.E. Diettrich et al. 2013. Martian fluvial conglomerates at Gale Crater. Sciece 340:1068-1072.

93. Leshin, L.A., P.R. Mahaffy, C.R. Webster et al. 2013 Volatile, isotope, and organic analysis of martian fines with the Mars Curiosity rover. Science 341: 1238937.

94. Blake, D.F., R.V. Morris, G. Kocurek, et al., 2013. Curiosity at Gale Crater, Mars: Characterization and analysis of the Rocknest sand shadow. Science 341:1239505.

95. Stolper, E.M., M.B. Baker, M.E. Newcombe et al., 2013. The petrochemistry of Jake_M: A Martian mugearite. Science 341: 9463.

96. Meslin, P.-Y., O. Gasnault, O. Forni, et al. 2013. Soil diversity and hydration as observed by ChemCam at Gale Crater, Mars. Science 341:1238670

97. Bish, D.L., D.F. Blake, D.T. Vaniman et al., 2013. X-ray diffraction results from Mars Science Laboratory: Mineralogy of Rocknest at Gale Crater. Science. 341:1238932.

98. Mahaffy, P.R., C.R. Webster, S.K. Atreya et al., 2013. Abundance and isotopic composition of gases in the martian atmosphere from the Curiosity rover. Science 341:263-266.

99. Webster, C.R., P.R. Mahaffy, S.K. Atreya et al., 2013. Low upper limit to methane abundance on Mars. Science 342:355-357.

2014 Publications:

100. McLennan, S.M., R.B. Anderson, J.F. Bell III et al., 2014. Elemental Geochemistry of Sedimentary Rocks at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Science. 343:1244734.

101. Ming, D.W., P.D. Archer Jr., D.P. Glavin, et al., 2014. Volatile and organic compositions of sedimentary rocks in Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Science 343:1245267.

102. Vaniman, D.T., D.L. Bish, D.W. Ming et al., 2014. Mineralogy of a mudstone at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Science 343:1243480.

103. Hassler, D.M., C.Zeitlin, R.F. Wimmer-Schweingruber et al. 2014. Mars surface radiation environment measured with the Mars Science laboratory’s Curiosity rover. Science 343:1244797.

104. Okamoto, A., K. Saito, K. Inoue, K.H. Nealson, K. Hashimoto, and R. Nakamura. 2014. Uptake of self-secreted flavins as bound cofactors for extracellular electron transfer in Geobacter species. Energy & Environmental Science. DOI: 10.1039/c3ee43674h

105. Grotzinger, J.P., D.Y. Sumner, L.C. Kah et al. 2014. A habitable fluvio-lacustrine environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Science 343: 1242777

106. Farley, K.A., C. Malespin, P. Mahaffy et al., 2014. In situ radiometric and exposure age dating of the Martian surface. Science 343:1247166

107. Ishii, S., S. Suzuki, T. M. Norden-Krichmar, T. Phan, G. Wanger, K. H. Nealson, Y. Sekiguchi, Y. A. Gorby, and O. Bretschger, 2014, Microbial population and functional dynamics associated with surface potential and carbon metabolism, The ISME J. 8: 963-978.

108. Su;uki, S., J.G. Kuenen, K. Schipper, S. van der Velde, S. Ishii, A. Wu, D.Y. Sorokin, A. Tenney, X..Y. eng, P.I. Morill, Y. Kamagata, G. Muyzer, and K. H. Nealson. 2014. Physiological and genomic

features of highly alkaliphilic hydrogen-utilizing Betaproteobacteria from a continental serpentinizing

site. Nat. Comms 5:3900 DOI:10.1038/ncomms4900(2014)

109. Okamoto, A., S. Kalathil, Xiao Deng, K. Hashimoto, R. Nakamura, and K.H. Nealson. 2014. Cell-secreted flavins bound to membrane cytochromes dictate electron transfer reactions to surfaces with diverse charge and pH. Sci. Rep. 4:5628. DOI:10.1038/srep05628

110. Okamoto, A., K. Hashimoto, and K. H. Nealson. 2014. Flavin redox bifurcation as a mechanism for controlling the electron flow during extracellular electron transfer. Angewandt 53:10988-10991. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201407004

111. Okamoto, A., R. Nakamura, K.H. Nealson, and K. Hashimoto. 2014. Bound flavin model suggests similar mechanisms in Shewanella and Geobacter. ChemElectroChem. DOI: 10.1002/celc.201402151

112. Torres, M., J. West, and K.H. Nealson. 2014. Microbial acceleration of olivine dissolution via siderophore production. Procedia Earth Plan. Sci. 10:118-122. DOI: 10.1016/j.proeps.2014.08.041

113. Beegle, L.W., R. Bhartia, L DeFlores, M. Darrach, R.D. Kidd, W. Abbey, et al., 2014. SHERLOC: Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals, an investigation for 2020. LPI Contributions 1783: 1501 (376)

114. Rowe, A., P. Chellamuthu, B. Lam, A. Okamoto, and K. Nealson. 2015. Marine sediment microbes capable of electrode oxidation as a surrogate for lithotrophic insoluble substrate metabolism. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5:784. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00784

115. Camara, B., K.H. Nealson, and C. Ascaso. 2014. Ignimbrite textural properties as determinants of endolithic colonization patterns from hyper-arid Atacama Desert. Internat. Microbiol. 17:235-247.

2015 Publications:

116. Webster, C.R., P.R. Mahaffy, S.K. Atreya et al., 2015. Mars methane detection and variability at Gale crater. Science 347:415-417. DOI: 10.1126/science.1261713

117. Mahaffy, P.R., C.R. Webster, J.C. Stern et al., 2015. The imprint of atmospheric evolution in the D/H of Hesperian clay minerals on Mars. Science 347:412-414. DOI: 10.1126/science.1260291

118. Li, S-L., and K.H. Nealson. 2015. Enriching distinctive microbial communities from marine sediments via an electrochemical-sulfide-oxidizing process on carbon electrodes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6:111. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00111.

119. Nealson, K.H. 2015. Ex-Phot: a new take on primitive photosynthesis. Env. Microbiol. 7:33-35.

120. Stern, J.C., B Sutter, C Freissinet, R Navarro-González, CP McKay, et al. 2015. Evidence for indigenous nitrogen in sedimentary and aeolian deposits from the Curiosity rover investigations at Gale crater, Mars. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (14), 4245-4250

121. Thacher, R., L. Hsu, V. Ravindran, M. Pirbazari, and K.H. Nealson. 2015. Modeling the transport and bioreduction of hexavalent chromium in aquifers: Influence of natural organic matter. Chem. Eng. Sci. 138:552-565.

122. Ishiii, S., S. Suzuki, A. Tenney, T.M. Norden-Krichmar, K. H. Nealson, and O. Bretschger. 2015. Microbial metabolic networks in a complex electrogenic biofilm recovered from a stimulus-induced metatranscriptomics approach. Scientific Reports | 5:14840 | DOI: 10.1038/srep14840

123. Inskeep, W.P., Z.J. Jay, R.E. Macur, S. Clingenpeel, A. Tenney, D. Lovalvo, J.P. Beam, M.A. Kozubal, W.C. Shanks, L.A. Morgan, J. Kan, Y. Gorby, S. Yooseph, and K. H. Nealson. Geomicrobiology of sublacustrine thermal vents in Yellowstone Lake: geochemical controls on microbial community structure and function. Frontiers in Microbiology (doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01044)

124. Nealson, K.H. 2015. Geomicrobiology and Microbial Geochemistry: A view from the past. Elements. 11:384-385 (doi 10.2113/gselement.11.6.384)

2016 Publications:

125. Blatter, M., M. Sugnaux, C. Comninellis, K. H. Nealson, and F. Fischer. 2016. Modeling of sustainable base production by microbial electrolysis cell. ChemSusChem Communications. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201600495

126. Luo, S., W. Guo, K. Nealson, X. Feng and Z. He. 2016. 13C Pathway Analysis for the Role of Formate in Electricity Generation by Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 Using Lactate in Microbial Fuel Cells. Nature: Sci. Rep. 6:20941 DOI:10.1038/srep20941

127. Bennett, R.R., C.K. Lee, J. DeAnda, K. H. Nealson, F.H. Yildiz, G. O’Toole, G.C.L. Wong, and R. Golestanian. 2016. Species-dependent hydrodynamics of flagellum-tethered bacteria in early biofilm development. J. Roy. Soc. Interface 13 (115), 20150966 DOI: 10.1098/rfsif2015.0966

128. Johnson, J., P. Savalia, R. Davis, B.D. Kocar, S. Webb, K.H. Nealson, and W. Fischer. 2016. Real-time manganese oxide reduction. Env. Sci. Technol. 50(8):4248-4258.

129. Kan, Jinjun, S.Clingenpeel, C. Dow, T. McDermott, R. Macur, W.P. Inskeep, and K.H. Nealson. 2016. Geochemistry and Mixing Drive the Spatial Distribution of Free-living Archaea and Bacteria in Yellowstone Lake. Front. Microbiol. 7:210 doi,org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00210

130. Robador, A., D. E. LaRowe, S.P. Jungbluth, H-T. Lin, M.S. Rappe, K.H. Nealson and J.P. Amend. 2016. Nanocalorimetric characterizaqtion of microbial activity in deep subsurface oceanic crustal fluids. Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology 7:454 doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00454

131. Kohl, L., E. Cumming, A. Cox, A. Rietze, L. Morrissey, S.Q. Lang, A. Richter, S. Suzuki, K.H. Nealson, and P.L. Morrill. 2016. Exploring the metabolic potential of microbial communities in ultra-basic, reducing springs at The Cedars, CA, USA: Experimental evidence of microbial methanogenesis and heterotrophic acetogenesis. J.G.R. 121(4):1034-1044.

132. Boedicker, J., and K.H. Nealson. 2016. Microbial communication via quorum sensing. IEEE Trans. Molec. Biol. Multi-Scale Comm. (doi: 10.1109/TMBMC.2016.2587629.TMBMC-TPS-16-0002).

133. Wei, H., D. Qui, J. Dai, M. Xia, F.F. Romine, L. Shi, A. Beliaev, J.M. Tiedje, K.H. Nealson, J.K. Fredrickson and J. Zhou. 2016.Functional Roles of CymA and NapC in Reduction of Nitrate and Nitrite by Shewanella putrefaciens W3-18-1. Microbiology 162: 930-941..

134. Nealson, K.H. and A. Rowe. 2016. Electromicrobiology: realities, grand challenges, goals and predictions. Microbial Biotechnology 0:000. Doi:10.1111/1751-7915.12400

135. Lee, C., K. Alexander, G. Santos, P. Lai, S. Lee, D. Qiao, J. De Anda, T. Young, Y. Chen, A. Rowe, K. Nealson, P. Weiss, and G. Wong. 2016. Evolution of cell size homeostasis and metabolic diversity during initial surface colonization of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. ACS Nano 10: 9183-9192. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b05123.

136. Nealson, K.H. and A. Rowe. 2016. Geomicrobiology: what is it, what’s new, and why should we care? Microbiologist. 17:10-11.

137. Ding, M., Shiu, H-Y., Li, S-L., Lee C.K., Wang, G., Wu, Hao, Weiss, N.O., Young, T.D., Weiss, P.S., Wong, G.C.L., Nealson, K.H., Huang, Y., and Duan, X. 23016. Nanoelectronic investigation reveals the electrochemical basis of electrical conductivity in Shewanella and Geobacter. ACS Nano 10:9919-9926. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b03655

2017 Publications:

138. Rowe, A.R., M. Yoshimura, D.E. LaRowe, L.J. Bird, J.P. Amend, K. Hashimoto, A. Okamoto, and K. H. Nealson. 2017. In situ electrochemical enrichment and isolation of a magnetite-reducing bacterium from a high pH serpentinizing spring. Environ. Microbiology 19:2272-2285.

139. Marokh, L., H. Ghourchian, M. Mahrokh, and K. H. Nealson. 2017. An efficient microbial fuel cell using a CNT-RTIL based nanocomposite. 2017. J. Mater. Chem. A. 5.7979.

140. Rowe, A.R., P. Rajeev, A. Jain, S. Pirbadian, A. Okamoto, J.A. Gralnick, and K.H. Nealson. 2017. Tracking electron uptake from a cathode into Shewanella cells: implications for generating maintenance energy from solid substrates. bioRxiv 116475

141. Hand, K.P., A.E. Murray, J. Garvin, S. Horst, W. Brinkerhoff, K. Edgett, T. Hoehler, K.H. Nealson et al. 2017. Science goals, objectives and investigateons of the 2016 Europa Lander Science definition team report. Lunar Planetary Science Conf. 48.

142. Beegle, L.W., R. Bhartia, B. Carrier, L. DeFlores, W. Abbey, S. Asher, A. Burton, K.H. Nealson et al. The SHERLOC Investigation. Lunar Planetary Science Conf. 48

143. Babanova, S., I. Matanovic, J. Cornejo, O. Bretschger, K. Nealson, and P. Atanassov. 2017. Outer membrane cytochromes/flavin Interactions in Shewanella spp. - A molecular perspective. Biointerphases 12, 021004 (2017); doi: 10.1116/1.4984007.

144. Suzuki, S., S. Ishii, T. Hoshino, A. Rietze, A. Tenney, P. Morrill, F. Inagaki, J.G. Kuenen and K.H. Nealson. 2017. Unusual metabolic diversity of hyperalkaliphilic microbial communities associated with subterranean serpentinization at The Cedars. ISME J. 2017 1-15.

145. Ishii, S., S. Suzuki, Y. Yamanaka, A. Wu, K.H. Nealson, and O. Bretschger. 2017. Population dynamics of electrogenic microbial communities in microbial fuel cells started with three different inoculum sources. Bioelectrochemistry 117:74-82.

146. Nealson, K.H. 2017. Bioelectricity (electromicrobiology) and sustainability. Microbial Biotech. (in press) DOI:10.1111/1751.12834