Microbial life such as bacteria, fungi, and algae are integral to a naturally functioning aquatic ecosystem. By applying comprehensive molecular approaches, this laboratory is focused on characterizing the composition and distribution of microbial communities, and determining the functional roles as well as their interactions with environments.
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From Stream to Tap: Keeping Fresh Water Clean and Safe
Water treatment facilities have procedures in place to make water safe for drinking. But the dirtier the water, the greater the cost to treat it.
A snapshot on spatial and vertical distribution of bacterial communities in the Eastern Indian Ocean
Wang, J., L. Borecki, X. Zhang, D. Wang, J. Kan, and J. Sun. 2016. Acta Oceanologica Sinica 35:85–93.
Former Intern Embarks on Collaborative Research to Make Drinking Water Safer
While an intern at the Stroud Center, Kristen Jellison, Ph.D., got her first taste of investigative scientific research, and she was immediately hooked.
Geochemistry and mixing drive the spatial distribution of free-living archaea and bacteria in Yellowstone Lake
Kan, J., S. Clingenpeel, C.L. Dow, T.R. McDermott, R.E. Macur, W.P. Inskeep, and K.H. Nealson. 2016. Frontiers in Microbiology 7(210):1–13.
Geomicrobiology of sublacustrine thermal vents in Yellowstone Lake: geochemical controls on microbial community structure and function
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. Nealson. 2015. Frontiers
First record of a large-scale bloom-causing species Nannochloropsis granulata (Monodopsidaceae, Eustigmatophyceae) in China Sea Waters
Zhang, X., J. Kan, J. Wang, H. Gu, J. Hu, Y. Zhao, and J. Sun. 2015. Ecotoxicology 24:1430–1441.
Publications
Electricity generation from microbial fuel cell using microorganisms as catalyst in cathode
Jang, J.K, J. Kan, O. Bretschger, Y.A. Gorby, L. Hsu, B.H. Kim, and K.H. Nealson. 2013. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 23(12):1765–1773.
Yellowstone Lake Nanoarchaeota
Clingenpeel, S., J. Kan, R.E. Macur, T. Woyke, D. Lovalvo, J. Varley, W.P. Inskeep, K.H. Nealson, and T. McDermott. 2013. Frontiers in Microbiology 4:274.
Kan, J., A. Obraztsova, Y. Wang, J. Leather, K.G. Scheckel, K.H. Nealson, and Y.M. Arias-Thode. 2013. Open Journal of Metal, Heavy Metal Special Issue 3:51–61.
Ecosystem metabolism and nutrient uptake in Peruvian headwater streams
Bott, T.L., and J.D. Newbold. 2013. International Review of Hydrobiology 98:117–131.
Adaptation of soil microbes during establishment of microbial fuel cell consortium fed with lactate
Futamata, H., O. Bretschger, A. Cheung, J. Kan, R. Owen, and K.H. Nealson. 2013. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 115(1):58–63.
