Publications

Peer-reviewed Papers:

Vishnivetskaya, T. A., C. C. Brandt, A. S. Madden, M. S. Drake, J. E. Kostka, D. M. Akob, K. Kuesel, and A. V. Palumbo. 2010. Microbial Community Changes in Response to Ethanol or Methanol Amendments for U(VI) Reduction. In preparation 01-2010.

Sitte, J., D. M. Akob, C. Kaufmann, K. Finster, D. Banerjee, E.-M. Burkhardt, J. E. Kostka, A. Scheinost, Georg Büchel and K. Küsel. 2010. Sulfate-reducing activity linked to metal retention in contaminated soil located at a former uranium-mining district (Ronneburg, Germany). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Submitted 01-2010.

Green, S. J., O. Prakash, T. M. Gihring, D. M. Akob, P. Jasrotia, P. M. Jardine, D. B. Watson, S. D. Brown, A. V. Palumbo and J. E. Kostka. 2010. Denitrifying bacteria from the terrestrial subsurface exposed to mixed waste contamination. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Submitted 12-2009.

Akob, D. M., M. S. Humphrys, S. J. Green, L. Kerkhof, K.-J. Chin, K. Küsel, D. B. Watson, A. V. Palumbo, and J. E. Kostka. 2010. Metabolically Active Bacteria Mediating Electron Flow in Uranium-Contaminated Subsurface Sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochima Acta. Submitted 11-2009.

Burkhardt, E.-M., D. M. Akob, S. Bischoff, J. Sitte, J. E. Kostka, D. Banerjee, A. C. Scheinost, K. Küsel. 2010. Impact of Biostimulated Redox Processes on Metal Dynamics in an Iron-rich Creek Soil of a former Uranium Mining Area. Environmental Science & Technology 44(1): 177-183. Published online ahead of print on November 16, 2009; DOI: 10.1021/es902038e.

Prakash, O., T. M. Gihring, D. D. Dalton, K.-J. Chin, S. J. Green, D. M. Akob, G. Wanger, and J. E. Kostka. 2009. Geobacter daltonii sp. nov., an iron(III)- and uranium(VI)-reducing bacterium isolated from the shallow subsurface exposed to mixed heavy metal and hydrocarbon contamination. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Published online ahead of print on 4 August 2009; DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.010843-0.

Akob, D. M., H. J. Mills, T. M. Gihring, L. Kerkhof, J. W. Stucki, A. S. Anastacio, K.-J. Chin, K. Kusel, A. V. Palumbo, D. B. Watson, and J. E. Kostka. 2008. Functional Diversity and Electron Donor Dependence of Microbial Populations Capable of U(VI) Reduction in Radionuclide-Contaminated Subsurface Sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74:3159-3170.

Blöthe, M., D.M. Akob, K. Walter, J.E. Kostka, H.L. Drake, and K. Küsel. 2008. Heterogeneity of Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in coal-mining lake sediments caused by a pH gradient. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74(4): 1019–102.

Akob, D.M., H.J. Mills, and J.E. Kostka, 2007. Metabolically active microbial communities in uranium contaminated subsurface sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 59, 95-107.

Diaz, M. C., D. Akob, & C. S. Cary. 2004. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of nitrifying microbes associated with tropical sponges. Proceedings of the 6th International Sponge Conference, Rapallo, Italy, 2002. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti biologici dell'Università di Genova 68: 279–289.

Poster Presentations:

Akob, D. M., L. Kerkhof, K-J. Chin, K. Küsel, D. B. Watson, A. V. Palumbo, and J. E. Kostka. 2008. Characterization of the Metabolically Active Iron(III)- and Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Uranium(VI) Contaminated Subsurface Sediments Using DNA-SIP Analysis. 108th General Meeting Abstracts American Society for Microbiology, Boston, MA. Akob_ASM_Poster_2008.pdf

Akob, D. M., H. J. Mills, L. Kerkhof, and J. E. Kostka. 2007. Determination of the metabolically active microbial groups in contaminated ORFRC subsurface sediments using stable isotope probing (SIP). DOE 2st Annual ERSP Spring PI Meeting, Lansdowne, VA. Akob_ERSP_Poster_2007.pdf

Akob, D.M., M.L. Fogel, and M.J. Wooller. 2003. Determining the diet of mangrove invertebrates using stable isotope analysis. Marine Benthic Ecology Meeting, Groton, CT. Akob_BEM_Poster_2006.JPG