Publications

David Levin

Levin DB, Carere CR, Cicek N, and Sparling R. 2009. Challenges for biohydrogen production via direct lignocellulose fermentation. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 34: 7390-7403.

Islam, R, Cicek N, Sparling R, and Levin DB. 2009. Influence of initial cellulose concentration on the carbon flow distribution during batch fermentation by Clostridium thermocellum ATCC 27405. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 82: 141-148.

Carere CR, Kalia V, Sparling R, Cicek N, and Levin DB.  2008. Pyruvate catabolism and hydrogen synthesis pathway genes of Clostridium thermocellum ATCC 27405. Ind. J. Microbiol. 48: 252-266.

Carere CR, Sparling R, Cicek N, and Levin DB.  2008. Third Generation Biofuels via direct cellulose fermentation. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 9: 1342-1360.

Magnusson L, Cicek N, Sparling R, and Levin DB. 2008. Continuous hydrogen production during fermentation of α-cellulose by the thermophillic bacterium Clostridium thermocellum.  Biotechnol. Bioeng. 102: 759-766.

Ramachandran U, Wrana N, Cicek N, Sparling R, and Levin DB. 2008. Hydrogen production and end-product synthesis patterns by Clostridium termitidis strain CT1112 in batch fermentation cultures with cellobiose or α -cellulose. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 33: 7006-7012.

Levin DB, Islam R, Cicek N, and Sparling R. 2006.  Hydrogen production by Clostridium thermocellum 27405 from cellulosic biomass substrates. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 31: 1496-1503.

Richard Sparling

Rydzak T, Levin DB, Cicek N, and Sparling R. 2009. Growth phase dependant enzyme profile of pyruvate catabolism and end-product formation in Clostridium thermocellum ATCC 27405   J. Biotechnol. 140: 169-175

Butler M, Sparling R, and Court D. 2009. The energy metabolism of bacterial, fungal and animal cells used for industrial production. Wiley Encyclop. of Industr. Biotechnol.  (in press)

Magnusson L, Islam R, Sparling R, Levin DB, and Cicek N. 2008. Direct hydrogen production from cellulosic waste materials with a single-step dark fermentation process. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 33: 5398-5403

Sparling R, Islam R, Cicek N, Carere CR, Chow H, and Levin DB. 2006. Formate synthesis by Clostridium thermocellum during anaerobic fermentation. Can. J. Microbiol. 52:681-688

Islam R, Cicek N, Sparling R, and Levin DB. 2006. Effect of substrate loading on hydrogen production during anaerobic fermentation by Clostridium thermocellum 27405. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 72: 576-583

Valdez-Vazquez I, Sparling R, Risbey D, Rinderknecht-Seijas N, and Poggi-Varaldo HM. 2005. H2 generation via anaerobic fermentation of paper mill wastes. Bioresource Technol. 96: 1907-1913

Oleg Krokhin

Krokhin OV, and Spicer V. 2009. Peptide retention standards and hydrophobicity indexes in reversed-phase HPLC of peptides. Anal. Chem. 81. (in press).

Dwivedi RC, Spicer V, Harder M, Antonovici M, Ens W, Standing KG, Wilkins JA, and Krokhin OV. 2008. Practical implementation of 2D HPLC scheme with accurate peptide retention prediction in both dimensions for high-throughput bottom-up proteomics. Anal Chem. 80: 7036-7042.

Spicer V, Yamchuk A, Cortens J, Sousa S, Ens W, Standing KG, Wilkins JA, and Krokhin OV. 2007. Sequence Specific Retention calculator – a family of peptide retention time prediction algorithms in RP HPLC: Applicability to various chromatographic conditions and columns. Anal. Chem. 79: 8762-8768.

Matthew Stott

Op den Camp HJM, Islam T, Stott MB, Harhangi HR, Hynes A, Schouten S, Jetten MSM, Birkeland NK, Pol A, and Dunfield PF. 2009. Minireview: Environmental, genomic, and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. Environ. Microbiol. Reports. 1: 293-306.

Stott MB, Crowe MA, Mountain BW, Smirnova AV, Hou S, Alam M, and Dunfield PF. 2008. Isolation of novel bacteria, including a candidate division, from geothermal soils in New Zealand. Environ. Microbiol. 10: 2030–2041.

Hou S, Makarova KS, Saw JH, Senin P, Ly BV, Zhou Z, Ren Y, Wang J, Galperin MY, Omelchenko MV, Wolf YI, Yutin NY, Koonin EV, Stott MB, Mountain BW, Crowe MA, Smirnova AV, Dunfield PF, Feng L, Wang L, and Alam M. 2008. Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia. Biology Direct. 3: 26.

Saw JH, Mountain BW, Feng L, Omelchenko MV, Hou S, Saito JA, Stott MB, Li D, Zhao G, Wu J, Galperin MY, Koonin EV, Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Rigden DJ, Dunfield PF, Wang L and Alam M. 2008. Encapsulated in silica: genome, proteome and physiology of thermophilic bacterium Anoxybacillus flavithermus WK1. Genome Biol. 9: R161.

Dunfield, PF, Yuryev A, Senin P, Smirnova AV, Stott MB, Hou S, Ly B, Saw JW, Zhou Z, Ren Y, Wang J, Mountain BW, Crowe MA, Weatherby TM, Bodelier PLE, Liesack W, Feng L, Wang L, and Alam, M. 2007. Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia. Nature. 450: 879-883.

Ping-Ching Maness

Lalaurette E, Thammannagowda S, Mohagheghi A, Maness P-C, and Logan BE. 2009. Hydrogen production from cellulose in a two-stage process combining fermentation and electrohydrogenesis. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 34:6201-6210.