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Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science & Engineering

The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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Professor Craig Cary

MSc San Diego State, PhD University of California San Diego

Research interests: • Comparative physiology, biochemistry and ecology of marine microbial communities, with a focus on free-living syntrophic bacterial associations in extreme environments. • The use of high through-put genomic and molecular approaches to resolve biochemical adaptations to life in these extreme geochemical environments. • Interfacing new bioinformatic capabilities with genomic technologies in the metagenome analysis of complex microbial communities. • Thermal stability of eurythermal proteins. • Use of quantitative gene expression analysis to resolve gene function in response to shifts in environmental conditions. • Use of molecular technology in the development of biological indices to better assess microbial community structure with emphasis on ecosystem health. • Assessment and enumeration of harmful algal species in marine systems using quantitative molecular approaches. • Development of deep-ocean based curriculum resources (The Virtual Field Trip – Extreme 2000 - 2004) for middle and high school earth and life sciences students.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Di Meo-Savoie, Luther, G.W., Cary, S.C. (2004). Physicochemical characterization of the microhabit of the epibionts associated with Alvinella pompejana, a hydrothermal vent annelid. Geochem. Cosmochim. Acta. 68: 2055-2066.

Nercessian, O., Prokofeva, M., Lebedinski, A., L'Haridon, S., Cary, S.C., Prieur, D., and Jeanthon, C.. (2004). Design of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for detecting cultured and uncultured archaeal lineages in high-temperature environments. Environ. Microbiol. 6: 170-182.

Campbell BJ, Stein J, Cary S.C. (2003). Evidence of chimolithoautotrophy in the symbiont community associated with Alvinella pompejana, a deep sea polychaete. Appl Environ Microbiol, 69:5070-5078.

Popels, L.C. Cary, S.C., Hutchins, D.A., Forbes, R., Pustizzi, F., Gobler, C.J.,, and Coyne, K.J. (2003) The use of quantitative polymerase chain reaction for the detection and enumeration of the harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens in environmental samples along the United States East Coast. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 1:92-102.

Luther, III, G. W., A. Bono, M. Taillefert, S. C. Cary. 2002. A continuous flow electrochemical cell for analysis of chemical species and ions at high pressure: laboratory, shipboard, and hydrothermal vent results. In M. Taillefert and T. F. Rozan [eds.], Environmental electrochemistry: Analyses of trace element biogeochemistry. American Chemical Society Symposium Series 811. American Chemical Society. Washington, D. C., Ch. 4, Vol. 811, pp. 54-73.

Nuzzio, D. B., M. Taillefert, S. C. Cary, A. L. Reysenbach, and G. W. Luther, III. 2002. In situ voltammetry at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, p. 40-51.In M. Taillefert and T. F. Rozan [eds.], Environmental electrochemistry: Analyses of trace element biogeochemistry. American Chemical Society Symposium Series 811. American Chemical Society. Washington, D. C., Ch. 3, Vol. 811, pp. 40-53.

Cary,S.C., Chisholm, S.W. (2001). Ecological genomics: The application of genomic sciences to understanding the structure and function of marine ecosystems. Report, NSF workshop on Marine Microbial Genomics. Conveners, S.C. Cary and S.W. Chisholm. University Press. Pp. .1-20

Campbell BJ, Cary S.C., (2001). Characterization of a novel spirochete associated with the hydrothermal vent annelid, Alvinella pompejana. Appl Environ Microbiol 2001, 67:110-117.

Campbell BJ, Jeanthon C, Kostka JE, Luther GW, Cary S.C. (2001). Growth and phylogentic properties of two novel thermophilic epsilon Proteobacteria from Alvinella pompejana and deep-sea hydrothermal vents. 2001. Appl Environ Microbiol 2001, 67:4566-4572.

Coyne, K. J., D. A. Hutchins, C. E. Hare and Cary, S.C. (2001) Assessing temporal and spatial variability in Pfiesteria piscicida distributions using molecular probing techniques. Aquatic Microbiol Ecol 24:275-285.

Hutchins DA, Campbell BJ, Cottrell MT, Takeda S, Cary S.C. (2001). Response of marine bacterial community composition to iron additions in three iron-limited regimes. Limnol Oceanog, 46:1535-1545.

Luther, G.W., Rozan, T.F., Taillefert, M., Nuzzio, D.B., Di Meo, C., Shank, T.M., Lutz, R.A., Cary, S.C. (2001). Chemical speciation drives hydrothermal vent ecology. Nature 410:813-815.

Slobodkin A, Campbell BJ, Cary S.C., Bonch-Osmolovskaya E, Jeanthon C. (2001). Evidence for the presence of thermophilic Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in deep-sea hydrothermal vents at 13 degrees N (East Pacific Rise) FEMS Microbiol Ecol, 2-3:235-243.

Reysenbach, A-L, Banta, A.B., Boone, D.R., Cary, S.C., Luther, G.W. (2000). Biogeochemistry – microbial essentials at hydrothermal vents. Nature. 404 – 835-836.

Campbell BJ, Cary S.C. Abundance of reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle genes in free-living microorganisms at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Accepted for publication, 2004, Appl. and Environ. Microbiol. (In Press).

Cary S.C, Campbell BJ, DeLong, E. Studying the deep subsurface biosphere: emerging technologies and applications. AGU monographs, (In press).

Coyne, K. J., R. A. Feldman, D. A. Hutchins and Cary, S.C. A modified Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) method for construction of gene expression profiles of microbial eukaryotic species. Appl Environ Microbiol. (In press).

Doblin, MA, Popels, LC, Coyne, KJ, Hutchins, DA, Cary, SC and Dobbs, FC. Long-distance and local-scale transport of Aureococcus species by ships and boats in fresh and marine waters. Applied Environmental Microbiology. (In press).

Hare, CE, Demir, E, Coyne, KJ, Cary, S.C and Hutchins, DA. A bacterium from the Delaware Inland Bays that inhibited the growth of Pfiesteria piscicida and other dinoflagellates. Harmful Algae. (In press).

Wommack, K.E., Williamson, S.J., Sundbergh, A., Helton, R.R., Glazer, B.T., Portune, K., and Cary, S.C.. An instrument for collecting discrete large-volume water samples suitable for ecological studies of microorganisms. Deep Sea Research (In press).