Publications based entirely or partially on Salt Plains LExEn funding

Henley, W.J., K.M. Major and J.L. Hironaka. 2002.  Response to salinity and heat stress in two halotolerant chlorophyte algae.  J. Phycol. 38:757-766.

Henley, W.J. 2001.  Algae and cyanobacteria under desiccation and ionic stress. Nova Hedwigia 123:443-452.

Henley, W.J., J.L. Hironaka, M.A. Buchheim, J.A. Buchheim, M.W. Fawley & K.P. Fawley. 2004.  Phylogenetic analysis of the “Nannochloris-like” algae and diagnoses of Picochlorum oklahomensis gen. et sp. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta).  Phycologia 43:641-652.

Kvíderová, J. & W.J. Henley. 2005.  The effect of ampicillin and streptomycin on growth and photosynthesis of two halotolerant chlorophyte algae.  J. Appl. Phycol. 17:301-307.

Major, K.M., A.E. Kirkwood, C.S. Major, J.W. McCreadie & W.J. Henley.  2006.  In situ studies of algal biomass in relation to physicochemical characteristics of the Great Salt Plains, Oklahoma, USA.  Saline Systems 1:11.     

Presentations based entirely or partially on SPMO funding  (presenters in bold)

Poster presentation entitled "DNA repair capacity of the Great Salt Plains cyanobacterium Aphanothece (SP24)" by R. Biswas, R.V. Miller & D. Williams.   108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Boston, MA, June 2008.

Poster presentation entitled "DNA repair potential of the Halomonas spp. from the Great Salt Plain" by D.G. Rudrappa & R.V. Miller. 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Boston, MA, June 2008.

Poster presentation entitled "Isolation and Characterization of Halomonas spp. bacteriophages from the Great Salt Plain Wildlife Reserve, Cherokee, OK" by M.S. Nassar & R.V. Miller.  108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Boston, MA, June 2008.

Oral presentation entitled "Global phylogeography of Dunaliella" by W. Henley, M. Buchheim, J. Buchheim & A. Kirkwood.  10^th International Conference of Salt Lake Research, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2008.

Oral presentation entitled "DNA damage repair in the Great Salt Plains cyanobacteria: Aphanothece sp. (SP24)" by R. Biswas & R.V. Miller.  Oklahoma Academy of Sciences, Tulsa, OK, Nov. 2007.

Oral presentation entitled "Dunaliella as a model of eukaryotic microbial dispersal, diversification and biogeography" by W. Henley, M. Buchheim, J. Buchheim & A. Kirkwood.  30^th Congress of the Int. Assoc. of Theoretical & Applied Limnology, Montreal, Quebec, August 2007.

Oral presentation entitled "Effects of nutrient limitation and salinity stress on growth and photosynthesis in the green alga Picochlorum oklahomensis" by J.N. Annan & W. Henley.  61^st Annual Meeting of the Phycological Society of America, Providence, RI, August 2007.

Poster presentation entitled "Microbial diversity at the Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma" by M.A. Schneegurt, I. R. Caton, B. A. Landon, S. L Castro, and S. A. Perkins. 107th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Toronto, ON, May 2007.

Oral seminar entitled "Bacteriophage from the Great Salt Plains" by R.V. Miller. Oklahoma EPSCOR Meeting, Stillwater, OK, May, 2007.

Oral seminar entitled "Diversity of Dunaliella at the Great Salt Plains, Oklahoma" by W. Henley, M. Buchheim, J. Buchheim & A. Kirkwood. Annual Meeting of the Missouri Valley Branch, American Society for Microbiology, Stillwater, OK, March 2007

Oral seminar entitled "DNA repair potential of the Halomonas spp. from the Great Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by D.G. Rudruppa & R.V. Miller. Annual Meeting of the Missouri Valley Branch, American Society for Microbiology, Stillwater, OK, March 2007.

Oral seminar entitled "UV resistance of the Great Salt Plains Cyanobacteria Aphanothece spp.(SP24)" by R. Biswas & R.V. Miller. Annual Meeting of the Missouri Valley Branch, American Society for Microbiology, Stillwater, OK, March 2007.

Oral seminar entitled "Halotolerant algae" by J. Kviderová. Annual Seminar of the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, December 2006.

Miller, R.V. Oral seminar entitled "Salty Microbiology. Life at the Great Salt Plains." Invited seminar, Cardiff Univ., Wales, U.K. October 2006.

Oral seminar entitled "Cyanobacterial diversity and halotolerance in a variable hypersaline environment" by A.E. Kirkwood, M.A. Buchheim, J.A. Buchheim & W.J. Henley. Annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America, Juneau, AK, July 2006.

Oral seminar entitled "Mechanisms of microbial genetic diversity at the Great Salt Plains" by R.V. Miller. 106th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Orlando, FL, May 2006.

Oral seminar entitled "Halomonas spp. bacteriophages from the Great Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by Z. Murray. 106th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Orlando, FL, May 2006.

Poster presentation entitled "Revealing further diversity at the Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma" by P. Dutta, S.A. Perkins, S.L. Castro, D.K. Gutzmer, M.D. Howell, D.L. Weber, J.A. Buchheim, M.A. Buchheim & M.A. Schneegurt. 106th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Orlando, FL, May 2006.

Poster presentation entitled "Microbial diversity at the Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma" by S.A. Perkins & S.L. Castro, D.K. Gutzmer, M.D. Howell, D.L. Weber, J.A. Buchheim, M.A. Buchheim, M.A. Schneegurt. 106th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Orlando, FL, May 2006.

Poster presentation entitled "Isolation of bacterial viruses from the Great Salt Plains, OK" by Z. Murray. Wentz (undergraduate) research project presentation, OSU, April 2006.

Poster presentation entitled "Selection of mutants of the bacteria Halomonas spp. from the Great Salt Plains" by M. Herrington. Wentz (undergraduate) research project presentation, OSU, April 2006.

Poster presentation entitled "Ammonia oxidation and the detection of amoA (ammonia monooxygenase) genes in hypersaline soils" by S.A. Perkins & M.A. Schneegurt. Kansas Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Wichita, KS, April 2006.

Oral seminar entitled "Pass Me the Salt: Extending the Research Training Tower through Safe Microbiology" by M.A. Schneegurt.  Joint Meeting of the Missouri and Missouri Valley Chapters of the American Society for Microbiology, Kansas City, MO, April 2006.

Poster presentation entitled "Ammonia oxidation and the detection of amoA (ammonia monooxygenase) genes in hypersaline soils" by S.A. Perkins & M.A. Schneegurt. Fourth Annual K-INBRE Symposium, Manhattan, KS, January 2006.

Poster presentation entitled "Analysis of microbial salinity tolerance along a salt gradient in soil samples from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by E.P. Moody & M.A. Schneegurt. Fourth Annual K-INBRE Symposium, Manhattan, KS, January 2006.

Oral seminar entitled "Cyanobacterial diversity and halotolerance in a variable hypersaline environment" by A.E. Kirkwood, M.A. Buchheim, J.A. Buchheim & W.J. Henley.  Annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America,  Juneau, AK, July 2006.

Oral seminar entitled "Algae from the Great Salt Plains, OK, USA: Unexpected range of diversity and halotolerance" by A.E. Kirkwood, W.J. Henley, M.A. Buchheim & J.A. Buchheim. 9th Conference of the International Society for Salt Lake Research, Perth, Australia, September 2005.

Oral seminar entitled "Diatom genus diversity in relation to salinity at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma" by A.T. Potter, M.W. Palmer & W.J. Henley. 8th International Phycological Congress, Durban, South Africa, August 2005

Oral seminar entitled "Dead Cats and Corn Cobs" by M.A. Schneegurt. Upward Bound Program, WSU, June 2005

Poster presentation entitled "Low-cost salty microbiology interactives and classroom activities" by M. Schneegurt, J. Bath, G. Boddy, R. McMinn, M. Chambers & T. Witherspoon. 105th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Atlanta, GA, June 2005.

Poster presentation entitled "Isolation and characterization of halotolerant fungi from the Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma" by S.A.Evans, R.H. Hansen, M.A. Buchheim, J.A. Buchheim, and M.A. Schneegurt. 105th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Atlanta, GA, June 2005.

Oral seminar entitled "Salt Plains Microbial Observatory: Halotolerant Algae & Cyanobacteria" by W.J. Henley & A.E. Kirkwood. University of Oklahoma Department of Botany & Microbiology, January 2005.

Poster presentation entitled "Numerical taxonomy and phylogenetics of bacterial isolates from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by B.R. Litzner, J.A. Buchheim, M.A. Buchheim & M.A. Schneegurt. KINBRE General Meeting, Jan. 2005, Lawrence, KS.

Oral recruiting presentation entitled "Dead cats and corn cobs: undergraduate research opportunities" by M. Schneegurt, North High School, Wichita, December 2004.

Oral recruiting seminar entitled "Salt Plains Microbial Observatory: Halotolerant Algae & Cyanobacteria" by W. Henley & A. Kirkwood. Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK, Nov. 2004.

Oral seminar entitled "Salt Plains Microbial Observatory: Halotolerant Algae & Cyanobacteria" by W. Henley & A. Kirkwood. University of North Texas, Denton, Oct. 2004.

Oral recruiting seminar entitled "Salt Plains Microbial Observatory: Halotolerant Algae & Cyanobacteria" by W. Henley & A. Kirkwood. Northeastern State University, Talequah, OK, Sept. 2004.

Oral presentation entitled "The Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by R. Miller, A. Kirkwood, M. Buchheim, J. Buchheim, M. Schneegurt & W. Henley at the NSF Microbial Observatories PI Meeting, Sept. 2004, Big Sky, MT.

Poster presentation entitled "Characterization of Microbial Isolates from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by M.A. Schneegurt, T.M. Caton, A.L. Grey, J.A. Buchheim & M.A. Buchheim at the 10th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Cancun , Mexico, Aug. 2004.

Poster presentation entitled "Phylogenetic and physiological diversity of photosynthetic microorganisms from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory, Oklahoma" by A.E. Kirkwood, M.A. Buchheim, J.A. Buchheim, & W.J. Henley at the 10th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Cancun , Mexico, Aug. 2004.

Poster presentation entitled "Diversity of oxygenic photoautotrophic microbes at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge (OK, USA)" by J.A.  Buchheim, A. Kirkwood, W. Henley & M.A. Buchheim at the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America, Aug. 2004 in Williamsburg, VA.

Poster presentation entitled "Broad diversity of Dunaliella at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge (OK, USA): inferences from nuclear-encoded rDNA data" by J.A. Buchheim, A. Kirkwood, W. Henley & M.A. Buchheim at the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America, Aug. 2004 in Williamsburg, VA.

Poster presentation entitled "Phylogenetic analysis of the “Nannochloris-like” algae and diagnoses of Picochlorum oklahomensis gen. et sp. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)" by Henley, W.J., J.L. Hironaka, L. Guillou, M.A. Buchheim, J.A. Buchheim, M.W. Fawley & K.P. Fawley, June 2004 at the Gordon Conference on Marine Picophytoplankton, Roscoff, France.

Poster presentation entitled "Numerical taxonomy and phylogenetics of bacterial isolates from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by B.R.Litzner, J.A. Buchheim, M.A. Buchheim & M.A. Schneegurt, May 2004 at the 104th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, New Orleans, LA, .

Poster presentation entitled "Environmental tolerance of bacterial isolates from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by L. Bhattarai, T.M. Caton, C. Wilson, R.V. Miller & M.A. Schneegurt, May 2004 at the 104th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, New Orleans, LA.

Oral recruiting presentation entitled "Dead cats and corn cobs: undergraduate research opportunities" by M. Schneegurt, Neuman University, May 2004.

Oral recruiting seminar entitled “Salt Plains Microbial Observatory: Halotolerant Algae & Cyanobacteria”, by W. Henley, Dec. 2003 at Langston University.

Oral presentation entitled "Characterization of diatoms from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory, Oklahoma" by A. Potter, W. Henley & A. Kirkwood, Oct. 2003 at the North American Diatom Symposium, Islamorada, FL. 

Oral presentation entitled "Characterization of diatoms from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory, Oklahoma" by A. Potter, W. Henley & A. Kirkwood, Nov. 2003 at the Oklahoma Academy of Science Annual Technical Conference, Chickasha, OK. 

Poster presentation entitled "Algae, bacteria and archaea of the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by M. Buchheim, M. Schneegurt, R. Miller, A. Kirkwood, W. Henley, J. Buchheim, C. Wilson, T. Caton, L. Witte, H. Ngyuen, N. Annan, A. Potter & A. Fry at the NSF Microbial Observatories PI Meeting, Sept. 2003, Arlington, VA.

Poster presentation entitled "Characterization of photosynthetic microalgae from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by A.E. Kirkwood, J.A. Buchheim, M.A. Buchheim & W.J. Henley at the European Phycological Congress, July 2003 in Belfast, U.K.

Poster presentation entitled "Phylogeny of chlamydomonads isolated from saline habitats: Inferences from 18S and 26S rDNA data" by J.A. Buchheim, A.E. Kirkwood, W.J. Henley & M.A. Buchheim at the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America, June 2003 in Gleneden Beach, Oregon.

Poster presentation entitled "Characterization of photosynthetic algae from the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory, NW Oklahoma" by A.E. Kirkwood, M.A. Buchheim, J.A. Buchheim, M.A. Schneegurt & W.J. Henley at the ASM 103rd general meeting, May 2003 in Washington, D.C.  

Poster presentation entitled "DNA-damage repair capacity of Halomonas spp. at the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by C.M. Wilson, M.A. Schneegurt, M.A. Buchheim & R.V. Miller at the ASM 103rd general meeting, May 2003 in Washington, D.C.  

Poster presentation entitled "Phenetic and phylogenetic characterization of the prokaryotic assemblage at the Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma" by T.M. Caton, M.A. Buchheim & M.A. Schneegurt at the ASM 103rd general meeting, May 2003 in Washington, D.C.  

Oral presentation entitled "Initial characterization of the halotolerant microbial community of the Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma" by M. Schneegurt, keynote address at the annual meeting of the ASM Missouri Valley Branch, April 2003 in Edmond, OK. 

Oral presentation entitled "Selective ecology of the Great Salt Plains" by J. Hanna & M. Schneegurt at the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Forum, Wichita State University, April 2003.

Oral presentation entitled "Carbon substrate utilization in moderately halophilic bacteria isolated from the Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma" by B. Litzner & M. Schneegurt at the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Forum, Wichita State University, April 2003.

Oral presentation entitled "Dead cats and corn cobs: undergraduate research opportunities" by M. Schneegurt, keynote address at the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Forum, Wichita State University, April 2003.

Oral presentation entitled “Salt Plains Microbial Observatory:  Isolation and Characterization of Halotolerant Pro- and Eukaryotes” by W. Henley, M. Schneegurt, M. Buchheim, R. Miller and A. Kirkwood, at ASLO meeting, Feb. 2003 in Salt Lake City.

Poster presentation entitled "Functional Diversity of the Great Salt Plains Microbial Assemblage" by J. Hanna & M. Schneegurt at the KBRIN Student Symposium Jan. 2003 in Kansas City.

Oral recruiting seminar entitled “Salt Plains Microbial Observatory and Summer Workshop”, by W. Henley, Nov. 2002 at Langston University.

Poster presentation entitled “Salt Plains Microbial Observatory and LExEn Research:  Characterization of Halotolerant Microbes” by W. Henley, K. Major, M. Schneegurt, M. Buchheim, R. Miller & A. Potter, at the 2nd Biennial Astrobiology Conference, Sept. 2002, Moffett Field, CA.

Poster presentation entitled "The Great Salt Plains Microbial Observatory" by M. Schneegurt, W. Henley, M. Buchheim, and R. Miller at the NSF Microbial Observatories PI Meeting, Sept. 2002, Arlington, VA.

Poster presentation entitled "Initial Characterization of the Microbial Community of the Great Salts Plains of Oklahoma" by M.A. Schneegurt, T.M. Caton,H. D. Nguyen, A. T. Potter, and W.J. Henley at the ASM 102nd General Meeting May 2002 in Salt Lake City.

Poster presentation entitled "DNA Repair Capacity of Bacteria Isolated from the Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma" by E.G. DiRusso, T. M. Caton, K. E. Brown, M.A. Schneegurt, and R. V. Miller at the ASM 102nd General Meeting May 2002 in Salt Lake City.