Pacific Research Center for Marine Biomedicine

Gaining new
knowledge about the profound impacts
of the ocean on human health

Publications

Articles

2008

Bienfang, P., M. Parsons, R.R.Bidigare, E.A.Laws and P. Moeller. 2008. Ciguatera fish poisoning: A synopsis from ecology to toxicity. In: Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea (P.J. Walsh, S.L. Smith, L.E. Fleming, He Solo-Gabrielle and W.H. Gerwick, Eds.) Elsevier, New York

Laws,E.A. 2008 Background Oceanography, Chapter 1 in: Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Walsh, P.J., Fleming, L.E., Solo-Gabrielle, H., and Gerwick, W.H. (eds), Elsevier

Okumura, H., B.Philmus, C. Portmann, and T. Hemscheidt. Homotyrosine-containing Cyanopeptolins K and L and Anabaenopeptins 908 and 915 from Plankthotrix agardhii 126/8. J. Nat. Prod., accepted subject to revision

Yoshida, W.Y., K.Ishida, R.Kurmayer, S-Y Jeong, G. Christiansen and T.Hemscheidt. Isolation and structures determination of two microcystins and sequence comparisons of McyABC adenylation domains in Planktothrix spp. J.Nat.Prod., accepted subject to revision

Venn, A.A., Loram, J.E., Trapido-Rosenthal, H.G., Joyce, D.A., and Douglas, A.E. (2008) The importance of time and place: How genetically-different Symbiodinium algae are distributed in a variable coral reef symbiosis. In press, Biol. Bull.

Friedman, M. A., L. E. Fleming, M. Fernandez, P. Bienfang, K. Schrank, R. Dickey, M.-Y. Bottein, L. Backer, R. Ayyar, R. Weisman, S. Watkins, R. Granade, A. Reich. 2008 Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Treatment, Prevention and Management. Marine Drugs., 6, 456-479; DOI: 10.3390/md20080022

Mahdi, L., A.Statzell-Tallman, J.Fell, M. Brown, S. Donachie (2008) Sympodiomycopsis lanaiensis sp. Nov., a basidiomycetous yeast (Ustilagniomycotina: Microstromotales) from marine driftwood in Hawaii. FEMSYR-08-02-0026.R2 http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fems

Fujioka, R. 2008. Clearance of beach water contamination after 48 million gallon sewage spill in Hawaii. Reliability of culture assay for FRNA coliphages and PCR assay for Bacterioides. Emerging and Innovative Technologies, PP 1-11. In, "Proceedings of the World Environment and Water Resource Congress, edited by R. Babcock and R. Walton. CD produced by Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

2007

Fung, D.Y.C., Fujioka, R., Kannappan, V., Sato, D., and Bishop,D. (2007) Evaluation of Fung double tube test for Clostridium perfringens and Easyphage test for F-specific RNA coliphages as rapid screening tests for fecal contamination in recreational waters of Hawaii. J.Rapid Methods Autom. Microbiol. at:217-229 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/jrm/2007/00000015/00000003/art00003

Vergin, K. L., H. J. Tripp, L. J. Wilhelm, D. R. Denver, M. S. Rappe, and S. J. Giovannoni (2007) High intraspecific recombination rate in a native population of Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique (SAR11). Environmental Microbiology 9: 2430-2440. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01361.x?journalCode=emi

Steward, G. F. and M. S. Rappe (2007) What's the "meta" with metagenomics? The ISME Journal 1:100-102 http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v1/n2/abs/ismej200725a.html;jsessionid=FA83544FBECAB87F7AB086562CA50E89

Becker, J. W., M. Brandon, and M. S. Rappe (2007). Cultivating microorganisms from dilute aquatic environments: melding traditional methodology with new cultivation techniques and molecular methods. In C.J. Hurst et al [eds], Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd Edition. ASM Press, pp. 399-406.

Brandon, M. L., J. W. Becker and M. S. Rappe (2007) Isolation of aquatic microorganisms via high throughput cultivation methods. In G. A. Kowalchuk, F. J. de Bruijn, I. M. Head, and A. D. Akkermans [eds], Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual, 3rd Edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Laws, E.A. 2007. Climate Change, Oceans and Human Health. Ocean Yearbook volume 21:129-175.

Morita, J.E., R.S.Fujioka, A.D.Tice, J.Berestecky, D.Sato, S.E.Seifried, and A.R.Katz. 2007. Survey of Methicillin--Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Carriage in Health College Students, Hawaii. Hawaii Medical Journal. 66 (8): 213-215. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17941374?ordinalpos=11&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Loram, J.E., Boonham, N., O'Toole, P., Trapido-Rosenthal, H.G., and Douglas, A.E. (2007) Molecular quantification of symbiotic dinoflagellate algae Symbiodinium in corals. Biol. Bull., 212:259-268. Loram, J.E., Trapido-Rosenthal, H.G., and Douglas, A.E. (2007) Functional significance of symbiont clade in a coral reef symbiosis. Molec. Ecol. 16: 4849-4857.

Benetez-Nelson, Claudia R., R. R.Bidigare, T. D.Dickey, M. R. Landry, C. L. Leonard, S. L. Brown, F. Nencioli, Y. M Rii, K. Maiti, J. W. Becker, T. S. Biddy, W. Black, W-J. Cai, C. A. Carlson, F. Chen, V. S. Kuwahara, C. Mahaffey, P. M. McAndrew, P. D. Quay, M. S. Rappe, K. E. Selph, M. P. Simmons, E. J. Yang. 2007. Mesoscale Eddies Drive Increased Silica Export in the Subtropical Pacific Ocean. Science Vol 316 1017-1021.

Sinigalliano, C. D., M. L. Gidley, T. Shibata, D. Whitman, T. H. Dixon, E. Laws, A. Hou, D. Bachoon ||, L. Brand, L. Amaral-Zettler, R. J. Gast, G. F. Steward, O. D. Nigro, R. Fujioka, W. Q. Betancourt, G. Vithanage, J. Mathews, L. E. Fleming, and H. M. Solo-Gabriele. 2007. Impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the microbial landscape of the New Orleans area. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , 10.1073/pnas.0610552104.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0610552104v1

Giovannoni, S. J., R. A. Foster, M. S. Rappé, and S. Epstein (2007) New cultivation strategies bring more microbial plankton species into the laboratory. Oceanography 20:24-30.

Ishida, K.; Christiansen, G.; Yoshida, W. Y.; Kurmayer, R.; Welker, M.; Valls, N.; Bonjoch, J.; Hertweck, C.; Börner, T.; Hemscheidt, T.; Dittmann, E. Biosynthesis and structure of aeruginoside 126A and 126B, cyanobacterial peptide glycosides bearing an unusual 2-carboxy-6-hydroxyoctahydroindole moiety. Chem. & Biol. 2007, 14:565-567.

2006

Venn, A.A., Wilson, M.S., Trapido-Rosenthal, H.G., Keely, B.J., and Douglas, A.E. (2006) The impact of coral bleaching on the pigment profile of the symbiotic alga Symbiodinium.. Plant, Cell Env. 29:2133-2142.

Betancourt, W.Q. and R.S.Fujioka. 2006. Bacteriodes spp as reliable marker of sewage contamination in Hawaii's environmental waters using molecular techniques. Water Science & Technology 54:No. 3 101-107.
http://www.iwaponline.com/wst/05403/wst054030101.htm

Fujioka, R.S. and T.M. Unutoa. 2006. Comparative stability and growth requirements of S.aureus and faecal indicator bacteria in seawater. Water Science & Technology 54:No.3 169-175.
http://www.iwaponline.com/wst/05403/wst054030169.htm

Hou, A., Laws, E.A., Gambrell, R.P., Bae, H-S., Tan,M., DeLaune, R.D., Li, Y., and Roberts, H. 2006. Pathogens Indicator Microbes and Heavy Metals in Lake Pontchartrain Following Hurricane Katrina. Environmental Science and Technology.
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/asap.cgi/esthag/asap/pdf/es060946u.pdf

Laws, E. 2006. Case Study: Cholera. Oceanography 19:81-83
http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/issue_pdfs/19_2/19.2_cs_laws.pdf

Toledo, G., W. Green, R.A. Gonzalez, L. Christoffersen, M. Podar, H.W. Chang, T. Hemscheidt, H. Trapido-Rosenthal, J.M. Short, Robert R. Bidigare and E. J. Mathur. 2006. Case Study: High throughput cultivation for isolation of novel marine microorganisms. Oceanography 19: 120-125.
http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/issue_pdfs/19_2/19.2_cs_toledo_et_al.pdf

Shikuma, N.J. and M. G. Hadfield. 2006. Temporal variation of an initial marine biofilm community and its effects on larval settlement and metamorphosis of the tubeworm Hydoides elegans
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BFM&volumeId=2&issueId=04#

Nigro, O.D., G.F. Steward. 2006. Identification of prophages in coastal water isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Young Investigators Volume 15 (Workman, M. REU Student) [online only].
http://www.jyi.org/articletools/print.php?id=844

2005

Cox, P. A., S. A. Banack, S. Murch, P. Nunn, W. Bradley, D. Mash, S. Papapetropoulos, L. Olaf, S. Conradi, B. Bergman, U. Rasmussen, R. Bidigare, G. Codd, J. S. Metcalf, H. Johnson, R. Speth and J. H. Weiss. 2005. Reply to “Lack of b-methylamino-L-Alanine in brain from controls, AD, or Chamorros with PDC” Neurology .
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/65/5/768

Cox, P. A., S. A. Banack, S. J. Murch, U. Rasmussen, G. Tien, R. R. Bidigare, J. S. Metcalf, L. F. Morrison, G. A. Codd and B. Bergman. 2005. Diverse taxa of cyanobacteria produce b-N-methylamino-L-alanine, a neurotoxic amino acid. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 5074-5078.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/14/5074

Dickey, T.D. and R. R. Bidigare, 2005. "Interdisciplinary oceanographic observations: The wave of the future,", Sci. Mar. 69 (Suppl.1): 23-42
http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/PDFs/sm69s1023.pdf

Stotts, S.N. , O.D. Nigro, T.L. Fowler, R.S. Fujioka, and G.F. Steward. 2005. "Virulence and antibiotic resistance gene combinations among Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the coastal waters of Oahu, Hawaii", Journal of Young Investigators, Volume 12 [online only]
http://www.jyi.org/articletools/print.php?id=148

Wang, G. Y., W. P Tang and R. R. Bidigare. 2005. Terpenoids as therapeutic drugs and pharmaceutical agents. In: Natural products as therapeutical drugs and preventive medicines (L. Zhang and A. L. Demain, Eds.), Humana Press, New Jersey, pp. 191-221.
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