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Nitrogen cycle, Transitional and coastal ecosystems, Q-PCR, Drinking water microbiology, Nitrification, Denitrification, DNRA, Molecular microbial ecology

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University of Glasgow: Glasgow, GB

2019-08-01 to present | Professor (Infrastructure and Environment)
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Cindy J Smith

University of Glasgow: Glasgow, Glasgow, GB

2016-09-01 to present | Senior Lecturer (Infrastructure and Environment)
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Cindy J Smith

National University of Ireland - Galway: Galway, Galway, IE

2013 to 2016-08-31 | Lecturer Marine Microbiology (Microbiology)
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Cindy J Smith

National University of Ireland - Galway: Galway, Galway, IE

2010 to 2013 | University Fellow Marine Microbiology (Microbiology)
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Cindy J Smith

University of Sheffield: Sheffield, Sheffield, GB

2009 to 2010 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Civil and Structural Engineering)
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Cindy J Smith

University of Sheffield: Sheffield, Sheffield, GB

2006 to 2009 | Researcher Co-Investigator (Animal and Plant Sciences)
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University of Essex: Colchester, Essex, GB

2003-09-01 to 2006-08-31 | Senior Research Officer (Biological Sciences)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

BSc (Hons) Environmental Biology
Education
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Cindy J Smith

University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2004 | PhD (Microbiology)
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Cindy J Smith

Funding (14)

TO CHLORINATE, OR NOT TO CHLORINATE?

2022-08-31 to 2026-02-28 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.13024889
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/W037475/1
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Cindy J Smith via DimensionsWizard

Decentralised water technologies

2021-06-30 to 2026-06-29 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9624755
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/V030515/1
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Cindy J Smith via DimensionsWizard

Biofiltration by biological design

2018-03 to 2023-02 | Award
Royal Academy of Engineering (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

RCSRF1718\6\43

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Cindy J Smith

Biofiltration for decentralised rural communities

2017-10 to present | Grant
Scottish Water ( Dunfermline, Scotland, GB)
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Cindy J Smith

Re-engineering Kenyan sand-dams by biological design

2017-03 to 2028 | Grant
Royal Academy of Engineering (London, GB)
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Cindy J Smith

ADioS Amoebic Disease of Salmon

2016-10 to present | Grant
Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, Ireland (Dublin, IE)
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Cindy J Smith

Microbial Interfaces: SGM Irish Division Meeting

2015-06 to present | Grant
Science Foundation Ireland (Dublin, IE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

15/CW/2780
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Cindy J Smith
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Stable Isotope Probing: linking structure and function

2014-06 to present | Award
Science Foundation Ireland (Dublin, IE)
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Cindy J Smith

Biogeochemical cycling of nitrates in Irish estuaries

2013-09 to 2016-08 | Grant
Environmental Protection Agency (Dublin, IE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2012-W-PhD-6
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Cindy J Smith

Influence of pipe wall material on the growth potential of E. coli in drinking water distributions systems

2013-01-01 to present | Grant
Irish Research Council (Dublin, IE)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7515160
GRANT_NUMBER:

N/A
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Cindy J Smith via DimensionsWizard

Molecular Microbial Ecology of Ammonia Oxidation in Coastal Bay Sediments.

2012-09-01 to 2016-08-31 | Grant
Science Foundation Ireland (Dublin, IE)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100001602/11/SIRG/B2159/Molecular-Microbial-Ecology-of-Ammonia-Oxidation-in-Coastal-Bay-Sediments
GRANT_NUMBER:

11/SIRG/B2159
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Cindy J Smith via DimensionsWizard

Pathogen detection survival and sheltering in a model water distribution system

2011-09-01 to 2014-02-28 | Grant
Science Foundation Ireland (Dublin, IE)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100001602/11/RFP.1/EOB/3243/Pathogen-detection-survival-and-sheltering-in-a-model-water-distribution-system
GRANT_NUMBER:

11/RFP.1/EOB/3243
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Cindy J Smith via DimensionsWizard

Development of a functional gene array to study bacterial nitrate reducing communities in estuarine sediments

2007 to present | Award
Natural Environment Research Council (London, GB)
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Cindy J Smith

Biogeochemical cycling of Nitrogen in tropical coastal zones: molecular microbial ecology of trace gas production

2006-09 to 2009-08 | Grant
Natural Environment Research Council (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

NE/D013089/1
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Cindy J Smith
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Works (44)

Microbial stratification and DOM removal in drinking water biofilters: Implications for enhanced performance

Water Research
2024-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.122053
Contributors: Xiang Shi; Ryan Pereira; Uzma; Laurie Savage; Baptiste Poursat; Dominic Quinn; Anastasiia Kostrytsia; Fabien Cholet; Cindy J Smith; Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay et al.
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa Interactions with Drinking Water Biofilm after an Acute Spike in Annular Bioreactors—Attachment, Persistence, Release, and Reattachment

2024-09-19 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.3390/engproc2024069148
Contributors: Dominic Quinn; Erifyli Tsagkari; Dinesh S. Bhandari; Katherine Fish; Siming You; William T. Sloan; Joby Boxall; Cindy J. Smith
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Modelling the Dynamics of P. aeruginosa in the Formation of Biofilms

2024-09-14 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.3390/engproc2024069141
Contributors: Dinesh Singh Bhandari; Dominic Quinn; Erifyli Tsagkari; Katherine Fish; Frances Pick; Joby Boxall; Cindy Smith; Siming You; William Sloan
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Incorporation and Mobilisation of Health-Related Organisms from within Drinking Water Biofilm

2024-09-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.3390/engproc2024069115
Contributors: Jiwon Park; Frances Pick; Katherine Fish; Dominic Quinn; Cindy Smith; Vanessa Speight; Joby Boxall
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Design and testing of a PCR assay to quantify coliform bacteria in drinking water

2024-09-06 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.06.611718
Contributors: Claire Thom; Graeme Moore; Paul Weir; Cindy J Smith
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intI 1 gene abundance from septic tanks in Thailand using validated intI 1 primers

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2023-11-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/aem.01071-23
Contributors: Valentine Okonkwo; Fabien Cholet; Umer Z. Ijaz; Thammarat Koottatep; Tatchai Pussayanavin; Chongrak Polpraset; William T. Sloan; Stephanie Connelly; Cindy J. Smith; Jennifer B. Glass
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Differential utilisation of dissolved organic matter compound fractions by different biofilter microbial communities

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society
2023-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2166/aqua.2023.036
Contributors: Marta Vignola; Jeanine Lenselink; Dominic Quinn; Umer Zeeshan Ijaz; Ryan Pereira; William T. Sloan; Stephanie Connelly; Graeme Moore; Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay; Cindy J. Smith
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intI1 primer selection for class 1 integron integrase gene and transcript quantification – validation and application for monitoringintl1 gene abundance within septic tanks in Thailand

2023-06-19 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.19.545554
Contributors: Valentine Okonkwo; Fabien Cholet; Umer Z. Ijaz; Thammarat Koottatep; Tatchai Pussayanavin; Chongrak Polpraset; William T. Sloan; Stephanie Connelly; Cindy J. Smith
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Life cycle assessment of biodiesel production from rapeseed oil: Influence of process parameters and scale

Bioresource Technology
2022-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127532
Contributors: Rohit Gupta; Ruairidh McRoberts; Zhibin Yu; Cindy Smith; William Sloan; Siming You
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Ecological Observations Based on Functional Gene Sequencing Are Sensitive to the Amplicon Processing Method

mSphere
2022-08-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00324-22
Contributors: Fabien Cholet; Agata Lisik; Hélène Agogué; Umer Z. Ijaz; Philippe Pineau; Nicolas Lachaussée; Cindy J. Smith; Jorge L. M. Rodrigues
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Ecological Observations Based on Functional Gene Sequencing Are Sensitive to the Amplicon Processing Method

2022-02-12 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.02.10.480020
Contributors: Fabien Cholet; Agata Lisik; Hélène Agogué; Umer Z Ijaz; Philippe Pineau; Nicolas Lachaussée; Cindy J Smith
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Potential nitrification activity reflects ammonia oxidizing bacteria but not archaea activity across a soil-sediment gradient

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
2022-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107666
Contributors: Enrico Tatti; Aoife M. Duff; Anastasiia Kostrytsia; Fabien Cholet; Umer Z. Ijaz; Cindy J. Smith
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Microbiomes in drinking water treatment and distribution: a meta-analysis from source to tap

2021-08-31 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.30.457654
Contributors: Claire Thom; Cindy J Smith; Graeme Moore; Paul Weir; Umer Z Ijaz
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Key Drivers of Ecological Assembly in the Hindgut of Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) when Fed with a Macroalgal Supplemented diet – How Robust Is the Gut to Taxonomic Perturbation?

2021-08-24 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.24.457479
Contributors: C. Keating; M. Bolton-Warberg; J. Hinchcliffe; R. Davies; S. Whelan; A. H. L. Wan; R. D. Fitzgerald; S. J. Davies; C. J. Smith; U. Z. Ijaz
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Monitoring schistosomiasis and sanitation interventions—The potential of environmental DNA

WIREs Water
2021-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1491
Contributors: Teteh S. Champion; Stephanie Connelly; Cindy J. Smith; Poppy H. L. Lamberton
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Temporal changes in the gut microbiota in farmed Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) outweigh the response to diet supplementation with macroalgae

2020-08-10 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.10.222604
Contributors: C. Keating; M. Bolton-Warberg; J. Hinchcliffe; R. Davies; S. Whelan; A.H.L. Wan; R. D. Fitzgerald; S. J. Davies; U. Z. Ijaz; C. J. Smith
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Reverse transcriptase enzyme and priming strategy affect quantification and diversity of environmental transcripts

Environmental Microbiology
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15017
Contributors: Fabien Cholet; Umer Z. Ijaz; Cindy J. Smith
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Reverse transcriptase enzyme and priming strategy affect quantification and diversity of environmental transcripts

2020-03-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.18.996603
Contributors: Fabien Cholet; Umer Z. Ijaz; Cindy J. Smith
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Differential ratio amplicons (Ramp) for the evaluation of RNA integrity extracted from complex environmental samples

Environmental Microbiology
2019-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14516
Contributors: Fabien Cholet; Umer Z. Ijaz; Cindy J. Smith
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Community and functional shifts in ammonia oxidizers across terrestrial and marine (soil/sediment) boundaries in two coastal Bay ecosystems

Environmental Microbiology
2018-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14238
Contributors: Li‐Mei Zhang; Aoife M. Duff; Cindy J. Smith
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16S rRNA sequencing reveals likely beneficial core microbes within faecal samples of the EU protected slug Geomalacus maculosus

Scientific Reports
2018-07-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28720-3
Contributors: Inga Reich; Umer Zeeshan Ijaz; Mike Gormally; Cindy J. Smith
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Small-scale variation of ammonia oxidisers within intertidal sediments dominated by ammonia-oxidising bacteria Nitrosomonas sp. amoA genes and transcripts

Scientific Reports
2017-10-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13583-x
Contributors: Aoife M. Duff; Li-Mei Zhang; Cindy J. Smith
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Biological Phosphorus Removal During High-Rate, Low-Temperature, Anaerobic Digestion of Wastewater.

2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00226
PMID: 26973608
PMC: PMC4776080
Contributors: Keating C; Chin JP; Hughes D; Manesiotis P; Cysneiros D; Mahony T; Smith CJ; McGrath JW; O'Flaherty V
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Simultaneous DNA-RNA Extraction from Coastal Sediments and Quantification of 16S rRNA Genes and Transcripts by Real-time PCR.

Journal of visualized experiments: JoVE
2016 | Journal article
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Cindy J Smith

Survival, Biofilm Formation, and Growth Potential of Environmental and Enteric Escherichia coli in Drinking Water Microcosms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2016 | Journal article
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Cindy J Smith

A rapid culture independent methodology to quantitatively detect and identify common human bacterial pathogens associated with contaminated high purity water

BMC biotechnology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12896-015-0124-1
WOSUID:

WOS:000350170700001
Contributors: Minogue, Elizabeth; Tuite, Nina L.; Smith, Cindy J.; Reddington, Kate; Barry, Thomas
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Genetic study reveals close link between Irish and Northern Spanish specimens of the protected Lusitanian slug Geomalacus maculosus

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12568
WOSUID:

WOS:000359294700013
Contributors: Reich, Inga; Gormally, Michael; Allcock, A. Louise; Mc Donnell, Rory; Castillejo, José; Iglesias, Javier; Quinteiro, Javier; Smith, Cindy J.
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Real-Time PCR Approaches for Analysis of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacterial Communities

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2015 | Book chapter
DOI: papers3://publication/doi/10.1007/8623_2015_64
Contributors: McKew, Boyd A.; Smith, Cindy J.
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Seasonal variation in denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonia process rates and corresponding key functional genes along an estuarine nitrate gradient

Frontiers in Microbiology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00542
WOSUID:

WOS:000356312900002
Contributors: Smith, Cindy J.; Dong, Liang F.; Wilson, John; Stott, Andrew; Osborn, A. Mark; Nedwell, David B.
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Nitrate Reduction Functional Genes and Nitrate Reduction Potentials Persist in Deeper Estuarine Sediments. Why?

PLoS ONE
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094111
WOSUID:

WOS:000336736200039
Contributors: Papaspyrou, Sokratis; Smith, Cindy J.; Dong, Liang F.; Whitby, Corinne; Dumbrell, Alex J.; Nedwell, David B.
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Abundance of denitrification genes under different peizometer depths in four Irish agricultural groundwater sites

Environmental Science and Pollution Research
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1729-3
WOSUID:

WOS:000322155400072
Contributors: Smith, Cindy J.; Barrett, Maria; Jahangir, Mohammad M. R.; Lee, Changsoo; Bhreathnach, Niamh; Collins, Gavin; Richards, Karl G.; O’Flaherty, Vincent
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Dissimilatory reduction of nitrate to ammonium, not denitrification or anammox, dominates benthic nitrate reduction in tropical estuaries

Limnology and Oceanography
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.1.0279
WOSUID:

WOS:000290677200023
Contributors: Dong, Liang F.; Sobey, Milika Naqasima; Smith, Cindy J.; Rusmana, Iman; Phillips, Wayne; Stott, Andrew; Osborn, A. Mark; Nedwell, David B.
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Bioturbating shrimp alter the structure and diversity of bacterial communities in coastal marine sediments

Isme Journal
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.86
WOSUID:

WOS:000285844700005
Contributors: Laverock, Bonnie; Smith, Cindy J.; Tait, Karen; Osborn, A. Mark; Widdicombe, Steve; Gilbert, Jack A.
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Advantages and limitations of quantitative PCR (Q-PCR)-based approaches in microbial ecology

Fems Microbiology Ecology
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00629.x
WOSUID:

WOS:000261622000002
Contributors: Smith, Cindy J.; Osborn, A. Mark
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Bacteria associated with the mucus layer of Merlangius merlangus (whiting) as biological tags to determine harvest location

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1139/F09-035
WOSUID:

WOS:000267811500001
Contributors: Smith, Cindy J.; Danilowicz, Bret S.; Meijer, Wim G.
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Changes in Benthic Denitrification, Nitrate Ammonification, and Anammox Process Rates and Nitrate and Nitrite Reductase Gene Abundances along an Estuarine Nutrient Gradient (the Colne Estuary, United Kingdom)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/aem.02511-08
WOSUID:

WOS:000265908500022
Contributors: Dong, Liang F.; Smith, Cindy J.; Papaspyrou, Sokratis; Stott, Andrew; Osborn, A. Mark; Nedwell, David B.
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Characterization of the bacterial community associated with the surface and mucus layer of whiting (Merlangius merlangus)

Fems Microbiology Ecology
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00369.x
WOSUID:

WOS:000249824600009
Contributors: Smith, Cindy J.; Danilowicz, Bret S.; Meijer, Wim G.
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Diatom-derived carbohydrates as factors affecting bacterial community composition in estuarine sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00551-07
WOSUID:

WOS:000249969000018
Contributors: Haynes, Kelly; Hofmann, Tanja A.; Smith, Cindy J.; Ball, Andrew S.; Underwood, Graham J. C.; Osborn, A. Mark
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Diversity and abundance of nitrate reductase genes (narG and napA), nitrite reductase genes (nirS and nrfA), and their transcripts in estuarine sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/aem.02894-06
WOSUID:

WOS:000247016600020
Contributors: Smith, Cindy J.; Nedwell, David B.; Dong, Liang F.; Osborn, A. Mark
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Efficacy of intervention strategies for bioremediation of crude oil in marine systems and effects on indigenous hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria

Environmental Microbiology
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01277.x
WOSUID:

WOS:000246454100021
Contributors: McKew, Boyd A.; Coulon, Frederic; Yakimov, Michail M.; Denaro, Renata; Genovese, Maria; Smith, Cindy J.; Osborn, A. Mark; Timmis, Kenneth N.; McGenity, Terry J.
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Environmental metagenomics: Development of prokaryotic DNA enrichment techniques for unbiased fosmid library construction

Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology
2007 | Journal article
WOSUID:

BIOSIS:PREV200800189800
Contributors: Houlden, A.; Smith, C. J.; Wilson, J. A.; Liang, X.; Nedwell, D. B.; Osborn, A. M.
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Evaluation of quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based approaches for determining gene copy and gene transcript numbers in environmental samples

Environmental Microbiology
2006 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00963.x
WOSUID:

WOS:000236456800004
Contributors: Smith, C. J.; Nedwell, D. B.; Dong, L. F.; Osborn, A. M.
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Molecular Microbial Ecology

BIOS Advanced Methods
2005 | Book
SOURCE-WORK-ID:

1104151259399-19
Contributors: Osborn, A. Mark; Smith, Cindy J.
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T-Align, a web-based tool for comparison of multiple terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism profiles

Fems Microbiology Ecology
2005 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2005.05.002
WOSUID:

WOS:000232972100005
Contributors: Smith, CJ; Danilowicz, BS; Clear, AK; Costello, FJ; Wilson, B; Meijer, WG
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