Whitby, Corinne - University of Essex - School of Biological Sciences

个人简介

Posts and Training: 1997-2002 PostDoctoral Research Fellow, University of Liverpool 2002-2003 PostDoctoral Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen 2003-2005 PostDoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter 2006-2012 Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology, University of Essex 2012-Present Senior Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology, University of Essex September 2011- March 2012 Royal Society Visiting Fellow University of Calgary, University of Alberta, Canada

研究领域

My research is focussed on the following areas: 1. Microbial nitrogen and carbon cycling. 2. Microbial biodegradation of hydrocarbons with a specific focus on naphthenic acid (NA) biodegradation in aquatic and terrestrial environments. 3. Impact of nanoparticles on microbial communities in the environment. 4. Characterization of microbial communities in bioaerosols. I am currently PI on several research grants including a BBSRC-CASE project 'Using synthetic biology to forward engineer catabolic pathways in Psudomonads for use as biotechnological tools in the bioremediation of oil sands process waters, a NERC-CASE project to analyse plant-microbial interactions in the soil rhizosphere, a NERC-CASE project with Forest Research to analyse the ‘Spatio-temporal dynamics of microbial community structure and function across an afforestation chronosequence’ and a NERC-funded project with industry to develop a Process Scale-up for Rapid Naphthenic Acid Removal from Oil sands Process Waters (OSPW). I am also Co-I on a NERC funded project to investigate ‘The role of lateral exchange in modulating the seaward flux of C, N, P’, and Co-I on an EU-funded project for FrameWork 7 (FP7) to measure ‘Human Exposure to Aeorosol Contaminants in Modern Microenvironments (HEXACOMM)’ and Co-I on a NERC-funded grant to develop 'Rapid monitoring of bioaerosols in industrial, agricultural and urban environments'.

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Beddow J, Stolpe B, Cole PA, Lead JR, Sapp M, Lyons BP, Colbeck I, Whitby C* (2016). Nanosilver inhibits nitrification and reduces ammonia-oxidizing bacterial but not archaeal amoA gene abundance in estuarine sediments. Environmental Microbiology (in press). Lansdown K, McKew BA, Whitby C, Dumbrell AJ, Heppell CM, Binley A, Olde, L, Trimmer M (2016). Importance and controls of anaerobic ammonium oxidation influenced by riverbed geology. Nature Geosciences (doi:10.1038/ngeo2684). Folwell BD, McGenity TJ, Whitby C* (2016). Characterisation of biofilm and planktonic bacterial and fungal communities transforming high molecular weight polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. (doi:10.1128/AEM.03713-15). Beddow J, Johnson RJ, Lawson T, Breckels MN, Webster RJ, Smith BE, Rowland SJ, Whitby C* (2016). The effect of oil sands process-affected water and model naphthenic acids on photosynthesis and growth in Emiliania huxlyei and Chlorella vulgaris. Chemosphere 145: 416-423. Tatti E, McKew BA, Whitby C, Smith CJ (2016). Simultaneous DNA-RNA extraction from coastal sediments and quantification of 16S rRNA genes and transcripts by real-time PCR. JoVE (in press). Smith CJ, McKew BA, Whitby C* (2016). Primers-functional genes for nitrogen-cycling microbes in oil reservoirs. In: Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology protocols (Springer protocols Handbooks) Ed: McGenity, TJ, Timmis KN, Nogales B. (in press). Folwell BD, McGenity TJ, Price A, Johnson RJ, Whitby C* (2015). Exploring the capacity for anaerobic biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and naphthenic acids by microbes from oil-sands process affected waters. Int. J. Biodeterioration & Biodegradation (doi:10.1016/j.ibiod.2014.12.016). Li J, Nedwell DB, Beddow J, Dumbrell AJ, McKew BA, Thorpe EL, Whitby C* (2015). amoA gene abundances and nitrification potential rates suggest that benthic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) not archaea (AOA) dominate N cycling in the Colne estuary, UK. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 81: 159-165. Beddow J, Stolpe B, Cole, PA, Lead JR, Sapp MS, Lyons BP, McKew, BA, Steinke, M, Benyahia F, Colbeck I, Whitby C* (2014). Estuarine sediment hydrocarbon-degrading microbial communities demonstrate resilience to nanosilver. Int. J. Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 96:206-215. Papaspyrou, S, Smith, CJ, Dong, LF, Whitby, C, Dumbrell, AJ, Nedwell, DB (2014). Nitrate reduction functional genes and nitrate reduction potentials persist in deeper estuarine sediments. Why? PLOS ONE, 9 (4): 1-13. Beddow, J, Stolpe, B, Cole, PA, Lead, JR, Sapp, M, Lyons, B, Colbeck, I, Whitby, C* (2014). Effects of engineered silver nanoparticles on the growth and activity of ecologically important microbes. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 6:448-458. Johnson, RJ, Smith, BE, Rowland SJ, Whitby, C* (2013). Biodegradation of alkyl branched aromatic alkanoic naphthenic acids by Pseudomonas putida KT2440. International Journal of Biodeterioration and Biodegradation 81: 3-8. McKew, B, Dumbrell, AJ, Daud, SD, Hepburn, L, Thorpe, E, Morgensen, L, Whitby, C* (2012). Characterization of geographically distinct bacterial communities associated with the coral mucus from Acropora spp. and Porites spp. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78: 5229-5237. Johnson, RJ, West, C, Swaih, AM, Folwell, BD, Smith, BE, Rowland SJ, Whitby, C* (2012). Aerobic biotransformation of alkyl branched aromatic alkanoic naphthenic acids via two different pathways by a new isolate of Mycobacterium. Environmental Microbiology, 14: 872-882. Pankhurst, L, Whitby, C, Pawlett, M, Larcombe, L, McKew, BA, Deacon, L, Morgan, S, Villa, R, Drew, G, Tyrrel, S, Pollard, S, Coulon, F (2012). Temporal and spatial changes of the microbial bioaerosol communities in green-waste composting. FEMS Microbiololgy Ecology, 79: 229-239. Rowland, SJ, Jones, D, Scarlett, AG, West, CE, Hin, LP, Boberek, M, Tonkin, A, Smith, BE, Whitby, C* (2011). Synthesis and toxicity of some metabolites of the microbial degradation of synthetic naphthenic acids. Science of the Total Environment. 409: 2936-2941. Whitby, C*, Skovhus, T (2011). Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oil Field Systems. C. Whitby, T.L. Skovhus (eds.) Springer, Berlin. Price, A, Alvarez, LA, Whitby, C, & Larsen, J (2011). How many microorganisms are present? Quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR). In: Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oil Field Systems. C. Whitby, T.L. Skovhus (eds.) Springer, Berlin. Johnson, R, Smith, BE, Sutton, P, McGenity, TJ, Rowland, SJ, Whitby, C*. (2010). Microbial biodegradation of aromatic alkanoic naphthenic acids is affected by the degree of alkyl side chain branching. Isme Journal. 5: 486-496. Price, A, Alvarez, LA, Whitby, C, Larsen, J (2010). Detection of SRP activity by quantification of mRNA for the dissimilatory (bi) sulfite reductase gene (dsrA) by reverse transcription quantitative PCR. NACE- International Corrosion Series.