PUBLICATIONS

Newton, I.L.G., P.R. Girguis, C.M. Cavanaugh. 2008. Comparative genomics of vesicomyid endosymbionts. BMC Genomics 9: 585.

Guss, A.M.*, I.L.G. Newton*, C.R. Young, V. Klepac-Ceraj, S. Lory and C.M. Cavanaugh. Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of bacteria associated with cystic fibrosis. submitted. *co-first authors

Newton, I.L.G., T. Woyke, T.A. Auchtung, G.F. Dilly, R.J. Dutton, M.C. Fisher, K.M. Fontanez, E. Lau, F.J. Stewart, P.M. Richardson, K.W. Barry, E. Saunders, J.C. Detter, D. Wu, J.A. Eisen, C.M. Cavanaugh. 2006. The Calyptogena magnifica chemoautotrophic symbiont genome. Science. 315: 998-1000.

Stewart, F., Newton, I.L.G. and C.M. Cavanaugh. 2005. Chemosynthetic endosymbioses: adaptations to oxic-anoxic interfaces. Trends in Microbiology 13: 439-448.

Cavanaugh, C.M. McKiness, Z., Newton, I.L.G. and F.Stewart. 2005. Marine Chemosynthetic Symbioses. The Prokaryotes, A handbook on the biology of bacteria, 3rd Edition, M. Dworkin et al., ed.

I.L. Garcia. 2001. Fiddler crab posing: field tests of four hypothetical functions. American Zoologist. 41 (6): 1449

Woodin,S.A., R.A. Merz, F.M. Thomas, D.R.Edwards, and I. L. Garcia. 2003. Chaetae and mechanical function: tools no Metazoan class should be without. Hydrobiologia 496: 253-258.

 

 PRESENTATIONS

HHMI Meeting of Predoctoral Fellows, Chevy Chase, MD, September, 2007. "Bacterial symbiont genomics: what 100 million years inside a clam does to your genome"

Joint Genome Institute: Users Group Meeting, Walnut Creek, CA March, 2006
“The Calyptogena magnifica symbiont genome”

American Society for Microbiology, Orlando, FL May, 2006
"The Calyptogena magnifica symbiont draft genome: an obligate, maternally transmitted endosymbiont
with extensive metabolic capabilities"

International Society for Microbial Ecology, Cancun, Mexico December, 2004
“Virulence Genes in Chemosynthetic Symbionts”

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meetings, Anaheim, CA December, 2001
“Fiddler crab posing: field tests of four hypothetical functions”

International Polychaete Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland July, 2001
“Elucidating the function of capillary setae in the maldanid polychaete, Clymenella torquata”