The Nüsslein Group
Microbial Ecology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Since joining the Nüsslein Lab in March 2009, I have worked to generate isolates of the genus Burkholderia from a hotspot of diversity, the rainforest soil in Amazonia, Brazil, and to improve the lab's efforts in the efficient extraction of nucleic acids from soils rich in humic acids. I am particularly interested in describing the microbial nitrogen cycle in soil, and how it is influenced by human land use change along an agricultural chronosequence from primary rainforest to pasture, and finally, to secondary rainforest.
2007 B.A., Microbiology from Ohio Wesleyan University
2006-2007 ASM Undergraduate Research Fellow
2011 Participant, The Summer Soil Institute, Colorado State University
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Not yet, but soon
Hamaoui Jr., G.S., K.H. Baek, J. Rodrigues, B.J.M. Bohannan, J.M. Tiedje, V. Pellizari, B. Feigl, and K. Nüsslein. 2011. "Characterizing the Aerobic Ammonia Oxidizing Communities in Amazonian Soils under Different Land Uses." International Society for Microbial Ecology, biannual mtg., Seattle, WA, 2010.
Hamaoui Jr., G.S., "The Effect of Land Use Change on Ammonia Oxidizing Communities in Amazonian Soils." The Summer Soil Institute, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2011.
Long, F., G.S. Hamaoui Jr., B.J.M. Bohannan, J.L.M. Rodrigues, J.M. Tiedje, V.H. Pellizari, and K. Nüsslein, "Characterizing the Burkholderia Community Response to Land Use Change in the Amazonian Rainforest." American Society for Microbiology annual mtg., New Orleans, LA, 2011.
Baek, K-H, G.S. Hamaoui Jr., J. Rodrigues, B.J.M. Bohannan, J.M. Tiedje, V. Pellizari, B. Feigl, and K. Nüsslein, "Land Use Alters The Structure of Methane-Oxidizing", ISME-13, Seattle, WA, August 2010.
Undergraduate work:
Hamaoui, Jr., G.S., L. Tuhela, M.N. Spilde, R.L. Sinsabaugh, and D.E. Northup. 2007. “Identification of Microbial Signatures in Biogenic Cave Ferromanganese Deposits (FMD).” American Society for Microbiology annual mtg., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Hamaoui, Jr., G.S., L. Tuhela, M.N. Spilde, R.L. Sinsabaugh, and D.E. Northup. 2007. “Identification of Microbial Signatures in Biogenic Cave Ferromanganese Deposits.” Ohio Branch of the American Society for Microbiology annual mtg., Kent, OH.
Hamaoui, Jr., G.S., S.P. Kaestner, M.N. Spilde, and D.E. Northup. 2006. “Scanning electron microscopy analysis of Lechuguilla Cave ferromanganese enrichment cultures.” National Speleological Society annual mtg., Bellingham, WA.
Hamaoui, Jr., G.S. and E.H. Burtt, Jr. 2005. “Analysis of Feather Degradation by Bacillus licheniformis from the Plumage of Botteri’s Sparrows Living in Wet and Dry Habitats in Arizona.” Wilson Ornithological Society annual mtg., Washington, D.C.
Hamaoui, Jr., G.S. and E.H. Burtt, Jr. 2005. “Feather Degradation by Bacillus licheniformis from the Plumage of Botteri’s Sparrows Living in Wet and Dry Habitats in Arizona.” Ohio Branch of the American Society for Microbiology annual mtg., Delaware, OH.
Frances Long, 2011, M.S. Microbiology. Project Title: "Characterizing the Burkholderia Community Response to Land Use Change in the Amazonian Rainforest"
Undergraduate mentoring:
Student Research Mentor: Fall 2004-Spring 2006
Departments of Zoology and Botany-Microbiology:
Ohio Wesleyan University
