Publications

Refereed Publications

Nüsslein, K., L. Arnt, J. Rennie, C. Owens, and G. N. Tew. 2006. Broad Spectrum Antibacterial Activity By A Novel Abiogenic Peptide Mimic. Microbiology (in press)

Fritzges, M. B., J. T. DeJong, and K. Nüsslein. 2006. Microbially Induced Cementation To Control Sand Response To Undrained Shear. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering (in press)

Izquierdo, J.A. and K. Nüsslein. 2006. Distribution of extensive nifH gene diversity across physical soil microenvironments. Microbial Ecology 51(4): 441-452

Vriezen, J.A.C., F. J. de Bruijn, and K. Nüsslein. 2006. Desiccation responses and survival of Sinorhizobium meliloti USDA 1021 in relation to growth-phase, temperature, chloride and sulfate availability. Letters in Applied Microbiology 42(2): 172-178.

Stout, L. M., K. Nüsslein. 2005. Shifts in Rhizoplane Communities of Aquatic Plants Following Cadmium Exposure. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71(5): 2484-2492.

Martini, A. M., K. Nüsslein, and S. T. Petsch. 2005. Enhancing Microbial Gas From Unconventional Reservoirs: Geochemical And Microbiological Characterization Of Methane-Rich Fractured Black Shales. GasTips 12:23-28.

Rennie, J., L. Arnt, H. Tang, K. Nüsslein, G. N. Tew. 2005. Simple oligomers as antimicrobial peptide mimics. Journal of Industrial and Microbial Biotechnology 32(7):296-300.

Ergas, S.J., Harrison, J., Bloom, J., Forloney, K., Ahlfeld, D.P., Nüsslein, K., Yuretich, R.F. 2005. Natural Attenuation of Acid Mine Drainage by Acidophilic and Acidotolerant Fe(III)- and Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria. In C. Clark II and A. Lindner (eds.), Innovative Approaches for the Remediation of Subsurface-Contaminated Hazardous Waste Sites: Bridging Flask and Field Studies, American Chemical Society Symposium Series, American Chemical Society, Washington DC.

Ilker, M. F., K. Nüsslein, G. N. Tew, and E. B. Coughlin. 2004. Tuning the Hemolytic and Antibacterial Activities of Amphiphilic Polynorbornene Derivatives. Journal of the American Chemical Society 126(48): 15870-15875.

Arnt, L., K. Nüsslein, and G. N. Tew. 2004. Non-hemolytic Abiogenic Oligomers as Antimicrobial Peptide Mimics. J. Polymer Science 42(15): 3860-3864 (also: provided image for full front cover).

Das K., J. Penelle, V.A. Rotello, K. Nüsslein. 2003. Specific recognition of bacteria by surface-templated polymer films. LANGMUIR 19 (15): 6226-6229.

K. Nüsslein and J. M. Tiedje. 1999. Soil bacterial community shift correlated with change from forest to pasture vegetation in a tropical soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65:3622-3626.

Tiedje, J.M., S. Asuming-Brempong, K. Nüsslein, T.L. Marsh and S.J. Flynn. 1999. Opening the black box of soil microbial diversity. Applied Soil Ecology 13:109-122.

K. Nüsslein and J. M. Tiedje. 1998.Characterization of a young Hawaiian soil bacterial community for its dominant and rare members using small subunit rDNA amplified from DNA fractionated by its guanine and cytosine composition. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64:1283-1289.

Nüsslein, K., D. Maris, K. Timmis, and D. F. Dwyer. 1992.Expression and transfer of engineered catabolic pathways harbored by Pseudomonas ssp. introduced into activated sludge microcosms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 58:3380-3386.

Dwyer, D. F., D. Maris, and K. Nüsslein. 1990. Fate and behavior of genetically-engineered microorganisms in an activated sludge microcosm. In S. Dumontet and E. Landi (ed.), Genetic Engineering and Environmental Risk, pp. 153-158. Italian Society of Biology, Rome, Italy.

Nüsslein, K. and A. Mohr. 1987. Notes on the enzymatic determination of total carbondioxide in fish blood and water. Österreichs Fischerei 40:81-85.


Peer Reviewed - Submitted

Nüsslein, K., L. Arnt, J. Rennie, C. Owens, and G. N. Tew. 2005. Broad Spectrum Antibacterial Activity By A Novel Abiogenic Peptide Mimic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (under review)

Martini, A. M., S. T. Petsch, J. C. McIntosh, and K. Nüsslein (2005). Active microbial methane production and organic matter degradation in a Devonian black shale. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (under review)

Gibney, B. P., and K. Nüsslein. 2005. Microbial Reactions Governing Arsenic Mobility in Urban Lake Sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (under review)

Gomez-Alvarez, V., G. M. King, and K. Nüsslein. 2005. Comparative 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis of Microbial Communities in Four Recent Hawaiian Volcanic Deposits. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (under review)

Fritzges, M. B., J. T. DeJong, and K. Nüsslein (2005). Microbially Induced Cementation To Control Sand Response To Undrained Shear. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE (under review)


Conference Proceedings

Tiedje, J.M., K. Nüsslein, J. Zhou, B. Xia, C. Moyer, and F. Dazzo. 1997. The vast world of microbial diversity. In The 5th International Symposium on New Frontiers in Microbiology by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation. January 30-31, 1997, Tokyo, Japan.

Tiedje, J.M., J.Z. Zhou, K. Nüsslein, C. L. Moyer, and R. R. Fulthorpe. 1997 Extent and patterns of soil microbial diversity, pp. 35-41. In M. T. Martins et al. (eds.) Progress in Microbial Ecology: Proceedings of the ISME-7 Meeting, 1995, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian Society for Microbiology, Sao Paulo, Brazil.


Book Chapters

Sandler, S. J., and K. Nüsslein. 2003. RecA-dependent mechanisms for the generation of genetic diversity. In M. J. Day and R.V. Miller (eds.) Mechanisms of Genomic Evolution in Bacteria, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.

Nüsslein, K. 2002. Pathogen Detection: Nucleic Acid Based Techniques For The Rapid Identification Of Bacterial Pathogens. In McGraw-Hill Enzyclopedia of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.


The Nüsslein Lab in the News

03-2005 - Klaus Nüsslein makes publication cover from UMass Microbiology News

03-2005 - New NSF Grant in UMass Microbiology News

03-2005 - Conference Addresses Terrorism's Environmetnal Impact in L2W Technical Communications

01-2004 - Teaching Enivronmental in UMass NRE News

09-2003 - Clean-up at Davis Mine by Christopher O'Carroll in UMass Magazine

05-2003 - Microbiology Vigil: Probing What's Out There By Jeffrey M. Perkel in The Scientist

11-2002 - Massachusetts Team Explores Acid Mine Runoff in Environmental News Service

11-2002 - UMass team to study bioremediation of acid, heavy metals from collapsed mind in Science Blog

11-2002 - UMass Team to Study Bioremediation of Acid, Heavy Metals From Collapsed Mine in Innovations Report

09-2000 - What's It Like to Work in a New Lab? by Vid Mohan-Ram in Science

04-2000 - Views From the Lab by Klaus Nüsslein in Science

01-2000 - Murder Most Foul: How Not to Kill a Grant Application by Vid Mohan-Ram in Science