Aquatic microbial ecology
- Gronniger JL, Wang Z, Brandt JL, Ward CS, Tsementzi D, Mu H, Gu J, Johnson ZI, Konstantinidis KT, Hunt DE. (2022) Rapid changes in coastal ocean microbiomes uncoupled with shifts in environmental variables. Environ Microbiol. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.16086
- Ward CS, Diana Z, Ke KM, Orihuela B, Schultz TP, Rittschof D. (2022) Microbiome development of seawater-incubated pre-production plastic pellets reveals distinct and predictive community compositions. Front Mar Sci. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.807327
- Kimbrel JA, Jeffrey BM, Ward CS. Prokaryotic Genome Annotation in Springer Protocols, Microbial Systems Biology 2nd Edition (2022).
- Fuirst M, Ward CS, Schwaner C, Diana Z, Schultz TF, Rittschof D. (2021) Compositional and functional microbiome variation between tubes of an intertidal polychaete and surrounding marine sediment. Front Mar Sci. 8:656506. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.656506
- Ward CS, Pan J, Colman BP, Wang Z, Gwin C, Williams TC, Ardis A, Gunsch CK, Hunt DE. (2019) Conserved microbial toxicity responses for acute and chronic silver nanoparticle treatments in wetland mesocosms. Environ Sci Technol. 53(6):3268-3276. doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b06654
- Duan Y, Xie N, Song Z, Ward CS, Yung C-M, Hunt DE, Johnson ZI, Wang G. (2018) High-resolution time-series reveal distinct seasonal patterns of planktonic fungi at a temperate coastal ocean site (Beaufort, North Carolina USA). Appl Environ Microbiol. 84(21). doi:10.1128/AEM.00967-18
- Ward CS, Yung C-M, Davis KM, Blinebry SK, Williams TC, Johnson ZI, Hunt DE. (2017) Annual community patterns are driven by seasonal switching between closely related marine bacteria. ISMEJ 11, 1412-1422. doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.4
- Yung C-M, Ward CS, Davis KM, Johnson ZI, Hunt DE. (2016) Diverse and temporally variable particle-associated microbial communities are insensitive to bulk seawater environmental parameters. Appl Environ Microbiol. 82(11):3431–3437. doi:10.1128/AEM.00395-16
- Hunt DE and Ward CS. (2015) A network-based approach to disturbance transmission through microbial interactions. Front Microbiol. 6:1182. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01182
- Yung C-M, Vereen MK, Herbert A, Davis KM, Yang J, Kantorowska A, Ward CS, Wernegreen, JJ, Johnson ZI, Hunt DE. (2015) Thermally adaptive tradeoffs in closely related marine bacterial strains. Environ Microbiol. 17(7): 2421–2429. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12714
- Johnson ZI, Wheeler BJ, Blinebry SK, Carlson CM, Ward CS, Hunt DE. (2013) Dramatic variability of the carbonate system at a temperate coastal ocean site (Beaufort, North Carolina, USA) is regulated by physical and biogeochemical processes on multiple timescales. PLoS ONE. 8(12): e85117. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085117
- Coolen MJ, Talbot HM, Abbas BA, Ward CS, Schouten S, Volkman JK, Damste JS. (2008) Sources for sedimentary bacteriohopanepolyols as revealed by 16S rDNA stratigraphy. Environ Microbiol. 10(7):1783-803. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01601
Biofuel algae and microbiomes
- Ward CS, Rolison K, Li M, Rozen S, Fisher CL, Lane TW, Thelen MP, Stuart RK. (2021) Janthinobacter additions reduce rotifer grazing of microalga Microchloropsis salina in biotically complex communities. Algal Research. 58:102400. doi:10.1016/j.algal.2021.102400
- Fisher CL*, Ward CS*, Kimbrel JA, Lane P, Stuart RK, Mayali X, Lane TW. (2019) Bacterial communities protect the alga Microchloropsis salina from grazing by the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis. Algal Research. 40:101500. doi:10.1016/j.algal.2019.101500
- Kimbrel JA, Samo TJ, Ward CS, Nilson DJ, Thelen MP, Siccardi A, Zimba P, Lane TW, Mayali X. (2019) Host selection and stochastic effects influence bacterial community assembly on the microalgal phycosphere. Algal Research. 40:101489. doi:10:1016/j.algal.2019.101489
Metabolomics
- Ward CS, Erikkson P, Garcia JLI, Brandes A, Ronen SM. (2013) HDAC inhibition induces increased choline uptake and elevated phosphocholine levels in MCF7 breast cancer cells. PLoS ONE. 8(4):e62610. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062610
- Venkatesh H, Chaumeil MM, Ward CS, James CD, Haas-Kogan DA, Ronen SM. (2012) Reduced phosphocholine and hyperpolarized lactate provide magnetic resonance biomarkers of PI3K/Akt/mTOR in inhibition in glioblastoma. Neuro Oncol. 14(3):315-25. doi:10.1093/neuonc/nor209
- Brandes AH, Ward CS, Ronen SM. (2010) 17-allyamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin treatment results in a magnetic resonance spectroscopy-detectable elevation in choline-containing metabolites associated with increased expression of choline transporter SLC44A1 and phospholipase A2. Breast Cancer Res. 12(5):R84. doi:10.1186/bcr2729
- Ward CS, Venkatesh HS, Chaumeil MM, Brandes AH, Van Criekinge M, Dafni H, Kurhanewicz J, James CD, Haas-Kogan DA, Ronen SM. (2010) Noninvasive detection of target modulation following phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase inhibition using hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Cancer Res. 70(4):1296-305. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2251