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Kay Bidle Kay Bidle
Assistant Professor
 Marine and Coastal Sciences
Marine Science 305C
71 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-932-6555 x393
Fax: 732-932-4083
Email: bidle@marine.rutgers.edu
Website: marine.rutgers.edu/faculty_kbidle.html
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Expertise Summary
  A fundamental objective of my research program is to link the activity, diversity and evolution of microbial genes to key oceanic ecosystem and biogeochemical processes. Oceanic biogeochemical cycles are driven entirely by the dynamic biochemical activities of microorganisms (i.e., phytoplankton, bacteria, viruses), yet we are faced with fundamental open questions about the activity, molecular diversity, and evolutionary development of their biochemical strategies. My research program aims to address these questions by merging recent genetic information with the development of innovative approaches and instrumentation. My objectives are to elucidate, using molecular biology and biochemistry techniques, cellular strategies whereby marine phytoplankton, bacteria, and viruses react to a changing environment (e.g. nutrient stress, blooms) and, in the process, shape ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemistry in the upper ocean.

Selected Publications
Fossil genes and microbes in the oldest ice on Earth
  Journal: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA
 Authors: Bidle, K.D., S. Lee, D.R. Marchant and P.G. Falkowski
Volume: 104    Pages: 13455-13460
Date Published: 2007
Viral activation and recruitment of metacaspases in the unicellular coccolithophorid, Emiliania huxleyi
  Journal: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
 Authors: Bidle, K.D., L. Haramaty, J. Barcelos-Ramos and P.G. Falkowski.
Volume: 104    Pages: 6049-6054
Date Published: 2007
Cell death in planktonic, photosynthetic microorganisms
  Journal: Nature Reviews Microbiol.
 Authors: Bidle, K.D. and P.G. Falkowski
Volume: 2    Pages: 643-655
Date Published: 2004

 

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