Sean O'Connell

Research Presentations

(** Denotes graduate student coauthor; * Denotes undergraduate coauthor)

      Angelopulos, HA** and SP O’Connell. 2003. Effects of acid and metal contamination on a stream water microbial assemblage. American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

      Dunn, MD** and SP O'Connell. 2003. Adaptive divergence in laboratory maintained populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
     
       Lowery, K*, K Reid*, and SP O’Connell.
2003. Bacterial dynamics in a cave ecosystem: Tissue decomposition and heterotroph distributions from three zones of Gregorys Cave, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

      Parise, G* and SP O’Connell. 2003. Psychrophilic soil Archaea from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. ASM Corporate Activities Program Student Travel Grant Awardee! 

       Parise, G* and SP O’Connell. 2003. The Discovery of a cold-adapted group of Archaea in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Education, Salt Lake City, UT.

      Reid, K* and SP O’Connell. 2003. Biogeography of Bacteria from forested ecosystems within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

      Reid, K* and SP O’Connell. 2003. Bacterial distributions in a cave and forested ecosystems of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Education, Salt Lake City, UT.

      Angelopulos, HA** and SP O’Connell. 2002. Effects of acid and metal contamination on a stream water microbial assemblage. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.

      Angelopulos, HA** and SP O’Connell. 2002. Effects of acid and metal leachate on microbial assemblages in Beech Flats Prong. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting, Gatlinburg, TN.

      Dunn, M** and SP O’Connell. 2002. Adaptive divergence in laboratory maintained populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.

      Lowery, K* and SP O’Connell. 2002. Bacterial decomposition of animal tissue in Gregorys Cave. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting, Gatlinburg, TN.

      O’Connell, SP. 2002. 2002. Biodiversity at the micro-scale in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting, Gatlinburg, TN.

      O’Connell, SP, RM Lehman, ME Watwood, and FS Colwell. 2002. Impacts of chemical disturbance on the diversity of subsurface microbial communities. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, AZ.

      Parise, GM* and SP O’Connell. 2002. Seasonal dynamics of soil Archaea in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.

      Parise, G* and SP O’Connell. 2002. Cold-adapted Soil Archaea in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting, Gatlinburg, TN.

      Reid, K* and SP O’Connell. 2002. Bacterial biogeography within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.

      Reid, K* and SP O’Connell. 2002. Bacterial biogeography within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting, Gatlinburg, TN.

      O'Connell, SP, RM Lehman, and JL Garland. 2001. Biolog media formulation (GN2 vs. GN) affects community-level physiological profiles. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2001.

      O'Connell, SP, ME Watwood, RM Lehman, and FS Colwell. 2001. Molecular and culture-based techniques for monitoring trichloroethylene-exposed microbial communities. Battelle In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation Meeting, San Diego, CA, June 2001.

      O'Connell, SP, DE Cummings, RM Lehman, ME Watwood, FS Colwell. 2001. Detection of archaeal DNA sequences in an oxic, fractured rock aquifer. American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 2001.

      O'Connell, SP, ME Watwood, RM Lehman, and FS Colwell. 2001. Estimation of groundwater microbial species diversity using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and plate count methods. Intermountain Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Pocatello, ID, April 2001.

      O'Connell, SP, ME Watwood, RM Lehman, and FS Colwell. 2000. Optimized recovery of microbial community DNA from groundwater. Intermountain Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Provo, UT.

      Watwood, ME, RA Davis, and SP O'Connell. 2000. Dehalogenation in solvent mixtures: biodegradation kinetics and microbial community characterization. International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, CA.

      O'Connell, SP, FS Colwell, RM Lehman, and ME Watwood. 1999. Groundwater microbial species diversity as affected by trichloroethylene in microcosm experiments. American Society for Microbiology Conference on Microbial Biodiversity, Chicago, IL.

      Davis, RA, SP O'Connell, and ME Watwood. 1999. Carbon source utilization and fatty acid methyl ester profiles for anaerobic enrichment cultures and isolates capable of degrading chlorinated solvents. American Society for Microbiology Conference on Microbial Biodiversity, Chicago, IL.

      O'Connell, SP, RM Lehman, ME Downing, DB Ringelberg, and FS Colwell. 1999. Are viable but nonculturable organisms a significant reservoir of reactive biomass in the rock of a fractured basalt aquifer? Fourth International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology, Vail, CO.

      Lehman, RM, FS Colwell, R Smith, M Delwiche, SP O'Connell, JK Fredrickson, F Brockman, A-L Reysenbach, T Kieft, TJ Phelps, DB Ringelberg, and DC White. 1999. Longitudinal and vertical variations in the microbial ecology of a fractured basalt aquifer with respect to a contaminant plume. Fourth International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology, Vail, CO.

      Ingram, JC, MM Cortez, GS Groenewold, WF Bauer, RM Lehman, and SP O'Connell. 1999. Static SIMS detection of cell membrane biomolecules. 47th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Dallas, TX.

      O'Connell, SP, RM Lehman, and FS Colwell. 1998. Quality assessment of aseptic cores by fatty acid methyl ester profiles of aerobic heterotrophic bacteria from a basalt aquifer. Intermountain Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Idaho Falls, ID.

      O'Connell, SP, RM Lehman, and FS Colwell. 1998. Fatty acid methyl ester profiling of bacteria to assess quality of aseptic cores from a fractured basalt aquifer. American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

      O'Connell, SP, RM Lehman, FS Colwell, and ME Watwood. 1998. The effects of trichloroethylene on groundwater microbial diversity and community-level physiological profiles. Eighth International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Halifax, NS.