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Buchanan, A* and S O’Connell. 2006. A dominant methanogen inhabits the digestive tracts of elk from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Asheville, NC.
York, E* and S O’Connell. 2006. Culturable heterotrophic bacterial diversity between three forested ecosystems as determined by two nutrient-limited media. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Asheville, NC.
O’Connell, SP. 2006. Infinite diversity in infinitely small organisms: Exploring bacteria using DNA based techniques. Science in the Mountains (A special North Carolina Biotechnology Center meeting). Asheville, NC.
O’Connell, SP. 2006. Extensive bacterial diversity in soils and waters of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: How many species are out there? Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
York, EA*, DT Rosbach**, MB Collins**, PJ Drummond**, and SP O’Connell. 2006. Differences in bacterial diversity from three forested ecosystems: Multiple cultivation approaches discriminate between sites. American Society for Microbiology General Meeting. Orlando, FL.
Taylor, BA**, AL Buchanan*, and SP O’Connell. 2006. Archaeal and bacterial community patterns from the digestive tracts of wild elk in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. American Society for Microbiology General Meeting. Orlando, FL.
O’Connell, SP, MB Collins**, PJ Drummond**, EA York*, and DT Rosbach**. 2006. Diversity of bacterial isolates and clones from three forested ecosystems in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. Vienna, Austria.
O’Connell, SP. 2006. Repeated inventorying of soils and streams: Are there terrestrial and aquatic bacteria? All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
York, EA, MB Collins, SP O’Connell. 2006. Comparison of the bacterial diversity in bulk soil and the hemlock rhizosphere at Albright Grove. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Buchanan, AL* and S.P. O’Connell. 2005. Fingerprinting archaeal communities within the digestive tracts of elk. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
Taylor, BA** and S.P. O’Connell. 2005. Seasonal and individual differences in microfloral communities from elk as assessed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
York, EA* and S.P. O’Connell. 2005. Extremely oligotrophic bacteria inhabit soils in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
Buchanan, A*, Taylor, B**, and S O’Connell. 2005. Examination of bacterial and archaeal populations within elk using molecular methods. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Curtis, A*, Jamison, J*, Patel, H*, Drummond, P**, and S O’Connell. 2005. Long-term trends in bacterial distribution patterns in soils and waters at Kephart Prong and Oconaluftee. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
O’Connell, S. 2005. Ecosystems within elk (Cervus elaphus): Microbial community composition over time and between individual animals. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
York, E* and S O’Connell. 2005. Nutritionally extreme soil bacteria are common in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Sink, H* and S O’Connell. 2005. Acidophilic bacterial communities from forest soil impacted by acid rain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Lexington, VA.
O’Connell, SP. 2004. Prokaryotic biodiversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: How much of the total picture can we see? International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Cancun, Mexico.
Drummond, P* and S O’Connell. 2004. Determining patterns of distribution of Archaea from soil in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Education. Indianapolis, IN.
Lowery, K* and S O’Connell. 2004. Microbial decomposition and bacterial community dynamics of animal tissue in Gregorys Cave, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Education. Indianapolis, IN.
Reid, K* and SP O’Connell. 2004. Thermophiles found in non-thermophilic soil habitats within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Education. Indianapolis, IN.
Reid*, K and SP O’Connell. 2004. Bacteria from high elevation forests: Cultural, metabolic and molecular assessment of diversity (ASM Undergraduate Research Fellow talk and poster). American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
O’Connell, SP. 2004. Microbial diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A tool for teaching microbiology through traditional and modern approaches. American Society for Microbiology Conference on Undergraduate Education. New Orleans, LA.
Drummond, P* and S O’Connell. 2004. Unique Euryarchaeota and Crenarchaeota from high elevation and organic rich soils. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.
Haney**, WB and S O’Connell. 2004. Characterization of alkaliphilic and alkali-tolerant chromium reducing bacteria. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.
Sink, H* and S O’Connell. 2004. Acidophilic bacterial communities from forest soil impacted by acid rain in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.
O’Connell, S. 2004. The extent and interpretation of prokaryotic diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Haney, WB** and S O’Connell. 2004. Long-term inventory of heterotrophic bacteria from soils and waters of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Drummond, P** and S O’Connell. 2004. Novel lineages of Crenarchaeota and Euryarchaeota at Alum Cave Bluffs. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Sink, H* and S O’Connell. 2004. Acid-adapted bacteria from four higher elevation ATBI plots. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Haney, WB** and SP O’Connell. 2003. Characterization of bacterial isolates from a chromium-impacted Superfund site. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
Lowery, K* and SP O’Connell. 2003. The role of bacteria in the decomposition of animal tissue: a look into caves and forensics. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
Le Moine, CMR**, K Reid*, GM Parise*, and SP O’Connell. 2003. Wide-ranging thermophilic bacteria in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
O’Connell, S. 2003. Expansion of bacterial and archaeal surveys in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Ecosystems and extremophiles. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Drummond, P* and S O’Connell. 2003. Archaea from high organic soils in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Reid, K* and S O’Connell. 2003. Bacterial community patterns in Great Smoky Mountains National Park soils. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Lowery, K* and S O’Connell. 2003. Bacterial decomposition of animal tissue in Gregorys Cave: spatial, temporal, and other effects. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Webb, D* and S O’Connell. 2003. Microbial diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A teaching tool. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
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.
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.
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Buchanan, A* and S O’Connell. 2006. A dominant methanogen inhabits the digestive tracts of elk from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Asheville, NC.
York, E* and S O’Connell. 2006. Culturable heterotrophic bacterial diversity between three forested ecosystems as determined by two nutrient-limited media. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Asheville, NC.
O’Connell, SP. 2006. Infinite diversity in infinitely small organisms: Exploring bacteria using DNA based techniques. Science in the Mountains (A special North Carolina Biotechnology Center meeting). Asheville, NC.
O’Connell, SP. 2006. Extensive bacterial diversity in soils and waters of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: How many species are out there? Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
York, EA*, DT Rosbach**, MB Collins**, PJ Drummond**, and SP O’Connell. 2006. Differences in bacterial diversity from three forested ecosystems: Multiple cultivation approaches discriminate between sites. American Society for Microbiology General Meeting. Orlando, FL.
Taylor, BA**, AL Buchanan*, and SP O’Connell. 2006. Archaeal and bacterial community patterns from the digestive tracts of wild elk in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. American Society for Microbiology General Meeting. Orlando, FL.
O’Connell, SP, MB Collins**, PJ Drummond**, EA York*, and DT Rosbach**. 2006. Diversity of bacterial isolates and clones from three forested ecosystems in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. Vienna, Austria.
O’Connell, SP. 2006. Repeated inventorying of soils and streams: Are there terrestrial and aquatic bacteria? All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
York, EA, MB Collins, SP O’Connell. 2006. Comparison of the bacterial diversity in bulk soil and the hemlock rhizosphere at Albright Grove. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Buchanan, AL* and S.P. O’Connell. 2005. Fingerprinting archaeal communities within the digestive tracts of elk. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
Taylor, BA** and S.P. O’Connell. 2005. Seasonal and individual differences in microfloral communities from elk as assessed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
York, EA* and S.P. O’Connell. 2005. Extremely oligotrophic bacteria inhabit soils in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
Buchanan, A*, Taylor, B**, and S O’Connell. 2005. Examination of bacterial and archaeal populations within elk using molecular methods. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Curtis, A*, Jamison, J*, Patel, H*, Drummond, P**, and S O’Connell. 2005. Long-term trends in bacterial distribution patterns in soils and waters at Kephart Prong and Oconaluftee. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
O’Connell, S. 2005. Ecosystems within elk (Cervus elaphus): Microbial community composition over time and between individual animals. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
York, E* and S O’Connell. 2005. Nutritionally extreme soil bacteria are common in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Sink, H* and S O’Connell. 2005. Acidophilic bacterial communities from forest soil impacted by acid rain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Lexington, VA.
O’Connell, SP. 2004. Prokaryotic biodiversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: How much of the total picture can we see? International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Cancun, Mexico.
Drummond, P* and S O’Connell. 2004. Determining patterns of distribution of Archaea from soil in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Education. Indianapolis, IN.
Lowery, K* and S O’Connell. 2004. Microbial decomposition and bacterial community dynamics of animal tissue in Gregorys Cave, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Education. Indianapolis, IN.
Reid, K* and SP O’Connell. 2004. Thermophiles found in non-thermophilic soil habitats within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Conference on Undergraduate Education. Indianapolis, IN.
Reid*, K and SP O’Connell. 2004. Bacteria from high elevation forests: Cultural, metabolic and molecular assessment of diversity (ASM Undergraduate Research Fellow talk and poster). American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
O’Connell, SP. 2004. Microbial diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A tool for teaching microbiology through traditional and modern approaches. American Society for Microbiology Conference on Undergraduate Education. New Orleans, LA.
Drummond, P* and S O’Connell. 2004. Unique Euryarchaeota and Crenarchaeota from high elevation and organic rich soils. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.
Haney**, WB and S O’Connell. 2004. Characterization of alkaliphilic and alkali-tolerant chromium reducing bacteria. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.
Sink, H* and S O’Connell. 2004. Acidophilic bacterial communities from forest soil impacted by acid rain in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.
O’Connell, S. 2004. The extent and interpretation of prokaryotic diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Haney, WB** and S O’Connell. 2004. Long-term inventory of heterotrophic bacteria from soils and waters of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Drummond, P** and S O’Connell. 2004. Novel lineages of Crenarchaeota and Euryarchaeota at Alum Cave Bluffs. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Sink, H* and S O’Connell. 2004. Acid-adapted bacteria from four higher elevation ATBI plots. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Haney, WB** and SP O’Connell. 2003. Characterization of bacterial isolates from a chromium-impacted Superfund site. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
Lowery, K* and SP O’Connell. 2003. The role of bacteria in the decomposition of animal tissue: a look into caves and forensics. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
Le Moine, CMR**, K Reid*, GM Parise*, and SP O’Connell. 2003. Wide-ranging thermophilic bacteria in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC.
O’Connell, S. 2003. Expansion of bacterial and archaeal surveys in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Ecosystems and extremophiles. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Drummond, P* and S O’Connell. 2003. Archaea from high organic soils in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Reid, K* and S O’Connell. 2003. Bacterial community patterns in Great Smoky Mountains National Park soils. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Lowery, K* and S O’Connell. 2003. Bacterial decomposition of animal tissue in Gregorys Cave: spatial, temporal, and other effects. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
Webb, D* and S O’Connell. 2003. Microbial diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A teaching tool. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN.
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.
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.
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