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Overview

Allan Konopka is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, including Animal Science and Zoology, Oncology, Immunology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Ecology.

Their recent publications cover a variety of topics and venues. Notable papers include:

  • The IL-22-oncostatin M axis promotes intestinal inflammation and tumorigenesis, 2025, Nature Immunology
  • Grower-finisher gilts with high and low feed conversion fed diets with varied crude protein content differ in pancreatic enzyme activity and gut morphology, 2024, Livestock Science
  • A green sulfur bacterium from epsomitic Hot Lake, Washington, USA, 2020, Canadian Journal of Microbiology
  • Data for EMSL Project 49160 from February 2022, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Data for EMSL Project 49160 from March 2022, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Konopka has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • E. Święch
  • Alice Dohnálková
  • Roodline Cineus
  • C Cancino
  • Luis Alberto Blázquez Hernando

Their work has been published in various venues such as:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Nature Immunology
  • Livestock Science
  • Canadian Journal of Microbiology
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis

Main topics investigated by Allan Konopka include:

  • Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Whipple's Disease and Interleukins
  • Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health
  • Animal Nutrition and Physiology
  • Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Best Publications

  • FIELD-SCALE VARIABILITY OF SOIL PROPERTIES IN CENTRAL IOWA SOILS

    C. A. Cambardella;T. B. Moorman;T. B. Parkin;D. L. Karlen

  • Quantifying Community Assembly Processes and Identifying Features that Impose Them

    James C Stegen;Xueju Lin;Xueju Lin;Jim K Fredrickson;Xingyuan Chen

  • Measurement of in situ activities of nonphotosynthetic microorganisms in aquatic and terrestrial habitats.

    James T. Staley;Allan Konopka

  • Stochastic and Deterministic Assembly Processes in Subsurface Microbial Communities

    James C Stegen;Xueju Lin;Xueju Lin;Allan E Konopka;James K Fredrickson

  • Estimating and mapping ecological processes influencing microbial community assembly.

    James C. Stegen;Xueju Lin;Jim K. Fredrickson;Allan E. Konopka

  • The Use of Carbon Substrate Utilization Patterns in Environmental and Ecological Microbiology

    Allan Konopka;L. Oliver;R.F. Turco

  • Surface and subsurface microbial biomass, community structure and metabolic activity as a function of soil depth and season

    E. Blume;M. Bischoff;J.M. Reichert;T. Moorman

  • Groundwater–surface water mixing shifts ecological assembly processes and stimulates organic carbon turnover

    James C. Stegen;James K. Fredrickson;Michael J. Wilkins;Allan E. Konopka

  • Dynamics in microbial communities: unraveling mechanisms to identify principles

    Allan Konopka;Stephen R. Lindemann;Jim K. Fredrickson

  • Effect of temperature on blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) in lake mendota.

    Allan Konopka;Thomas D. Brock

  • Microbial biomass and activity in lead-contaminated soil

    A. Konopka;T. Zakharova;M. Bischoff;L. Oliver

  • Influences of organic carbon speciation on hyporheic corridor biogeochemistry and microbial ecology.

    James C. Stegen;Tim Johnson;James K. Fredrickson;Michael J. Wilkins

  • Association of microbial community composition and activity with lead, chromium, and hydrocarbon contamination.

    W. Shi;J. Becker;M. Bischoff;R. F. Turco

  • Optimization of MALDI-TOF MS for strain level differentiation of Arthrobacter isolates.

    Márta Vargha;Zoltán Takáts;Allan Konopka;Cindy H. Nakatsu

  • Mathematical Modeling of Microbial Community Dynamics: A Methodological Review

    Hyun-Seob Song;William R. Cannon;Alexander S. Beliaev;Allan Konopka

  • Persistence of uranium groundwater plumes: Contrasting mechanisms at two DOE sites in the groundwater–river interaction zone

    John M. Zachara;Philip E. Long;John Bargar;James A. Davis

  • Biodegradation of organic compounds in vadose zone and aquifer sediments.

    A Konopka;R Turco

  • Microbial community analysis of soils contaminated with lead, chromium and petroleum hydrocarbons.

    Janet Joynt;Marianne Bischoff;Ron Turco;Allan Konopka

  • Long-term effects of chromium and lead upon the activity of soil microbial communities

    W Shi;M Bischoff;R Turco;A Konopka

  • Constraint-Based Model of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Metabolism: A Tool for Data Analysis and Hypothesis Generation

    Grigoriy E. Pinchuk;Eric A. Hill;Oleg V. Geydebrekht;Jessica De Ingeniis

Frequent Co-Authors

Cindy H. Nakatsu
Cindy H. Nakatsu Purdue University West Lafayette
Ronald F. Turco
Ronald F. Turco Purdue University West Lafayette
Doraiswami Ramkrishna
Doraiswami Ramkrishna Purdue University West Lafayette
James K. Fredrickson
James K. Fredrickson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Donald A. Bryant
Donald A. Bryant Pennsylvania State University
Jacco C. Kromkamp
Jacco C. Kromkamp Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Yoram Rubin
Yoram Rubin University of California, Berkeley
Chunmiao Zheng
Chunmiao Zheng Southern University of Science and Technology
James P. McKinley
James P. McKinley Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Luuc R. Mur
Luuc R. Mur University of Amsterdam

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