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Overview

Frank T. Robb is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple fields, including Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work also explores several subfields such as Molecular Biology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Materials Chemistry, General Health Professions, and Environmental Chemistry.

Robb's research topics reflect a focus on diverse scientific areas as indicated by their publications. The main topics of their work include:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

They have authored or co-authored research published in the following venues:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Structure
  • Ecotoxicology
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Recent papers by Frank T. Robb include:

  • "Novel Extracellular Electron Transfer Channels in a Gram-Positive Thermophilic Bacterium" (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • "Extracellular Fe(III) reductase structure reveals a modular organization enabling S-layer insertion and electron transfer to insoluble substrates" (2023, Structure)
  • "Aspartic acid racemization and repair in the survival and recovery of hyperthermophiles after prolonged starvation at high temperature" (2021, FEMS Microbiology Ecology)
  • "Improved folding of recombinant protein via co-expression of exogenous chaperones" (2021, Methods in Enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in Enzymology)
  • "Comparative assessment of blood mercury in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from Coastal North Carolina and Florida" (2022, Ecotoxicology)

Frequent collaborators in Robb's research include:

  • Scott M. Belcher
  • Matthew P. Guillette
  • Kylie D. Rock
  • Sergey N. Gavrilov
  • Ivan M. Elizarov

Best Publications

  • The genomic basis of trophic strategy in marine bacteria.

    Federico M. Lauro;Diane McDougald;Torsten Thomas;Timothy J. Williams

  • Complete Sequence and Gene Organization of the Genome of a Hyper-thermophilic Archaebacterium, Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3

    Yutaka Kawarabayasi;Mituhiro Sawada;Hiroshi Horikawa;Yuji Haikawa

  • Archaea : a laboratory manual

    F. T. Robb

  • Protein thermostability above 100°C: A key role for ionic interactions

    Costantino Vetriani;Dennis L. Maeder;Nicola Tolliday;Kitty S.-P. Yip

  • Life in Hot Carbon Monoxide: The Complete Genome Sequence of Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Z-2901

    Martin Wu;Qinghu Ren;A. Scott Durkin;Sean C Daugherty

  • Pyrococcus horikoshii sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a hydrothermal vent at the Okinawa Trough

    Juan M. González;Yaeko Masuchi;Frank T. Robb;James W. Ammerman

  • Genomic sequence of hyperthermophile, Pyrococcus furiosus: implications for physiology and enzymology.

    Frank T Robb;Dennis L Maeder;James R Brown;Jocelyne DiRuggiero

  • Evolutionary relationships of bacterial and archaeal glutamine synthetase genes

    Brown;Masuchi Y;Robb Ft;Robb Ft;Doolittle Wf

  • Identification and characterization of a multidomain hyperthermophilic cellulase from an archaeal enrichment.

    Joel E. Graham;Joel E. Graham;Melinda E. Clark;Dana C. Nadler;Sarah Huffer

  • Divergence of the hyperthermophilic archaea Pyrococcus furiosus and P. horikoshii inferred from complete genomic sequences.

    Dennis L. Maeder;Robert B. Weiss;Diane M. Dunn;Joshua L. Cherry

  • Insights into thermal stability from a comparison of the glutamate dehydrogenases from Pyrococcus furiosus and Thermococcus litoralis.

    K. Linda Britton;Patrick J. Baker;Kimberley M. M. Borges;Paul C. Engel

  • Enzymes of hydrogen metabolism in Pyrococcus furiosus.

    Pedro J. Silva;Pedro J. Silva;Eyke C. D. van den Ban;Hans Wassink;Huub Haaker

  • INSIGHTS INTO THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF THERMAL STABILITY FROM THE ANALYSIS OF ION-PAIR NETWORKS IN THE GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE FAMILY

    Kitty S. P. Yip;K. Linda Britton;Timothy J. Stillman;Joyce Lebbink

  • Repair of extensive ionizing-radiation DNA damage at 95 degrees C in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

    J DiRuggiero;N Santangelo;Z Nackerdien;J Ravel

  • Thermosinus carboxydivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new anaerobic, thermophilic, carbon-monoxide-oxidizing, hydrogenogenic bacterium from a hot pool of Yellowstone National Park.

    Tatyana G. Sokolova;Juan M. González;Nadezhda A. Kostrikina;Nikolai A. Chernyh

  • Characterization of an extremely thermostable glutamate dehydrogenase: a key enzyme in the primary metabolism of the hyperthermophilic archaebacterium, Pyrococcus furiosus.

    Frank T. Robb;Jae-Bum Park;Michael W.W. Adams

  • Evidence of recent lateral gene transfer among hyperthermophilic Archaea

    Jocelyne DiRuggiero;Diane Dunn;Dennis L. Maeder;Rhonda Holley-Shanks

  • Complete genome sequence of the aerobic CO-oxidizing thermophile Thermomicrobium roseum

    Dongying Wu;Jason Raymond;Martin Wu;Sourav Chatterji

  • Small heat shock proteins from extremophiles: a review

    Pongpan Laksanalamai;Frank T. Robb

  • Protein thermostability above 100°C: A key role for ionic interactions (hyperthermophileyion-pairycalorimetryyglutamate dehydrogenaseyarchaea)

    Costantino Vetriani;Dennis L. Maeder;Nicola Tolliday;T Imothy J. Stillman

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Woods
David R. Woods University of Cape Town
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams University of Georgia
William B. Sparks
William B. Sparks Space Telescope Science Institute
J. H. Hough
J. H. Hough University of Glasgow
Shiladitya DasSarma
Shiladitya DasSarma University of Maryland, Baltimore
Jonathan H. Badger
Jonathan H. Badger J. Craig Venter Institute
David W. Rice
David W. Rice University of Sheffield
Robert B. Weiss
Robert B. Weiss University of Utah
Everly Conway de Macario
Everly Conway de Macario University of Maryland, Baltimore

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