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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2010 - ASM D.C. White Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2003 - Dupont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology
  • 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Kenneth H. Nealson is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on environmental science and engineering.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

Subfields that feature prominently in their publications are:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry

The central topics addressed in their research are:

  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Christopher Rensing
  • Shungui Zhou
  • Xing Liu
  • Nancy Merino
  • Jie Ye

Common publication venues for their work are:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • mBio
  • The ISME Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Representative recent papers illustrating the scope of their research are:

  • FeGenie: A Comprehensive Tool for the Identification of Iron Genes and Iron Gene Neighborhoods in Genome and Metagenome Assemblies, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Silver nanoparticles boost charge-extraction efficiency in Shewanella microbial fuel cells, 2021, Science
  • A Genus Definition for Bacteria and Archaea Based on a Standard Genome Relatedness Index, 2020, mBio
  • Perseverance's Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) Investigation, 2021, Space Science Reviews
  • Syntrophic interspecies electron transfer drives carbon fixation and growth by Rhodopseudomonas palustris under dark, anoxic conditions, 2021, Science Advances

Kenneth H. Nealson has received several professional recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2012
  • ASM D.C. White Award, American Society for Microbiology, 2010
  • Dupont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology, 2003
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1981

Best Publications

  • Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea

    J. Craig Venter;Karin Remington;John F. Heidelberg;Aaron L. Halpern

  • Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

    Margaret McFall-Ngai;Michael G. Hadfield;Thomas C. G. Bosch;Hannah V. Carey

  • The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific

    Douglas B. Rusch;Aaron L Halpern;Granger Sutton;Karla B. Heidelberg;Karla B. Heidelberg

  • Electrically conductive bacterial nanowires produced by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 and other microorganisms

    Yuri A. Gorby;Svetlana Yanina;Jeffrey S. McLean;Kevin M. Rosso

  • Cellular Control of the Synthesis and Activity of the Bacterial Luminescent System

    Kenneth H. Nealson;Kenneth H. Nealson;Terry Platt;Terry Platt;J. Woodland Hastings;J. Woodland Hastings

  • Bacterial Manganese Reduction and Growth with Manganese Oxide as the Sole Electron Acceptor

    Charles R. Myers;Kenneth H. Nealson

  • Structural identification of autoinducer of Photobacterium fischeri luciferase.

    A Eberhard;A L Burlingame;C Eberhard;G L Kenyon

  • Metal Oxide Surfaces and Their Interactions with Aqueous Solutions and Microbial Organisms.

    Gordon E. Brown;Victor E. Henrich;William H. Casey;David L. Clark

  • Bacterial bioluminescence: isolation and genetic analysis of functions from Vibrio fischeri.

    JoAnne Engebrecht;Kenneth H. Nealson;Michael Silverman

  • Bacterial bioluminescence: its control and ecological significance.

    K H Nealson;J W Hastings

  • Iron and manganese in anaerobic respiration: environmental significance, physiology, and regulation

    Kenneth H. Nealson;Daad Saffarini

  • Towards environmental systems biology of Shewanella

    James K. Fredrickson;Margaret F. Romine;Alexander S. Beliaev;Jennifer M. Auchtung

  • The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) for the Mars 2001 Odyssey mission

    Philip R. Christensen;Bruce M. Jakosky;Hugh H. Kieffer;Michael C. Malin

  • Genome sequence of the dissimilatory metal ion-reducing bacterium Shewanella oneidensis.

    John F. Heidelberg;Ian T. Paulsen;Karen E. Nelson;Eric J. Gaidos;Eric J. Gaidos

  • Polyphasic taxonomy of the genus Shewanella and description of Shewanella oneidensis sp. nov

    Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Duane P. Moser;Michael E. Dollhopf;Douglas P. Lies

  • Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin

    Fumio Inagaki;Takuro Nunoura;Satoshi Nakagawa;Andreas Teske

  • Electrical Transport Along Bacterial Nanowires From Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1

    Mohamed Y. El-Naggar;Greg Wanger;Kar Man Leung;Thomas D. Yuzvinsky

  • Current Production and Metal Oxide Reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Wild Type and Mutants

    Orianna Bretschger;Anna Obraztsova;Carter A. Sturm;In Seop Chang;In Seop Chang

  • Application of Fe isotopes to tracing the geochemical and biological cycling of Fe

    Brian L. Beard;Clark M. Johnson;Joseph L. Skulan;Kenneth H. Nealson

  • Geomicrobiology : interactions between microbes and minerals

    Jillian F. Banfield;K. H. Nealson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken Takai
Ken Takai Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Koki Horikoshi
Koki Horikoshi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yuri A. Gorby
Yuri A. Gorby Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Fumio Inagaki
Fumio Inagaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Margaret F. Romine
Margaret F. Romine Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
James K. Fredrickson
James K. Fredrickson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Bradley M. Tebo
Bradley M. Tebo Oregon Health & Science University
Florian Mansfeld
Florian Mansfeld University of Southern California
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University

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