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Lee R. Krumholz is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research largely focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on microbial community ecology and physiology.

Their work spans multiple subfields, including ecology, molecular biology, environmental chemistry, oceanography, and process chemistry and technology. This interdisciplinary approach supports investigations related to microbial metabolism, enzyme function, and aquatic ecosystems.

Krumholz has published research in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to Microbiome and the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, with additional publications appearing in Science Advances, Environmental Microbiology, and Environmental Research.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Krumholz include:

  • Microcystis pangenome reveals cryptic diversity within and across morphospecies, 2023, Science Advances
  • Global co-occurrence of methanogenic archaea and methanotrophic bacteria in Microcystis aggregates, 2021, Environmental Microbiology
  • Black blooms-induced adaptive responses of sulfate reduction bacteria in a shallow freshwater lake, 2022, Environmental Research
  • Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs play important roles in nutrient cycling within cyanobacterial Microcystis bloom microbiomes, 2024, Microbiome
  • Succession of sulfur bacteria during decomposition of cyanobacterial bloom biomass in the shallow Lake Nanhu: An ex situ mesocosm study, 2020, Chemosphere

Key topics covered in Krumholz's research include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial metabolism and enzyme function
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Haiyuan Cai
  • K. David Hambright
  • Helong Jiang
  • Christopher J. McLimans
  • Dipayan Samanta

Lee R. Krumholz's research outputs contribute to understanding microbial dynamics within freshwater and marine ecosystems, emphasizing the role of microbial communities in nutrient cycling and environmental processes. The combination of ecological and molecular biology methods is a consistent theme across their publications.

Best Publications

  • Fluorescent-oligonucleotide probing of whole cells for determinative, phylogenetic, and environmental studies in microbiology.

    R I Amann;L Krumholz;D A Stahl

  • Abundance, composition, diversity and novelty of soil Proteobacteria

    Anne M Spain;Lee R Krumholz;Mostafa S Elshahed

  • Comparison of Species Richness Estimates Obtained Using Nearly Complete Fragments and Simulated Pyrosequencing-Generated Fragments in 16S rRNA Gene-Based Environmental Surveys

    Noha H. Youssef;Cody S. Sheik;Lee R. Krumholz;Fares Z. Najar

  • In situ bioreduction of technetium and uranium in a nitrate-contaminated aquifer.

    J D Istok;J M Senko;L R Krumholz;D Watson

  • Effect of warming and drought on grassland microbial communities

    Cody S Sheik;William Howard Beasley;Mostafa S Elshahed;Xuhui Zhou

  • Microbe grows by reducing arsenic

    D. Ahmann;A. L. Roberts;L. R. Krumholz;F. M. M. Morel

  • In-situ evidence for uranium immobilization and remobilization

    John M. Senko;Jonathan D. Istok;Joseph M. Suflita;Lee R. Krumholz

  • Microbial Mobilization of Arsenic from Sediments of the Aberjona Watershed

    Dianne Ahmann;Lee R. Krumholz;Harold F. Hemond;Derek R. Lovley

  • Confined subsurface microbial communities in Cretaceous rock

    Lee R. Krumholz;James P. McKinley;Glenn A. Ulrich;Joseph M. Suflita

  • Exposure of Soil Microbial Communities to Chromium and Arsenic Alters Their Diversity and Structure

    Cody S. Sheik;Tyler W. Mitchell;Fariha Z. Rizvi;Yasir Rehman

  • Microbial communities in the deep subsurface

    Lee R. Krumholz

  • Pore‐size constraints on the activity and survival of subsurface bacteria in a late cretaceous shale‐sandstone sequence, northwestern New Mexico

    J. K. Fredrickson;J. P. McKinley;B. N. Bjornstad;P. E. Long

  • A freshwater anaerobe coupling acetate oxidation to tetrachloroethylene dehalogenation.

    Lee R. Krumholz;Richard Sharp;Susan S. Fishbain

  • Bacterial diversity and sulfur cycling in a mesophilic sulfide-rich spring.

    Mostafa S. Elshahed;John M. Senko;Fares Z. Najar;Stephen M. Kenton

  • Novelty and Uniqueness Patterns of Rare Members of the Soil Biosphere

    Mostafa Samir Elshahed;Noha H. Youssef;Anne M. Spain;Cody Sheik

  • Eubacterium oxidoreducens sp. nov. requiring H2 or formate to degrade gallate, pyrogallol, phloroglucinol and quercetin

    Lee R. Krumholz;M. P. Bryant

  • Desulfuromonas chloroethenica sp. nov. Uses Tetrachloroethylene and Trichloroethylene as Electron Acceptors

    Lee R. Krumholz

  • A Rapid and Simple Method for Estimating Sulfate Reduction Activity and Quantifying Inorganic Sulfides

    G A Ulrich;L R Krumholz;J M Suflita

  • Bacterial Community Composition of Size-Fractioned Aggregates within the Phycosphere of Cyanobacterial Blooms in a Eutrophic Freshwater Lake

    Haiyuan Cai;Helong Jiang;Lee R. Krumholz;Zhen Yang

  • Syntrophococcus sucromutans sp.nov.gen.nov. uses carbohydrates as electron donors and formate, methoxymonobenzenoids or Methanobrevibacter as electron acceptor systems

    L. R. Krumholz;M. P. Bryant

Frequent Co-Authors

Mostafa S. Elshahed
Mostafa S. Elshahed Oklahoma State University
Joseph M. Suflita
Joseph M. Suflita University of Oklahoma
Aaron D. Peacock
Aaron D. Peacock Microbac Laboratories
Helong Jiang
Helong Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jonathan D. Istok
Jonathan D. Istok Oregon State University
Bruce A. Roe
Bruce A. Roe University of Oklahoma
David C. White
David C. White University of Tennessee at Knoxville
James P. McKinley
James P. McKinley Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Michael J. McInerney
Michael J. McInerney University of Oklahoma
Marvin P. Bryant
Marvin P. Bryant University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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