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Byron Crump, Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Research Topics:

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Research Interests:

Aquatic microbial ecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems. Bacterial and Archaeal biogeography. Organic matter and nutrient cycling. Microbial food web structure. Composition and development of microbial communities. Influence of hydrodynamics and particle cycling on microbial activity.

Students:

2010 - Steven Aragon, Eastern New Mexico University

2006 - Todd Johnson, California State University, Fresno

2005 - Aleszu Bajak, Amherst College

2004 - Cherie Peranteau, Richard Stockton College

Student Publications:

Crump, B. C., C. Peranteau*, B.* Beckingham*, and J. C. Cornwell. 2007. Respiratory succession and community succession of bacterioplankton in seasonally anoxic estuarine waters . Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:6802-6810 .

Student Presentations:

Aragon, S.*, M. Doherty, and B. Crump. 2011. Microbial community dynamics in seasonally anoxic waters of the Chesapeake Bay. . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico .
Johnson, T. L.*, B. C. Crump, and J. K. Apple. 2007. The influence of spatial variation and dispersal on the composition of microbial communities . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico .
Crump, B. C., C. Peranteau*, B. Beckingham*, and J. C. Cornwell. 2005. Estuarine bacterioplankton metabolism and community composition across a seasonal oxygen gradient . 18th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, Norfolk, Virginia .
Peranteau, C.*, and B. Crump. 2005. Estuarine bacterioplankton metabolism and diversity across a seasonal oxygen gradient . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah .

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Eight students will be presenting the summer work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in March 2022!
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