Roman Marin

TL;DR: Findings reveal that monitoring of mussel toxicity alone does not necessarily provide adequate warning of DA entering the food web at levels sufficient to harm marine wildlife and perhaps humans.

TL;DR: Time-resolved whole-genome transcriptome profiles of multiple, naturally occurring oceanic bacterial populations sampled in situ over 3 days show pronounced diel periodicity in the cyanobacterial transcriptome, and several different heterotrophic bacterioplankton groups also displayed diel cycling in many of their gene transcripts.

TL;DR: The Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) as mentioned in this paper is an electromechanical/fluidic system designed to collect discrete water samples, concentrate microorganisms, and automate application of molecular probe technologies.

TL;DR: Three different molecular methods were used with traditional brightfield microscope techniques to enumerate the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense in samples collected in the Gulf of Maine in 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2003, to compare and contrast the specificity and utility of these probe types and assay approaches.

TL;DR: A protocol for automated collection and fixation of marine microbes using the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) platform and pyrosequencing of complementary DNA libraries generated from ESP-collected and preserved samples confirmed that autonomous collection and preservation is a feasible and useful approach for characterizing the expressed genes and environmental responses of marine microbial communities.