Publication List (* student coauthors)

 

Jacob Shaffer*, Elizabeth Sklute, Robert Samples, Lesley-Ann Giddings, Abigail Jarratt, Katherine Mateos, M. Darby Dyar, Peter Lee, Ken Livi, and Jill Mikucki (2025). Multi-technique characterization of iron reduction by an Antarctic Shewanella: an analog system for putative Martian biosignature identification. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, under review.

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Robert Samples, Riko Mukoyama*, Jacob MC Shaffer*, Jill A. Mikucki, and Lesley-Ann Giddings (2023). OpenASAP: an affordable 3D printed atmospheric solids analysis probe (ASAP) mass spectrometry system for direct analysis of solid and liquid samples. HardwareX, e00490.

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Jacob MC Shaffer*, Lesley-Ann Giddings, Robert Samples, and Jill A. Mikucki (2023). Genomic and phenotypic characterization of a red-pigmented strain of Massilia frigida isolated from an Antarctic microbial mat. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14.

 

Lesley-Ann Giddings, Kevin Kunstman, Bouziane Moumen, Laurent Asiama*, Stefan Green, Vincent Delafont, Matthew Brockley*, Ascel Samba-Louaka (2022). Isolation and genome analysis of an amoeba-associated bacterium Dyella terrae strain Ely Copper Mine from acid rock drainage in Vermont, USA. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13.

 

Lesley-Ann Giddings and David J. Newman (2022). Extremophilic Fungi from Marine Environments: Underexplored Sources of Antitumor, Anti-Infective and Other Biologically Active Agents. Marine Drugs, 20, 62.

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Lesley-Ann Giddings, George Lountos, *Kang Woo Kim, *Matthew Brockley, Scott Cherry, Danielle Needle, Joseph E. Tropea, David S. Waugh. (2021) Characterization of a broadly specific cadaverine N-hydroxylase involved in desferrioxamine B biosynthesis in Streptomyces sviceus. PLoS ONE, 16(3): e0248385.

 

Lesley-Ann Giddings, George Chlipala, Heather Driscoll, *Kieran Bhave, Kevin Kunstman, Stefan Green, *Katherine Morillo, Holly Peterson, and Mark Maienschein-Cline (2020). Seasonal Ely Copper Mine Superfund Site Shotgun Metagenomic and Metatranscriptomic Data Analysis. Data In Brief, 32, 106282.

 

Lesley-Ann Giddings, George Chlipala, Kevin Kunstman, Stefan Green, *Katherine Morillo, *Kieran Bhave, Holly Peterson, Heather Driscoll, and Mark Maienschein-Cline (2020). Characterization of an Acid Rock Drainage Microbiome and Transcriptome at the Ely Copper Mine Superfund Site. PLoS ONE, 15(8): e0237599.

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Lesley-Ann Giddings and David J. Newman. Bioactive Compounds from Extremophilic Marine Fungi. In Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological and Biotechnological Significance. Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro and Martin Grube, Eds. Springer: Cham, Germany, 2019.

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Lesley-Ann Giddings and David J. Newman. Microbial involvement in the Production of Natural Products by Plants, Marine Invertebrates and other organisms. In Frontiers in Natural Products Chemistry, Vol 3; Atta-ur-Rahman, Ed. Bentham Science Publishers Limited: Sharjah, UAE, 2017.

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Lesley-Ann Giddings and David J. Newman. Bioactive Compounds from Marine Extremophiles. Springer Briefs in Microbiology: Extremophilic Bacteria; Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro and Melanie Mormile, Eds. Springer: Cham, Germany, 2015.

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Rabe Andriamaharavaro, H. Martin Garraffo, Thomas F. Spande, Lesley-Ann Giddings, David R. Vieites, Miguel Vences, and Ralph A. Saporito (2015). Individual and Geographic Variation of Skin Alkaloids in Three Swamp-Forest Species of Madagascan Poison Frogs (Mantella). Journal of Chemical Ecology. 41(9):837-47.

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Lesley-Ann Giddings and David J. Newman. Bioactive Compounds from Extremophiles: Genomic Studies, Biosynthetic Gene Clusters, and New Dereplication Methods. Springer Briefs in Microbiology: Extremophilic Bacteria; Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro and Melanie Mormile, Eds. Springer: Cham, Germany, 2015.

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Lesley-Ann Giddings and David J. Newman. Bioactive Compounds from Terrestrial Extremophiles. Springer briefs in Microbiology: Extremophilic Bacteria; Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro and Melanie Mormile, Eds. Springer: Cham, Germany, 2015.