Fall 1999
Micro161 Microbial Physiology - lecture and laboratory
Independent Studies Graduate and undergraduate students
Spring 2000
Micro 20 Introductory Microbiology - lecture
Micro 20 Introductory Microbiology - laboratory
Biol 281T Biology Seminar Current Topics in Biology
Independent Studies Graduate and undergraduate students
Fall 2000
Biol189T Industrial Biotechnology - lecture and laboratory
Biol 260T Biogeochemistry
Biol/Chem 214A Molecular Biology Part 2
Independent Studies Graduate and undergraduate students
Spring 2001
Micro161 Microbial Physiology - lecture and laboratory
Independent Studies Graduate and undergraduate students
CURRENT FUNDING
United States Department of
Agriculture NRI grant. $130,000
Diversity in the Degradation of Herbicide Degrading Pathways
National Science Foundation grant
$75,000 CoPIs: E. Harding and C. Egan
Purpose: To develop an Electronic Laboratory Guide for Microbiology Instruction
Agricultural Research Initiative
/ California Agricultural Technology Institute (CATI) $120,588. Purpose: To
study pesticide degradation of agricultural soils
CSU Legislative Award for
Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities. $5,000.
College of Natural Sciences
Scholarly and Creative Activities Award. Performance Award for $2,000 research
funds.
College of Natural Sciences
Scholarly and Creative Activities Award for 2001 -2002 academic year, three WTU.
CSU Legislative Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities. $5,000.
Graduate Division Mini-Grant. $500. To improve the Biology Department Graduate
Web site.
PUBLICATIONS
Howard-Schellack, Cherie, and A. Wright. 2000. Study Guide to the
Telecourse Unseen Life on Earth., faculty guide. Brooks/Cole publishing,
Thompson Learning.
Howard-Schellack, Cherie, and A. Wright. 2000. Study Guide to the
Telecourse Unseen Life on Earth., student guide. Brooks/Cole publishing,
Thompson Learning.
Vallaeys, T., Courde, C. McGowan, A. D. Wright, and R. Fulthorpe. 1999. Investigation
of the diversity of genes involved in the construction of the 2,4-D catabolic pathway: A
phylogenetical approach. FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
in press
McGowan, C., R. Fulthorpe, A. Wright, and J. Tiedje. 1998. Evidence for
interspecies gene transfer in the evolution of 2,4-dichloropheonoxyacetic acid-degraders.
Appl. and Environ. Microbiol. 64:4089-4092
Vallaeys, T., L. Albino, G. Soulas, A. Wright and A. Weightman. 1998.
Isolation and characterization of a stable 2,4-dichlrophenoxyacetic acid
degrading bacterium, Variovorax paradoxus, using chemostat culture.
Biotechnology letters. 20:1073-1076.
Suwa, Y., A. D. Wright, F. Fukumori, R. Hausinger, Y. Kamagata, L. J.
Forney, and W. E. Holben. 1996. Characterization of a chromosomally encoded
2,4-dichloropheonoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)/alpha-ketoglutarate dioxygenase
fromBurkholderia sp. strain RASC. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:2464-2469.
Vallaeys, T., R. R. Fulthorpe, A. Wright, and G. Soulas. 1996. The
metabolic pathway of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid degradation involves
different families of tfdA and tfdB genes according to PCR-RFLP analysis. FEMS
Microbial Ecology. 20:163-172.
Wright, A. D. and R. H. Olsen. 1994. Self-mobilization and organization of
the genes encoding the toluene metabolic pathway of Pseudomonas mendocina KR1.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:235-242.
Wright, A. D. and L. Snyder. 1997. Regulation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic
acid degradative operons, pp. 53-61. In Microbial diversity and genetics of
biodregradation. Ed. K. Horikoshi, M. Fukuda, and T. Kudo. Japan Scientific
Societies Press, Kargaer pub.
Nakatsu, C. H., F. Fukmori, R Fulthorpe, R. Hausinger, W. E. Holben, Y.
Kamagata, R. Korona, R.E. Lenski, O.V. Malseva, V.G. Matheson, C. McGowan, Y.
Suwa, J. Tiedje, N.L. Tonso, E. Top, A. D. Wright, and L.J. Forney. 1997.
Genetic diversity of 2,4-D catabolic genes, pp 197-206. In Microbial diversity
and genetics of biodregradation. Ed. K. Horikoshi, M. Fukuda, and T. Kudo.
Japan Scientific Societies Press, Kargaer pub.
Wright, A.D., Y. Suwa, Y. Kamagata, and L. Snyder. 1995. Organization of
the genes encoding the 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid degradative pathway.
inBurkholderia sp. strain RASC, pp. 141- 143. In Center for Microbial Ecology
Research Findings 1994. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
Nakatsu, C. H., L. J. Forney, W. E. Holben, Y. Kamagata, V. G. Matheson, C.
McGowan, Y. Suwa, J. Tiedje, E. Top, and A. D. Wright. 1994. Genetic
organization and molecular evolution of the 2,4-D pathway; Diversity in the
organization of 2,4-D catabolic genes in environmental isolates, pp 51-59. In
JRDC-MSU Joint workshop in microbial evolution and biodegradation-1994.
Research Development Corporation of Japan. Wako, Saitama, Japan.
Wright, A.D., Y. Suwa, and L. Snyder. 1993. Regulation of genes
isofunctional to tfdA and tfdB from strain TFD3, pp. 127- 129. In Center for
Microbial Ecology Research Findings 1994. Michigan State University, East
Lansing, Michigan.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
M. Mitchell and A. Wright. 2001.
Standardization of Flow Cytometry for Rapid Antifungal Susceptibility Testing.
41st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. December
2001 in Chicago.L.
L. Orosco, H. Ajwa, M. Schutter, and
A. Wright. 2001. Molecular Analysis of Microbial Community Structure and
Diversity in Fumigated Agricultural Soil. Abstract #P.22.045 in Proceedings of
the 9th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Amsterdam. Also presented
at Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS),
Phoenix, Arizona, October 2001 and The International Methyl Bromide Alternatives
Outreach Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2001.
J. Ornelas and A. Wright. 2001.
Promoter fusions to study the Conservation of Regulation. Abstract #P.23.118 in
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Amsterdam.
Also presented at Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans
in Science (SACNAS), Phoenix, Arizona, October 2001.
K. Sterling and A. Wright. 2001.
Conservation of Regulatory Sequences in the 2,4-D Pathway. Gordon Conference on
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2001.
J.M.Ornelas, M. Macias, and A. D.
Wright. 2001. Conservation of Promoter Function in 2,4-D Pathways. Society for
the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), Atlanta
Georgia, October 2000.
L.A. Orosco, H. Ajwa, I. Gutierrez,
M. Schutter, A.D. Wright. 2001. Molecular Analysis of Microbial Community
Structure and Diversity in Fumigated Agricultural Soils. 2001 Central Valley
Research Symposia, Fresno CA and presented at CSU Research Competition in San
Jose, CA. 2001.
J. M. Ornelas, M. Macias, and A. D.
Wright. 2001 Cloning tfd Promoter Constructs in the 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic
Acid Pathway. 2001 Central Valley Research Symposia, Fresno CA and presented at
California State University Research Competition in San Jose, CA. 2001.
K. Sterling and Alice D. Wright.
2001. Conservation of regulatory sequences in the 2,4-D Pathway. 2001 Central
Valley Research Symposia, Fresno CA.
K. R. Sterling, and A. D. Wright .
2001. Conservation of regulatory sequences in the 2,4-D pathway. Bioremediation
Symposium, 2001. San Luis Obispo, CA.
M. Macias, J. M. Ornelas, and A. D.
Wright. 2001. Cloning tfd Promoter Constructs in the 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic
Acid Pathway. Bioremediation Symposium, 2001. San Luis Obispo, CA.
L.A. Orosco, H. Ajwa, I. Gutierrez,
M. Schutter, A.D. Wright. 2001. Determining the Effects of Methyl Bromide
Alternatives on Microbial Diversity. Bioremediation Symposium 2001. San Luis
Obispo, CA.
L.A. Orosco, H. Ajwa, I. Gutierrez,
M. Schutter, A.D. Wright. 2001. Molecular Analysis of Microbial Community
Structure and Diversity in Fumigated Ag. Soils. Ag Biotech 2001. Fish Camp, CA.
.J.M.Ornelas, M. Macias, and A. D.
Wright. Promoter Fusions for the Study of Gene Regulation in 2,4-D Degradative
Pathways. J Ag Biotech 2001. Fish Camp, CA.
M. Macias, J. M.Ornelas, S.
Phongsavanh, A. D. Wright. 2000. Conservation of Promoter Function in 2, 4-D.
Pathways. 2000. Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium. Held January 2000 Pomona,
CA.
S. Phonxaylinkham, L. Orosco, K. R.
Sterling, and A. D. Wright. 2000. Amplification of Regulatory Genes in 2,4-D
Degrading Bacteria . Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium. Held January 2000 in
Pomona, CA.
Wright, A.
and L. Snyder. 1998. Expression from the tfdB and tfdC promoters of Burholderia
sp. RASC. Abstr. Q191. p. 453. In Abstracts of the American Society for
Microbiology 1998. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
Vallaeys, T., R. Fulthorpe, P. Lau,
and A. D. Wright. 1997. Comparison of tfdBsequences from bacterial isolates
capable of degrading 2,4-D and 2,4-dichlorophenol. Abstr. Q403. p. 400. In
Abstracts of the American Society for Microbiology 1997. American Society for
Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
Vallaeys, T., R. R. Fulthorpe, A.
Wright, and G. Soulas. 1996. La diversite des genes impliques dans la
degradation de l'acide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetique illustre-t-elle une facilit
de la microflorea s'apapter a la degradation de nouveaux substrats? p. 31. In
Abstracts of Societe francaise de microbiologie, Section d'ecologie microbienne.
1996. Lyon, France.
