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Mark Martin, Assistant Professor 

Grants

• Supplemental funding of $37,000 received for NSF-RUI grant (NSF 0336853), “Genetics of Bdellovibrio Bacteriovorus” in April 2003. (Current funding total of $189,086.)
   

• Collaborator with John J. Iandolo et al of the University of Oklahoma on “Microbial Genome Sequencing: Sequencing and Annotation of the Bdellovibrio Strain W Genome” (NSF 0333273) Sept. 2003.

Publications

• Nunez, M.E., Martin, M.O., Duong*, L.K., Ly*, E., and E.M. Spain. (2003). "Investigations into the life cycle of the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J at an interface by atomic force microscopy." Biophys. J. 84: 3379 - 3388.
   

• Martin, M.O., Studer*, S.V., Farkas*, M., and N. Zadeh* (2003). "Random transposon mutagenesis in the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus." Accepted by FEMS Microbiology Letters.
   

• Image taken by Nunez, Spain, and Martin of Bdellovibrio attacking an E. coli cell appeared as the "June 2003" image in the Veeco (makers of scanning probe microscopy equipment) company calendar.

Presentations 

• "Characterization of an unusual alpha 1-.4 glucosidase from the bacterial predator, Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus." Poster presentation, American Society for Microbiology 103rd General Meeting (Washington, D.C.), May 2003, ASM Abstracts 103: 354.
   

• "Transposon mutagenesis in the study of the bacterial predator, Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus." Poster presentation, American Society for Microbiology 103rd General Meeting (Washington, D.C.), May 2003, ASM Abstracts 103: 354. (With S. Studer*)
   

• "It's a germ-eat-germ world: developing a system for the genetic analysis of the bacterial predator, Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus." Invited seminar, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, June 2003.
   

• "Smaller fleas have lesser fleas: Development of a generalized transductional system for the bacterial predator, Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus." West Coast Bacterial Physiologists Meeting in Asilomar, CA, Dec. 2003.

Professional Activities 

• Facilitator, group discussion on teaching strategies, American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Conference, May 16-18, College Park, MD.
   

• Invited to referee manuscripts for the journal Science and the journal Microbiology.
   

• Invited by the National Science Foundation to review a grant for the Molecular and Cell Biology program.
   

• Invited guest lecturer on bacterial predation at the Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, July 2004.

(*Occidental undergraduate)

Gretchen North, Associate Professor

Publications

• Gretchen B. North, Pierre Martre, and Park S. Nobel. "Aquaporins account for variations in hydraulic conductance for metabolically active root regions of Agave deserti in wet, dry, and rewetted soil." Plant, Cell and Environment (forthcoming)

Professional Activities

• Elected secretary, Physiological Ecology section of the Ecological Society of America, for 2004-2005.
   

• Panel member in Integrative Biology and Neuroscience for the National Science Foundation, Oct. 2003.