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| Joy Watts, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences Towson University Towson, MD 21252 USA
Office: Smith 489A Phone: 410-704-2623 Fax: 410-704-2405
email: jwatts@towson.edu
Education: Postdoc Center of Marine Biotechnology (COMB) Ph.D. University of Warwick (UK) B.S. Liverpool John Moores University (UK)
Courses Taught: Biol 201 - Biology I: Cellular Biology and Genetics Biol 601 - Molecular Biology Biol 602 - Environmental Microbiology |
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Research Interests:
The application of molecular tools to better understand microbial interactions and communities in the environment. Current research projects include; microbial community analysis of the GI tract in wood eating catfish; monitoring PCB dechlorination in the Chesapeake Bay using molecular tools; effects of heavy metals on PCB dechlorinating cultures and the effects of salt on microbial communities in retention ponds.
Publications:
Y. Tal, J. E. M. Watts, S. B. Schreier, K. A. Sowers and H. J. Schreier. 2003 Characterization of the microbial community and nitrogen transformation processes associated with a moving bed bioreactors in a closed recirculated mariculture system. Aquaculture 215:187-202.
N. S. Webster, L. D. Smith, A. J. Heyward, J. E. M. Watts, R. I. Webb, L. L. Blackall, and A. P. Negri. Metamorphosis of a Scleractinian Coral in Response to Microbial Biofilms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70:1213-1221.
Shahamat, M., M. Alavi, J.E.M. Watts, J. M., Gonzalez, K.R. Sowers, D.W. Maeder, and F.T. Robb. 2004. Development of Two PCR-Based Techniques for Detecting Helical and Coccoid Forms of Helicobacter pylori, in press. J. Clin. Microb. 42:3613–3619.
Milliken, C.E., G. P. Meier, J. E. M. Watts, K. R. Sowers, and H. D. May. 2004. Microbial Anaerobic Demethylation and Dechlorination of Chlorinated Hydroquinone Metabolites Synthesized by Basidiomycete Fungi Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 70: 385-392.
J. E. M. Watts, S. K. Fagervold, G. S. Miller, C. E. Milliken, H.D. May and K. R. Sowers. 2004 Microbial Reductive Dechlorination of Organochloride Pollutants in the Marine Environment. Marine Biotechnology. (Accepted In Press).
