Degradation of oil and dispersant by microbes isolated from the Gulf of Mexico in the aftermath of the MC252 oil spill
Romy Chakraborty, Terry C Hazen, Sharon E Borglin and Dominique C Joyner, Microbial Ecology, Earth Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA

Vibrios and Petroleum Biodegradation – Capable but Contributory?
D. Jay Grimes, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, The University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS, Terry C. Hazen, Ecology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Sandra McLellan, Great Lakes Water Institute, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI and Mitchell Sogin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole, MA

Coastal Alabama Bacterial Community Responses to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Patricia A. Sobecky¹, Melanie Beazley¹, Robert J. Martinez¹, Suja S. Rajan¹, Jessica Powell¹, Yvette Piceno², Gary L. Andersen², Lauren Tom³, Terry C. Hazen⁴, Joy D. Nostrand⁵, Jizhong Zhou⁶ and Behzad Mortazavi¹, (1)Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, (2)Microbial Ecology, Earth Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, (3)Ecology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (4)Deconstruction Division, Microbial Communities Dept, Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, CA, (5)Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, (6)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

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Response of petroleum-degrading microbial communities at different depths to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Gary L. Andersen¹, Eric Dubinsky¹, Yvette M. Piceno¹, Lauren Tom¹, Kerry Sublette², Todd Z. DeSantis³, Terry C. Hazen¹ and Sharon Borglin¹, (1)Ecology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (2)Center for Applied Biogeosciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, (3)Second Genome Inc., San Francisco, CA

Antigenic characters in mixed culture of some bacteria isolated from Nile water and  Kasr Al Ayiny hospital  effluent in Cairo
Amber S. Gad Jr., Chemistry of Natural and microbial products, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, Gamal A. Osman, Water Pollution Dept, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt and Helmy M. Hasan, Microbial Chemistry Dept., National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

Ecology of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in Gulf of Mexico beach sands impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Joel E. Kostka, Biology & Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA