Science Team > Deana L. ErdnerDEANA L. ERDNER
The University of Texas at AustinMarine Science Institute
(361) 749-6719 (office) 750 Channel View Drive
(361) 749-6777 (fax) Port Aransas, Texas 78373-5015
derdner@utmsi.utexas.edu
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1997
Ph.D., Biological Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution Joint Program
B.S., Biological Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Professional Experience
2006-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX.
2006-present
Research Assistant Professor, Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX .
2002-2006
Research Associate, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.
2001-2002
Guest Investigator, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.
1999-2001
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
1998-1999
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry UK .
1997-1998
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.
1991-1997
Graduate research assistant, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole MA.
Awards
1992-1997
US Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship for Global Change
Professional memberships
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae
Professional Activities
2007
Steering Committee, Fourth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S.
October 2007
Co-chair, Workshop on Harmful Algal Bloom Genomics, Fourth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S., Woods Hole, MA
2007
Student poster judge, American Society of Limnology & Oceanography meeting
June 2006
Co-chair, special session "Genomics Without a Genome", American Society of Limnology and Oceanography annual meeting, Victoria, B.C.
2003-present
Journal review: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Environmental Microbiology, Harmful Algae, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Phycology, Limnology and Oceanography, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, Marine Biotechnology, Nature
2003-present
Proposal review: National Science Foundation, Biological Oceanography Program, Austrian Genome Research Programme (GEN-AU), NOAA SBIR
Courses
Scientific Expeditions
2005
R/V OCEANUS, Gulf of Maine, USA, toxic dinoflagellate mapping and monitoring
1995
R/V MELVILLE, equatorial Pacific, IronEx II mesoscale iron enrichment study
Workshops and Training
2007
Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics: Natural Population Genetic Data Analysis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2004
National Science Foundation Frontiers in Genomics: Insights into Protist Evolutionary Biology, Iowa City, Iowa .
Current Projects
EN-GEN: Gene expression and harmful algal bloom dynamics, NSF OCE-0723498.
EU-US ECOHAB: EC-NSF Cooperative Activity in Environmental Research: Mating Incompatibility Among Toxic and Non-Toxic Populations of Alexandrium: Ecological and Practical Implications, NSF OCE-0402707.
MERHAB 2005 - Monitoring toxic Alexandrium in the Puget Sound using qPCR, NOAA NA05NOS4781224.
OHHI 2005: Pseudo-nitzschia: Emerging HAB threat in the Gulf of Maine, NOAA NA05NOS4781245.
NSF-NIEHS Research Center of Excellence in Oceans and Human Health at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. NSF OCE-0430724/ NIH 1 P50 ES012742-01. Research Project 1. " Alexandrium Population Biology in the Gulf of Maine,"
Developing genomic resources for the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense, NIEHS 1 R01 ES013679-01A2.
Publications
Ahn, S., D.M. Kulis, D.L. Erdner, D.M. Anderson, and D.R. Walt. 2006. Fiber-optic microarrays for simultaneous detection of multiple harmful algal bloom species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72(9):5742-5749.
Anderson , D.M., D. Kulis, D.L. Erdner, S. Ahn and D. Walt (2006). Fiber optic microarrays for the detection and enumeration of harmful algal bloom species. Proceedings of the XI International Conference on Harmful Algal Blooms. African Journal of Marine Sciences 28(2):231-235.
Nagai, S., L. McCauley, N. Yasuda, D.L. Erdner, D.M. Kulis, Y. Matsuyama, S. Itakura, and D.M. Anderson. 2006. Development of microsatellite markers in the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum (Dinophyceae). Molecular Ecology Notes 6:756-758.
Erdner, D.L. and D.M. Anderson. 2006. Global transcriptional profiling of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense using Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing. BMC Genomics 7:88.
Dyhrman, S.T., D. Erdner, J. LaDu, M. Galac, and D.M. Anderson. 2005. Molecular quantification of toxic Alexandrium fundyense in the Gulf of Maine using a newly developed PCR-based assay. Harmful Algae 5(3):242-250.
Hackett, J.D., D.M. Anderson, D.L. Erdner, and D. Bhattacharya. 2004. Dinoflagellates: A remarkable evolutionary experiment. American Journal of Botany 91:1523-1534.
Galac, M., D.L. Erdner, D.M. Anderson, and S. Dyhrman. 2003. Molecular quantification of toxic Alexandrium fundyense in the Gulf of Maine . Biological Bulletin 205:231-232.
LaDu, J.K., D.L. Erdner, S. Dyhrman, and D.M. Anderson. 2002. Molecular approaches to understanding population dynamics of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense . Biological Bulletin 203:244-245.
Lindell, D., D. Erdner, D. Marie, O. Prasil, M. Koblizek, F. Le Gall, R. Rippka, F. Partensky, D. J. Scanlan, and A.F. Post. 2002. The nitrogen stress response of Prochlorococcus Strain PCC 9511 (Oxyphotobacteria) involves contrasting regulation of ntcA and amt1. Journal of Phycology 38(6):1113-1124.
Beeson, K.E., D.L. Erdner, C.E. Bagwell, C.R. Lovell, and P.A. Sobecky. 2002. Differentiation of plasmids in marine diazotroph assemblages determined by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis. Microbiology 148:179-189.
Erdner, D.L. and D.M. Anderson. 1999. Ferredoxin and flavodoxin as biochemical indicators of iron limitation during open-ocean iron enrichment. Limnology and Oceanography 44(7):1609-1615.
Erdner, D.L., N.M. Price, G.J. Doucette, M.L. Peleato, and D.M. Anderson. 1999. Characterization of ferredoxin and flavodoxin as markers of iron limitation in marine phytoplankton. Marine Ecology Progress Series 184:43-53.
Inda, L.A. , D.L. Erdner, M.L. Peleato, and D.M. Anderson. 1999. Cytochrome c 6 isolated from the marine diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii . Phytochemistry 51:1-4.
Gueneau, P., F.M.M. Morel, J. LaRoche, and D.L. Erdner. 1998. The petF region of the chloroplast genome from the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii : sequence, organization and phylogeny. European Journal of Phycology 33(3):203-211.
Doucette, G.J., D.L. Erdner, M.L. Peleato, J.J. Hartman, and D.M. Anderson. 1996. Quantitative analysis of iron-stress related proteins in Thalassiosira weissflogii : Measurement of flavodoxin and ferredoxin using HPLC. Marine Ecology Progress Series 130:269-276.
Barbeau, K., J.W. Moffett, D.A. Caron, P.L. Croot, and D.L. Erdner. 1996. Role of protozoan grazing in relieving iron limitation of phytoplankton. Nature 380:61-64.
Presentations and Abstracts (since 2001)
L.A.R. McCauley, K.M. Libera, D.M. Kulis, D.L. Erdner, H. Blossom, D. Osborn, E. Yranski, L. Green, E. Willard, and D.M. Anderson. 2007. A study of Pseudo-nitzschia in the Gulf of Maine: Diversity and toxicity. Fourth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S. October 2007, Woods Hole, MA
Erdner, D.L., L.A.R. McCauley, K. Libera, and D.M. Anderson. 2007. Population genetics of toxic Alexandrium blooms in the Gulf of Maine. Fourth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S. October 2007, Woods Hole, MA
Erdner, D.L., L.A.R. McCauley, K. Libera, and D.M. Anderson. 2007. A real-time PCR assay for the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense : laboratory studies and field validation. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography international meeting, February 2007, Santa Fe, NM.
Brosnahan, M.L., D.L. Erdner, D.M. Kulis, and D.M. Anderson. 2006. Mating incompatibility: genotyping of Alexandrium cysts. 12 th International Conference on Harmful Algae, September 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Erdner, D.L., J. Hackett and D.M. Anderson. 2006. Transcriptional analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus stress in the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense . American Society of Limnology and Oceanography international meeting, June 2006, Victoria, B.C.
Erdner, D.L., L.A.R. McCauley, B. Mahoney, and D.M. Anderson. 2006. Characterization of Intrapopulation Genetic Variability of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense Throughout the Course of a Bloom. ASLO/AGU/TOS Ocean Sciences international meeting, February 2006, Honolulu, HI .
Erdner, D.L. and D.M. Anderson. 2005. Global gene expression analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus stress in the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense. 3 rd Symposium of Harmful Algae in the U.S., October 2005, Asilomar, CA .
McCauley, L.A.R, D.L. Erdner and D.M. Anderson. 2005. Intrapopulation variation of Alexandrium fundyense within the Gulf of Maine: ribosomal DNA and microsatellite analyses. 3 rd Symposium of Harmful Algae in the U.S., October 2005, Asilomar, CA .
Erdner, D.L. and D.M. Anderson. 2004. Global gene expression analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus stress in the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense using massively parallel signature sequencing. ASLO/AGU/TOS Ocean Sciences international meeting, February 2004, Honolulu , HI .
Erdner, D.L. and D.M. Anderson. 2004. Identification of differentially regulated genes in the red tide dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense using massively parallel signature sequencing. International Symposium on Genomic Studies on Toxic Microalgae, October 2003, Santiago, Chile .
*Erdner, D.L. 2003. (invited) Environmental and cellular aspects of saxitoxin synthesis in Alexandrium dinoflagellates, Gordon Research Conference on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins, June 2003, Waterville, ME.
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