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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.

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Patrick Heritier-Robbins

Georgia Institute of Technology

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mason Building
790 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332

prhr3@gatech.edu

Project List:

A systems approach to improve predictions of biodegradation and ecosystem recovery in coastal marine sediments impacted by oil spill

Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)Role: Undergraduate Student

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 3
2020
Karthikeyan, S., Kim, M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Hatt, J. K., Spain, J. C., Overholt, W. A., et al. (2020). Integrated Omics Elucidate the Mechanisms Driving the Rapid Biodegradation of Deepwater Horizon Oil in Intertidal Sediments Undergoing Oxic-Anoxic Cycles. Environ. Sci. Technol., 54(16), 10088–10099.
Karthikeyan, S., Rodriguez-R, L. M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Hatt, J. K., Huettel, M., Kostka, J. E., et al. (2020). Genome repository of oil systems: An interactive and searchable database that expands the catalogued diversity of crude oil-associated microbes. Environ Microbiol, 22(6), 2094–2106.
2019
Karthikeyan, S., Rodriguez-R, L. M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Kim, M., Overholt, W. A., Gaby, J. C., et al. (2019). Candidatus Macondimonas diazotrophica, a novel gammaproteobacterial genus dominating crude-oil-contaminated coastal sediments. The ISME Journal, 13(5), 2129–2134.
Conference Presentations - 5
2020
Karthikeyan, S., Rodriguez-R, M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Hatt, J. K., Huettel, M., Kostka, J. E., et al. (2020). The Oil Microbiome webserver: An interactive (meta-)genome repository that expands the catalogued diversity of oil-associated microbes. In 2020 AGU Ocean Science Meeting. San Diego, CA : 02/16/20-02/21/20.
2018
Heritier-Robbins, P., Karthikeyan, S., Kim, M., Hatt, J. K., Overholt, W. A., Kostka, J. E., et al. (2018). Oxygen Oscillation Effects on Microbial Community Activity and Nitrogen Metabolism in Oil Contaminated Beachsands. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Karthikeyan, S., Kim, M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Rodriguez-R, L. M., Hatt, J. K., Overholt, W. A., et al. (2018). Macondimonas diazotrophicus: A Novel Hydrocarbonoclastic Gammaproteobacterium as a Potential Biomarker for Ecosystem Recovery from Oil Spills. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Karthikeyan, S., Rodriguez-R, L. M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Overholt, W. A., Hatt, J. K., Spain, J. C., et al. (2018). Macondimonas Diazotrophicus: A Representative of A Novel Gammaproteobacterial Family of Globally-Distributed, Sediment-Associated, Keystone Oil Degrader. In ASM Microbe 2018. Atlanta, GA : 06/07/18-06/11/18.
2017
Karthikeyan, S., Heritier-Robbins, P., Kim, M., Rodriguez-R, L. M., Hatt, J. K., Overholt, W. A., et al. (2017). Metagenome-guided isolation of Macondimonas diazotrophicus: A novel keystone species of oil biodegradation in beach sands affected by Macondo oil. In 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics. Atlanta, GA : 11/03/17-11/04/17.