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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., Huettel, M., Kostka, J. E., & Konstantinidis, K. T. (2020). Integrated Omics Elucidate the Mechanisms Driving the Rapid Biodegradation of Deepwater Horizon Oil in Intertidal Sediments Undergoing Oxic–Anoxic Cycles. *Environmental Science & Technology*, 54(16), 10088-10099.
Karthikeyan, S., Rodriguez‐R, L. M., Heritier‐Robbins, P., Hatt, J. K., Huettel, M., Kostka, J. E., & Konstantinidis, K. T. (2020). Genome repository of oil systems: An interactive and searchable database that expands the catalogued diversity of crude oil‐associated microbes. *Environmental Microbiology*, 22(6), 2094-2106.
2019
Karthikeyan, S., Rodriguez-R, L. M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Kim, M., Overholt, W. A., Gaby, J. C., Hatt, J. K., Spain, J. C., Rosselló-Móra, R., Huettel, M., Kostka, J. E., & Konstantinidis, K. T. (2019). “<i>Candidatus</i>Macondimonas diazotrophica”, a novel gammaproteobacterial genus dominating crude-oil-contaminated coastal sediments. *The ISME Journal*, 13(8), 2129-2134.
Conference Presentations - 5
2020
Karthikeyan, S. R., M.; Heritier-Robbins, P. H., J.K.; Huettel, M. K., & J.E.; Konstantinidis, K. (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
2018
[MISSING CITATION] [Author not available]. Macondimonas Diazotrophicus: A Representative of A Novel Gammaproteobacterial Family of Globally-Distributed, Sediment-Associated, Keystone Oil Degrader. ASM Microbe 2018. (2018).
Heritier-Robbins, P. K., S.; Kim, M. H., J.K.; Overholt, W. K., J.E.; Huettel, M. K., & K.T (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
Karthikeyan, S. K., M.; Heritier-Robbins, P. R., L.M.; Hatt, J. O., W.A.; Kostka, J. H., & M.; Konstantinidis, K. (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
2017
Karthikeyan, S.; Heritier-Robbins, P. K., M.; Rodriguez-R, L. H., J.K.; Overholt, W. K., J.E.; Huettel, M. K., & K.T (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