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Sara Kleindienst

University of Georgia

Department of Marine Sciences

Marine Sciences Building
University of Georgia
Athens , GA  30602  

sara.kleindienst@uni-tuebingen.de

Project List:

Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Post-Doc

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 6

2019

Ziervogel, K., Joye, S. B., Kleindienst, S., Malkin, S. Y., Passow, U., Steen, A. D., et al. (2019). Polysaccharide hydrolysis in the presence of oil and dispersants: Insights into potential degradation pathways of exopolymeric substances (EPS) from oil-degrading bacteria. Elem Sci Anth, 7(1), 31.

2016

Joye, S. B., Kleindienst, S., Gilbert, J. A., Handley, K. M., Weisenhorn, P., Kostka, J. E., et al. (2016). Responses of Microbial Communities to Hydrocarbon Exposures. Oceano, 29(3), 136–149.
Kleindienst, S., Grim, S., Sogin, M., Bracco, A., Crespo-Medina, M., & Joye, S. B. (2016). Diverse, rare microbial taxa responded to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea hydrocarbon plume. Isme J, 10(2), 400–415.
Seidel, M., Kleindienst, S., Dittmar, T., Joye, S. B., & Medeiros, P. M. (2016). Biodegradation of crude oil and the influence of dispersant in deep sea water from the Gulf of Mexico: Insights from ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 108–118.

2015

Kleindienst, S., Paul, J. H., & Joye, S. B. (2015). Using dispersants after oil spills: impacts on the composition and activity of microbial communities. Nat Rev Micro, 13(6), 388–396.
Kleindienst, S., Seidel, M., Ziervogel, K., Grim, S., Loftis, K., Harrison, S., et al. (2015). Chemical dispersants can suppress the activity of natural oil-degrading microorganisms. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 112(48), 14900–14905.

Conference Presentations - 5

2015

Seidel, M., Kleindienst, S., Babcock-Adams, L., Dittmar, T., Joye, S. B., & Medeiros, P. M. (2015). Unraveling Microbial Degradation of Dispersant and Water-Soluble Oil Compounds in Deep Seawater from the Gulf of Mexico using Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometry. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.

2014

Joye, S. B., Seidel, M., Medeiros, P., Hunter, K., Grim, S., Sogin, M., et al. (2014). Chemical dispersants used in oil spill response alter microbial community composition and evolution but not microbial activity. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Kleindienst, S. S., Grim, S., Sogin, M., Seidel, M., Medeiros, P. M., Passow, U., et al. (2014). The microbial response to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea plume. In Goldschmidt 2014 Conference. Sacramento, CA : 06/08/14-06/13/14.
Seidel, M., Kleindienst, S., Dittmar, T., Joye, S. B., & Medeiros, P. M. (2014). Influence of dispersants on the biodegradation of crude oil in deep sea water from the Gulf of Mexico: Insights from ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry. In Gordon Conference on Organic Biogeochemistry. Holderness, NH : 8/2/14-8/3/14.

2013

Joye, S. B., Sibert, R., Battles, J., Fields, L., Kleindienst, S., Crespo-Medina, M., et al. (2013). Sediment biogeochemistry and microbial activity at natural hydrocarbon seeps and at sites impacted by anthropogenic hydrocarbon discharges. In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2013.