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Caron Lab, USC :
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Co. P.I. - USC Microbial
Observatory :
: Professor and Chair, Dept.
of Biological Sciences :
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Home-Page
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http://www.usc.edu/caronlab/dave.html
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E-mail
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dcaron
[AT] usc [DOT] edu
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Phone
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(213)740-0203
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Fax
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(213)740-6720
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Research
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Marine and freshwater microbial ecology, with emphasis on the trophic relationships between protists (microalgae and protozoa) and other planktonic and benthic microorganisms. Recent research programs have focused on the distribution, feeding ecology, respiration and nutrient regeneration of bacterivorous and herbivorous protozoa, the ecology of harmful algae, the physiology of Antarctic protists, feeding and growth of phagotrophic (mixotrophic) microalgae, and the development of
molecular biological approaches for studying the ecology of free-living microorganisms.
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Publications
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- Caron, D.A., P.D.
Countway and M.V. Brown.
2004. The growing
contribution of
molecular biology and
immunology to protistan
ecology: molecular
signatures as ecological
tools. J. Eukaryot.
Microbiol. 51: 38-48.
- Gobler, C.J., G.E.
Boneillo, C.J. Debenham
and D.A. Caron. 2004.
Nutrient limitation,
organic matter cycling,
and plankton dynamics
during an Aureococcus
anophagefferens
bloom. Aquatic Microb.
Ecol. 35: 31-43.
- Gast, R.J., Dennett,
M.R. & D.A. Caron. 2004.
Characterization of
Protistan Assemblages in
the Ross Sea, Antarctica
by Denaturing Gradient
Gel Electrophoresis.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol.
70: 2028-2037
- Caron, D.A., M.R.
Dennett, D.M. Moran, R.A.
Schaffner, D.J.
Lonsdale, C.J. Gobler,
R. Nuzzi and T.I.
McLean. 2003.
Development and
application of a
monoclonal antibody
technique for counting
Aureococcus
anophagefferens, an
alga causing recurrent
brown tides in the mid-atlantic
United States. Appl.
Environ. Microbiol. 69:
5492-5502.
- Caron, D.A. 2001.
Protistan community
structure. In: Hurst,
C.J., Knudsen, G.R.,
McInerney, M.J.,
Stetzenbach, L.D. and
M.V. Walter (eds.).
Manual of Environmental
Microbiology, Section
IV, ASM Press,
Washington, D.C., pp.
378-389.
- Caron, D.A. 2000.
Symbiosis and mixotrophy
among pelagic
microorganisms. In:
Kirchman, D.L. (Ed.),
Microbial ecology of the
oceans, John Wiley &
Sons, Inc., New York,
pp. 495-523.
- Caron, D.A., E.L.
Lim, M.R. Dennett, R.J.
Gast, C. Kosman and E.F.
DeLong. 1999. Molecular
phylogenetic analysis of
the heterotrophic
chrysophyte genus
Paraphysomonas, and
the design of rRNA-targeted
oligonucleotide probes
for two species. J.
Phycol. 35: 824-837.
For a complete list of
publications, please go here.
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