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Eric Alva Webb

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Contact Information
E-mail: eawebb@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-7954
Office: AHF 331

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Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
 

Education
Ph.D. Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 6/1999
B.S. Microbiology, The Ohio State University, 6/1994
 

Postdoctoral Training
Postdoc Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1999-2001  
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 05/13/2011-  
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 07/16/2006-05/13/2011  
Associate Scientist without Tenure, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 02/01/2006-07/15/2006  
Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 10/01/2001-01/31/2006  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Marine cyanobacterial physiology, ecology, and genomics. Development of molecular methods to monitor nutrient and trace metal stress in situ in marine cyanobacteria; Molecular characterization of the Fe scavenging system of marine cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria; secondary metabolite production (antibiotics and toxins) by marine and estuarine cyanobacteria.
 

Research Keywords
Marine Cyanobacteria, Physiology, Genomics, Microbial Ecology, Fe scavenging strategies
 

Publications

Journal Article
Sohm, J. A., Edwards, B. R., Wilson, B. G., Webb, E. A. (2011). Constitutive Extracellular Polysaccharide (EPS) Production by Specific Isolates of Crocosphaera watsonii. Frontiers in Aquatic Microbiology. Vol. 2
Singer, E., Emerson, D., Webb, E. A., Barco, R. A., Kuenen, J. G., Nelson, W. C., Chan, C. S., Comolli, L. R., Ferriera, S., Johnson, J., Heidelberg, J. F., Edwards, K. J. (2011). Mariprofundus ferrooxydans PV-1 the First Genome of a Marine Fe(II) Oxidizing Zetaproteobacterium. PLoS ONE. Vol. 6 (9), pp. e25386.
Van Mooy, B. A., Hmelo, L. R., Sofen, L. E., Campagna, S. R., May, A. L., Dyhrman, S. T., Heithoff, A., Webb, E. A., Momper, L., Mincer, T. (2011). Quorum sensing control of phosphorus acquisition in Trichodesmium consortia. The ISME Journal. Vol. 6 (2), pp. 422-429.
Sohm, J. A., Hilton, J. A., Noble, A. E., Zehr, J. P., Saito, M. A., Webb, E. A. (2011). Nitrogen fixation in the South Atlantic Gyre and the Benguela Upwelling System. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 38, pp. -.
Sohm, J. A., Webb, E. A., Capone, D. G. (2011). Emerging patterns of marine nitrogen fixation. Nature Reviews Microbiology. Vol. 9 (7), pp. 499-508.
Hynes, A. M., Webb, E. A., Doney, S. C., Waterbury, J. B. (2011). Comparison of cultured Trichodesmium (Cyanophyceae) with species characterized from the field. in press at J. Phyc..
Singer, E., Webb, E. A., Nelson, W. C., Heidelberg, J. F., Ivanova, N., Pati, A., Edwards, K. J. (2011). Genomic Potential of Marinobacter aquaeolei, a Biogeochemical "Opportunitroph". Applied And Environmental Microbiology. Vol. 77 (8), pp. 2763-2771.
Bonnet, S., Webb, E. A., Panzeca, C., Karl., D., Capone, D., Sanudo-Wilhelmy, S. A. (2010). Vitamin B12 excretion by cultures of the marine cyanobacteria Crocosphaera and Synechococcus. Limnol Oceanogr. Vol. 55 (5), pp. 1959–1964.
Chappell, P. D., Webb, E. A. (2010). A Molecular Assessment of the Iron Stress Response in the Two Phylogenetic Clades of Trichodesmium. Environ Microbiol. Vol. 12 (1), pp. 13-27.
Orchard, E. D., Webb, E. A., Dyhrman, S. T. (2009). Molecular analysis of the phosphorus starvation response in Trichodesmium spp. Environ Microbiol. Vol. 11 (9), pp. 2400–2411.
Hynes, A. M., Chappell, P. D., Dyhrman, S. T., Doney, S. C., Webb, E. A. (2009). Cross-basin comparison of phosphorus stress and nitrogen fixation in Trichodesmium. Limnol Oceanogr. Vol. 54 (5), pp. 1438–1448..
Homann, V., Edwards, K., Webb, E. A., Butler, A. (2009). Siderophores of Marinobacter aquaeolei: petrobactin and its sulfonated derivatives. Biometals. Vol. 22 (4), pp. 565-571.
Van Mooy, B. A., Fredricks, H. F., Pedler, B. E., Dyhrman, S. T., Karl, D. M., Lomas, M. W., Mincer, T., Moore, L. R., Moutin, T., Rappe, M. S., Webb, E. A. (2009). Phytoplankton in the ocean use non-phosphorus lipids in response to phosphorus scarcity. Nature. Vol. 458 (7234), pp. 69-72.
Webb, E. A., Ehrenreich, I. M., Brown, S., Valois, F. W., Waterbury, J. B. (2009). Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Multiple Strains of the Diazotrophic Cyanobacterium, Crocosphaera watsonii, isolated from the Open Ocean. Environ Microbiol. Vol. 11, pp. 338-348.
Rivers, A. R., Jakuba, R. W., Webb, E. A. (2009). Iron stress genes in marine Synechococcus and the development of a flow cytometric iron stress assay. Environ Microbiol. Vol. 11, pp. 382 - 396.
Rose, A. L., Webb, E. A., Waite, T. D., Moffett, J. W. (2008). Measurement and Implications of Steady-State Superoxide Concentrations in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Environ Sci Technol. Vol. 42 (7), pp. 2387–2393.
Webb, E. A., Rachel, J., Moffett, J. W., Dyhrman, S. T. (2007). Molecular Assessment of Phosphorus and Iron Physiology in Trichodesmium Populations from the Western Central and Western South Atlantic. Limnology and Oceanography/ASLO. Vol. 52(5), pp. 2221–2232.
Dyhrman, S. T., Chappell, P. D., Haley, S. T., Orchard, E. D., Waterbury, J. B., Webb, E. A. (2006). Phosphonate utilization by the globally important marine diazotroph Trichodesmium. Nature. Vol. 439, pp. 68-71.
Ehrenreich, I. M., Waterbury, J. B., Webb, E. A. (2005). The Distribution and Diversity of Natural Product Genes in Marine and Freshwater Cyanobacterial Cultures and Genomes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology/ASM. Vol. 71, pp. 7401-7413.
Orchard, E. D., Webb, E. A., Dyhrman, S. T. (2003). Characterization of Phosphorus-Regulated Genes in Trichodesmium spp. Biological Bulletin/Marine Biological Laboratory. Vol. 205, pp. 230–231.
Webb, E. A., Waterbury, J. B. (2001). Iron Stress in Open Ocean Cyanobacteria (Synechococcus, Trichodesmium, and Crocosphaera): Identification of the IdiA protein. Applied and Environmental Microbiology/ASM. Vol. 67, pp. 5444-5452.
 

Service to the Profession

Professional Memberships
International Society for Microbial Ecology, 2006-2011  
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 2000-2011  
American Society for Microbiology, 1995-2011  
 
 
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