Christopher Ward, PhD he/him

Education

Research

Research awards

• $ 295,875 awarded by National Science Foundation for Understanding Winter Nitrogen Cycling Across Gradients of Winter Severity and Impacts on Phytoplankton Communities in an Inland Freshwater Sea, Lake Erie

Research

Research interests

• Marine microbial genomics
• Marine biodegradation of polymers
• Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms

Select publications

• Christopher S Ward, Zoie Diana, Kate Meicong Ke, Beatriz Orihuela, Thomas P Schultz, Daniel Rittschof (2022).
  Microbiome development of seawater-incubated pre-production plastic pellets reveals distinct and predictive community compositions
  Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 807327.
  
• Jeffrey A Kimbrel, Brendan M Jeffrey, Christopher S Ward (2021).
  Prokaryotic genome annotation
  Microbial Systems Biology: Methods and Protocols, 193-214.
  
• Christopher S Ward, Cheuk-Man Yung, Katherine M Davis, Sara K Blinebry, Tiffany C Williams, Zackary I Johnson, Dana E Hunt (2017).
  Annual community patterns are driven by seasonal switching between closely related marine bacteria
  ISME Journal, 11, 1412-1422.
  
• Cheuk-Man Yung, Christopher S Ward, Katherine M Davis, Zackary I Johnson, Dana E Hunt (2016).
  Insensitivity of diverse and temporally variable particle-associated microbial communities to bulk seawater environmental parameters
  Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82, 3431-3437.
  Ryan S Wagner, Michelle J Neudeck, Alexis E Heath, Katelyn B Barker, Katelyn M Brown, Seth Buchholz, Christopher S Ward, George S Bullerjahn
• The recent disappearance of a persistent Planktothrix bloom: Characterization of a regime shift in the phytoplankton of Sandusky Bay (USA) (2024).
  The recent disappearance of a persistent Planktothrix bloom: Characterization of a regime shift in the phytoplankton of Sandusky Bay (USA)
  Harmful Algae, 136, 102656.
  

Latest from Christopher

Mentioned in