Christopher Ward, PhD

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 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.