Pam Morris
Hollings Marine Laboratory
331 Fort Johnson Rd.
Charleston, SC 29412
(843) 762-8803
morrisp@cofc.edu
Ph.D., 1992, Michigan State University
M.S., 1983, Virginia Tech
Research emphasis: To utilize genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic approaches to better understand the diversity, function and pathogenicity of microorganisms in the marine environment
Current research projects :
- microbial diversity associated with healthy and diseased Caribbean corals; linking coral microbial community diversity with function in order to better understand coral disease processes
- anti-microbial production and antibiotic resistance and susceptibility profiles of coral-associated microorganisms
- microbial community diversity associated with bottlenose dolphin upper respiratory tract fluids
- microbial degradation of crude oil; biofilms associated with oil-contaminated environments; characterizing the oil associated with the USS Arizona
Selected Publications:
- Kimes, N.E., J.D. Van Nostrand, J.Z. Zhou, E. Weil and P.J. Morris. 2009. Microbial functional structure of Montastraea faveolata, an important Caribbean reef-building coral, differs between healthy and Caribbean yellow-band diseased colonies. Environmental Microbiology, In Press.
- Johnson, W.R., M. Torralba, K. Nelson, G.D. Bossart, P.A. Fair, and P.J. Morris. 2009. Bacterial diversity of the bottlenose dolphin upper respiratory tract. Environmental Microbiology Reports, DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00080.x
- Boroujerdi, A.F.B., M.I. Vizcaino, A. Meyers, E.C. Pollock, S.L. Huynh, T.B. Schock, P.J. Morris, and D.W. Bearden,. 2009. NMR-based microbial metabolomics and the temperature-dependent coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus Environmental Science & Technology, In Press.
- Meron, D., R. Efrony, W.R. Johnson, A.L. Schaefer, P.J. Morris, E. Rosenberg, E.P. Greenberg, and E. Banin. 2009. Role of flagella in virulence of the coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75:5704–5707.
- Van Nostrand, J., J.M. Arthur, L.E. Kilpatrick, B. Neely, P.M. Bertsch and P.J. Morris. 2008. Changes in protein expression in Burkholderia vietnamiensis PR1301 at pH 5 and 7 with and without nickel. Microbiology 154: 3813-3824.