Peer Reviewed Publications

Comparative electrokinetic properties of extracellular vesicles produced by yeast and bacteria.

NMK Rogers, AW McCumber, HM McMillan, RP McNamara, DP Dittmer, MJ Kuehn, CO Hendren, MR Wiesner

Accepted Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. 2023.

Age-related changes in the nasopharyngeal microbiome are associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and symptoms among children, adolescents, and young adults.

JH Hurst†, AW McCumber†, JN Aquino, J Rodriguez, SM Heston, DJ Lugo, AT Rotta, NA Turner, TS Pfeiffer, TC Gurley, MA Moody, TN Denny, JF Rawls, JS Clark, CW Woods, MS Kelly

Clinical Infectious Disease. 2022.

Identifying bioaugmentation candidates for bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in contaminated estuarine sediment of the Elizabeth River, VA, USA.

SJ Volkoff, DL Rodriguez, DR Singleton, AW McCumber, MD Aitken, JR Stewart, CK Gunsch

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2022.

Effects of Starvation and Re-feeding on the Microbiomes of the Zebrafish Intestine and Environment 

AW McCumber†, J Jawahar†, CR Lickwar, CR Amoroso, S Gomez de la Torre Canny, S Wong, M Morash, JH Thierer, SA Farber, BJM Bohannan, K Guillemin, JF Rawls

BMC Genomics. 2022.

The environment shapes swine lung bacterial communities 

AW McCumber, YJ Kim*, OS Isikhuemhen, RM Tighe, CK Gunsch

Science of The Total Environment. 2021

Long-term effects of copper nanopesticides on soil and sediment community diversity in two outdoor mesocosm experiments

LN Carley, R Panchagavi, X Song, S Davenport,  CM Bergemann, AW McCumber, CK Gunsch, M Simonin

Environmental Science and Technology. 2020

Impacts of silver-coated antimicrobial screen covers on the cell-phone microbiome of resident physicians

AW McCumber, SJ Volkoff, DJ Anderson, CK Gunsch

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 2019

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria on personal devices in hospital intensive care units: Molecular approaches to quantifying and describing changes in the bacterial community of personal mobile devices

SJ Volkoff, AW McCumber, DJ Anderson, CK Gunsch

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 2019

A geospatial analysis of soil lead concentrations around regional Oklahoma airports

AW McCumber, KA Strevett

Chemosphere. 2017

*undergraduate advisee 

 †co-first author

Press

Thackray, Larissa. “LMtV Episode 24: BRAVE kids, the microbiome and COVID-19.” Let’s Meet the Virologists. April 8, 2021. 

Orphanides, KG. "Why we don't have self-cleaning, virus-killing smartphones." Wired. March 15, 2020. 

Winkelstroter, Lizziane. “Researchers test silver-coated screens to protect cell phones from contamination.” Helio. December 2, 2019.

Diamond, Frank. "Silver-coated screens show limited promise in protecting doctor's cell phones from germs." Infection Control Today. December 20, 2019. 

Rubin, Joe. “Promise Breakers: How regulators failed to stop a Sacramento lead hazard.” Capital and Main. June 20, 2017.