Kay D. Bidle Assistant Professor Rutgers University Dept. of Marine Sciences Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences School of Env & Biol Sciences New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (732) 932-6555, Ext. 393 FAX - 6557 bidle@marine.rutgers.edu

Marine microbiology, molecular ecology, biogeochemistry

Research Interests

Microbial ecology, phytoplankton physiology and mortality, virology, molecular evolution and ecology, biogeochemistry, ecosystem processes, the structure and function of microbial food webs

To elucidate, using molecular biology and biochemistry techniques, cellular strategies whereby phytoplankton and marine bacteria react to their environment and, in the process, shape ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemistry in the upper ocean

Selected Publications

Bidle KD, Bender SJ. (2008) Iron starvation and culture age activate metacaspases and programmed cell death in the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana.
Eukaryot Cell. 7(2):223-36.

Bidle KD, Lee S, Marchant DR, Falkowski PG. (2007) Fossil genes and microbes in the oldest ice on earth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104(33):13455-60.

Bidle KD, Haramaty L, Barcelos E Ramos J, Falkowski P. (2007) Viral activation and recruitment of metacaspases in the unicellular coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104(14):6049-54.

Bidle, K.D. and Falkowski, P.G. (2004). Cell death in planktonic, photosynthetic microorganisms. Nature Reviews Microbiol. 2:643-655.

Berman-Frank, I., Bidle, K.D., Haramaty, L. and Falkowski, P. (2004). The demise of the marine cyanobacterium, Trichodesmium spp., via an autocatalyzed cell death pathway. Limnol. Oceanogr. 49:997-1005.

Bidle, K.D., Long, R.A., Jones, J., Brzezinski, M.A. and Azam, F. (2003). Diminished efficiency of the oceanic silica pump by bacterially-mediated silica dissolution. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48:1855-1868.

Brzezinski M. A., Jones, J., Bidle, K. and Azam, F. (2003). The balance between silica production and silica dissolution in the sea. Insights from Monterey Bay, California applied to the global data set. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48: 1846-1854.

Bidle, K.D., Manganelli, M. and Azam, F. (2002). Regulation of diatom silicon and carbon preservation by temperature effects on bacterial activity. Science 298:1980-1984.

Bidle K.D. and Azam, F. (2001). Bacterial control of silicon regeneration from diatom detritus: significance of bacterial ectohydrolases and species identity. Limnol. Oceanogr. 46(7): 1606-1623.