Monica D. Ramirez-Andreotta, ., Mark L. Brusseau, ., Paloma Beamer, ., & Raina M. Maier, . (2013). Home gardening near a mining site in an arsenic-endemic region of Arizona: Assessing arsenic exposure dose and risk via ingestion of home garden vegetables, soils, and water. Science of the Total Environment, 454-455, 373-382.
BIO5 Collaborators
Paloma Beamer, Raina Margaret Maier
Hogan, D. E., Curry, J. E., Pemberton, J. E., & Maier, R. M. (2017). Rhamnolipid biosurfactant complexation of rare earth elements. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, 340, 171-178.
BIO5 Collaborators
Joan E Curry, Raina Margaret Maier
Curry, J., Baughman, K. F., Maier, R. M., Norris, T. A., Beam, B. M., Mudalige, A., Pemberton, J. E., & Curry, J. E. (2010). Evaporative deposition patterns of bacteria from a sessile drop: effect of changes in surface wettability due to exposure to a laboratory atmosphere. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 26(10).
BIO5 Collaborators
Joan E Curry, Raina Margaret Maier
Evaporative deposition from a sessile drop is a simple and appealing way to deposit materials on a surface. In this work, we deposit living, motile colloidal particles (bacteria) on mica from drops of aqueous solution. We show for the first time that it is possible to produce a continuous variation in the deposition pattern from ring deposits to cellular pattern deposits by incremental changes in surface wettability which we achieve by timed exposure of the mica surface to the atmosphere. We show that it is possible to change the contact angle of the drop from less than 5 degrees to near 20 degrees by choice of atmospheric exposure time. This controls the extent of drop spreading, which in turn determines the architecture of the deposition pattern.
Stein, M. M., Hrusch, C. L., Gozdz, J., Igartua, C., Pivniouk, V., Murray, S. E., Ledford, J. G., Marques dos Santos, M., Anderson, R. L., Metwali, N., Neilson, J. W., Maier, R. M., Gilbert, J. A., Holbreich, M., Thorne, P. S., Martinez, F. D., von Mutius, E., Vercelli, D., Ober, C., & Sperling, A. I. (2016). Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children. The New England journal of medicine, 375(5), 411-21.
BIO5 Collaborators
Julie Ledford, Raina Margaret Maier, Fernando Martinez
The Amish and Hutterites are U.S. agricultural populations whose lifestyles are remarkably similar in many respects but whose farming practices, in particular, are distinct; the former follow traditional farming practices whereas the latter use industrialized farming practices. The populations also show striking disparities in the prevalence of asthma, and little is known about the immune responses underlying these disparities.
Herman, D. C., & Maier, R. M. (2009). Consequences of Biogeochemical Cycles Gone Wild. Environmental Microbiology, 319-333.