Publications

Journal Publications

  1. Ebrahimi, F., Lewis, A. Sales, C.M., Suri, R., and E.R. McKenzie. 2020. Linking PFAS parititoning behavior in sewage sludge to solution chemistry and treatment processes. (in review)
  2. Nan, Y.*, Price, J.R*., Wang, Y., Cheng, M. Keshani Langroodi, S., Woloszynek, S., Rosen, G.L., Yuan, L., and C.M. Sales. 2020. Evidence of predation and parasitism affecting EBPR performance through microbial community instability. (in review)
    *Both authors contributed equally to this manuscript.
  3. Price, J.R. and C.M. Sales. 2020. Quantifying the influence of nutrient loading and availability on microbial community dynamics and subsequent kinetic behavior. (in review)
  4. Bradley, T.C., Haas, C.N., and C.M. Sales. 2020. Nitrification in Premise Plumbing: A Review. Water. (accepted).
  5. Minerovic, A.D., Potapova, M.G., Sales, C.M., Price, J.R., and M.D. Enache. 2020. 18S-V9 DNA metabarcoding detects the effect of water-quality impairment on stream biofilm eukaryotic assemblages. Ecological Indicators. 113:106225.
  6. Lewis, A., Joyce, T*., Hadaya, M., Ebrahimi, F., Dragiev, I.*, Giardetti, N.*, Yang, J.*, Fridman, G., Rabinovich, A., Fridman, A.A. McKenzie, E.R., and C.M. Sales. 2020. Rapid degradation of PFAS in aqueous solutions by revere vortex flow gliding arc plasma. Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol. DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01050E.
    *Undergraduate student authors.
  7. Ksara, M.*, Newkirk, R.*, Keshani Langroodi, S., Althoey, F., Sales, C.M., Schauer, C.L., and Y. Farnam. 2019. Microbial Damage Mitigation Strategy in Cementitious Materials Exposed to Calcium Chloride. Constr. Build Mater. 195:1-9.
    *Undergraduate student authors.
  8. Price, J.R., Ledford, S.H., Ryan, M.O., Toran, L., and C.M. Sales. 2018. Wastewater treatment plant effluent introduces recoverable shifts in microbial community composition in receiving streams. Sci. Total Environ. 613-614:1104-1116. Journal Link
  9. Sniffen, K.D., Sales, C.M., and M.S. Olson. 2018. The fate of nitrogen through algal treatment of landfill leachate. Algal Res. 30:50-58. Journal Link
  10. Sniffen, K.D., Price, J.R., Sales, C.M., and M.S. Olson. 2017. Influence of scale on biomass growth and nutrient removal in an algal-bacterial leachate treatment system. Environ. Sci. Technol. 51(22):13344-13352. Journal Link
  11. Sniffen, K.D., Sales, C.M., and M.S. Olson. 2017. Comparison of Scale in a Photosynthetic Reactor System for Algal Remediation of Wastewater. Vis. Exp. e55256-e55256. Journal Link
  12. Nayak, S., O’Donnell, S.-E., Sales, C.M., and R.V. Tikekar. 2016. Fructose accelerates UV-C induced photochemical degradation of pentachlorophenol in low and high salinity water. Agric. Food Chem. 64(21):4214-4219. Journal Link
  13. Shaila Nayak, S., Muniz J., Sales C.M., Tikekar R.V. 2016. Fructose as a novel photosensitizer: Characterization of reactive oxygen species and an application in degradation of Diuron and Chlorpyrifos. Chemosphere 144:1690-1697. PDF Link / Journal Link
  14. Price,J.R., Keshani Langroodi, S., Lan, Y., Becker, J.M., Shieh, W.K., Rosen, G.L., and C.M. Sales. 2016. Untangling the microbial ecosystem and kinetics in a nitrogen removing photosynthetic high density bioreactor. Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol. doi: 10.1039/C6EW00078A. PDF Link/SI Link/Rich HTML/Journal Link
  15. Price, J.R., Shieh, W.K., Sales, C.M. 2015. A novel bioreactor for high density cultivation of diverse microbial communities. J. Vis. Exp. (106), e53443, doi:10.3791/53443. PDF Link / Materials Link / Journal Link
  16. Sniffen, K.D., Sales, C.M. and M. Olson. 2015. Nitrogen removal from raw landfill leachate by an algae-bacteria consortium. Water Science & Technology. PDF Link / Journal Link
  17. Sales C.M. and Lee P.K. 2015.  Resource recovery from wastewater: application of meta-omics to phosphorus and carbon management. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 33:260-267. PDF Link / Journal Link
  18. Ramanathan, G., Sales, C.M., and W. K. Shieh. 2014. Simultaneous autotrophic denitrification and nitrification in a low-oxygen reaction environment. Water Sci. Technol. doi:10.2166/wst.2014.292. Journal Link
  19. Sales, C.M., Grostern, A., Zhuang, W.Q., Parales, R.E., Mahendra, S., and L. Alvarez-Cohen. 2013. Oxidation of the cyclic ethers 1,4-dioxane and tetrahydrofuran by a monooxygenase in two Pseudonocardia species. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. PDF Link / Journal Link
  20. Gedalanga, P., Kotay, S.M, Sales, C.M., Butler, C.S., Goel, R., and Mahendra, S. 2013. Novel Applications of molecular biological and microscopic tools in environmental engineering. Water Environ. Res. 85(10):917-950. PDF Link / Journal Link
  21. Grostern, A., Sales, C.M., Zhuang, W.Q., Erbilgin, O., Parales, R.E., and L. Alvarez-Cohen. 2012. Glyoxylate metabolism is a key feature of the metabolic degradation of 1,4-dioxane by Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans strain CB1190. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78:3298-3308. PDF Link / Journal Link
  22. Sales, C.M., Mahendra, S., Grostern, A., Parales, R.E., Goodwin, L., Woyke, T., Nolan, M., Lapidus, A., Chertkov, O., Ovchinnikova, G., Szcyrba, A., and L. Alvarez-Cohen. 2011. Genome sequence of 1,4-dioxane degrading Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans strain CB1190. J. Bacteriol. 193:4459-4550. PDF Link / Journal Link
  23. Sharp, J.O.*, Sales, C.M.* and L. Alvarez-Cohen. 2010. Functional characterization of propane-enhanced N-nitrosodimethylamine degradation by two actinomycetales. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 107(6):924-932.*Both authors contributed equally to this manuscript. PDF Link / Journal Link
  24. Sharp J.O., Sales C.M., LeBlanc J.C., Liu J., Wood T.K., Eltis L.D., Mohn W.W., and L. Alvarez-Cohen. 2007. An inducible propane monooxygenase is responsible for n-nitrosodimethylamine degradation by Rhodococcus sp. Strain RHA1. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73:6930-6938. PDF Link / Journal Link
  25. Sales C.M and W.K. Shieh. 2006. Performance of an aerobic/anaerobic hybrid bioreactor under nitrogen deficient and low F/M conditions. Water Research 40(7):1442-1448. PDF Link / Journal Link

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. Christe, D., Bhatt, J., Sales, C.M., and Y. Farnam. 2018. Empowering Underrepresented Groups to Excel in STEM Through Research Sprints. 125th American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition. Salt Lake City, UT.
  2. Ksara M., Keshani Langroodi, S., Mayerberger, E., Althoey, F., Sales, C.M., Schauer, C., and Y. Farnam. 2017. Evaluating the Potential Use of Alginate to Enable Microbial Self- Healing in Concrete. 6th Int. Conf. Self-Healing Mater., Friedrichshafen, Germany. 1–5.
  3. Muth, D., Rodriguez, E., Sales, C.M., Retallick, W.B., and S.W. Churchill. 2005. An Economic and Thermodynamic Evaluation of the Conversion of Natural Gas to Liquid Fuels Using an Ion-Transport Membrane. Proceedings of the 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting. Cincinnati, OH.

Pre-Print Publications

  1. Price, J. R. Woloszynek, S., Rosen, G. L. & Sales, C. M. \theseus – An R package for the analysis and visualization of microbial community data. bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/295675 (2018).

Non-Refereed Publications

  1. Price, J. R., Thompson, T.J., Parish, J. 2015. Automated Parsing of a LabSolutions Batch Results File (ASCII Output) When Using a Spreadsheet or Statistical Package to Summarize Data. Technical Note. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments. PDF Link / GitHub Link