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Monica Ponder
Assistant Professor
101 Food Science and Technology Building (0418)
Blacksburg, VA 24061

P: (540) 231-5031
F: (540) 231-9293
E-mail: mponder@exchange.vt.edu

For more information on Dr. Ponder, please see here lab page at https://filebox.vt.edu/users/mponder/index.html.

 
Education:
  Ph.D. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University July, 2005
B. A. Microbiology, Miami University, 1999

Work Experience :
  ASM/NCID Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005-2007

Research Interests:
  Reservoir Ecology
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Microbial Ecology of Agricultural Commodities

Recent Publications :
 

Ponder, M., Vishnivetskaya, T., McGrath, J. and J. Tiedje.  2004.  “Microbial life in permafrost: extended times in extreme conditions” in Life in the frozen state. Edited by Fuller, J., Lane, N. and E. Benson.  CRC Press, Boca Raton. 151-170.

Ponder, M., Gilmour, S., Bergholz, P., Mindock, C., Hollingsworth, R., Thomashow, M. and J. Tiedje. 2005.  “Characterization of Potential Stress Responses in Ancient Siberian Permafrost Psychroactive Bacteria." FEMS Microbial Ecology 53(1): 103-15.

Bakermans, C., Ayala, H., Ponder, M. Tiedje, J. and M. Thomashow.  2006.  “Psychrobacter cryohalolentis sp. Nov. and Psychrobacter arcticus sp. nov. isolated from Siberian permafrost.  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.  56 (Pt 6):1285-91.

Zheng S, Ponder MA, Shih JY, Tiedje JM, Thomashow MF, Lubman DM. 2007.  A proteomic analysis of Psychrobacter articus 273-4 adaptation to low temperature and salinity using a 2-D liquid mapping approach.  Electrophoresis. 28(3):467-88.

Vishnivetskaya, T., Petrova, M., Urbance, J., Ponder, M., Moyer, C., Gilichinsky, D and J. Tiedje.  2006.  “Bacterial Community in Ancient Siberian Permafrost as Characterized by Culture and Culture-Independent Methods”.  Astrobiology. 6 (3): 400-414.

Publications in preparation

Ayala, H., Chain, P., Ponder, M., Bergholz, P., Bakermans, C., Rodrigues, D., Thomashow, M. and J. Tiedje.  In preparation.  “The genome sequence of Psychrobacter arcticus 273-4, a cold adapted Siberian permafrost isolate”

Ponder, M., Thomashow, M. and J. Tiedje.  In preparation. “Metabolic activity of Siberian permafrost isolated bacteria Psychrobacter arcticus 273-4 and Exiguobacterium 255-15 at low water activities”

Ponder, M., Thomashow, M. and J. Tiedje. In preparation.  “Transcriptome responses of an ancient permafrost isolated Psychrobacter arcticus 273-4 to low temperature and low water activity”

Ponder, M. Porwollik, S., McClelland and P. Fields. “Identification of differences in gene content between clinically relevant  Salmonella enterica serovars from subspecies II, II Ia, IIIb and IV”

Ponder, M., VanDuyne, S., Gerner-Smidt and P. Fields.  “Genomic content differences between serovars of Salmonella enterica serotype Kentucky of different lineages

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