Prof. R. Michael McKay

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Ohio State University Research Foundation - Ohio Sea Grant: Winter assessment of microbial biomass and metabolism in Lake Erie, 2009 to 2011.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: Sources and sinks of stoichiometrically imbalanced nitrate in the Laurentian Great Lakes, 2009 to 2013.
Ohio Lake Erie Commission - Lake Erie Protection Fund: Winter assessment of Lake Erie microbiology, 2008 to 2008.
Ohio State University Research Foundation - Ohio Sea Grant: Phosphonates in Lake Erie: an unrecognized P source for phytoplankton and microbes?, 2008 to 2010.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Baltic Sea baseline for the 21st century - Biogeochemical processes and inventory of the Baltic Sea, 2008 to 2008.
Ohio State University Research Foundation - Ohio Sea Grant: Phylogenetic analysis and physiological characterization of photosynthetic picoplankton in Lake Erie, 2007 to 2009.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Design and characterization of cyanobacterial bioreporters to measure nutrient availability in marine systems, 2007 to 2010.
Ohio State University Research Foundation - Ohio Sea Grant: Redfield revisited: Addressing current perspectives on the phosphorus quotas of freshwater plankton, 2006 to 2008.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: The Nitrifying of Lake Superior and Its Intersections with the P and Fe cycles, 2004 to 2007.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: Development and field use of cyanobacterial iron-dependent bioreporters, 2003 to 2006.
National Science Foundation (NSF): International Collaborative Research: The biogeochemical cycling of Fe in HNLC waters of the subantarctic Southern Ocean (FeCycle), 2003 to 2004.
Case Western Reserve University (EPA subcontract): The Lake Erie trophic status study, 2002 to 2004.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: Rhizosolenia mats as a source of nitrogen flux into surface waters of the Pacific Ocean: Fe stress, N excretion and basin scale distribution patterns, 2001 to 2005.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Novel biosensor technology for the determination of bioavailable Fe in aquatic, 2000 to 2003.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Acquisition of molecular imaging and plate reading systems, 2000 to 2001.
Ohio State University Research Foundation: Cyanotoxins in the Great Lakes: Is Microcystis toxin production linked to Fe, 2000 to 2001.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: Trace metal limitation of phytoplankton productivity: Combined immunological, geochemical and growth assay approaches in Lake Superior, 1999 to 2002.

• Ilikchyan IN, McKay RM, Zehr JP, Dyhrman ST, Bullerjahn GS (May 2009) Detection and expression of the phosphonate transporter gene phnD in marine and freshwater picocyanobacteria., Environmental microbiology, 11 (5), 1314-24
• C.S. Hassler, S.M. Havens, G.S. Bullerjahn, R.M.L. McKay, M.R. Twiss (2009) An evaluation of iron bioavailability and speciation in western Lake Superior with the use of combined physical, chemical, and biological assessment., Limnology and Oceanography, 54 (3), 987-1001
• Patel J, Zhang Q, McKay RM, Vincent R, Xu Z (Feb 2009) Genetic Engineering of Caulobacter crescentus for Removal of Cadmium from Water., Applied biochemistry and biotechnology
• A. Hattori, J. Nishioka, T. Ono, R.M.L. McKay, K. Suzuki (2009) Fe deficiency in micro-sized diatoms in the Oyashio region of the western subarctic Pacific during spring., Journal of Oceanography, Submitted
• G.S. Bullerjahn, R. Boyanapalli, M.J. Rozmarynowycz, R.M.L. McKay (2009) Cyanobacterial bioreporters as sensors of nutrient availability, Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology. Whole Cell Sensing Systems, Berlin/Heidelberg, Springer, Submitted (bookchapter)
• Piunova V, Berger D, Neckers DC, Bullerjahn GS, McKay RM, Fedorov AV (Dec 2008) Biocidal performance of acrylated glyphosate in a model photopolymerizable coating formulation., Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology, 7 (12), 1565-9
• N.V. Ivanikova, A.R. Matteson, C.J. Gobler, L.C. Popels, R.M.L. McKay, S.W. Wilhelm, G.S. Bullerjahn (2008) Picoplanktonic cyanobacteria in Lakes Superior and Erie: phylogenies of endemic populations and cultured isolates., Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 30 (3), 459-465
• K. Suzuki, H. Saito, T. Isada, A. Hattori, H. Kiyosawa, J. Nishioka, R.M.L. McKay, A. Kuwata, A. Tsuda (2009) Community structure and photosynthetic physiology of phytoplankton in the northwest subarctic Pacific during an in situ iron fertilization experiment (SEEDS-II), Deep-Sea Research Part II, In Press
• Ivanikova NV, Popels LC, McKay RM, Bullerjahn GS (Jun 2007) Lake Superior supports novel clusters of cyanobacterial picoplankton., Applied and environmental microbiology, 73 (12), 4055-65
• Boyanapalli R, Bullerjahn GS, Pohl C, Croot PL, Boyd PW, McKay RM (Feb 2007) Luminescent whole-cell cyanobacterial bioreporter for measuring Fe availability in diverse marine environments., Applied and environmental microbiology, 73 (3), 1019-24
• T.A. Villareal, R.M.L. McKay, M.M.D. Al-Rshaidat, R. Boyanapalli, R.M. Sherrell (2007) Compositional and fluorescence characteristics of the giant diatom Ethmodiscus along a 3000 km transect (28 °N) in the central North Pacific gyre, Deep-Sea Research, Part 1, 54, 1273-1288
• R.W. Sterner, E. Anagnostou, S. Brovold, G.S. Bullerjahn, J. Finlay, S. Kumar, R.M.L. McKay, R.M. Sherrell (2007) Increasing stoichiometric imbalance in North America's largest lake: Nitrification in Lake Superior, Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (L10406), doi:10.1029/2006GL02
• N.V. Ivanikova, R.M.L. McKay, G.S. Bullerjahn, R.W. Sterner (2007) Nitrate utilization in Lake Superior is impaired by low nutrient (P, Fe) availability and seasonal light limitation: A cyanobacterial bioreporter study, Journal of Phycology, 43, 475-484
• C.S. Hassler, M.R. Twiss, R.M.L. McKay, G.S. Bullerjahn (2006) Optimization of iron-dependent cyanobacterial (Synechococcus, Cyanophyceae) bioreporters to measure iron bioavailability, Journal of Phycology, 42, 324-335
• P.W. Boyd, C.S. Law, D.A. Hutchins, E.R. Abraham, P.L. Croot, M. Ellwood, R.D. Frew, M. Hadfield, J. Hall, S. Handy, C. Hare, J. Higgins, P. Hill, K.A. Hunter, K. LeBlanc, M.T. Maldonado, R.M. McKay, C. Mioni, M. Oliver, S. Pickmere, M. Pinkerton, K. Safi, S. Sander, S.A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy, M. Smith, R. Strzepek, A. Tovar-Sanchez, S.W. Wilhelm (2005) FeCycle: Attempting an iron biogeochemical budget from a mesoscale SF6 tracer experiment in unperturbed low iron waters., Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19 (4) (GB4S25), doi:10.1029/2005GB00
• McKay RML, Wilhelm SW, Hall J, Hutchins DA, Al-Rshaidat MMD, Mioni CE, Pickmere S, Porta D, Boyd PW (2005) Impact of phytoplankton on the biogeochemical cycling of iron in subantarctic waters southeast of New Zealand during FeCycle, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19 (4) (GB4S24), doi:10.1029/2005GB00
• C.E. Mioni, S.M. Handy, M.J. Ellwood, M.R. Twiss, R.M.L. McKay, P.W. Boyd, S.W. Wilhelm (2005) Tracking changes in bioavailable Fe within high-nitrate low-chlorophyll oceanic waters: A first estimate using a heterotrophic bacterial bioreporter., Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19 (4) (GB4S25), doi:10.1029/2005BG00
• Boyd PW, Strzepek R, Takeda S, Jackson G, Wong CS, McKay RM, Law C, Kiyosawa H, Saito H, Sherry N, Johnson K, Gower J, Ramaiah N (2005) The evolution and termination of an iron-induced mesoscale bloom in the northeast subarctic Pacific, Limnology and Oceanography, 50 (6), 1872-1886
• McKay RML, Porta D, Bullerjahn GS, Al-Rshaidat MMD, Klimowicz JA, Sterner RW, Smutka TM, Brown ET, Sherrell RM (2005) Bioavailable iron in oligotrophic Lake Superior assessed using biological reporters, Journal of Plankton Research, 27 (10), 1033-1044
• M.R. Twiss, S.P. Gouvea, R.A. Bourbonniere, R.M.L. McKay, S.W. Wilhelm (2005) Field investigations of trace metal effects on Lake Erie phytoplankton productivity, Journal of Great Lakes Research, 31 (Suppl 2), 168-179
• D. Porta, G.S. Bullerjahn, M.R. Twiss, S.W. Wilhelm, L. Poorvin, R.M.L. McKay (2005) Determination of bioavailable Fe in Lake Erie using a luminescent cyanobacterial bioreporter, Journal of Great Lakes Research, 31 (Suppl 2), 180-194
• Ivanikova NV, McKay RML, Bullerjahn, GS (2005) Construction and Characterization of a Cyanobacterial Bioreporter Capable of Assessing Nitrate Assimilatory Capacity in Freshwaters, Limnology & Oceanography: Methods, 3, 86-93
• Boyd PW, Law CS, Wong CS, Nojiri Y, Tsuda A, Levasseur M, Takeda S, Rivkin R, Harrison PJ, Strzepek R, Gower J, McKay M, Abraham E, Arychuk M, Barwell-Clarke J, Crawford W, Crawford D, Hale M, Harada K, Johnson K, Kiyosawa H, Kudo I, Marchetti A, Miller W, The decline and fate of an iron-induced subarctic phytoplankton bloom, Nature, 428(6982), 549-53, April 2004
• DeBruyn JM, Leigh-Bell, JA, McKay, RML, Bourbonniere, RA, Wilhelm, SW, Microbial distributions and the impact of phosphorus on bacterial activity in Lake Erie, Journal of Great Lakes Research, 30(1), 166-183, 2004
• Sterner RW, Smutka TM, McKay RML, Qin X, Brown ET, Sherrell RM, Phosphorus and trace metal limitation of algae and bacteria in Lake Superior, Limnology and Oceanography, 49(2), 495-507, 2004
• Vincent RK, Qin X, McKay RML, Miner J, Czajkowski K, Savino J, Bridgeman T, Phycocyanin detection from LANDSAT TM data for mapping cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie, Remote Sensing of Environment, 89, 381-392, 2004
• Xia L, Yakunin AF, McKay RML, The Fe-responsive accumulation of redox proteins ferredoxin and flavodoxin from a marine cryptomonad, European Journal of Phycology, 39(1), 73-82, 2004
• McKay RML, Bullerjahn GS, Porta D, Brown ET, Sherrell RM, Smutka TM, Sterner RW, Twiss MR, Wilhelm SW, Consideration of the bioavailability of iron in the North American Great Lakes: Development of novel approaches toward understanding iron biogeochemistry, Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 7(4), 475-490, 2004
• Twiss MR, Rattan KJ, Sherrell RM, McKay RML, Sensitivity of phytoplankton to copper in Lake Superior, Journal of Great Lakes Research, 30(S1), 2004
• Wilhelm SW, DeBruyn JM, Gillor O, Twiss MR, Livingston K, Bourbonniere RA, Pickell LD, Trick CG, Dean AL, McKay RML, Effect of phosphorus amendments on present day plankton communities in pelagic Lake Erie, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 32, 275-285, 14 Jul 2003
• Li X, Xiaoming Q, McKay RM, Physiological and biochemical response of freshwater cryptomonads (Cryptophyceae) to Fe deficiency, Journal of Basic Microbiology, 43(2), 121-30, 2003
• Durham KA, Porta D, McKay RM, Bullerjahn GS, Expression of the iron-responsive irpA gene from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp strain PCC 7942, Archives of Microbiology, 179(2), 131-4, 2003
• Porta D, Bullerjahn GS, Durham KA, Wilhelm SW, Twiss MR, McKay RML, Physiological characterization of a Synechococcus sp. (Cyanophyceae) strain PCC 7942 iron-dependent bioreporter for freshwater environments, Journal of Phycology, 39, 64-73, 2003
• Durham KA, Porta D, McKay RML, Bullerjahn GS, Expression of the iron-responsive irpA gene from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942, Archives of Microbiology, 179, 131-134, 2003
• Durham KA, Porta D, Twiss MR, McKay RM, Bullerjahn GS, Construction and initial characterization of a luminescent Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 Fe-dependent bioreporter, Fems Microbiology Letters, 209(2), 215-21, April 2002
• Hoostal MJ, Bullerjahn GS, McKay RML, Molecular assessment of the potential for in situ bioremediation of PCBs from aquatic sediments, Hydrobiologia, 469, 59-65, 2002
• Boyd PW, Watson AJ, Law CS, Abraham ER, Trull T, Murdoch R, Bakker DC, Bowie AR, Buesseler KO, Chang H, Charette M, Croot P, Downing K, Frew R, Gall M, Hadfield M, Hall J, Harvey M, Jameson G, LaRoche J, Liddicoat M, Ling R, Maldonado MT, McKay RM, Nodder, A mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean stimulated by iron fertilization, Nature, 407(6805), 695-702, October 2000
• McKay RML, Villareal TA, La Roche J, Vertical migration by Rhizosolenia spp. (Bacillariophyceae): Implications for Fe acquisition, Journal of Phycology, 36, 669-674, 2000
• P.W. Boyd, J. La Roche, M. Gall, R. Frew, R.M.L. McKay (1999) The role of iron, light and silicate in controlling algal biomass in Sub-Antarctic waters SE of New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 104, 13395-13408
• R.M.L. McKay, J. La Roche, A.F. Yakunin, D.G. Durnford, R.J. Geider (1999) Accumulation of ferredoxin and flavodoxin in a marine diatom in response to Fe, Journal of Phycology, 35, 510-519
• J. La Roche, R.M.L. McKay, P.W. Boyd (1999) Immunological and molecular probes to detect phytoplankton responses to environmental stress in nature, Hydrobiologia, 401, 177-198
• K.R. Timmermans (1998) Iron stress in the Pacific region of the Southern Ocean: evidence from enrichment bioasays, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 166, 27-41
• R.J. Geider, H.M. MacIntyre, L. Graziano, R.M.L. McKay (1998) Responses of the photosynthetic apparatus of Dunaliella tertiolecta, European Journal of Phycology, 33, 315-332
• McKay RM, Geider RJ, LaRoche J (Jun 1997) Physiological and Biochemical Response of the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Two Marine Diatoms to Fe Stress., Plant physiology, 114 (2), 615-622
• H.L. MacIntyre, R.J. Geider, R.M.L. McKay (1996) Photosynthesis and regulation of Rubisco activity in net phytoplankton from Delaware Bay, Journal of Phycology, 32, 718-731
• J. La Roche, P.W. Boyd, R.M.L. McKay, R.J. Geider (1996) Flavodoxin as an in situ marker for iron stress in phytoplankton, Nature, 382, 802-805
• R.M.L. McKay, S.P. Gibbs, G.S. Espie (1993) Effect of dissolved inorganic carbon on the expression of carboxysomes, localization of Rubisco and the mode of inorganic carbon transport in cells of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus UTEX 625, Archives of Microbiology, 159, 21-29
• R.M.L. McKay, C. Lichtle, S.P. Gibbs (1992) immunocytochemical characterization of the intrapyrenoid thylakoids of cryptomonads, Journal of Phycology, 28, 64-68
• C. Lichtle, R.M.L. McKay, S.P. Gibbs (1992) Immunogold localization of photosystem I and photosystem II light-harvesting complexes in cryptomonad thylakoids, Biology of the Cell, 74, 187-194
• R.M.L. McKay, S.P. Gibbs, K.C. Vaughn (1991) Rubisco activase is present in the pyrenoid of green algae, Protoplasma, 162, 38-45
• R.M.L. McKay, S.P. Gibbs (1991) Composition and function of pyrenoids: cytochemical amd immunocytochemical approaches, Canadian Journal of Botany, 69, 1040-1052
• R.M.L. McKay (1991) Immunocytochemical localization of phosphoribulokinase in microalgae, Botanica Acta, 104, 367-373
• R.M.L. McKay, S.P. Gibbs (1990) Phycoerythrin is absent from the pyrenoid of Porphyridium cruentum: photosynthetic implications, Planta, 180, 249-256
• R.M.L. McKay, S.P. Gibbs (1989) Immunocytochemical localization of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in light-limited and light-saturated cells of Chlorella pyrenoidosa, Protoplasma, 149, 31-37
• R.M.L. McKay, G.R. Palmer, X.P. Ma, D.B. Layzell, B.T.A. McKee (1988) The use of positron emission tomography for studies of long distance transport in plants: uptake and transport of 18F, Plant, Cell and Environment, 11, 851-861