Epernicus: Kim B Ritchie, Ph.D.

Kim B Ritchie, Ph.D.

Position:
scientist

Marine Microbiology

Center for Coral Reef Research

Mote Marine Laboratory (Sarasota, FL)
Degrees:

Ph.D., Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Past Advisors:

James Hoch (as Senior Scientist)

Harilaos Lessios (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Thomas D. Petes (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:

Communities:

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Kim Ritchie's Publications (13)

Signaling-mediated cross-talk modulates swarming and biofilm formation in a coral pathogen Serratia marcescens.
Alagely A, Krediet CJ, Ritchie KB, Teplitski M

The ISME journal. 2011 Oct;5(10):1609-20
High frequency of horizontal gene transfer in the oceans.
McDaniel LD, Young E, Delaney J, Ruhnau F, Ritchie KB, Paul JH

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2010 Oct 1;330(6000):50
How microbial community composition regulates coral disease development.
Mao-Jones J, Ritchie KB, Jones LE, Ellner SP

PLoS biology. 2010 Mar;8(3):e1000345
Bacterial acquisition in juveniles of several broadcast spawning coral species.
Sharp KH, Ritchie KB, Schupp PJ, Ritson-Williams R, Paul VJ

PloS one. 2010;5(5):e10898
Caribbean corals in crisis: record thermal stress, bleaching, and mortality in 2005.
Eakin CM, Morgan JA, Heron SF, Smith TB, Liu G, Alvarez-Filip L, Baca B, Bartels E, Bastidas C, Bouchon C, Brandt M, Bruckner AW, Bunkley-Williams L, Cameron A, Causey BD, Chiappone M, Christensen TR, Crabbe MJ, Day O, de la Guardia E, Díaz-Pulido G, DiResta D, Gil-Agudelo DL, Gilliam DS, Ginsburg RN, Gore S, Guzmán HM, Hendee JC, Hernández-Delgado EA, Husain E, Jeffrey CF, Jones RJ, Jordán-Dahlgren E, Kaufman LS, Kline DI, Kramer PA, Lang JC, Lirman D, Mallela J, Manfrino C, Maréchal JP, Marks K, Mihaly J, Miller WJ, Mueller EM, Muller EM, Orozco Toro CA, Oxenford HA, Ponce-Taylor D, Quinn N, Ritchie KB, Rodríguez S, Ramírez AR, Romano S, Samhouri JF, Sánchez JA, Schmahl GP, Shank BV, Skirving WJ, Steiner SC, Villamizar E, Walsh SM, Walter C, Weil E, Williams EH, Roberson KW, Yusuf Y

PloS one. 2010;5(11):e13969
Catabolite regulation of enzymatic activities in a white pox pathogen and commensal bacteria during growth on mucus polymers from the coral Acropora palmata.
Krediet CJ, Ritchie KB, Teplitski M

Diseases of aquatic organisms. 2009 Nov 16;87(1-2):57-66
Utilization of mucus from the coral Acropora palmata by the pathogen Serratia marcescens and by environmental and coral commensal bacteria.
Krediet CJ, Ritchie KB, Cohen M, Lipp EK, Sutherland KP, Teplitski M

Applied and environmental microbiology. 2009 Jun;75(12):3851-8
Regulation of marine microbes by coral mucus and mucus-associated bacteria
Kim B Ritchie

Mar Ecol Prog Ser. 2006;322:1-14
The etiology of white pox, a lethal disease of the Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata.
Patterson KL, Porter JW, Ritchie KB, Polson SW, Mueller E, Peters EC, Santavy DL, Smith GW

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2002 Jun 25;99(13):8725-30
The Mre11p/Rad50p/Xrs2p complex and the Tel1p function in a single pathway for telomere maintenance in yeast.
Ritchie KB, Petes TD

Genetics. 2000 May;155(1):475-9
A tetrodotoxin-producing marine pathogen.
Ritchie KB, Nagelkerken I, James S, Smith GW

Nature. 2000 Mar 23;404(6776):354
Interactions of TLC1 (which encodes the RNA subunit of telomerase), TEL1, and MEC1 in regulating telomere length in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Ritchie KB, Mallory JC, Petes TD

Molecular and cellular biology. 1999 Sep;19(9):6065-75
The DNA-binding protein Hdf1p (a putative Ku homologue) is required for maintaining normal telomere length in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Porter SE, Greenwell PW, Ritchie KB, Petes TD

Nucleic acids research. 1996 Feb 15;24(4):582-5

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