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Biography

Research Interests 

I am a biogeochemist and microbial ecologist with special interest in mercury. My group focuses on the microbial mercury methylation process in cultures, sediments and soils. Our research includes mercury fate and transport at multiple scales and in many types of environments, isolation and characterization of Hg-methylating microbes, the bioavailability of Hg for microbial methylation, and novel approaches to remediation of contaminated sites.  

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Publications

  • Gilmour, Cynthia C., Soren, Ally Bullock, Gionfriddo, Caitlin M., Podar, Mircea, Wall, Judy D., Brown, Steven D., Michener, Joshua K., Urriza, Maria Soledad Goni and Elias, Dwayne A. (2021). Pseudodesulfovibrio mercurii sp. nov., a mercury- methylating bacterium isolated from sediment. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 71 (3) https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004697
  • Podar, Peter T., Peyton, Kellie, Soren, Ally, Wilpiszeski, Regina L., Gilmour, Cynthia C., Elias, Dwayne A. and Podar, Mircea. (2021). Complete Genome Sequence of Desulfobulbus oligotrophicus Prop6, an Anaerobic Deltabacterota Strain That Lacks Mercury Methylation Capability . Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10 (5) https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00002-21
  • Eckley, Chris S., Gilmour, Cynthia C., Janssen, Sarah, Luxton, Todd P., Randall, Paul M., Whalin, Lindsay and Austin, Carrie. (2020). The assessment and remediation of mercury contaminated sites: A review of current approaches. The Science of the total environment, 707 , Article 136031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136031
  • Gionfriddo, Caitlin M., Wymore, Ann M., Jones, Daniel S., Wilpiszeski, Regina L., Lynes, Mackenzie M., Christensen, Geoff A., Soren, Ally, Gilmour, Cynthia C., Podar, Mircea and Elias, Dwayne A. (2020). An Improved hgcAB Primer Set and Direct High-Throughput Sequencing Expand Hg-Methylator Diversity in Nature . Frontiers in Microbiology, 11 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.541554
  • Sanders, James P., McBurney, Alyssa, Gilmour, Cynthia C., Schwartz, Grace E., Washburn, Spencer, Kane Driscoll, Susan B., Brown, Steven S. and Ghosh, Upal. (2020). Development of a Novel Equilibrium Passive Sampling Device for Methylmercury in Sediment and Soil Porewaters . Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 39 (2) , 323-334. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4631
  • Christensen, Geoff A., Gionfriddo, Caitlin M., King, Andrew J., Moberly, James G., Miller, Carrie L., Somenahally, Anil C., Callister, Stephen J., Brewer, Heather, Podar, Mircea, Brown, Steven D., Palumbo, Anthony, V., Brandt, Craig C., Wymore, Ann M., Brooks, Scott C., Hwang, Chiachi, Fields, Matthew W., Wall, Judy D., Gilmour, Cynthia C. and Elias, Dwayne A. (2019). Determining the Reliability of Measuring Mercury Cycling Gene Abundance with Correlations with Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations. Environmental science & technology, 53 (15) , 8649-8663. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b06389
  • Schwartz, Grace E., Sanders, James P., McBurney, Alyssa M., Brown, Steven S., Ghosh, Upal and Gilmour, Cynthia C. (2019). Impact of dissolved organic matter on mercury and methylmercury sorption to activated carbon in soils: implications for remediation . Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 21 , 485-496. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8EM00469B
  • Christensen, Geoff A., Somenahally, Anil C., Moberly, James G., Miller, Carrie M., King, Andrew J., Gilmour, Cynthia C., Brown, Steven D., Podar, Mircea, Brandt, Craig C., Brooks, Scott C., Palumbo, Anthony V., Wall, Judy D. and Elias, Dwayne A. (2018). Carbon Amendments Alter Microbial Community Structure and Net Mercury Methylation Potential in Sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 84 (3) , UNSP e01049-17-UNSP e01049-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01049-17
  • Gilmour, Cynthia C., Bullock, Allyson L., McBurney, Alyssa, Podar, Mircea and Elias, Dwayne A. (2018). Robust Mercury Methylation across Diverse Methanogenic Archaea . mBio, 9 (2) https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02403-17
  • Gilmour, Cynthia, Bell, James Tyler, Soren, Ally Bullock, Riedel, Georgia, Riedel, Gerhardt, Kopec, A. D. and Bodaly, R. A. (2018). Distribution and biogeochemical controls on net methylmercury production in Penobscot River marshes and sediment. Science of The Total Environment, 640-641 , 555-569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.276
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Eckley, Chris S., Achá, Dario, Feng, Xinbin, Gilmour, Cynthia C., Jonsson, Sofi and Mitchell, Carl P. J. (2018). Challenges and opportunities for managing aquatic mercury pollution in altered landscapes. Ambio, 47 (2) , 141-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-017-1006-7
  • Sanders, James P., Andrade, Natasha A., Menzie, Charles A., Amos, C. B., Gilmour, Cynthia C., Henry, Elizabeth A., Brown, Steven S. and Ghosh, Upal. (2018). Persistent Reductions in the Bioavailability of PCBs at a Tidally Inundated Phragmites australis Marsh Amended with Activated Carbon. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 37 (9) , 2496-2505. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4186
  • Gilmour, Cynthia C., Bell, Tyler, Soren, Ally, Riedel, Georgia, Riedel, Gerhardt, Kopec, Dianne, Bodaly, Drew and Ghosh, Upal. (2017). Activated carbon thin-layer placement as an in situ mercury remediation tool in a Penobscot River salt marsh. The Science of the total environment, 621 , 839-848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.050
  • Graham, Andrew M., Cameron-Burr, Keaton, Hajic, Hayley A., Lee, Connie, Msekela, Deborah and Gilmour, Cynthia C. (2017). Sulfurization of Dissolved Organic Matter Increases Hg-Sulfide-Dissolved Organic Matter Bioavailability to a Hg-Methylating Bacterium. Environmental science & technology, 51 (16) , 9080-9088. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b02781
  • Christensen, Geoff A., Wymore, Ann M., King, Andrew J., Podar, Mircea, Hurt, Richard A., Santillan, Eugenio U., Soren, Ally, Brandt, Craig C., Brown, Steven D., Palumbo, Anthony V., Wall, Judy D., Gilmour, Cynthia C. and Elias, Dwayne A. (2016). Development and Validation of Broad-Range Qualitative and Clade-Specific Quantitative Molecular Probes for Assessing Mercury Methylation in the Environment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82 (19) , 6068-6078. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01271-16

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