Damon Brown
University of Calgary
10 Papers
32 Citations
Damon Brown is an academic researcher from University of Calgary. The author has contributed to research in topics: Oil sands tailings ponds & Gene. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 8 publications.
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Papers
Metagenomics of Hydrocarbon Resource Environments Indicates Aerobic Taxa and Genes to be Unexpectedly Common
Dongshan An,Sean M. Caffrey,Jung Soh,Akhil Agrawal,Damon Brown,Karen Budwill,Xiaoli Dong,Peter F. Dunfield,Julia M. Foght,Lisa M. Gieg,Steven J. Hallam,Niels W. Hanson,Zhiguo He,Thomas R. Jack,Jonathan L. Klassen,Kishori M. Konwar,Eugene Kuatsjah,Carmen Li,Steve Larter,Verlyn Leopatra,Camilla L. Nesbø,Thomas B. P. Oldenburg,Antoine P Pagé,Esther Ramos-Padron,Fauziah F. Rochman,Alireeza Saidi-Mehrabad,Christoph Wilhelm Sensen,Payal Sipahimalani,Young C. Song,Sandra L. Wilson,Gregor Wolbring,Man-Ling Wong,Gerrit Voordouw +32 more
TL;DR: Although HREs may have been strictly anaerobic and typically methanogenic for much of their history, this may not hold today for coal beds and for the Alberta oil sands, one of the largest remaining oil reservoirs in the world.
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Microbial community and potential functional gene diversity involved in anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation and methanogenesis in an oil sands tailings pond.
Dongshan An,Damon Brown,Indranil Chatterjee,Xiaoli Dong,Esther Ramos-Padron,Sandra L. Wilson,Sylvain Bordenave,Sean M. Caffrey,Lisa M. Gieg,Christoph Wilhelm Sensen,Gerrit Voordouw +10 more
TL;DR: A pyrosequencing survey of 16S rRNA amplicons from 10 samples obtained from different depths indicated the presence of a wide variety of taxa involved in anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation and methanogenesis, including the phyla Proteobacteria, Euryarchaeota, Firmicutes, Actinob bacteria, Chloroflexi, and Bacteroidetes.
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Effect of calcium ions and anaerobic microbial activity on sedimentation of oil sands tailings
TL;DR: In this article, the role of calcium ions and anaerobic microbial activity in tailings sedimentation was investigated, where the authors placed 70% (v/v) of the tailings, containing 77% (w/w) solids, and 30% of the defined medium with various amendments in N2-CO2 test tubes with an N2−CO2 headspace.
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Assessing Microbial Monitoring Methods for Challenging Environmental Strains and Cultures
Damon Brown,Raymond J. Turner +1 more
TL;DR: DNA concentrations were determined to be the best universal monitoring method for complex environmental samples and provide the advantages of rapid extraction, consistency between replicates and the potential for downstream analysis.
Prevalence of Multidrug Resistance Efflux Pumps (MDREPs) in Environmental Communities
Damon Brown,Marc A. Demeter,Raymond J. Turner +2 more
- 01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: The role of the MDREPs in different environments such as hydrocarbon remediation, corrosion, agriculture, and aquaculture is discussed and how they impact mitigation strategies and animal stock handling practices are discussed.
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