Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. Price, J.R., Ledford, S.H., Ryan, M.O., Toran, L., and C.M. Sales. 2018. Wastewater treatment plant effluent introduces recoverable shifts in microbial community composition in receiving streams. Sci. Total Environ. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.162. PDF Link / SI Link / GitHub Repository / Journal Link
  2. Sniffen, K.D., Price, J.R., Sales, C.M., and M.S. Olson. 2017. Influence of scale on biomass growth and nutrient removal in an algal-bacterial leachate treatment system. Environ. Sci. Technol. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b03975. PDF Link / SI Link / Journal Link
  3. Price,J.R., Keshani Langroodi, S., Lan, Y., Becker, J.M., Shieh, W.K., Rosen, G.L., and C.M. Sales. 2016. Untangling the microbial ecosystem and kinetics in a nitrogen removing photosynthetic high density bioreactor. Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol. doi: 10.1039/C6EW00078A. PDF Link / SI Link / Journal Link
  4. Price, J.R., Shieh, W.K., Sales, C.M. 2015. A novel bioreactor for high density cultivation of diverse microbial communities. J. Vis. Exp. (106), e53443, doi:10.3791/53443. PDF Link / Materials Link / Journal Link

Book Chapters

  1. Woloszynek, S., Zhao, Z., Ditzler, G., Price, J.R., Reichenberger, E.R., Lan, Y., Chen, J.,Earl, J.,Langroodi, S.K., Ehrlich, G., & G. Rosen (2018) Analysis Methods for Shotgun Metagenomics. In: Alves Barbosa da Silva F., Carels N., Paes Silva Junior F. (eds) Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Systems Biology. Computational Biology, vol 27. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74974-7_5 chapter PDF / book PDF / Springer website

Oral Presentations

  1. Price, J.R. and C. M. Sales, Examining nutrient uptake and transformation within photosynthetic microbial communities using a high density bioreactor, 255th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, La, March 21, 2018.
  2. Price, J.R., Ledford, S.H., Ryan, M.O., Toran, L., Sales, C.M., The impact of wastewater treatment plant effluent on the composition of microbial communities within receiving streams, Delaware Watershed Research Conference 2017, Philadelphia, PA, November 8, 2017.
  3. Sales, C.M., Price, J.R., Langroodi, S.K., Tools from molecular ecology provide an augmentative approach to understanding engineered and natural systems, Philadelphia Symposium on Cross-Disciplinary Analytical Approaches, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 10, 2017.
  4. Ledford, S. H., Price, J.R., Ryan, M., Perez, L. B., Sales, C. M., Toran, L., Using multi-parameter biogeological approach to track the impact of treated sewage discharge on urban streams, 2016 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, September 28, 2016.
  5. Price, J.R. and C. M. Sales, Microalgae: Harnessing Diverse Metabolisms for Environmental Remediation and Waste Stream Treatment, 2015 Annual Meeting of the Phycological Society of America, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, August 10, 2015.

Poster Presentations

  1. Price, J.R., Ledford, S.H., Ryan, M.O., Toran, L., Sales, C.M., Wastewater treatment plant effluent introduces recoverable shifts in microbial community composition in urban streams, 2017 Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA, December 12, 2017.
  2. Price, J.R. and C.M. Sales, Linking ecological aspects to photobioreactor operation and performance, 2017 Annual Meeting of The American Society for Microbiology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. June 2, 2017.
  3. Price, J.R. and C.M. Sales, Resolving the relationships between photobioreactor influent, microbial diversity and abundance, and reactor performance within a high density bioreactor, 2016 Meeting of The International Society for Microbial Ecology, Montreal, Canada. August 25, 2016.
  4. Navin, D.V., Price, J.R., and C.M. Sales, The influence of fluid shear on settling of algal biomass within a high density bioreactor. Hess Undergraduate Scholars Research. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, March 7, 2016.
  5. Price, J. R., Shieh, W. K., and C. M. Sales, A Novel Photobioreactor for Studying Nitrogen Utilization and Transformation by a Mixed Community of Algae and Bacteria Grown at High Cell Densities, Annual Meeting of the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors, Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 16, 2015.
  6. Price, J. R., Shieh, W. K., and C. M. Sales, Consumption and Conversion of Nitrogen Species by a Mixed Photosynthetic Community within a High Density Bioreactor, Drexel University Research Day, Philadelphia, PA, May 1, 2015.
  7. Price, J. R., Shieh, W. K., and C. M. Sales, Nitrogen Removal Dynamics by a Photosynthetic Microbial Community Under High Cell Densities, Annual Meeting of the American Waste Water Association – Pennsylvania Section, Hershey, PA, April 22, 2015.
  8. Price, J.R., and M. Boufadel, The kidney roles of the Delaware River shorelines, Schuylkill Watershed Congress, Pottstown, PA, March 10, 2012.
  9. Price, J.R., Smith, T., and M. C. Boufadel, The kidney roles of the Delaware River shorelines: Experimental Design, Temple University College of Engineering Research Day and Poster Competition, Philadelphia, PA, February 25, 2011.

Gray Literature

  1. Price, J.R., Woloszynek, S., Rosen, G.L., and C.M. Sales. 2017. theseus - An R package for the analysis and visualization of microbial community data. biorxiv. doi: 10.1101/295675. PDF Link / Journal Link
  2. Price, J.R., Thompson, T.J., Parish, J. 2015. Automated Parsing of a LabSolutions Batch Results File (ASCII Output) When Using a Spreadsheet or Statistical Package to Summarize Data. Technical Note. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2746.3447. GitHub Repository

Theses

  1. Price, J.R. 2018. Linking complex kinetics and molecular ecology dynamics within a photosynthetic mixed community. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. Advisor: Christopher M. Sales.
  2. Price, J.R. 2013. The effects of urbanization on stream channel morphology in southeastern Pennsylvania. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Advisor: Robert J. Ryan.