Faculty Profile

Rebecca Parales
Associate Professor
Microbiology (College of Biological Sciences)
226 Briggs Hall
Office (530)754-5233
Lab (530)754-5234
reparales@ucdavis.edu
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Degrees:
1993 - PhD - Cornell University - Microbiology
1981 - BS - University of Connecticut - Chemistry

Department and Center Affiliations:
Department of Microbiology

Professional Societies:
American Society for Microbiology
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Microbiology

Publications:
X. Liu and R.E. Parales. 2009. Bacterial chemotaxis to atrazine and related s-triazines. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75: (In press).

K.-S. Ju and R.E. Parales. 2009. Application of nitroarene dioxygenases in the design of novel strains that degrade chloronitrobenzenes. Microbial Biotechnol. 2:242-252.

X. Liu, P.L. Wood, J.V. Parales, and R.E. Parales. 2009. Chemotaxis to pyrimidines and identification of a cytosine chemoreceptor in Pseudomonas putida. J. Bacteriol. 191:2909-2916.

R.E. Parales, J.V. Parales, J.L. Ditty, and D.A. Pelletier. 2008. Diversity of microbial toluene degradation pathways. Adv. Appl. Microbiol. 64:1-73.

R.E. Parales, K.-S. Ju, J. Rollefson, and J.L. Ditty. 2008. Bioavailability, transport and chemotaxis of organic pollutants. pp. 145-187. In: Microbial Bioremediation. E. Diaz, (ed.) Caister Academic Press, Norfolk, UK.

X. Liu and R.E. Parales. 2008. Chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to pyrimidines: a new role for the signal transducer Tap. J. Bacteriol. 190:972-979

K.-S. Ju and R.E. Parales. 2006. Control of substrate specificity by active site residues in nitrobenzene dioxygenase. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:1817-1824.

R.E. Parales, R. Huang, C.-L. Yu, J.V. Parales, F.K.N. Lee, M.M. Ivkovic-Jensen, W. Liu, D.J. Lessner, R. Friemann, S. Ramaswamy, and D.T. Gibson. 2005. Purification, characterization, and crystallization of the components of the nitrobenzene and 2-nitrotoluene dioxygenase enzyme systems. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71:3806-3814.

Research Interests:
Bacterial degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons and environmental pollutants. Bacterial chemotaxis to pollutants and man-made chemicals.

Laboratory Personnel:
225 Briggs Hall - Kou-San Ju, Microbiology graduate student; Christine Rabinovitch, Microbiology graduate student; Kristina Mahan, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate student; Mark Wolf, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate student; Dr. Joseph Penrod, Postdoctoral Fellow; Dr. Hyung-Yeel Kahng, Visiting Professor; Juan Parales, Staff Research Associate; Grischa Chen, Undergraduate Researcher; Rita Luu, Undergraduate Researcher; J. Nicole Felix, Undergraduate Researcher

Teaching Interests:


Bacterial diversity and physiology

Courses Taught:
MIC 105 Microbial Diversity - Term(s): Winter
MIC 105L Microbial Diversity Laboratory - Term(s): Winter
MIC 200B Advanced Bacteriology - Term(s): Winter