Education

2005 The University of South Florida, B.S.
2005 The University of South Florida, B.A.
2014 The University of South Florida, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

Microbiology for Allied Health
Biology I

Career Specialties

Haydn Rubelmann's academic interests currently lie in the fields of environmental microbiology and in STEM education.

Professional and Community Activities

Peer Reviewed Publications:

Rubelmann, H., Karlen, D. J. and J. Garey. (2017).ÌýChanges in Eukaryotic and Bacterial Communities along a 120 m Transect Associated with a Shallow Marine Hydrothermal Vent.ÌýFrontiers in Marine Science, 4(177). doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00177

Quasem, Ishtiaque, Achille, Alexandra N., Caddick, Brittany A., Carter, Travis A., Daniels, Camille, Delaney, Jennifer A., . . . Scott, Kathleen M. (2017).ÌýPeculiar citric acid cycle of hydrothermal vent chemolithoautotroph Hydrogenovibrio crunogenus, and insights into carbon metabolism by obligate autotrophs. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 364(14), fnx148-fnx148. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnx148

Garman, K.M., Rubelmann, H., Karlen, D.J., Wu, T.H. and J. Garey,ÌýComparison of an inactive submarine spring with an active nearshore anchialine spring in Florida.Ìý(2011). Hydrobiologia, 677(1): p. 65-87.

Publications In Progress:

Rubelmann, H., and J. Garey.ÌýCline partitioning of microbial communities and turnover disruption in the water column of an anoxic marine basin.

Select Conference Presentations From Undergraduates Mentored:

Brown, C. M., Rubelmann, H., Franck, A., and J. Garey.ÌýThe diversity of sulfur oxidizing bacteria utilizing the Sox pathway in a Winogradsky Column.ÌýUniversity of South Florida Undergraduate Research Symposium.ÌýHonors Thesis.

Trinidad, M. L., Rubelmann, H., Franck, A., and J. Garey.ÌýDiversity of sulfur reducing prokaryotes using the dissimilatory sulfite reductase (DSR) pathway in complex microbial communities.ÌýUniversity of South Florida Undergraduate Research Symposium.Ìý1st Place Award.

Gauthier, G., Rubelmann, H. and J. Garey.ÌýDesigning primers to probe for prokaryotic species utilizing adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (APS) reductase in a marine environment.ÌýUniversity of South Florida Undergraduate Research Symposium.ÌýHonors Thesis.

Zimmerman, A., Rubelmann, H. and J. Garey.ÌýTetrathionate reductase: primer design and metabolite monitoring.ÌýUniversity of South Florida Undergraduate Research Symposium.Ìý1st Place Award.

Spencer, W., Rubelmann, H. and J. Garey.ÌýMonitoring changes in the microbial communities of plaque and saliva in conjunction with changing to a low pH diet using DGGE.ÌýUniversity of South Florida Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Lazaro, M., Rubelmann, H. and J. Garey.ÌýGlowing up the Gulf; fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to shed light on marine caves.ÌýUniversity of South Florida Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Jarvis, S.D., Rubelmann, H. and J. Garey.ÌýFluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probes for detecting the tetrathionate reductase gene in bacteria.ÌýUniversity of South Florida Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Patel, U., Rubelmann, H. and J. Garey.ÌýCulturing a complex environmental sample from Jewfish Sink using a Winogradsky column.ÌýUniversity of South Florida Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Kuhns, M., Rubelmann, H. and J. Garey.ÌýDissimilatory sulfate reductase (dsr) profiling over two years of an anoxic feature in the Gulf of Mexico.ÌýUniversity of South Florida Undergraduate Research Symposium

Honors and Awards

2008 Attendance Grant Florence Conference on Phenotype MicroarrayÌýAnalysis of Microorganisms, Dip. di Biotecnologie Agrarie sezione Micriobiologia, UniversitàÌýdegli Studi di Firenze

2009 Travel Grant to attend Second Symposium Fronteirs in Environmental Microbiology: a Carribean Perspective,ÌýUniversityÌýof South Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Information Seeking Behavior of Science Researchers

2009 Certificate of Participation atÌýSecond Symposium Fronteirs in Environmental Microbiology: a Carribean Perspective, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico

2010 Fred L and Helen M Tharp Endowed Scholarship

2010 New Researcher Grant, Established Researcher Grant, Creative Scholarship Grant, USF Division of Sponsored Research

2011 Excellent Service Award, INTO USF

2012 Richard and Patricia Wood Endowment in Natural Sciences Scholarship

2013 Travel Grant to AttendÌýSixth Symposium Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology: the transforming legacy

2013 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of South Florida Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

2013 Inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

2017 Winner best game at theÌýUniversity of South Florida Summer Teaching Symposium: Gamificiation