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Kristina Deak

University of South Florida

College of Marine Science

140 7th Ave South
St. Petersburg , FL  33701  

kdeak@mail.usf.edu

Project List:

Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems III (C-IMAGE III)

Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)Role: Graduate Student - PhD Level

Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems II (C-IMAGE II)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Graduate Student - PhD Level

Center for Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems (C-IMAGE)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: GoMRI Scholar, Graduate Student - Master's Level

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Article - 1

2021

Takeshita, R., Bursian, S. J., Colegrove, K. M., Collier, T. K., Deak, K., Dean, K. M., De Guise, S., DiPinto, L. M., Elferink, C. J., Esbaugh, A. J., Griffitt, R. J., Grosell, M., Harr, K. E., Incardona, J. P., Kwok, R. K., Lipton, J., Mitchelmore, C. L., Morris, J. M., Peters, E. S., . . . Hall, A. J. (2021). A review of the toxicology of oil in vertebrates: what we have learned following the <i>Deepwater Horizon</i> oil spill. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B, 24(8), 355-394.

Book Chapter - 1

2019

Pulster, E. L., Gracia, A., Snyder, S. M., Deak, K., Fogelson, S., & Murawski, S. A. (2020). Chronic Sub-lethal Effects Observed in Wild-Caught Fishes Following Two Major Oil Spills in the Gulf of Mexico: Deepwater Horizon and Ixtoc 1. In Murawski, S. A., Ainsworth, C. H., Gilbert, S., Hollander, D. J., Paris, C. B., Schlüter, M., & Wetzel, D. L. (Eds.), Deep Oil Spills (pp. 388-413) Springer International Publishing.

Conference Presentations - 13

2019

Deak, K. D., L.; Walsh, C. B., M.; Portnoy, D. P., E.; Snyder, S. M., & S.A (2019). Lessons Learned from a Gulf-wide Evaluation of Biomarker Expression in Red Snapper and Golden Tilefish. In 2019 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Sciences Conference

2018

Deak, K. (2018). Tales Told by Two Hundred Tilefish: A Baseline Health Assessment of the Gulf of Mexico 2015-2017. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018
Deak, K. (2018). Tracking Oil's Toxicological Transgressions Through Tilefish Transcriptomics. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018

2017

Deak, K. (2017). Around the Gulf in Seven Biomarkers: A Multivariate Analysis of Golden Tilefish Health, 2015-2016. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017
Deak, K. D., & L.; Murawski, S. (2017). Gauging Gulf-Wide Golden Tilefish Health: How do demersal denizens of De Soto Canyon compare to their Cuban, Mexican and US neighbors. In 147th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society
Mitchelmore, C. P., E.; Deak, K. S., & T.; Wetzel, D. (2017). DNA Damage in fish collected from Offshore and Nearshore Locations in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill area during 2012 and 2013. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017

2016

Deak, K. (2016). All About That Base(line): Hepatology of Gulf of Mexico Fishes in 2015. In University of South Florida Graduate Student Symposium
Deak, K. (2016). An Assessment of Fish Health in the Northern and Southern Gulf of Mexico in 2015 Using Traditional Immune System Markers. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016

2015

Deak, K. S., T.A.; Murawski, & S.A.; Walsh C.J.; Wetzel, D. (2015). Cytokine exression patterns in red snapper and golden tilefish collected from the vicinity of the DwH spill in 2013-2014. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015
Kostka, J. O., W.; Gold, J. D., K.; Dishaw, L. S., M.; Breitbart, M. H., & D.; Murawski, S. (2015). Genomic Research within C-IMAGE2: Cross Gulf Comparison of Microbes to Megafauna Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon and Ixtoc Oil Discharges. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015
Wetzel, D. D., K.L.; Suprenand, P. S., & S.; Romero, I. (2015). A correlation of vitellogenin and PAH in red snapper and golden tilefish exposed to the DwH spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015

2014

Deak, K. M., S.; Walsh, C. W., & D (2014). Cloning and expression analysis of IL-1a, IL-8, IL-10, and TNF-a in red snapper and golden tilefish in relation to PAH exposure. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014

2013

Deak, K. (2013). Identification biomarkers for oil exposure in fishes: Fertility hormones, cytokines, and DNA damage. In University of South Florida, College of Marine Science Graduate Student Symposium