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Karen Burnett

Karen Burnett

Adjunct Faculty

Education

Ph.D., 1978, University of South Carolina

Research Interests

  • Environmental and comparative immunology

Current and Planned Research Projects

  • Impacts of natural stress factors (hypoxia, pH, temperature) and xenobiotics (metals, organics) on disease resistance in marine organisms
  • Metabolic and energetic costs of mounting an immune response in crustaceans
  • Intracellular processes (transcription/translation/signaling) that underlie the stress response in fish, crustaceans and oysters

Publications

  • Burnett, K.G., L.E. Burnett, 2022. Immune defense in hypoxic waters: impact of CO2 acidification. Biol. Bull. 243:120-133. .
  • Woods, H. A., Moran, A. L., Atkinson, D., Audzijonyte, A., Berenbrink, M., Borges, F. O., Burnett, K. G., Burnett, L. E., Coates, C. J., Collin, R., Costa-Paiva, E. M., Duncan, M. I., Erin, R., Laetz, E. M. J., Levin, L. A., Lindmark, M., Lucey, N. M., McCormick, L. R., Pierson, J. J.,  Rui Rosa R., Roman, M. R., Sampaio, E., Schulte, P. M., Sperling. E.A., Walczyńska. A., Verberk, W. C. E. P. 2022. Integrative approaches to understanding organismal responses to aquatic deoxygenation. Biol. Bull. 243, 85-103. .
  • Burnett, K.G., D.S. Durica, D.L. Mykles, J.H.Stillman, 2020.  Recommendations for advancing genome to phenome research in non-model organisms. icaa059, 
  • Burnett, K.G., D.S. Durica, D.L. Mykles, J.H.Stillman, 2020.  Building bridges from genomes to phenomes: molecules, methods and models. An introduction to the symposium. Integr. Comp. Biol. icaa073, 
  • Hamilton, K.L., L. Burnett, K. Burnett, R.E.G. Kalisperis, A.E. Fowler, 2020. Physiological impacts of time in holding ponds, biomedical bleeding, and recovery on the Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. Comp Biochem. Physiol., Part A, 239, p.110554. 
  • Leads, R.R., K.G. Burnett, J.E. Weinstein, 2019. The effect of microplastic ingestion on the survival of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio (Holthuis, 1949) challenged with Vibrio campbellii. Environ. Sci. Technol. 38:2233-2242.
  • Wang, J., K.G. Burnett, M.G. Janech, 2019. Targeted proteomic approaches reveal protein-level expression of novel β-type hemocyanin and heterogeneous subunit usage in the Pacific whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. Front. Mar. Sci. 07 November 2019. 
  • Johnson, J.G., L.E. Burnett, K.G. Burnett, 2016. Uncovering hemocyanin subunit heterogeneity in penaeid shrimp using RNA-seq, 2016. Integr. Comp. Biol. 56:1080-1091.
  • Mykles, D, K. Burnett, D. Durica, B. Joyce, F. McCarthy, C. Schmidt, J. Stillman, 2016. Resources and recommendations for using transcriptomics to address grand challenges in comparative biology. Integr. Comp. Biol. 56:1183-1191.
  • Burnett, K.G., L.E. Burnett, 2015. Respiratory and metabolic impacts of crustacean immunity – are there implications for the insects? Integr. Comp. Biol. 55:856-868.
  • Johnson, J.G., M.R. Paul, C.D. Kniffin, P.E. Anderson, L.E. Burnett, K.G. Burnett, 2015. High CO2 alters the hypoxia response of the Pacific whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) transcriptome including known and novel hemocyanin isoforms. Physiol. Genomics 47:548-448.
  • Tommerdahl, A.P., K.G. Burnett, L.E. Burnett, 2015. Respiratory properties of hemocyanin from wild and aquacultured penaeid shrimp and the effects of chronic exposure to hypoxia. Biol. Bull. 228:242-252.