David Singleton

Bio

David Singleton is an Executive in Residence in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. His research interests lie in microbial ecology and environmental microbiology, especially in soils and sediments.  He has a particular interest in the bioremediation of contaminants and the identification, isolation, and description of novel species of bacteria. He has served on the editorial board of Applied and Environmental Microbiology and maintains an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, where he previously taught and performed research. He currently serves as the Executive Administrative Director for the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr), an organization with the mission to improve the health of people in indoor spaces through manipulation of the microbial communities that live there.

Education

• Ph.D. University of Georgia, 2002

Positions

• Executive in Residence in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Publications

• Jiménez-Volkerink SN, Jordán M, Singleton DR, Grifoll M, Vila J. Bacterial benz(a)anthracene catabolic networks in contaminated soils and their modulation by other co-occurring HMW-PAHs. Environmental Pollution. 2023 Jul;328:121624–121624.
• Welling CM, Singleton DR, Haase SB, Browning CH, Stoner BR, Gunsch CK, et al. Predictive values of time-dense SARS-CoV-2 wastewater analysis in university campus buildings. The Science of the total environment. 2022 Aug;835:155401.
• Volkoff SJ, Rodriguez DL, Singleton DR, McCumber AW, Aitken MD, Stewart JR, et al. Identifying bioaugmentation candidates for bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in contaminated estuarine sediment of the Elizabeth River, VA, USA. Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2022 Feb;106(4):1715–27.
• Redfern LK, Jayasundara N, Singleton DR, Di Giulio RT, Carlson J, Sumner SJ, et al. The role of gut microbial community and metabolomic shifts in adaptive resistance of Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The Science of the total environment. 2021 Jul;776:145955.
• Singleton DR, Lee J, Dickey AN, Stroud A, Scholl EH, Wright FA, et al. Polyphasic characterization of four soil-derived phenanthrene-degrading Acidovorax strains and proposal of Acidovorax carolinensis sp. nov. Systematic and applied microbiology. 2018 Sep;41(5):460–72.
• Tian Z, Gold A, Nakamura J, Zhang Z, Vila J, Singleton DR, et al. Nontarget Analysis Reveals a Bacterial Metabolite of Pyrene Implicated in the Genotoxicity of Contaminated Soil after Bioremediation. Environmental Science & Technology. 2017 Jun 20;51(12):7091–100.
• Corteselli EM, Aitken MD, Singleton DR. Description of Immundisolibacter cernigliae gen. nov., sp. nov., a high-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium within the class Gammaproteobacteria, and proposal of Immundisolibacterales ord. nov. and Immundisolibacteraceae fam. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2017 Apr 1;67(4):925–31.
• Corteselli EM, Aitken MD, Singleton DR. Rugosibacter aromaticivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a bacterium within the family Rhodocyclaceae, isolated from contaminated soil, capable of degrading aromatic compounds. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2017 Feb 1;67(2):311–8.
• Singleton DR, Adrion AC, Aitken MD. Surfactant-induced bacterial community changes correlated with increased polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation in contaminated soil. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2016 Dec;100(23):10165–77.
• Singleton DR, Dickey AN, Scholl EH, Wright FA, Aitken MD. Complete Genome Sequence of a Bacterium Representing a Deep Uncultivated Lineage within the Gammaproteobacteria Associated with the Degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Genome Announcements. 2016 Oct 27;4(5).
• Adrion AC, Singleton DR, Nakamura J, Shea D, Aitken MD. Improving Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Biodegradation in Contaminated Soil Through Low-Level Surfactant Addition After Conventional Bioremediation. Environmental Engineering Science. 2016 Sep;33(9):659–70.
• Singleton DR, Dickey AN, Scholl EH, Wright FA, Aitken MD. Complete Genome Sequence of a Novel Bacterium within the Family Rhodocyclaceae That Degrades Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Genome Announcements. 2015 Apr 30;3(2).