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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., et al. (2021). A review of the toxicology of oil in vertebrates: what we have learned following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 24(8), 355–394.

Book Chapter - 1

2019

Pulster, E. L., Gracia, A., Snyder, S. M., Deak, K., Fogelson, S., & Murawski, S. A. (2019). 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 S. A. Murawski, C. H. Ainsworth, S. A. Gilbert, D. J. Hollander, C. B. Paris, M. Schlüter, et al. (Eds.), Deep Oil Spills – Facts, Fate, and Effects (pp. 388–413). Springer International.

Conference Presentations - 13

2019

Deak, K., Dishaw, L., Walsh, C., Breitbart, M., Portnoy, D. S., Pulster, E., et al. (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. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.

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. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Deak, K. (2018). Tracking Oil's Toxicological Transgressions Through Tilefish Transcriptomics. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.

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. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Deak, K., Dishaw, 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. Tampa, FL : 08/20/17-08/24/17.
Mitchelmore, C., Pulster, E., Deak, K., Sherwood, T., & Wetzel, D. L. (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. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.

2016

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. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16.
Deak, K. (2016). All About That Base(line): Hepatology of Gulf of Mexico Fishes in 2015. In University of South Florida Graduate Student Symposium. St. Petersburg, FL : 1/15/16.

2015

Deak, K., Sherwood, T. A., Murawski, S. A., Walsh C.J., & Wetzel, D. L. (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. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Kostka, J. E., Overholt, W., Gold, J., Deak, K., Dishaw, L., Shamblott, M., et al. (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. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Wetzel, D., Deak, K. L., Suprenand, P., Snyder, S., & Romero, I. C. (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. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.

2014

Deak, K., Murawski, S., Walsh, C., & Wetzel, 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. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.

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. St. Petersburg, FL, April 19, 2013.