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4. Himes, M., Wadsworth, G., Drescher B., Taylor, A.R. International Society of Protistologists,

North American Section, North Carolina Central University, ‘Phagocytosis implies dynamic

nutritional strategies in calcifying coccolithophore’. September 2012

5. Echevarria M.E., Wolfe, G.V., Taylor. A.R. International Society of Protistology, North

American Section Meeting. North Carolina Central University, Durham. ‘Ionotropic regulation of feeding

and predator evasion behaviors in Favella sp.’ September 2012

6. Echevarria M.E., Wolfe, G.V., Taylor. A.R. ‘Ionotropic regulation of feeding and predator

evasion behaviors in Favella sp’. Gordon Conference on Marine Miscrobes, Marine Microbes: Bridging

the Gaps from Genomes to Biomes, Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort, Lucca, Italy. June 24- 29

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2012.

7. Brownlee, C., Schroeder, D. Baker, A., Wheeler, G., Chrachri, A. and Taylor A.R. ‘Functional

and population genomics of coccolithophores: Understanding biogeochemical drivers at the molecular

level’ Oceans 2025 Science of the Blue Planet. Institute of Physics, London December 13

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2011.

8. Drescher B.D., Dillaman R.M. and Taylor A.R. ‘An ultrastructural examination of calcification in

a polymorphic coccolithophorids Scyphosphaera apsteinii’. Phycological Society of America and

International Society of Protistology Annual Meeting, Seattle July 14- 18

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2011

9. Kitchen S.A. and Taylor A.R. ‘Brevetoxin interaction with voltage activated ion channels in a

marine diatom’. Phycological Society of America and International Society of Protistology Annual

Meeting, Seattle July 14- 18

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2011

10. Echevarria M.L., Kitchen S.A. and Taylor A.R. ‘Experimental strategies for investigating

membrane excitability, calcium signalling and cellular homeostasis in chromalveolates’.

Phycological Society of America and International Society of Protistology Annual Meeting, Seattle

July 14- 18

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2011

11. Taylor A.R. Chrachri A., Wheeler G. and Brownlee C. ‘Proton conductance in coccolithophores is an

integral component of pH homeostasis during calcification’. Phycological Society of America and

International Society of Protistology Annual Meeting, Seattle July 14- 18

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2011

12. Highfield, AC, Panayi, M, Ripley, S, Drescher, B, Walne, AW, Taylor, AR, Hall, MJ, Miller, PI, and

Schroeder DC. ‘Blooming Marvellous: Long term dynamics, diversity and drivers within Emiliania

huxleyi-dominated phytoplankton blooms’. British Phycological Society Annual Meeting. Cardiff January

5

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2011

13. McLachlan, D, Underwood, GJC, Taylor, A, Geider, R and Brownlee, C. ‘Calcium signalling in the

regulation of gliding motility and phototaxis in a benthic diatom’. British Phycological Society Annual

Meeting. Cardiff January 5

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- 7

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2011

14. Himes, M., Metwally, A., Bourdelais, A., Borrett, S., Taylor, A.R. ‘Do algal toxins affect sensory

behavior of marine cilliates?’ South Eastern Phycological Colloquy, October 29

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- 30

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2010.

15. Drescher B., Taylor A.R. ‘Ultrastructure of the polymorphic coccolithophore Scyphosphaera

aspteinii-novel mechanistic insights’. South Eastern Phycological Colloquy, October 29

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- 30

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2010. –

Won SEPC prize for oral presentation.

16. Kitchen S, Bourdelais A, Tomas C and Taylor A.R. ‘An Electrophysiological Investigation of

Karenia brevis’. UNCW Health Sciences Symposium, April 9

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2010

17. Taylor, A.R., Lawreck, L., Russell, M., Chrachri, A. & Brownlee, C. ‘Biomineralization in

coccolithophores: Calcium and pH homeostasis’. UNCW Heath Sciences Symposium, April 9

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2010.

18. Brownlee C, Verrett F, Wheeler G, Taylor A.R. ‘Ion channels, signalling and cellular homeostasis in

diatoms and other algal groups’. Ocean Sciences-Annual Meeting, American Society if Limnology and

Oceanography, Portland, Oregon, February 20

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- 26th 2010.

19. Taylor, A.R. ‘Membrane Transport and Signaling in Marine Protists-A Key Step in Understanding

Environmental Physiology’. International Society of Protistologists, North American Section Meeting,

Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, June 11- 13

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, 2009