Bruce Lighthart

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Bruce Lighthart is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Insect Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Lighthart has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 12 papers in Insect Science and 11 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Bruce Lighthart's work include Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (22 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (11 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (9 papers). Bruce Lighthart is often cited by papers focused on Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (22 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (11 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (9 papers). Bruce Lighthart collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ghana and China. Bruce Lighthart's co-authors include Brenda T. Shaffer, Eitan Israeli, Samuel Leslie, J.H. Crowe, Lois M. Crowe, Yongyi Tong, B. A. Croft, Rosalind R. James, J. Lindsey Flexner and Balkumar Marthi and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Limnology and Oceanography and Atmospheric Environment.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Lighthart

60 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Trehalose and sucrose protect both membranes and proteins in intact bacteria during drying

1995 780 citations Eitan Israeli, Bruce Lighthart et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →

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Bruce Lighthart

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Robert M. Bowers United States

Allan J. Cessna Canada

Brenda T. Shaffer United States

Kai Finster Denmark

David C. Sands United States

Sara Borin Italy

J. M. Hirst United States

Jan C. Gottschal Netherlands

David T. Williams Canada

Cindy E. Morris France

Robert M. Bowers United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Lighthart

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lighthart, Bruce, et al.. (2000). Bees Scavenge Airborne Bacteria.. PubMed. 39(4). 314–321. 12 indexed citations

Lighthart, Bruce. (1999). An hypothesis describing the general temporal and spatial distribution of alfresco bacteria in the earth’s atmospheric surface layer. Atmospheric Environment. 33(4). 611–615. 17 indexed citations

James, Rosalind R., B. A. Croft, Brenda T. Shaffer, & Bruce Lighthart. (1998). Impact of Temperature and Humidity on Host–Pathogen Interactions BetweenBeauveria bassianaand a Coccinellid. Environmental Entomology. 27(6). 1506–1513. 51 indexed citations

Tong, Yongyi & Bruce Lighthart. (1998). Effect of simulated solar radiation on mixed outdoor atmospheric bacterial populations. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 26(4). 311–316. 38 indexed citations

Tong, Yongyi & Bruce Lighthart. (1997). Solar Radiation Is Shown to Select for Pigmented Bacteria in the Ambient Outdoor Atmosphere. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 65(1). 103–106. 60 indexed citations

Tong, Yongyi & Bruce Lighthart. (1997). Solar radiation has a lethal effect on natural populations of culturable outdoor atmospheric bacteria. Atmospheric Environment. 31(6). 897–900. 57 indexed citations

Lighthart, Bruce & Brenda T. Shaffer. (1995). Airborne Bacteria in the Atmospheric Surface Layer: Temporal Distribution above a Grass Seed Field. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 61(4). 1492–1496. 92 indexed citations

Lighthart, Bruce & Brenda T. Shaffer. (1994). Bacterial flux from chaparral into the atmosphere in mid-summer at a high desert location. Atmospheric Environment. 28(7). 1267–1274. 63 indexed citations

Israeli, Eitan, Brenda T. Shaffer, & Bruce Lighthart. (1994). Survival and enumeration of aerosolized and freeze-dried genetically engineeredE. coli, under controlled environmental conditions. Aerobiologia. 10(2-3). 167–173. 1 indexed citations

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Israeli, Eitan, Brenda T. Shaffer, & Bruce Lighthart. (1993). Protection of Freeze-Dried Escherichia coli by Trehalose upon Exposure to Environmental Conditions. Cryobiology. 30(5). 519–523. 53 indexed citations

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Lighthart, Bruce, Brenda T. Shaffer, Balkumar Marthi, & Lisa M. Ganio. (1993). Artificial wind-gust liberation of microbial bioaerosols previously deposited on plants. Aerobiologia. 9(2-3). 189–196. 25 indexed citations

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James, Rosalind R., Jeffrey C. Miller, & Bruce Lighthart. (1993). Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki Affects a Beneficial Insect, the Cinnabar Moth (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Journal of Economic Entomology. 86(2). 334–339. 33 indexed citations

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Lighthart, Bruce, Brenda T. Shaffer, Balkumar Marthi, & Lisa M. Ganio. (1991). Trajectory of aerosol droplets from a sprayed bacterial suspension. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 57(4). 1006–1012. 22 indexed citations

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Poinar, George O., Gerard M. Thomas, & Bruce Lighthart. (1990). Bioassay to determine the effect of commercial preparations of Bacillus thuringiensis on entomogenous rhabditoid nematodes. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 30(3-4). 195–202. 15 indexed citations

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Lighthart, Bruce & Jinwon Kim. (1989). Simulation of Airborne Microbial Droplet Transport. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 55(9). 2349–2355. 30 indexed citations

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Lighthart, Bruce. (1988). Some Changes in Gut Bacterial Flora of Field-Grown Peridroma saucia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) When Brought into the Laboratory. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 54(7). 1896–1898. 8 indexed citations

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Lighthart, Bruce, et al.. (1988). Effect of several stress factors on the susceptibility of the predatory mite, Metaseiulus occidentalis (Acari: Phytoseiidae), to the weak bacterial pathogen Serratia marcescens. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 52(1). 33–42. 20 indexed citations

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Lighthart, Bruce. (1980). Effects of certain cadmium species on pure and litter populations of microorganisms. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 46(2). 161–167. 19 indexed citations

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Peterson, Ernest W. & Bruce Lighthart. (1977). Estimation of downwind viable airborne microbes from a wet cooling tower—Including settling. Microbial Ecology. 4(1). 67–79. 16 indexed citations

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Babich, H. & Bruce Lighthart. (1974). Air pollution and microbial ecology. 4(1-4). 353–421. 67 indexed citations

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