Civil and Environmental Engineering
A129 Engineering Research Complex
East Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: (517) 432-3370
Fax: (517) 355-0250
E-mail: cupplesa@msu.edu
Web: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~cupplesa

• Microbiology for Environmental Health Engineers (CE 487)
• Principles of Environmental Engineering and Science (CE280)

• Biodegradation and biological removal kinetics of trichlorethene, cis-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride
• Herbicide degradation
• Stable isotope probing as a tool for identifying bacteria degrading contaminants in situ.
• Fate and occurrence of pharmaceuticals in biosolids and in the environment

Microbial degradation of soil and water contaminants. Previous research has focused on the dechlorination of the groundwater contaminants tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene. The use of molecular methods to identify and quantify the microorganisms responsible for xenobiotic degradation.

Stanford University, Ph.D. Environmental Engineering and Science

• Cupples, A.M. 2008. Real-time PCR Quantification of Dehalococcoides Pouplations: Methods and Applications. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 72: 1-11.
• Cupples, A.M., E.S. Shaffer, J.C. Chee-Sanford and G.K. Sims. (2007). DNA Buoyant Density Shifts During ¹⁵N DNA Stable Isotope Probing, Microbiological Research, 162: 328-334.
• Cupples, A.M. and G.K. Sims. 2007. Identification of In Situ 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid-degrading Soil Microorganisms Using DNA-stable Isotope Probing. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 39:232-238.
• Cupples, A.M., R.A. Sanford, and G.K. Sims. 2005. Dehalogenation of the Herbicides Bromoxynil (3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile) and Ioxynil (3,5-Diiodino-4-Hydroxybenzonitrile) by Desulfitobacterium Chlororespirans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71: 3741-3746.
• Cupples, A. M., A. M. Spormann and P. L. McCarty. 2004. Comparative evaluation of chloroethene dechlorination to ethene by Dehalococcoides -like microorganisms. Environmental Science and Technology, 38: 4768-4774.
• Cupples, A. M., A. M. Spormann and P. L. McCarty. 2004. Vinyl chloride and cis -dichloroethene dechlorination kinetics and microorganism growth under substrate limiting conditions. Environmental Science and Technology, 38: 1102-1107.
• Cupples, A. M., A. M. Spormann, and P. L. McCarty. 2003. Growth of a Dehalococcoides -like microorganism on vinyl chloride and cis -dichloroethene as electron acceptors as determined by competitive PCR. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69: 953-959.