Kassem, I., V. Sigler and M. Esseili. Detection and differentiation of Staphylococcus contamination on clinical surfaces using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE). Journal of Hospital Infection. In Press.

Eby, J. and V. Sigler. 2011. The prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria on mosquitoes collected from a recreational park. The Proceedings of the 24th National Conference for Undergraduate Research, April 15-17, Mizzoula, Montana.

Wang, Q., I. Kassem, V. Sigler and C. Gruden. 2009. The effect of different capping regimes on the microbial communities in freshwater sediments. Water Environment Research 81:441-449.

Kassem, I., V. Sigler and M. Esseili. 2008. Occurrence of mecA in nonstaphylococcal pathogens in surface waters. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46: 3868-3869.

Esseili, M. V. Sigler and I. Kassem. 2008. Optimization of DGGE community fingerprinting for characterizing Escherichia coli communities associated with fecal pollution. Water Research 42:4467-4476.

Kassem, I., P. Joshi, V. Sigler, S. Heckathorn and Q. Wang. 2008. Effect of elevated CO2 and drought on soil microbial communities associated with Andropogon gerardii. Journal of Intergrative Plant Biology 50:1406-1415.

Elk, M., I. Kassem and V. Sigler. 2008. Screening public surfaces for methicillin-resistant staphylococci. The Proceedings of the 22nd National Conference for Undergraduate Research, April 10-12, Salisbury University, Maryland.

Foley, M., V. Sigler and C. Gruden. 2008. A multiphasic characterization of the impact of the herbicide acetochlor on freshwater bacterial communities. International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal 2:56-66.

Kassem, I., V. Sigler and M. Esseili. 2007. Public computer surfaces are reservoirs for methicillin-resistant staphylococci. International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal 1:265–268.

Lohner, R.N., V. Sigler, C.M. Mayer and C. Balogh. 2007. A comparison of the benthic bacterial communities within and surrounding Dreissena clusters in lakes. Microbial Ecology 54:469-477.

Sigler, V. and L. Pasutti. 2006. Evaluation of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis to differentiate E. coli communities in secondary environments. Environmental Microbiology 8:1703-1711.