Ponder, M., and S. Sumner. 2009. "Use of case studies to introduce undergraduate students to principles of food microbiology, molecular biology and epidemiology of food-borne disease". Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. In Press.

Ponder, M., Thomashow, M. and J. Tiedje.  2008. “Metabolic activity of Siberian permafrost isolated bacteria Psychrobacter arcticus 273-4 and Exiguobacterium 255-15 at low water activities”. Extremophiles. 12:481-490.

Zheng S, Ponder MA, Shih JY, Tiedje JM, Thomashow MF, Lubman DM. 2007.  A proteomic analysis of Psychrobacter articus 273-4 adaptation to low temperature and salinity using a 2-D liquid mapping approach.  Electrophoresis. 28(3):467-88.

Bakermans, C., Ayala, H., Ponder, M. Tiedje, J. and M. Thomashow.  2006.  “Psychrobacter cryohalolentis sp. Nov. and Psychrobacter arcticus sp. nov. isolated from Siberian permafrost.  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.  56 (Pt 6):1285-91.

Vishnivetskaya, T., Petrova, M., Urbance, J., Ponder, M., Moyer, C., Gilichinsky, D and J. Tiedje.  2006.  “Bacterial Community in Ancient Siberian Permafrost as Characterized by Culture and Culture-Independent Methods”.  Astrobiology. 6 (3): 400-414.

Ponder, M., Gilmour, S., Bergholz, P., Mindock, C., Hollingsworth, R., Thomashow, M. and J. Tiedje. 2005.  “Characterization of Potential Stress Responses in Ancient Siberian Permafrost Psychroactive Bacteria." FEMS Microbial Ecology 53(1): 103-15.

Ponder, M., Vishnivetskaya, T., McGrath, J. and J. Tiedje.  2004.  “Microbial life in permafrost: extended times in extreme conditions” in Life in the frozen state. Edited by Fuller, J., Lane, N. and E. Benson.  CRC Press, Boca Raton. 151-170. 

Publications in preparation
Ayala, H., Chain, P., Ponder, M., Bergholz, P., Bakermans, C., Rodrigues, D., Thomashow, M. and J. Tiedje.  In preparation.  “The genome sequence of Psychrobacter arcticus 273-4, a cold adapted Siberian permafrost isolate”

· Ponder, M., Thomashow, M. and J. Tiedje. In preparation.  “Transcriptome responses of an ancient permafrost isolated Psychrobacter arcticus 273-4 to low temperature and low water activity”

·  Ponder, M. Porwollik, S., McClelland and P. Fields. “Identification of differences in gene content between clinically relevant  Salmonella enterica serovars from subspecies II, II Ia, IIIb and IV”

· Ponder, M., VanDuyne, S., Gerner-Smidt and P. Fields.  “Genomic content differences between serovars of Salmonella enterica serotype Kentucky of different lineages