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Elkhoury, J.E., G. Saini et al., Non-uniform particle size explains the non-linear dependence of Irreversible attachment on transport distance in porous media, to be submitted to WRR.
Saini, G.,Nicole Nasholm, Brian D. Wood, and Mark E. Dolan. 2009. Implications of growth and starvation conditions in Bacterial Adhesion and Transport. in prep. for special issue on Biofouling in J. Adh. Sci. Technol.. (invited)
Saini, G.,Nicole Nasholm, and Mark E. Dolan. 2009. Application of salting-out agent to enhance the hydrophobicity of weakly hydrophobic bacterial strains. in prep. for Appl. Env. Microbiol.
Saini, G.,Mark E. Dolan, and Brian D. Wood. 2009. Bacterial hydrophobicity assessment : Effect of operational parameters on MATH test perfromance. Appl. Env. Microbiol. (in review) .
Saini, G. and B. D. Wood. 2008. Metabolic Uncoupling of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, under the presence of excess-substrate and 3, 3', 4', 5 Tetrachlorosalisylanilide (TCS). Biotechnol Bioeng, 99(6):1352-1360.
Malhotra, S., G. Saini, G. Malhotra, V. K. Minocha.2008. Management of Waste Bentonite based slurry from Drilling Operations, IE (I)-EN (Journal of Environmental Engineering, Institution of Engineers, India). 88:38-42.

Review Articles

Saini, G.,Mark E. Dolan, and Brian D. Wood.2009. under preparation.

Discussion & Letter to Editor

Saini, G. 2009. Comments on "Diversity in cell properties and transport behavior among 12 different environmental Escherichia coli isolates" by C. H. Bolster, B. Z. Hazendaroglu and S. L. Walker (JEQ 2009,38:465-472) , Letters to the Editor, J. Env. Qual. (2009), 38(4): 1775-1776.
Minocha, V. K. and G. Saini. 2003. A discussion on "Estimating Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Emissions based on Instantaneous Speed and Acceleration Levels", Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 129 (5), 578-579.

Correspondence

Saini, G..2009. Beneficial biofules: Carbon-credit based solution for trilemma. Science (in review).

Conference/Workshop Presentations

Saini, G., N. Nasholm, and B.D. Wood. Quantification of hydrophobic interaction affinity of colloids, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 14-18, 2009. oral presentation.
Saini, G. and B.D. Wood. Role of heterogeneity in biopolymer length and distribution on bacterial adhesion, Subsurface Biosphere Initiative (SBI) Summer Workshop, Oregon State University, July 23-24, 2009. Oral Presentation (Invited).
Saini, G., N. Nasholm, and B.D. Wood. Effect of growth and starvation on adhesion potential of bacteria, Subsurface Biosphere Initiative (SBI) Summer Workshop, Oregon State University, July 23-24, 2009.
Saini, G., M.E. Dolan and B.D. Wood. An interfacial scale bacterial adhesion model explains hysteretic force interaction profiles, 13th IACIS International conference on surface and colloid science & 83th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Columbia University, NY, June 14-19, 2009.
Saini, G., M.E. Dolan and B.D. Wood. Establishing a standard protocol of MATH test for microbial surface hydrophobicity assessment, 13th IACIS International conference on surface and colloid science & 83th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Columbia University, NY, June 14-19, 2009. Oral Presentation.
Saini, G., J.E. Elkhoury, P.J. Culligan, T.R. Ginn, M. Hamderi, R. Parashar, G. Tang, D.M. Tartakovsky, S.-Y. Yi and F. Yue. Non-uniform particle size explains reduction in filtration rates with transport distance in porous media, 13th IACIS International conference on surface and colloid science & 83th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Columbia University, NY, June 14-19, 2009. Oral Presentation.
Saini, G. , M.E. Dolan and B.D. Wood. Effect of variations in Operational Parameters on Cell surface hydrophobicity (CSH) measurements by MATH test, Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, May, 2009.
Saini, G. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)- What, How and Wow, Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, April, 2009.
Microbial Adhesion and Transport: A Multiscale Approach, Subsurface Biosphere Initiative Workshop/IGERT Retreat, Newport, Oregon, June 17-19, 2007.
Saini, G., J.E. Elkhoury, P.J. Culligan, T.R. Ginn, M. Hamderi, R. Parashar, G. Tang, D.M. Tartakovsky, S.-Y. Yi and F. Yue. Colloidal Transport: Modeling the "Irreversible" attachment of colloids to porous media, Summer School in Geophysical porous media, Purdue University, IN. July 17- 28, 2006. Oral Presentation.
Metabolic Uncoupling of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, under the presence of excess-substrate and 3,3',4',5 Tetrachlorosalisylanilide (TCS), Subsurface Biosphere Initiative Workshop/IGERT Retreat, Newport, Oregon, June 18-21, 2006.
Malhotra, G., G. Saini and V.K. Minocha. Optimization and control of water treatment operations using Simulation and ANFIS implementation, National Conference on Innovative Approaches in the Management of the Environment, Delhi, India, Oct 2003. Oral Presentation.

Invited Lectures

SPS Biophysics Seminar on Metabolic Uncoupling and Upscaling Techniques, Augsburg College, Minnesota, Nov. 28, 2006.

Student Supervision

Nicole Nasholm (Senior, Biology Major)- Summer 2009. Working on the effect of different conditions on Bacterial Hydrophobicity. Funded by Subsurface Biosphere Initiative (SBI), Oregon State University.

Professional Services

Conference Organization

Advisory Board Member

Journal Reviewer

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Bioresource Technology, International Journal of Biomedical Science, Journal of Theoretical Biology

Certifications

HAZWOPER

EIT

Positions held

Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), Flow & Transport Lab, OSU, Summer 2004-present.
Gradute Teaching Assistant (GTA), Deptartment of Civil Engineering, OSU, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.

ENVE 521: Water and Wastewater Characterization (Instructor: Mark Dolan)
ENVE 522: Water Engineering Design (Instructor: Brian Wood)