Joseph L Graves

Research Interests

Genomics of adaptation Aging Experimental Evolution Silver Nanoparticle resistance

Recent Publications

• Brittany Sanders, Jordan Miller, Noor Ahmidouch, Joseph Graves, Misty Thomas (2024). (Genotype-by-environment interactions govern fitness changes associated with adaptive mutations in two-component response systems. ). 15, Frontiers in Genetics.
• Brittany Sanders, Lauren Thomas, Naya Lewis, Zaria Ferguson, Joseph Graves, Misty Thomas (2024). (It Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Right: Epistasis, Two-Component Response Systems, and Bacterial Adaptation. ). Microorganisms.
• Mizpha Fernander, Kelyah Spurgeon, Jada Graves, Winter Guess, Jordan Miller, Channel Mangum, Joseph Graves, Misty Thomas (2023). (Co-adaptation of Streptococcus mutans to simulated microgravity and silver nitrate: Using experimental evolution to evaluate the potential consequences of using silver as a biocide in space.). 10, pp. 168. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences.
• Bo Wang, Vidya Jadhav, Anu Odelade, Evelyn Chang, Alex Chang, Scott Harrison, Antoinette Maldonado-Devincci, Joseph Graves, Jian Han (2023). (High fat diet reveals sex-specific fecal and liver metabolic alterations in C57BL/6J obese mice). (97) 12, pp. 15. 19.
• Brittany Sanders, Sydney Townsend, Maris Ford, Joseph Graves, Misty Thomas (2023). (Reporting off-target effects of recombinant engineering using the pORTMAGE system.). 204, pp. 106627. Journal of Microbiological Methods.
• Mizpha Fernander, Paris Parsons, Billal Khaled, Amina Bradley, Joseph Graves, Misty Thomas (2022). (Adaptation to simulated microgravity in Streptococcus mutans). (17) 8, npjMicrogravity.
• Jian Han, Pragya Nepal, Anuoluwapo Odelade, Destiny Belton, Frederick Feely, Joseph Graves, Antoniette Maldonado-Devincci (2021). (High-Fat Diet-Induced Weight Gain, Behavioral Deficits, and Dopamine Changes in Young C57BL/6J Mice). 7, pp. 353. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
• Gail Joseph, Bo Zhang, Scott Harrison, Joseph Graves, Misty Thomas, Renuka Panchagavi, Akamu Ewunkem, Lijun Wang (2020). (Microbial community dynamics during anaerobic co-digestion of corn stover and swine manure at different solid content, carbon to nitrogen ratio and effluent volumetric percentages). (9) 55, pp. 1111-1124. J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng.
• Joseph Graves (2018). (Biological Theories of Race Beyond the Millennium). In Kazuko suzuki and Diego Von Vacano, (Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics) pp. 21-31. Oxford University Press.
• Simon Outram, Joseph Graves, Jill Powell, Chantell Wolpert, Kerry Haynie, Morris Foster, Jessica Blanchard, Anna Hoffmeyer, Robert Aghans, Charmaine Royal, (2018). ( Genes, Race, and Causation: US Public Perspectives About Racial Difference, Race Soc. Probl. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-018-9223-7.). (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-018-9223-7.) Race Soc. Probl. .
• J , (2018). (The biosciences and neo-racism). In Yasushi Watanbe, (The Handbook of Cultural Security) pp. 50-71. Elgar.
• Joseph Graves, Misty Thomas, Jude Ewunkem (2017). (Antimicrobial Nanomaterials: Why Evolution Matters). (283) 7, Nanomaterials.
• Joseph Graves Jr, Kate Hertweck, Mark Phillips, Mira Han, Larry Cabral, Thomas Barber, Larry Greer, Molly Burke, Larry Mueller, Michael Rose, (2017). (Deep Genomics of Convergent Experimental Evolution in Drosophila,). 34(4), pp. 831-842. Molecular Biology & Evolution.
• Merhdad Tajkarimi, Kristen Rhinehardt, Misty Thomas, Jude Akamu Ewunkem, Adero Campbell, Sada Boyd, Devana Turner, Scott Harrison, Joseph Graves (2017). (Selection for Ionic-Confers Silver Nanoparticle Resistance in Escherichia coli). (1) 5, pp. 1047. JSM Nanotechnology & Nanomedicine.
• Joseph Graves Jr, Magdalena Hurtado, Chris Reiber, Thanukos Anna, (2016). (Evolutionary Science as a method to facilitate higher level thinking and reasoning in medical training). Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health .
• Mehrdad Tajkarimi, Scott Harrison, Albert Hung, Joseph Graves (2016). (Mechanobiology of Antimicrobial Resistant Escherichia coli and Listeria innocua). (2) 11, pp. e0149769. PLoS ONE.
• Louise Mead, Judi Clarke, Frank Forcino, Joseph Graves, , , , (2015). (Factors influencing minority student decisions to consider a career in evolutionary biology). (6) 8, pp. DOI: 10.1186/s12052-015-0034-7. Evol. Edu. Outreach.
• Joseph Graves, Mehrdad Tajkarimi, Quincy Cunningham, Adero Campbell, Herve Nonga, Scott Harrison, Barrick Jeffrey (2015). (Rapid Evolution of Silver Nanoparticle resistance in Escherichia coli). (42) 6, Frontiers in Genetics.
• Joseph Graves (2014). (A Grain of Salt: Metallic and Metallic Oxide Nanoparticles as the New Antimicrobials). 1026, JSM Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine.
• Mehrdad Tajkarimi, D Iyer, M Tarrannum, Quincy Cunningham, Imani Sharpe, Scott Harrison, Joseph Graves (2014). (The Effect of Silver Nanoparticle Size and Coating on Escherichia coli). (2) 2, JSM Nanotechnol Nanomed.
• Joseph Graves (2014). (The Safety of Nanomaterials: What We Know and What We Need to Know). In Kelkar, A.D., Herr, D., and Ryan, J.G., (Advances in Nanoscience and Nanoengineering,) pp. 267—286. CRC Press.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Admixture). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd) pp. 14-19. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Afrocentrism). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd) 1, pp. 74-78. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Biological Determinism). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd Edition) (2nd ) pp. 230-237. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Breast Cancer). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd) pp. 341-45. Gale-Cengage.
• Mason Patrick, Joseph Graves (2013). (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism). In Mason, P., Graves, J.L., Darity, S., Barnes, N., 4 volumes, Gale Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Genocide (Japanese Occupation)). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd) 1, pp. 234-245. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Looking at the World through ‘Race’ Colored Glasses: The Influence of Ascertainment Bias on Biomedical Research and Practice). In Laura Gomez and Nancy Lopez, (Mapping “Race”: A Critical Reader on Health Disparities Research) pp. 39-52. Rutgers University Press.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Malaria (Genetic adaptations to)). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd Ed.) pp. 90-91. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Naturalizing Supernatural). In Ed. Galen Foresman, (Supernatural and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Morals for Idjits, ) Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Race, Genomics, and IQ: Slight Return). In Joseph Kush, (Intelligence Quotient: Testing, Role of Genetics and the Environment and Social Outcomes) pp. 69 –86. Nova Scientific Publishers.
• Verdolin Jennifer, Joseph Graves (2013). (Sexuality (Biological Basis of:)). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd) pp. 28-33. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Sports (Overview)). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd) 3, pp. 96-100. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Theories of Athletic Performance (Boxing)). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd ) 1, pp. 184-190. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Theories of Athletic Performance (General), ). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, ) (2nd) 3, pp. 175-78. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (Track and Field). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd) 3, pp. 123-127. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2013). (US Civil War Politics). In Mason, P., (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (2nd) 3, Gale-Cengage.
• Michael Rose, Thomas Flatt, Joseph Graves, Lee Greer, Daniel Martinez, Margarida Matos, Laurence Mueller, Robert Shmookler Reis, Parvin Shahrestani (2012). (A new evolutionary genetics of aging I. What is aging? ). pp. 10.3389/fgene.2012.00134. Frontiers in Genetics.
• Joseph Graves (2012). (Gene expression in late-life). pp. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00156.. Frontiers in Genetics.
• Joseph Graves (2012). (Science in the Belly of the Beast: A Look Back at My Career in the Academy). In V.L. Farmer and E. Shepherd-Wynn , (Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers) pp. 165-182. Praeger Publishers.
• Joseph Graves (2011). (Evolutionary versus Racial Medicine: Why it Matters? ). In Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan, (Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth and Culture) pp. 142--170. Columbia U. Press.
• G Bailey, Jian Han, Donela Wright, Joseph Graves (2011). (Religously expressed fatalism and the perceived need for science and scientific process to empower agency). (3) 2, pp. 55-58. The international journal of science in society.
• Joseph Graves (2010). (Race). In Diane Williams, (Race, Ethnicity, and the Criminal Justice System) Jones and Bartlett.
• Joseph Graves (2009). (Biological V. Social Definitions of Race: Implications for Modern Biomedical Research). pp. DOI: 10.1007/s12114-009-9053-3. Review of Black Political Economy.
• Joseph Graves (2009). (Evolution, Religion, and Race: Critical Thinking and the Public Good). pp. http://forumonpublicpolicy.com/summer08papers/relsum08.html.. Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table.
• Joseph Graves (2007). (Basketball). (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (1st) 1, pp. 158-164. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2007). (Boxing). (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (1st) 1, pp. 236-243. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2007). (Hans Eysenck). (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (1st) 1, pp. 450-451. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2007). (Niggers: Old and New”, A response to: “Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones…”Airbrushing the Ugliest of Ugly in African American Children’s Books). In Neal Lester, (Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)) Routledge Press.
• Joseph Graves (2007). (Track and Field). (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (1st) 3, pp. 144-152. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves (2007). (US Civil War Politics). (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) (1st) 1, pp. 334-339. Gale-Cengage.
• Joseph Graves, Michael Rose (2006). (Against Racial Medicine). In Sander Gilman, ((4-5)) 40, pp. 481-493. Patterns of Prejudice .
• Joseph Graves (2005). (The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium,). Rutgers University Press.
• Joseph Graves (2005). (The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America). Dutton Books.
• Joseph Graves (2005). (What we know and what we don’t know: Human Genetic Variation and the social construction of race). In Craig Calhoun, (Is Race Real?, a collection of essays solicited by The Social Science Research Council) pp. http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/. The Social Science Research Council.
• Joseph Graves (2004). (Creole). In Robin L. Rone, (The Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities) Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
• Denise Deckhart-Cruz, Luciano Maitzkin, Joseph Graves, Michael Rose (2004). (Electrophoretic Analysis of Methuselah flies from Multiple Species). In M.R. Rose, H.B. Prassananti, M. Matos, (Methuselah Flies) pp. 237-248. World Scientific Press.
• Joseph Graves (2004). (Environmental Racism). In Robin L. Rone, (The Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities) Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
• Joseph Graves (2004). (Race). In Robin L. Rone, (The Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities) Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
• Joseph Graves (2004). (The Civil War, US). In Robin L. Rone, (The Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities) Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
• Joseph Graves (2004). (The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America). Hard Cover, Dutton Books.
• Joseph Graves (2002). (Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Teaching the Biological and Social Construction of Race). In Bonnie Tu-Smith, (Race in the Class Room: Politics and Pedagogy) Rutgers University Press.
• Joseph Graves (2002). (Scylla and Charybdis: Adaptationism, reductionism, and the fallacy of associating race with disease). In Rachel Ankeny and Lisa Parker, (Medical Genetics: Mutating Concepts and Evolving Disciplines) Kluwer Academic Press.
• Joseph Graves (2002). (The Last Battlefield: Biological Theories of Race and the Future of American Society). In S. Collins-Chobanian, and K. Wong, (Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach ) pp. 422-433. Prentice Hall.
• Joseph Graves (2002). (The misuse of life history theory: J.P. Rushton and the pseudoscience of racial hierarchy). In J. Fish, (Understanding Race and Intelligence) pp. 43-57. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Joseph Graves (2002). (What a tangled web he weaves: Race, reproductive strategies, and Rushton’s life history theory.). (2) 2, pp. 131-154. Anthropological Theory.
• Joseph Graves (2001). (The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millenium). Rutgers University Press.
• Joseph Graves (1997). (General Theories of Aging: Unification and Synthesis). In Sergio F. Dani, MD., Akira Hori, MD., and Gerhard F. Walter, MD, Ph.D, (Principles of Neural Aging) pp. 35-55. Elsevier Press.
• Joseph Graves, Laurence Mueller (1995). (Population density effects on longevity revisited: A note in response to Density and Age-specific Mortality by J.W. Curtsinger. ). (3) 96, pp. 183-186. Genetica.
• Joseph Graves, Terri Place (1995). (Race and IQ revisited: Figures never lie, but often liars figure). (2) 20, pp. 4-50. Sage Race Relations Abstracts.
• Joseph Graves (1995). (Science, undergraduate education, and African American students in the 21st century). (2) 25, pp. 70-88. Perspectives.
• Joseph Graves, Amanda Johnson (1995). (The pseudoscience of Psychometry and the Bell Curve Special Issue: Myth and Realities: African Americans and the Measurement of Human Difference). (3) 64, pp. 277-294. J. Negro Education.
• Joseph Graves, Joanne Leigh (1994). (Materialist philosophy, Evolutionary Biology, and African-American Students II: Empirical Evidence). (Race in a Global Society; University of Oklahoma Symposium in African-American Studies) U. Oklahoma.
• Joseph Graves (1994). (Materialist philosophy, Evolutionary Biology, and African-American Students I: My statement of the problem.). (Proceedings National Research Conference on African-American Studies) U. Oklahoma.
• Joseph Graves (1993). (Evolutionary biology and human variation: Biological determinism and the mythology of race.). (3) 18, pp. 4-34. Race Relations Abstracts.
• Michael Rose, Robert Tyler, Greg Spicer, Francisco Ayala, Ted Nussbaum, Laurence Mueller, Joseph Graves, James Fleming (1993). (Genetic and physiological-mechanisms of postponed aging in Drosophila). 144, pp. 17D. J. Cellular Biochemistry .
• Laurence Mueller, Joseph Graves, Michael Rose (1993). (Interactions between density-dependent and age-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster.). 7, pp. 469-479. Functional Ecology.
• Joseph Graves, Heather Paciotti, Luciano Matzkin, Barbara Joos (1993). (Mating status, physiological performance, and fitness in Drosophila arizonae. ). (5) 33, pp. 114A. American Zoologist .
• Joseph Graves, Laurence Mueller (1993). (Population density effects on longevity). 91, pp. 99-109. Genetica.
• Joseph Graves (1993). (The costs of reproduction and dietary restriction in mammals). (4) 57, pp. 233-249. Growth, Development, and Aging .
• Robert Tyler, Hardip Brar, M Singh, A LaTorre, Joseph Graves, Larry Mueller, Michael Rose, Francisco Ayala (1993). (The effect of Superoxide Dismutase on aging in Drosophila). 91, pp. 143-146. Genetica.
• Joseph Graves, , (1988). (Flight duration and wing beat frequency in long- and short- lived Drosophila melanogaster,). 34, pp. 1021--1026. J. Insect Physiology.
• , Joseph Graves, , (1988). (Localizing the genes that defer senescence in Drosophila melanogaster.). 60, pp. 367-374. Heredity.