THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH IN MARINE AND FRESHWATER MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Steven W. Wilhelm -  Professor OF Microbiology 

Office: 865-974-0665    Labs: 865-974-0682  or  865-974-4014

OCEANOGRAPHY   -   LIMNOLOGY  -   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Quantifying the impact of marine and freshwater viruses on aquatic food webs   SCOR WG 126

• Developing better models for marine biogeochemical (Fe, Carbon) cycles and understanding the role of microbes  SCOR WG 134

• Characterizing microbial community dynamics in the Lake Erie Dead Zone  

• Resolving the interactions between cyanophages and toxic cyanobacteria in aquatic systems

• Developing real time quantitative molecular tools for the study of toxic cyanobacterial ecology    The Lake Taihu project    

• Proteomic approaches to understanding the causes of Microcystis blooms  

• Algal physiology and model systems for biofuels

• Determining the genomic sequences of giant algal viruses in marine systems

• Psychrolithotrophs

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Retrieving traps on the RV Tangaroa 2008

Scientists and crew work to clear a spot in the ice to sample - Lake Erie Feb 2007

The Buchan, Zinser and Wilhelm labs 2011

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 Affiliations

• Department of Microbiology, UTK

• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UTK

• Center for Environmental Biotechnology, UTK

• UTK/ORNL Program in Genome Science and Technology, UTK 

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN...

• Claire Campbell The effects of nutrient limition and cyanophage on heterotrophic microbial diversity (M.Sc. 2012)

• Audrey Matteson Quantification and ecological perspectives on cyanophage and aquatic viruses (Ph.D. 2011)

• Matthew Saxton    Constraints on primary production in Lake Erie (Ph.D. 2011)

• Star Loar   Seasonal Variation in Lake Erie Picoplankton (M.Sc. 2009)

• Janet Rowe  Ecological aspects of viruses in marine systems (Ph.D. 2008)

• Johanna Rinta-Kanto Biogeography and genetic diversity of toxin producing cyanobacteria in a Laurentian Great Lake (PhD. 2006)

• Leo Poorvin The role of viruses in Fe cycling in the World's oceans (Ph.D. 2005) 

• Julie L. Higgins Virus dynamics in high nutrient - low chlorophyll marine surface waters (M.Sc. 2005)

• Cécile E. Mioni Using a bioluminescent bacterial bioreporter to assess iron bioavailability in the ocean (Ph.D. 2004)            

• Melanie Eldridge The effects of Fe on plankton in HNLC regions of the world's oceans (Ph.D. 2004) 

• Amanda L. Dean The dynamics, distribution, and activity of viruses in Lake Erie (M.Sc. 2004)

• Shannon Pedigo-Eftland The effects of iron on growth and physiology of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa (M.Sc. 2004)

• Johanna Rinta-Kanto The effects of viral size class enrichments on microbial communities in marine systems   (M.Sc. 2001)

Former postdoctoral researchers

• Dr Anthony Ouellette, currently at Jacksonville University

• Dr Renhui Li, currently at the Institute of Hydrology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences