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

  • Viral impacts on Aquatic Food Webs

  • Developing better models for marine biogeochemical cycles

  • Understanding the causes of Microcystis blooms  

  • Giant viruses in marine systems

  • incorporating viruses and microbes into climate change models  

  • Toxic cyanobacteria in aquatic systems

  • Real time quantitative molecular tools for microbial ecology 

  • Microbial genetics, diversity and physiology
 
 

PEOPLE               PROJECTS               PUBLICATIONS

 

Lab publication metrics:   GOOGLE SCHOLAR  |  RESEARCHER ID

 

 

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 2012
NEWS 
Oct 2012   Audrey Matteson's JOVE article on measuring virus production has now had >13,000 views!
Oct 2012   The lab will be playing host to the second meeting of the The NIMBioS working group on Ocean Viral Dynamics Oct 21-24.
Nov 2012   Dr Wilhelm will give the College of Arts & Sciences Pregame showcase talk prior to the UTK-Missouri game Nov 10.
Nov 2012   Dr Wilhelm will give a plenary talk at the New Zealand Microbiological Society's annual meeting
Nov 2012   Dr Wilhelm will give a presentation during the award ceremony and symposium for the University of Otago Research Team Award to the Centre for Chemical and Physical Oceanography
Feb 2013   Congratulations to Chad Effler who represented our lab and the University on The Hill in Nashville and presented his research on virus geochemistry
Mar 2013   Our lab is first in North America to acquire a new Lynx 4000 centrifuge
Mar 2013   Our recent publication in Aquatic Microbial Ecology was chosen as a feature paper
Mar 2013   We are excited to have received 166 applications for our 10 NSF-funded REU positions in the Department.  The review committee is working feverishly to complete the first round of offers.
Mar 2013   Congratulations to Jasmin Vazin and Austen Webber - both winners at the 2013 EUReCA competition for undergraduate research
Apr 2013   Congratulations to Kaitlyn Victor  for winning a summer undergraduate internship from the UTK Office of Research
Apr 2013   Congratulations to Audrey Matteson, Janet Rowe, Alise Ponsero and other authors of their FEMS Microbiology Ecology paper selected as the Chief Editor's Choice for the May issue.

PRESS

Jun 2012  

Read about science writer and lab alumni in Scientific American
Aug 2012  

Check out the 2011 - 2012 Department of Microbiology Newsletter
Aug 2012  

Two  new NSF funded projects in China are discussed in Tennessee Today
Sept 2012  

Our collaborative work with BGSU and Clarkson was covered in Ohio Sea Grant's Twineline
Oct 2012  

Our research was featured in a UTK Science Alliance report
Nov 2012   Dr Wilhelm's pregame showcase talk was featured in an article in The Daily Beacon

           See Sarah Farnsley's fact sheets for K-5, middle school and secondary school educators on cyanobacteria.

 Affiliations

 The main home for the lab is the Department of Microbiology at the University of Tennessee.  Most of our students are affiliated with this department. 

Other departments we are affiliated with:

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology        UTK/ORNL Program in Genome Science and Technology         Earth & Planetary Sciences

 

Dr Wilhelm is also the PI of the Department of Microbiology's NSF-Funded REU: Microbial community interactions and Functions
 

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN... former lab members

 

Former postdoctoral researchers

 
 

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