Interests:

• Geomicrobiology: Physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology of bacteria that catalyze metal transformations.
• Molecular mechanisms of microbial metal binding, electron transfer (redox reactions), and mineral formation.
• The biogeochemical cycling of metals in the environment.
• Marine biotechnology.
• Bioremediation.
• Environmental microbiology.
• Molecular environmental chemistry of Mn oxide biomineralization (see http://mnbiooxides.ucsd.edu/)

Education:

• 1976, B.A. in Biology, Revelle College, University of California, San Diego
• 1981, NASA Summer Course, Planetary Biology and Microbial Ecology
• 1983, Ph.D. in Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, Kenneth H. Nealson, advisor
• 1983-85, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical Oceanography, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Steve Emerson, advisor.

Campus Affiliations:

• Marine Biology Research Division
• Center For Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine
• Center For Molecular Genetics
• UCSD Superfund Basic Research Program
• Glycobiology Research and Training Center

Other Affiliations:

Coastal Toxicology Program (UCSB), UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program