End of Year Update

Well, I must admit that I have been remiss in updating my website, but things have been pretty busy. I've been working on book chapters, manuscripts, grant proposals, proposal and manuscripts reviews, and so on. As the year closes, I've been focused on examining denitrification in the uranium- and nitrate- contaminated subsurface at Oak Ridge, TN. The lab is taking a number of cultivation-based and molecular approaches to the characterization of denitrifying microorganisms in acidic- and circumneutral contaminated sediments. As part of this work, the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has approved our previously submitted grant proposal and is working to sequence the genomes of six denitrifying bacteria isolated from the subsurface. Also, I was featured in the Mo Bio newsletter (fame reaches me at last).

In other news, the on-line versions of two of my book chapters are now available:

(1) Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) for Microbial Community Analysis in "Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology", published by Springer.

(2) Compost Microbial Populations and Interactions with Plants in "Microbes at Work", also published by Springer.

Best wishes for a happy new year.
Cheers,
Stefan