Faculty
Division Head
Bradley Tebo
Division Head
503 748-1992
tebob@ohsu.edu
Research areas: Geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry of metal-microbe-mineral interactions; marine microbiology and biotechnology; bioremediation.
Faculty
Antonio Baptista
Faculty
503 748-1147
baptista@ohsu.edu
Research areas: Integrated understanding and prediction of hydrodynamic and environmental processes in estuaries and coasts. Development of associated concepts and technologies: environmental observation and forecasting systems, numerical methods and models, physically-based ecological indicators.
Ninian Blackburn
Faculty
503 748-1384
ninian@ebs.ogi.edu
Research areas: Structure and function of oxidase and oxygenase metalloenzymes; spectroscopy of metal sites in proteins with emphasis on EPR, EXAFS, absorption edge, and FTIR spectroscopies; coordination chemistry and biochemistry of copper. Biochemistry of metal trafficking in cells.
Margo Haygood
Faculty
503 748-1993
haygoodm@ebs.ogi.edu
Research areas: Environmental microbiology; bacterial physiology; bacterial evolution, marine biotechnology.
Richard Johnson
Faculty
503 748-1193
rjohnson@ebs.ogi.edu
Research areas: Physical and chemical behavior of organic contaminants in the air, soil, and water; analytical organic chemistry; groundwater transport, fate, and modeling of contaminants in porous and fractured porous media.
Pierre Moenne-Loccoz
Faculty
503 748-1673
ploccoz@ebs.ogi.edu
Research areas: Structure-function relationships within proteins. Metalloenzymes and hemoproteins. Spectroscopic studies of enzymatic active sites, cofactors, and metal clusters. Reaction intermediates within catalysis. Nitric oxide in bioinorganic chemist.
Michiko Nakano
Faculty
503 748-4078
mnakano@ebs.ogi.edu
Research areas: Anaerobiosis of Bacillus subtilis; oxygen-controlled gene regulation; two-component signal transduction system; transcriptional activation; nitrate/nitrite reductases; flavohemoglobin; anaerobic electron transport; nitric oxide signaling.
Joseph Needoba
Faculty
503 748-1197
needobaj@ebs.ogi.edu
Research areas: Marine biogeochemistry; in situ sensors and instruments; phytoplankton ecology and physiology; stable isotope ecology.
Tawnya Peterson
Faculty
503 748-7679
petersont@stccmop.org
Research areas: Biological oceanography; ecology and physiology of phytoplankton; harmful algal blooms; ocean observatories
Holly Simon
Faculty
503 748-1873
simonh@ebs.ogi.edu
Tratnyek, Paul
Faculty
503 748-1023
tratnyek@ebs.ogi.edu
Research areas: Pathways, kinetics, mechanisms, and other fundamental, molecular aspects of environmental oxidation-reduction reactions.
Karen Watanabe
Faculty
503 748-1217
watanabe@ebs.ogi.edu
Research areas: Developing computational models of biological systems.
James Whittaker
Faculty
503 748-1065
jim@ebs.ogi.edu
Research areas: Electronic structures and dynamics of metalloenzyme active sites; spectroscopic and computational approaches to biomolecular structure; metalloenzyme mechanisms; enzyme engineering; biology of metal ions.
Peter Zuber
Faculty
503 748-7335
zuber@ohsu.edu
Research areas: Regulation of prokaryotic gene expression and development in response to stress; signal transduction; regulation and mechanism of peptide antibiotic biosynthesis; regulation of genetic competence in Bacillus subtilis.
