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Institute Directors

Antonio Baptista

Baptista, Antonio
Director
503-748-1147

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.


Brad Tebo, Ph.D.

Tebo, Bradley
Co-director
503-748-1992

Research areas: Geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry of metal-microbe-mineral interactions; marine microbiology and biotechnology; bioremediation.   


Faculty

Ninian Blackburn

Blackburn, Ninian
Faculty
503-748-1384

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

Haygood, Margo
Faculty
503-748-1993

Research areas: Environmental microbiology; bacterial physiology; bacterial evolution, marine biotechnology.


Richard Johnson

Johnson, Richard
Faculty
503-748-1193

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

Moenne Loccoz, Pierre
Faculty
503-748-1673

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

Nakano, Michiko
Faculty
503-748-4078

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

Needoba, Joseph
Faculty
503-748-1197

Research areas: Marine biogeochemistry; in situ sensors and instruments; phytoplankton ecology and physiology; stable isotope ecology.


Tawnya Peterson

Peterson, Tawnya
Faculty
503-748-7679

Research areas: Biological oceanography; ecology and physiology of phytoplankton; harmful algal blooms; ocean observatories


Holly Simon

Simon, Holly
Faculty
503-748-1873

Research areas: Projects in the lab cover a range of topics in microbial ecology, including the study of bacteria and archaea involved in carbon.


Paul Tratnyek

Tratnyek, Paul
Faculty
503-748-1023

Research areas: Pathways, kinetics, mechanisms, and other fundamental, molecular aspects of environmental oxidation-reduction reactions. 


Karen Watanabe

Watanabe, Karen
Faculty
503-748-1217

Research areas: Developing computational models of biological systems.


James Whittaker

Whittaker, James
Faculty
503-748-1065

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

Zuber, Peter
Faculty
503-748-7335

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.