Members of the Spormann Laboratory (Past and Present)


Alfred M. Spormann
Principal Investigator
Chemical Engineering and Civil/Environmental Engineering

Anutthaman Parthasarathy
Postdoctoral Fellow
October, 2012
Civil & Environmental Engineering
I am a biochemist by training. My specialisation is in anaerobic enzymology and metabolism. i have worked on amino acid catabolism in mesophiles and extremophiles, protein purification, protein spectroscopy, CoA biochemistry and hexane degradation from 2005-12. At the Spormann lab, i am working on the heterologous overproduction of the vcrA (reductive dehalogenase) in E. coli with the aim of obtaining pure protein for crystallisation trials.

Anne-Kristin Kaster
Postdoctoral Fellow
March, 2011
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Reductive dehalogenation

Svenja Lohner
Postdoctoral Fellow
November, 2008
Civil & Environmental Engineering

- Heterologous expression and in vitro maturation of VcrA and other reductive dehalogenases

- Microbial electrosynthesis of hydrocarbons via autotrophic CO2 fixation

Janus Haagensen
Postdoctoral Fellow

Phenotypic diversity and bistability in Vibrio cholerae

Ann Lesnefsky
PhD Student
April, 2011
Environmental Engineering

Bioelectrosynthesis

Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell
PhD Student
October, 2010
Civil And Environmental Engineering

Holly Sewell
PhD Student
September, 2010
Civil & Environmental Engineering

External electron transfer mechanisms for cathodic electron uptake

Maeva Fincker
Masters Student
April, 2012
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Tyrrell A. Nelson
Alumni
July, 2008
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Microbial Metabolic Processes and Interactions Within the Human Gastrointestinal Tract

Dagmar Wöbken
Alumni
January, 2008 - December, 2011
Department of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna
Group Leader

Linking identity and function of microorganisms in laminated cyanobacteria-dominated mats using molecular techniques such as nanoSIMS and metatranscriptomic studies

Ian Marshall
Alumni
June, 2007
Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University

Characterization of interspecies interactions in complex microbial ecosystems.

Paul J. McMurdie II
Alumni
June, 2005 - December, 2010
Dept. Statistics, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Scholar

http://www.stanford.edu/~mcmurdie/

Genomic Adaptation for Organohalide Respiration of Vinyl Chloride and Other Priority Pollutants by the Anaerobic Bacterium Dehalococcoides.

 

Alison Cupples
Alumni
University of Illinois, Urbana USDA-ARS

Carmen D. Cordova
Alumni
Molecular basis of respiratory plasticity in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

Dale A. Pelletier
Alumni
Oakridge National Laboratory
Senior Research Scientist

Edward Driggers
Alumni
Microbia

Galit Meshulam-Simon
Alumni
Codexis
Research Scientist

Harry Beller
Alumni
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Joint BioEnergy Institute
Senior Research Scientist
Microbial degradation of hydrocarbons.

Heenam Kim
Alumni
The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR)

Hope A. Johnson
Alumni
Department of Biology, Cal State Fullerton
Assistant Professor

Jana Müller
Alumni
Regulation of biofilm formation in two γ-proteobacteria: Shewanella oneidensis and Vibrio cholerae A1552

Jochen Müller
Alumni
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Senior Scientist

Microbes of environmental importance. The role of microbes involved in degradation of organic pollutants and in the global sulfur cycle through genomic, functional genomic, genetic, and biochemical approaches.

http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=19709

Johannes Gescher
Alumni
Karslruhe Institute of Technology
Professor

Dissimilatory iron reduction

Josie Yu
Alumni
San Mateo County Workforce Development
Education Liaison

Kai Thormann
Alumni
Max Planck Insitute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg
Assistant Professor
Alumni Blurb

Lily Chao
Alumni
Amyris
Enzymologist

Cyclic di-GMP Signaling in Shewanella oneidensis

Luke Burow
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering / NASA

Ecophysiology and metatranscriptomics of hydrogen producing microbial mats

Plamena Entcheva-Dimitrov
Alumni
Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, CA
Research Scientist

Renée Saville
Alumni

Dynamics and control of Shewanella oneidensis biofilms

Sebastian F. Behrens
Alumni
University of Tübingen
Assistant Professor
Microbial Ecologist and expert in various methods of in situ hybridization.

Shauna Rakshe
Alumni
Chemical Engineering

Cyclic di-GMP Signaling in Shewanella oneidensis

Soni Shukla
Alumni
Codexis
Research Scientist

Wing-On (Jacky) Ng
Alumni

Laura Hug
Visiting Researcher
May, 2009 - August, 2009
Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto

In collaboration with Joey McMurdie, creation of an unsupervised binning pipeline and visualization tool for metagenome sequence datasets.

Frank Löffler
Visiting Researcher
March, 2009 - September, 2009
University of Tennessee / ORNL
Governors Chair Professor
Discovering ways to clean the environment, counter the damage humans do to ecosystems, and improve environmental health. How naturally occurring bacteria break down pollutants like chlorinated solvents, radioactive wastes, and greenhouse gases.

Jonathan Göke
Visiting Researcher
May, 2007 - July, 2007
Max Planck Institute - Computational Biology and Scientific Computing
PhD Student

Masters Thesis on assembly of Dehalococcoides strain VS genome in collaboration with Joey McMurdie.
http://www.imprs-cbsc.mpg.de/stud2007/jonathan.shtml