W. MatThew Sattley
PostDoctorate researcher
EDUCATIONAL Background
---May 1998, B.A., Biology
Blackburn College, Carlinville, Illinois
---July 2006, Ph.D., Microbiology
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Advisor: Prof. Michael T. Madigan
---August 2006-Present, Postdoctoral Associate
Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Supervisor: Prof. Robert E. Blankenship
Research Interests
-- Microbial ecology and diversity of extreme environments
-- Novel culturing strategies for the isolation of ecologically and biogeochemically important microorganisms, including species involved in primary production and biogenic sulfur and carbon cycling
-- Mechanisms of anoxygenic photosynthesis in extreme environments.
-- Nutrient dynamics and species interactions in microbial ecosystems.
-- Phylogenetic and evolutionary characterization of prokaryotes.
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Genomic analyses of phototrophic bacteria
publications
Sattley, W.M., M.T. Madigan, W.D. Swingley, M. Chen, P.C. Cheung, K.M. Clocksin, A.L. Conrad, L.C. Dejesa, B.M. Honchak, D.O. Jung, L.E. Karbach, A. Kurdoglu, S. Lahiri, S.D. Mastrian, L.E. Page, H.L. Taylor, Z.T. Wang, J. Raymond, R.E. Blankenship, and J.W. Touchman. The genome Heliobacterium modesticaldum, a phototrophic representative of the Firmicutes containing the simplest photosynthetic apparatus. J Bacteriol. (In Press)
Swingley, W.D., M. Chen, P.C. Cheung, A.L. Conrad, L.C. Dejesa, J. Hao, B.M. Honchak, L.E. Karbach, A. Kurdoglu, S. Lahiri, S.D. Mastrian, H. Miyashita, L.E. Page, P. Ramakrishna, S. Satoh, W.M. Sattley, Y. Shimada, H.L. Taylor, T. Tomo, T. Tsuchiya, Z.T. Wang, J. Raymond, M. Mimuro, R.E. Blankenship, and J.W. Touchman. Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 105:2005-2010
Sattley, W.M., and M.T. Madigan (2007) Cold active acetogenic bacteria from surficial sediments of perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. FEMS Microbiol Lett 272:48-54.
Sattley, W.M., and M.T. Madigan (2006) Isolation, characterization, and ecology of cold-active, chemolithotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 5562-5568.
Karr, E.A., J.M. Ng, S.M. Belchik, W.M. Sattley, M.T. Madigan, and L.A. Achenbach (2006) Biodiversity of methanogenic and other Archaea in the permanently frozen Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 1663-1666.
Madigan, M.T., D.O. Jung, E.A. Karr, W.M. Sattley, L.A. Achenbach, and M.T.J. van der Meer (2005) Diversity of anoxygenic phototrophs in contrasting extreme environments. In W. Inskeep, and T. McDermott (ed.), Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park. Proceedings of the Thermal Biology Workshop, Yellowstone National Park, WY, October 2003. Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University Publications, Bozeman, MT.
Karr, E.A., W.M. Sattley, M.R. Rice, D.O. Jung, M.T. Madigan, and L.A. Achenbach (2005) Diversity and distribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria in permanently frozen Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71: 6353-6359.
Karr, E.A., W.M. Sattley, D.O. Jung, M.T. Madigan, and L.A. Achenbach (2003) Remarkable diversity of phototrophic purple bacteria in a permanently frozen Antarctic lake. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69: 4910-4914.
