Lisa Stein

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Physiology, genomics, and ecology of ammonia and methane oxidizing bacteria.
Influence of microbial metabolism on greenhouse gas production.
The underlying goals of research in this laboratory are to understand how microorganisms function in the environment, how environmental change influences microbial metabolism, and how microbial metabolism changes the environment. To accomplish these goals, we study the functional genetics and physiology of bacteria that perform specific processes at the molecular, whole-cell, and ecosystem levels.

Graduate Students
- Lynnie Cua (Ph.D. student, Environmental Toxicology program)
- Jennifer Lobel (Ph.D. student, Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics program)
Other

Nyerges, G. and L.Y. Stein. 2007. Comparison of ammonia- and hydroxylamine-oxidizing activities of type I and type II methanotrophic bacteria. In preparation.
Norton, J., Chain, P., Lapidus, A., Stein, L., Klotz, M., Larimer, F. et al. 2007. Complete genome sequence of Nitrosospira multiformis, an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium from the soil environment. In preparation.
Stein, L.Y., Arp, D.J., Berube, P.M., Chain, P.S.G., Hauser, L., Jetten, M.S.M. et al. 2007. Comparison of the complete genome sequence of Nitrosomonas europaea C91 to genome sequences of other aerobic and anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. In preparation.
Cantera, J.J.L. and L.Y. Stein. 2007. Interrelationship between nitrite reductase and ammonia-oxidizing metabolism in Nitrosomonas europaea. Arch. Microbiol. In revision.
Cantera, J.J.L. and L.Y. Stein. 2007. Molecular diversity of nitrite reductase genes (nirK) in nitrifying bacteria. Environ. Microbiol. 9:765-776.