Stephen Zinder

I study the diversity of microorganisms in nature and chemical transformations they carry out that affect the environment.

Research Focus

Transformations of chemicals by anaerobes

Teaching Focus

Microbial diversity

Areas Of Expertise

• Biogeochemistry
• Environmental Microbiology
• Microbial Diveristy
• Microbial Diversity
• Microbial Ecology

Graduate Fields

• Genomics
• Microbiology

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

• Armitage, D. W., Gallagher, K. L., Youngblut, N. D., Buckley, D. H., & Zinder, S. H. (2012). Millimeter-scale patterns of phylogenetic and trait diversity in a salt marsh microbial mat. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3:art 293.
• Sakai, S., Ehara, M., Tseng, I. C., Yamaguchi, T., Brauer, S. L., Cadillo-Quiroz, H., Zinder, S. H., & Imachi, H. (2012). Methanolinea mesophila, sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from a rice field in Taiwan, and proposal of the new archaeal family Methanoregulaceae fam. nov. within the order Methanomicrobiales. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62:1389-95.
• Men, Y., Feil, H., Verberkmoes, N. C., Shah, M. B., Johnson, D. R., Lee, P. K., West, K. A., Zinder, S. H., Andersen, G. L., & Alvarez-Cohen, L. (2012). Sustainable syntrophic growth of Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195 with Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough and Methanobacterium congolense: global transcriptomic and proteomic analyses. The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology. 6:410-21.
• Liang, X., Howlett, J. L., Nelson, J. L., Grant, G., Dworatzek, S., Lacrampe-Couloume, G., Zinder, S. H., Edwards, E. A., & Sherwood-Lollar, B. (2011). Pathway-dependent isotope fractionation during aerobic and anaerobic degradation of monochlorobenzene and 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene. Environmental Science & Technology. 45:8321-27.
• Nelson, J. L., Fung, J. M., Cadillo -Quiroz, H., Cheng, X., & Zinder, S. H. (2011). A role for Dehalobacter spp. in the reductive dehalogenation of dichlorobenzenes and monochlorobenzene. Environmental Science & Technology. 45:6608-13.
• Agler, M. T., Wrenn, B. A., Zinder, S. H., & Angenent, L. (2011). Waste to bioproduct conversion with undefined mixed cultures: the carboxylate platform. Trends in Biotechnology. 29:70-78.
• Lee, P. K., Cheng, D., Hu, P., West, K. A., Dick, G. J., Brodie, E. L., Andersen, G. L., Zinder, S. H., He, J., & Alvarez-Cohen, L. (2011). Comparative genomics of two newly isolated Dehalococcoides strains and an enrichment using a genus microarray. The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology. 5:1014-1024.
• Brauer, S. L., Cadillo-Quiroz, H., Ward, R. J., Yavitt, J. B., & Zinder, S. H. (2011). Methanoregula boonei gen. nov., sp. nov., an acidiphilic methanogen isolated from an acidic peat bog. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61:45-52.