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Bradley M. Tebo

E-mail:  tebo@ebs.ogi.edu
Phone:  503-748-1992
Fax:  503-748-1464
Web Site: http://www.ebs.ogi.edu/tebob/

Current Appointments
Education
University of California, San Diego (Revelle College) Biology B.A. 1976
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Marine Biology Ph.D. 1983
University of Washington Chemical Oceanography Post-doc 1983-85

Biography
  • Chesapeake Bay Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Associated Research Scientist, 1985-1986
  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Deigo: Assistant Research Biologist and Lecturer, Marine Biology Research Division 1987-1993; Associate Research Biologist and Lecturer, Marine Biology Research Division, 1993-1997; Research Biologist and Senior Lecturer, Marine Biology Research Division, 1997-2004; Professor-In-Residence, 2004-2005

Research Interests
Geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry of metal-microbe-mineral interactions; marine microbiology and biotechnology; bioremediation.
Selected Publications

Han, S.; Obraztsova, A.; Pretto, P.; Deheyn, D.D.; Gieskes, J.; Tebo, B.M. (2008) Sulfide and iron control on mercury speciation in anoxic estuarine sediment slurries. Marine Chemistry, 111(3-4), 214-220.

Dick, G.J.; Podell, S.; Johnson, H.A.; Rivera-Espinoza, Y.; Bernier-Latmani, R.; McCarthy, J.K.; Torpey, J.W.; Clement, B.G.; Gaasterland, T.; Tebo, B.M. (2008) Genomic insights into Mn(II) oxidation by the marine alphaproteobacterium Aurantimonas sp. strain SI85-9A1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(9), 2646-2658.

Romanenko, L.A.; Uchino, M.; Tebo, B.M.; Tanaka, N.; Frolova, G.M.; Mikhailov, V.V. (2008) Pseudomonas marincola sp. nov., isolated from marine environments. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 58(3), 706-710.

Dick, G.J.; Torpey, J.W.; Beveridge, T.J.; Tebo, B.M. (2008) Direct identification of a bacterial manganese(II) oxidase, the multicopper oxidase MnxG, from spores of several different marine Bacillus species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(5), 1527-1534.

Parker, D.L.; Morita, T.; Mozafarzadeh, M.L.; Verity, R.; McCarthy, J.K.; Tebo, B.M. (2007) Inter-relationships of MnO2 precipitation, siderophore-Mn(III) complex formation, siderophore degradation, and iron limitation in Mn(II)-oxidizing bacterial cultures. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71(23), 5672-5683.

Murray, K.J.; Webb, S.M.; Bargar, J.R.; Tebo, B.M. (2007) Indirect oxidation of Co(II) in the presence of the marine Mn(II)-oxidizing bacterium Bacillus sp. strain SG-1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73(21), 6905-6909.

Tebo, B.M.; Clement, B.G.; Dick, G.J. (2007) Biotransformations of manganese. Editor(s): Hurst, C.J. Manual of Environmental Microbiology (3rd Edition), 1223-1238.

Han, S.; Obraztsova, A.; Pretto, P.; Choe, K.-Y.; Gieskes, J.; Deheyn, D.D.; Tebo, B.M. (2007) Biogeochemical factors affecting mercury methylation in sediments of the Venice Lagoon, Italy. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 26(4), 655-663.

Murray, K.J.; Tebo, B.M. (2007) Cr(III) Is indirectly oxidized by the Mn(II)-oxidizing bacterium Bacillus sp.c strain SG-1. Environmental Science & Technology, 41(2), 528-533.

Trouwborst, R.E.; Clement, B.G.; Tebo, B.M.; Glazer, B.T.; Luther, G.W., III. (2006) Soluble Mn(III) in suboxic zones. Science (Washington, DC, United States), 313(5795), 1955-1957.

Webb, S. M.; Fuller, C. C.; Tebo, B. M.; Bargar, J. R. (2006) Determination of uranyl incorporation into biogenic manganese oxides using X-ray absorption spectroscopy and scattering. Environmental Science and Technology, 40(3), 771-777.

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Current and Upcoming Classes (through Spring 2009)

Class Number CRN Title Term
EBS 505A 20702 Reading Group: Environmental and Biomolecular Systems Winter 2007
EBS 515 12244 Environmental and Biomolecular History of the Earth Fall 2006
EBS 516 22052 Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Winter 2008
EBS 516 22339 Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Winter 2009
EBS 615 12245 Environmental and Biomolecular History of the Earth Fall 2006
EBS 616 22053 Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Winter 2008
EBS 616 22341 Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Winter 2009