INSTAAR: Diana Nemergut

Research Scientist of INSTAAR; Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder.

PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2004.

nemergut@colorado.edu
(phone number being assigned)

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: Microbial ecology and evolution.

Research Interests: Horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities. I am currently looking at the role of integrons in genetic exchange in soil and aquatic environments. I am interested in the types of genes that can be exchanged via integrons, as well as the phylogenetic diversity of the organisms that contain integrons.

Outstanding Awards: Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, postdoctoral fellowship, 2004; University of Colorado research and creative work award, 2004.

Selected Publications:

Nemergut, D. R., Barkay, T., and Coombs, J., 2007: Mobile gene elements in environmental microbial commmunities. In Hurst, C. J., et al. (eds.), Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd edition. Washington, D. C.: ASM Press.
Schmidt, S. K., Costello, E. K., Nemergut, D. R., Cleveland, C. C., Reed, S. C., Weintraub, M. N., Meyer, A. F., and Martin, A. M., 2007: Biogeochemical consequences of rapid microbial turnover and seasonal succession in soil. Ecology, 88: 1379-1385.
C. C. Cleveland, D. R. Nemergut, A. R. Townsend, S. K. Schmidt (2006). Rapid shifts in microbial community composition drive the respiration of soluble organic matter in soil: evidence from microbial microcosms. Biogeochemistry, published online.
D. R. Nemergut, S. P. Anderson, C. C. Cleveland, A. P. Martin, A. E. Miller, A. Seimon, S. K. Schmidt (2006). Microbial community succession in unvegetated, recently-deglaciated soils. Microbial Ecology, published online.
D. R. Nemergut, E. K. Costello, A. F. Meyer, M. Pescador, M. Weintraub, and S. K. Schmidt (2005). Microbial ecology of arctic and alpine soils. Research in Microbiology 156: 775-784.
A. P. Martin, E. K. Costello, A. Meyer, D. R. Nemergut and S. K. Schmidt (2004). The rate and pattern of cladogenesis in microbes. Evolution 58: 946-955.
D. R. Nemergut, A. P. Martin and S. K. Schmidt (2004). Integron diversity in heavy metal contaminated mine tailings and inferences about integron evolution. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70: 1160-1168.
D. R. Nemergut and S. K. Schmidt (2002). Disruption of narH, narJ, and moaE inhibits heterotrophic nitrification in Pseudomonas strain M19. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68: 6462-6465.
D. R. Nemergut, K. G. Wunch, R. M. Johnson and J. W. Bennett (2000). Benzo[a]pyrene removal by Marasmiellus troyanus in soil microcosms. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 25: 116-119.
D. R. Nemergut, R. M. Johnson, K. G. Wunch and J. W. Bennett (2000). Extraction and quantification of benzo[a]pyrene in soil by reversed phase thin layer chromatography. Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies 23: 579-586.

See Also:

Diana R. Nemergut