Environmental Microbiology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Professor Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, 2007-present
• Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, 2003-present
• Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, 1999-2003

EDUCATION:
• BSc School of Agronomy, The Hebrew University, Rehovot; June 1974 (Undergraduate degree in Agronomy, Major in Microbiology)
• MSc Hebrew University, Jerusalem; June 1976 (Masters in Environmental Health)
• PhD The University of Maryland; December 1980 (Major in Microbiology, Minor in Biochemistry)

HONORS AND AWARDS:
• Charles H Revson Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, 1981/1982
• University of California, Irvine, Career Development Award, 1983
• National Research Council Residence Associateship, 1985 (declined)
• The Environmental Protection Agency Scientific and Technological Achievement Award in the Category of Ecology – Level II, 1988
• Research Excellence Award, Cook College, Rutgers University, 2004
• Honorary Lectureship Award, Theobald Smith Society, 2005

MEMBERSHIPS:
• American Society for Microbiology
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Academy of Microbiology
• International Society for Microbial Ecology
• International Association of Geochemistry

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Research in my laboratory is focused on the microbial ecology of the interactions of microbes with toxic metals. Specifically, we are looking at microbial transformations of metals and how they affect metal toxicity and accumulation patterns in the environment and at the genetics and physiology of metal resistance and transformations in microorganisms. This research supports efforts in bioremidiation of metal contaminated environments.