Timothy E. Mattes

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Joined the College of Engineering: 2004 

Education: Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2004
M.S.E., Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1995
B.S., Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1994

Special Fields of Knowledge: Environmental engineering; microbiology; biochemistry; molecular biology.

Present Research Interests:Environmental biotechnology, oxidative biocatalysis, evolution of microbial biodegradation pathways, and application of genomics and proteomics techniques in the study of environmentally relevant microbial communities.
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Selected Publications:

• Mattes, T.E, Coleman, N.V, Chuang, A.S, Rogers, A.J, Spain, J.C, and Gossett, J.M.,  “Mechanism controlling the extended lag period associated with vinyl chloride starvation in Nocardioides sp. strain JS614,”  Archives of Microbiology. In Press (available on web: DOI 10.1007/s00203-006-0189-2)
• Mattes, T., Coleman, M., Spain, J., and Gossett, J., 2005. Physiological and molecular genetic analyses of vinyl chloride and ethene biodegradation in Nocardiodes sp. strain JS614. Archives of Microbiology, (183:95-106).
• Chartrand, M., Waller, A., Mattes, T., Elsner, M., Lacrampe-Couloume, G., Gosset, J., Edwards, E., and Lollar, B., 2005. Carbon isotopic fractionation during aerobic vinyl chloride degradation. Environmental Science and Technology (39:1064-1070).
• Coleman, N., Mattes, T., Gossett, J., and Spain, J., 2002, "Phylogenetic and kinetic diversity of aerobic vinyl chloride-assimilating bacteria from contaminated sites, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68:6162-2171.
• Coleman, N., Mattes, T., Gossett, J., and Spain, J., 2002, "Biodegradation of cis-dichloroethene as sole carbon source by a ß-proteobacterium, strain JS666," Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68:2726-2730.
  

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: American Society for Microbiology (ASM); Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).