Steve Zinder

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

Areas Of Expertise

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

Graduate Fields

• Genomics
• Microbiology

Education

• Doctorate University of Wisconsin 1977
• Master of Science Colorado State University 1974
• Bachelor of Arts Kenyon College 1972

Research Focus

Transformations of chemicals by anaerobes

Teaching Focus

Microbial diversity

Awards and Honors

• Divisional Lecture - Q Environmental Microbiology (2014) American Society for Microbiology General Meeting
• First Night Plenary Speaker (2014) Dehalocon - Jena Germany
• Honorary Degree (2014) Kenyon College
• 2011 Cornell CALS Faculty Award for Basic Research (2011) Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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.