 | Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
(573) 341-6346 FAX: (573) 341-4821
Office Hours:
mmormile@mst.edu |
Education | Ph.D. | University of Oklahoma | 1995 | | M.S. | University of Louisville | 1988 | | B.S. | University of Cincinnati | 1985 |
Biography | 9/04-present | Associate Professor with Tenure(earned one year
early)
Department of Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science and
Technology | | 4/04 - present | Joint Faculty Appointment
Department of Geosciences and Geological Engineering, Missouri University of
Science and Technology | | 9/99 - 9/04 | Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri -
Rolla | | 10/97 - 7/99 | Associated Western Universities Post - Doctoral Fellow
Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories | | 12/95 - 9/97 | Associated Western Universities Post - Doctoral Fellow
Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories |
Honors and Awards | 2006 | Outstanding Professor Award presented by the Eta Kappa Chapter of Chi
Omega
Nominated for UMR’s Woman of the Year
Member of team awarded the “Okaloosa Sword” for the Air Force Research
Laboratory’s Munitions Directorate’s Campus Challenge II Competition
The University of Missouri - Rolla Faculty Excellence Award | | 2004 | The University of Missouri - Rolla Faculty Excellence Award
College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award
Outstanding Professor Awarded presented by the Eta Kappa Chapter of Chi
Omega | | 2003 | The University of Missouri - Rolla Faculty Excellence Award
College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award
Elected as a Science Advisory Board Fellow of the Soap Lake Conservancy | | 2002 | The MSM - UMR Alumni Association’s Outstanding Student Advisor Award
The University of Missouri - Rolla Faculty Excellence Awar | | 2001 | Selected as a New Faculty Teaching Scholar of the University of
Missouri System | | 2000 | Elected into membership of Sigma Xi and Phi Sigma | | 1983 | United Stated Environmental Protection Agency’s Bronze Metal
for Commendable Service |
Publications In print and in press: 1. Arahal, D.R., R.H. Vreeland,
C.D. Litchfield, M.R. Mormile, B.J. Tindall, A. Oren, V. Bejar, E. Quesada, and
Antonio Ventosa. Recommended minimal standards for describing new
taxa of the family Halomonadaceae. International Journal of Systematics
and Evolutionary Microbiology in press. 2. Benison, K.C.,B.B.
Bowen, F.E. Ikuenobe, E.A. Jagniecki, D.A. LaClair, S.L. Story, M.R. Mormile,
and B. Hong. 2007. Sedimentary processes and products of ephemeral
acid saline lakes in southern Western Australia. Journal of Sedimentary
Research, 77: 366 - 388, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2007.038. 3. Kovacik, Jr., W.P., K. Takai,
M.R. Mormile, J.P. McKinley, F.J. Brockman, J.K. Fredrickson, and W.E.
Holben. 2006. Molecular analysis of deep subsurface Cretaceous
rock indicates abundant Fe(III) - and S0 - reducing bacteria in a sulfate -
rich environment. Environmental Microbiology, 8: 141 - 155. 4. Macauley, J.J, Z. Qiang, C.D.
Adams, R. Surampalli, and M.R. Mormile. 2006. Disinfection
of swine wastewater using chlorine, ultraviolet light and ozone. Water
Research, 40: 2017 - 2026. 5. Davis, C.A., E. Atekwana, E.
Atekwana, L.D. Slater, S. Rossbach, and M.R. Mormile. 2006.
Microbial growth and biofilm formation in geological media is detected with
complex conductivity measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 33:
L18403, doi:10.1029/2006GL027312 6. Qiang, Z., J. Macauley, M.R.
Mormile, R. Surampalli, and C. Adams. 2006. Simultaneous
treatment of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria in swine wastewater
with free chlorine. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 54: 8144
- 8154. 7. Loftin, K.A., C. Henny,
C.A.Adams, R. Surampali, M.R. Mormile. 2005. Inhibition of
microbial metabolism in anaerobic lagoons by selected sulfonamides,
tetracyclines, lincomycin, and tylosin tartate. Environmental Toxicology
and Chemistry, 24: 782 - 788. 8. Dimitriu, P.A., S.K. Shukla, J.
Conradt, M.C. Marquez, A. Ventosa, A. Maglia, B.M. Peyton, H.C. Pinkart, and
M.R. Mormile. 2005. Nitrincola lacisaponensis gen. nov., a
novel alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from a alkaline, saline lake.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 55: 2273 -
2278. 9. England, E.,M. Roberts,
M.R. Mormile, M. Fitch. 2005. Toluene removal in membrane
bioreactors under recirculating and non - recirculating liquid
conditions. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 7: 259 -
269.
In review: 10. Bowen, B.B.,K.C. Benison,
F.E. Oboh - Ikuenobe, S.L. Story, and M.R. Mormile. Active hematite
concretion formation in modern acid saline lake sediments: A model for
early diagenetic hematite on Mars? Accepted pending revisions to Earth
and Planetary Science Letters. 11.Dimitriu, P.A., C.E. Albaugh, S.R. Patel,
S.K. Shukla, J. Brady, M.C. Marquez, A. Ventosa, A. Maglia, B.M. Peyton, H.C.
Pinkart, and M.R. Mormile. Casioramus vanillicus, gen. nov., sp.
nov., a novel facultative alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from an alkaline
meromictic lake. Revision to be resubmitted to International Journal of
Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 12.Pollock, J., K.A. Weber, J. Lack, L.A.
Achenbach, M.R. Mormile, and J.D. Coates. Alkaline iron(III)
reduction by a novel alkaliphilic, halotolerant, Bacillus sp. isolated from
salt flat sediments of Soap Lake. (Accepted pending revisions to Applied
Microbiology and Biotechnology. 13.Benison, K.C., E.A. Jagniecki, T.B.
Edwards, M.R. Mormile, M.C. Storrie - Lombardi. “Hairy blobs”:
Microbial suspects preserved in modern and ancient extremely acid lake
evaporites. Accepted by Astrobiology pending revisions. 14.Macauley, J.J, C.D. Adams, and M.R.
Mormile. Presence and absence of known tet - tesistant genes in
tetracycline resistant isolates from an anaerobic swine lagoon. Revision
to be resubmitted to the Canadian Journal of Microbiology.
Advising 2007 Major Graduate Advisor for: Bo - young Hong - M.S. student (successfully
defended her thesis April 6, 2007
Thesis title: Microbial Ecology of Hypersaline Lakes in Western Australia
and Victoria, Australia) Andrew Jugan - M.S. student (successfully
defended his thesis May 25, 2007
Thesis title: Water Cycling Effects of Populus deltoids x
Populus nigra, Clone #34 on the Degradation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
(Co - advised with Dr. Joel Burken) Malavika Sinha - M.S. student
Serving on Graduate Student Committees for (besides above): Caroline Davis - Ph.D. student in Geology and
Geophysics, Oklahoma StateUniversity Sushmita Dhakal - M.S. student in Civil
Engineering Catherine C. Downs - M.S. student in Geology
and Geophysics James Kaufmann - Ph.D. student in Geology and
Geophysics Kalyan Manda - Ph.D. student in the Department
of Chemistry JungEun Park - M.S. student in the Department
of Biological Sciences (defendedher thesis August 17th, accepted after major
revision)
Su Young Park - M.S. student in the Department
of Biological Sciences Cynthia Riddles - Ph.D. student in the
Department of Chemistry Stacy Story - M.S. student in Geological
Sciences and Engineering (successfullydefended her thesis July 1th) Jeffery Weishaar - M.S. student in Civil
Engineering (successfully defended histhesis May 18, 2007)
Undergraduate Research Supervisor for: Diane Aaron
Nick Adams
Jake Elmer
Benjamin Hale
Patrick Martin
Audrey Oakley
Research Supervisor for the Following High School Students:
Adrienne Angelos
Stephanie Lewis
Undergraduate Academic Advisor for 9 Biological Sciences majors |
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