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David M. Ward
Professor; Ph.D. 1975, M.S. 1973, Univ. Wisconsin; B.S. 1971, Ohio State Univ. Instruction and research in microbial diversity, ecology and evolution. Fundamental studies of microbial population biology and community ecology in relation to principles of macroecology; molecular analysis of composition, structure and function of hot spring microbial mat communities used as natural models; comparative molecular and organic geochemical studies of microbial mats as analogs of Precambrian stromatolite fossils; bioremediation ecology; microbiology education/outreach.
Recent Publications:
- Ward, D.M., F.M. Cohan, D. Bhaya, J.F. Heidelberg, M. Kühl and A. Grossman. 2008.
Genomics, environmental genomics and the issue of microbial species. Heredity 100:207-219.
- Steunou, A.-S., S.I. Jensen, E. Brecht, E.D. Becraft, M. M. Bateson, O. Kilian, D. Bhaya, D. M. Ward, , J.W. Peters, A.R. Grossman and M. Kühl. 2008. Regulation of nif gene expression and the energetics of N2 fixation over the diel cycle in a hot spring microbial mat. ISME J. 2:364-378.
- Koeppel, A, E.B. Perry, J. Sikorski, D. Krizanc, A. Warner, D.M. Ward, A.P. Rooney, E. Brambilla, N. Connor, E. Nevo, R.M. Ratcliff, and F.M. Cohan. 2008. Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity:a paradigm shift to incorporate ecological diversification into bacterial systematics, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sciences, USA) 105:2504-2509.
- Schouten, S., M. T. J. van der Meer, E. C. Hopmans, W.I.C. Rijpstra A.L. Reysenbach, D.M. Ward and J.S. Sinninghe Damste´. 2007. Archaeal and bacterial glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids in hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73: 6181–6191
- Bhaya, D., A.R. Grossman, A.-S. Steunou, N. Khuri, F.M. Cohan, N.Hamamura, M.C. Melendrez, W. Nelson, M.M. Bateson, D.M. Ward and John F. Heidelberg. 2007. Population level functional diversity in a microbial community revealed by comparative genomic and metagenomic analyses. ISME J. 1:703-713.
- Bryant, D.A.,A M. Garcia Costas, J. A. Maresca, A.Gomez Maqueo Chew, C.G. Klatt, M.M. Bateson, L.J. Tallon, J. Hostetler, W.C. Nelson, J.F. Heidelberg and D.M. Ward. 2007 Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum: An Aerobic Phototrophic Acidobacterium. Science 317:523-526.
- Klatt, C.G., D.A. Bryant and D.M. Ward. 2007. Comparative genomics provides evidence for the 3-hydroxypropionate autotrophic pathway in filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and in hot spring microbial mats. Environ. Microbiol. 9:2067-2078.
- Colores, G.M., D.M. Ward and W.P. Inskeep. 2007. Competitive fitness of isolates enriched on phenanthrene sorbed to model phases. Appl. Environ. Microbio. 73:4074-4077.
- van der Meer, M.T.J., S. Schouten, J.S. Sinninghe Damsté and D.M. Ward 2007. Impact of carbon metabolisms on 13C signatures of cyanobacteria and green nonsulfur-like bacteria inhabiting a microbial mat from an alkaline siliceous hot spring in Yellowstone National Park (USA) Environ. Microbiol. 9:482–491
- Ward, D.M., M.M. Bateson, M.J. Ferris, M. Kühl, A. Wieland, A. Koeppel and F.M. Cohan. 2006. Cyanobacterial ecotypes in the microbial mat community of Mushroom Spring (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming) as species-like units linking microbial community composition, structure and function. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc., London (Ser. B) 361:1997-2008.
- Hamamura, N., S.H. Olson, D.M. Ward and W.P. Inskeep. 2006. Microbial population dynamics associated with crude-oil biodegradation in diverse soils. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:6316-6324.
- Steunou, A.-S., D. Bhaya, M. M. Bateson, M.C. Melendrez, D. M. Ward, E. Brecht, J.W. Peters, M. Kühl and A.R. Grossman. 2006. In situ analysis of nitrogen fixation and metabolic switching in unicellular thermophilic cyanobacteria inhabiting hot spring microbial mats, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A 103:2398-2403
- Allewalt, J.P., M.M. Bateson, N.P. Revsbech, K. Slack and D.M. Ward. 2006. Effect of temperature and light on growth and photosynthesis of Synechococcus isolates typical of those predominating in the Octopus Spring microbial mat community. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:544-550.
- Ward, D.M. 2006. Microbial diversity in natural environments: focusing on fundamental questions. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 90:309-324.
- Ward, D.M. 2006. A macrobiological perspective on microbial species. Microbe 1:269-278.
Recent Grants:
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“Elucidation of microbial response to temperature variation and the diurnal cycle in the Yellowstone Octopus hot spring: a proteomic study”, NSF Microbial Observatory and Microbial Interactions and Processes Program, 9/1/08-8/31/11, subaward to Ward of $57,208 (L. Steinke, U. Neb. Medical Ctr., Omaha, NE lead PI).
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“Do species matter in microbial communities?”, Ward, D.M. PI (F.M. Cohan, J. Heidelberg, A. Grossman and D. Bhaya, co-Is), NSF Frontiers in Integrative Biology Program, 9-1-03-9-1-08, $4, 999, 690 ($1,004,465 to Ward and MSU).
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“Linking our origins to our future”, David DesMarais, PI (Ward is Co-I), NASA AMES Astrobiology Inst., 2003-2008, ($40,000 to Ward and MSU)
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“Molecular and geochemical analysis of hot spring cyanobacterial and Chloroflexus mats as stromatolite analogs”, Ward, D.M, PI (F.M. Cohan, J. Eisen, J. Heidelberg, M.T. Madigan and S. Schouten, co-Is), , NASA Exobiology, 5-03 to 5-07, $588,056 ($528,743 to Ward and MSU).
Current Instructional Responsibilities:
- LRES/MB 415 - Microbial Diversity, Ecology and Evolution
(Spring, even years)
- LRES/MB 515 - Microbial Ecology (Spring, odd years)
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