Taxonomy, Genomics and Ecophysiology of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microbes

Terry J. McGenity is a Professor at the University of Essex, UK. His Ph.D., investigating the microbial ecology of ancient salt deposits (University of Leicester), was followed by postdoctoral positions at the Japan Marine Science and Technology Centre (JAMSTEC, Yokosuka) and the Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology (University of Reading). Terry’s overarching research interest is to understand how microbial communities function and interact to influence major biogeochemical processes. He worked as a postdoc with Ken Timmis at the University of Essex, where he was inspired to investigate microbial interactions with hydrocarbons at multiple scales, from communities to cells, and as both a source of food and stress. Terry has broad interests in microbial ecology and diversity, particularly with respect to carbon cycling (especially the second most abundantly produced hydrocarbon in the atmosphere, isoprene), and is driven to better understand how microbes copewith, or flourish, in hypersaline and poly-extreme environments.

• Prokaryotic Hydrocarbon Degraders.- Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Archaea.- Eukaryotic Hydrocarbon Degraders.- Aerobic Hydrocarbon-degrading Bacteroidetes.- Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Alphaproteobacteria: Rhodobacteraceae (Roseobacter).- Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Alphaproteobacteria: Sphingomonadales.- Hydrocarbon Degradation by Betaproteobacteria.- Marine, Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: Overview.- Aerobic Hydrocarbon-degrading Gammaproteobacteria - Oleiphilaceae .- Marine, Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: The Family Alcanivoracaceae.- Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: Porticoccus.- Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: Xanthomonadales.- Anaerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Deltaproteobacteria.- The Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria (Methanotrophs).- Facultative Methane Oxidizers.- Hormoconis resinae, The Kerosene Fungus.- Global Consequences of Ubiquitous Hydrocarbon Utilizers.- Occurrence and Roles of the Obligate Hydrocarbonoclastic Bacteria in the Ocean When There Is No Obvious Hydrocarbon Contamination.- Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microbes as Sources of New Biocatalysts.-