Peter Bottomley

Emeritus Professor, Soil Microbiology
peter.bottomley [at] oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-1844

Nash Hall

Nash Hall 348

2820 SW Campus Way

2820 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331

Current Work Focus: Research on various aspects of soil microbial ecology and microbial physiology including: nitrogen cycling in soils; population ecology of soil bacteria; physiology and ecology of nitrification; genomics of nitrifying bacteria.

Research Projects:

  • Niche differentiation of nitrification in soils.
  • Response and interaction between nitrifying bacteria to environmental change.

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At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Crop and Soil Science
Career Links: 
Department of Crop and Soil Science
Department of Microbiology
Do you accept grad students?: 
I accept graduate students for the Crop and Soil Science Department
Courses Taught: 
  • Microbial Ecology
  • General Microbiology
  • Biology of the Procaryotes
My Publications

2016

Journal Article

B. L. Mellbye, Giguere, A., Chaplen, F., Bottomley, P. J., and Sayavedra-Soto, L. A., “Steady-State Growth under Inorganic Carbon Limitation Conditions Increases Energy Consumption for Maintenance and Enhances Nitrous Oxide Production in Nitrosomonas europaea.”, Appl Environ Microbiol, vol. 82, no. 11, pp. 3310-8, 2016.

2015

Book Chapter

P. J. Bottomley and Myrold, D. D., “Biological nitrogen fixation: The return of N to the soil”, in Soil Microbiology, Ecology, and Biochemistry, 4thth ed., San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2015, pp. 447-470.

Journal Article

X. Lu, Bottomley, P. J., and Myrold, D. D., “Contributions of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria to nitrification in Oregon forest soils”, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 85, pp. 54 - 62, 2015.
A. E. Taylor, Taylor, K., Tennigkeit, B., Palatinszky, M., Stieglmeier, M., Myrold, D. D., Schleper, C., Wagner, M., and Bottomley, P. J., “Inhibitory Effects of C2 to C10 1-Alkynes on Ammonia Oxidation in Two Nitrososphaera Species”, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 81, no. 6, pp. 1942 - 1948, 2015.
J. Pérez, Buchanan, A., Mellbye, B., Ferrell, R., Chang, J. H., Chaplen, F., Bottomley, P. J., Arp, D. J., and Sayavedra-Soto, L. A., “Interactions of Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrobacter winogradskyi grown in co-culture”, Archives of Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 79 - 89, 2015.
J. Pérez, Buchanan, A., Mellbye, B., Ferrell, R., Chang, J. H., Chaplen, F., Bottomley, P. J., Arp, D. J., and Sayavedra-Soto, L. A., “Interactions of Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrobacter winogradskyi grown in co-culture”, Archives of Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 79 - 89, 2015.
J. Pérez, Buchanan, A., Mellbye, B., Ferrell, R., Chang, J. H., Chaplen, F., Bottomley, P. J., Arp, D. J., and Sayavedra-Soto, L. A., “Interactions of Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrobacter winogradskyi grown in co-culture.”, Arch Microbiol, vol. 197, no. 1, pp. 79-89, 2015.
A. T. Giguere, Taylor, A. E., Myrold, D. D., and Bottomley, P. J., “Nitrification Responses of Soil Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria to Ammonium Concentrations”, Soil Science Society of America Journal, vol. 79, no. 5, p. 1366, 2015.
L. A. Sayavedra-Soto, Ferrell, R., Dobie, M., Mellbye, B., Chaplen, F., Buchanan, A., Chang, J. H., Bottomley, P. J., and Arp, D. J., “Nitrobacter winogradskyi transcriptomic response to low and high ammonium concentrations.”, FEMS Microbiol Lett, vol. 362, no. 3, pp. 1-7, 2015.

2014

Conference Paper

F. Chaplen, Pérez, J., Bottomley, P. J., Buchanan, A., Murthy, G. Suryanaray, Chang, J. H., and Sayavedra-Soto, L. A., “Elucidating the coupled dynamics of the nitrifying bacteria Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrobacter winogradskyi grown in chemostat co-culture”, in ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2014.

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