Peter Bottomley | College of Agricultural Sciences

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Emeritus Appointment
peter.bottomley [at] oregonstate.edu

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.

At OSU

Affiliated with:

Microbiology (Science)

Career Links:

Department of Crop and Soil Science

Department of Microbiology

Courses Taught:

Microbial Ecology
General Microbiology
Biology of the Procaryotes

Professional Accomplishments

Employment:

1989-Present	Professor of Microbiology and Professor of Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2003-2004	Professor and Acting Chair/Head, Department of Microbiology, and Professor of Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2001-2003	Professor and Associate Chair/Head of Microbiology, and Professor of Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1984-1989	Associate Professor of Microbiology and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

Education:

1975	PhD	Biological Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, U.K.
1972	BSc.	with Honors, Biochemistry, University of Liverpool, England, U.K
1971	BSc.	Chemistry, University of Liverpool, England, U.K

My Awards

Honors and Awards:

Soil Science Research Award, 2007. Soil Science Society of America.
Inaugural Recipient of Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award, 2006, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Fellow, Soil Science Society of America, 1999.
Carter Award Finalist for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1997College of Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

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. W. R. Chaplen, Pérez, J., Bottomley, P. J., Buchanan, A., Murthy, G. S., 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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