Peter Bottomley

Professor, Soil Microbiology
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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

L. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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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