815 George Lynn Cross Hall
770 Van Vleet Oval
Norman, OK 73019
(405) 325-5970 (Office)
(405) 325-7619 (Lab)
Bradley.stevenson@ou.edu
B.A. Miami University (Oxford, OH), 1992
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1993-2000
Postdoc, Michigan State University, 2000-2003
Postdoc, Agouron Institute Geobiology Postdoctoral fellow, Michigan State University, 2003-2005
Research areas: Microbiology, Molecular and Cellular biology, Environmental Science, Ecology, Anaerobic Microbiology
Research interests:
Microbial life represents the overwhelming majority of biological diversity on our planet. Most microbially-driven processes are polymicrobial, meaning that they are the function of complex assemblages of organisms that compete, coexist, and cooperate. My research uses powerful molecular tools and cultivation-based approaches to study microbial assemblages, novel microorganisms, and their roles in decomposition of organic substrates, corrosion of metal surfaces, degradation of hydrocarbon, production of biofuels, and the production of secondary metabolites.
Relevant publications:
Beaton E.D., Stevenson B.S., King-Sharp K.J., Stamps B.W., Nunn H.S., and Stuart M. (2016) Local and Regional Diversity Reveals Dispersal Limitation and Drift as Drivers for Groundwater Bacterial Communities from a Fractured Granite Formation. Front. Microbiol. 7:19–16.
Motley J.L., Stamps B.W., Mitchell C.A., Thompson A.T., Cross J., You J., Powell D.R., Stevenson B.S., Cichewicz R.H. (2016) Opportunistic Sampling of Roadkill as an Entry Point to Accessing Natural Products Assembled by Bacteria Associated with Non-anthropoidal Mammalian Microbiomes. J. Nat. Prod. acs.jnatprod.6b00772.
Stamps B.W., Lyles C.N., Suflita J.M., Masoner J.R., Cozzarelli I.M., Kolpin D.W., Stevenson B.S. (2016) Municipal Solid Waste Landfills Harbor Distinct Microbiomes. Front. Microbiol 7:507–11.
Stevenson, B.S., Drilling, H.S., Lawson, P.A., Duncan, K.E., Parisi, V.A., Suflita, J.M. (2011) Microbial communities in bulk fluids and biofilms of a North Slope oil facility have similar composition but different structure. Environ. Microbiol. 13: 1078-1090.
Stevenson, B.S., Suflita, M.T., Stamps, B.W., Moore, E.R.B., Johnson, C.N., and P.A. Lawson. (2011) Hoeflea anabaenae sp. nov., an epiphytic symbiont that attaches to the heterocysts of a strain of Anabaena, Int. J Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 61: 2439-2444, http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/ijs.0.025353-0v1
Kaspari, M., Stevenson, B.S., Shik, J., and J. Kerekes. (2010) Scaling community structure: body size and the differentiation of bacteria, fungi, and ant taxocenes along a tropical forest floor. Ecology 91: 2221-2226.
Kaspari, M. and B.S. Stevenson. (2009) Evolutionary ecology, antibiosis, and all that rot. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 105: 10927-10928.
Behrens, S., Lösekann, T., Pett-Ridge, J., Weber, P.K., Ng, W.O., Stevenson, B.S., Hutcheon, I.D., Relman, D.A., and A.M. Spormann. (2008) Linking microbial phylogeny to metabolic activity at the single cell level using enhanced element labeling - catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization (EL-FISH) and NanoSIMS. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74: 3143-3150.
Stevenson, B.S. and J.B. Waterbury. (2006) Isolation and Identification of an Epibiotic Bacterium Associated with Heterocystous Anabaena Cells. Biol. Bull. 210: 73-77.
Stevenson, B.S., Eichorst, S.A., Wertz, J.T., Schmidt, T.M., and J.A. Breznak. (2004) New strategies for the cultivation and detection of previously uncultured microbes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 4748-4755.
