Bonnie Jo Bratina
Associate Professor
Year hired: Fall 1997
Education:
University of Wisconsin - River Falls, Biology
University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1981. B.S. Bacteriology
University of Minnesota, 1991. Ph.D. Microbiology
Postdoc: Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Department of
Microbiology, 1991-1992
Michigan State University, Department of Microbiology,
1992-1997.
Courses taught:
Microbes and Society (MIC100)
Fundamentals of Microbiology Lecture and Lab (MIC230)
Bacterial Diversity (MIC350)
Aquatic Microbial Ecology (MIC434/535)
Bacterial Physiology Lab (MIC425/525)
Bioinformatics (MIC440)
Biodegradation and Bioremediation (MIC730)
Changing the Culture, Women in Science (SAH 307)
Univeristy Wide Learning - Freshman Seminar (UWL 100)
Research Interests:
Microbial ecology - community diversity and interactions
Microbial interactions with the manganese biogeochemical cycle
Nitrification and denitrification in the Upper Mississippi River
Hobbies/Interests
Reading, Theater, Softball, Knitting, Cheering on the Packers and Badgers
Recent Publications:
Urbance, J.W., B. J. Bratina, S. F. Stoddard and T. M.
Schmidt. 2001. Taxonomic characterization of Ketogulonigenium
vulgare gen. nov., sp. nov. and Ketogulonigenium robustum sp.
nov., which oxidize L-sorbose to 2-keto-L-gulonic acid. Int J
Syst Evol Microbiol. 51: 1059-1070.
Bratina, B.J., B. Stevenson, W.J. Green, and T.M. Schmidt. 1998.
Manganese reduction by microbes from oxic regions of the Lake
Vanda (Antarctica) water column. Applied and Environmental
Microbiology. 64:3791-3797.
Bratina, B.J., M. Viebahn, and T.M. Schmidt. 1997. Achieving
specificity in nucleic acid hybridizations using Nuclease S1.
Methods Mol. Cell. Biol. 6:107-115