Steve Goodwin

Professor
Associate Dean, College of Natural Resources and the Environment

Phone: 413-545-4204
Fax: 413-545-1977
Email: sgoodwin@nre.umass.edu
Mailing address

Ph.D.: Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, 1986

Ecology and Physiology of Microorganisms in Anaerobic Ecosystems

My research interests include microbial synthesis and degradation of biopolymers, microbial ecology, anaerobic digestion and bioremediation, bioenergetics of microbial growth in extreme environments, microbiology and redox chemistry in groundwater, microbiology of solid waste disposal, compost microbiology and spore formation.

Selected Publications

Su, L., R. W. Lenz, Y. Takagi, S. Zhang, S. Goodwin L. Zhong, and D. P. Martin. 2000. Enzymatic polymerization of [R]-3-hydroxyalkanoates by a bacterial polymerase. Macromolecules 33:229-231.

Duval, B. and S. Goodwin. 2000. Methane production and release from two New England peatlands. Int. Microbiol. 3:89-95.

Champine, J.E., B. Underhill, J. M. Johnston, W. W. Lilly, and S. Goodwin. 2000. Electron transfer in the dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium Geobacter metallireducens. Anaerobe 6:187-196.

Zhang, S., T. Yasuo, R. W. Lenz, and S. Goodwin. 2000. Kinetic and mechanistic characterization of the polyhydroxybutyrate synthase from Ralstonia eutropha. Biomacromol. 1:244-251.Rothermich, M., R. Guerrero, S. Goodwin. 2000. Characterization, seasonal occurrence, and diel fluctuation of poly(hydroxyalkanoate) in photosynthetic microbial mats. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66:4279-4291.

Song, J. J., S. Zhang, S. Goodwin, and R. W. Lenz. 2000. In vitro polymerization and copolymerization of 3-hydroxypropionyl-CoA with the PHB synthase from Ralstonia eutropha. Biomacromol. 1:433-439.

Scherer, T. M., M. R. Rothermich, R. Quinteros, M. T. Poch, R. W. Lenz, and S. Goodwin. 2000. Broad-based screening of polymer biodegradability. In: C. Scholz and R. A. Gross (eds.), Polymers from Renewable Resources, pp. 254-280, ACS Symposium Series 764, American Chemical Society, Washington D.C..

Farrell R. E., Adamczyk T. J., Broe D. C., Lee J. S., Briggs B. L., Gross R. A., McCarthy S. P., Goodwin S. 2001. Biodegradable bags comparative performance study: a multi-tiered approach to evaluating the compostability of plastic materials. In: Gross R. A., Schultz C. (eds.) BioPolymers from Polysaccharides and Agroproteins. ACS Symposium Series 786, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. pp 337-375.

Zhang, S., M. Kamachi, Y. Takagi, R. W. Lenz, and S. Goodwin. 2001. Comparative study of the relationship between monomer structure and reactivity for two poly(hydroxyalkanoate) synthases. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 56:131-136.

Kamachi M, Zhang, S., Goodwin S, Lenz RW. 2001. Enzymatic polymerization and characterization of new poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) by a bacterial polymerase. Macromol. 34: 6889-6894.

Zhang, S., R. W. Lenz, and S. Goodwin. 2002. In vitro biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates. In: A. Steinbüchel, Y. Doi (eds.), Biopolymers. Wiley-VCH.

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