Dr. Anthony Vito Palumbo

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Life Sciences and Environmental Technologies Directorate
Environmental Sciences Division
Group LeaderAppointed: 1987
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Mailing Address

Bldg. 1505, MS-6038
P.O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6038
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (865) 576-8002
Fax: (865) 576-0524
palumboav@ornl.gov
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/programs/microbes/

Qualifications

Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Marine Science, 1980.
M.S., North Carolina State University, Marine Science, 1976.
B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Biology, 1973.

Expertise and Research Interests

My research is focused on understanding the functioning of microbial communities in natural and contaminated environments, on bioremediation, and on carbon seqeustration.

The major thrust of my basic research program is on microbial heterogeneity and diversity in the subsurface. Applied research focuses on monitoring of in-situ bioremediation, degradation of TCE, genetically engineered bacteria, and U reduction.

The research methods used in my laboratory include monitoring of microbial populations using culture and direct counting methods and monitoring of degradation using radiolabel techniques and standard analytical methods (e.g., gas chromatography).Molecular methods (DNA probes, PCR, microarrays) are being used for monitoring of bacterial diversity, transport and survival. Lux technology, with genetically engineered bioreporter bacteria, is used in a variety of ways.

Other Expertise

Academic Experience:
Past or present Cooperative Research And Development Agreements (CRADAs) with:
National Center for Manufacturing Science
Envirogen

Ad hoc reviewer for:
USDOE proposals (SBIR, EPSCOR, In situ program, etc)
Sea Grant Proposals Water Resources Research Limnology
Oceanography Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
1st, 2nd, and 3rd International Symposiums on In situ and On-site Bioreclimation

Other:
Former Member of the USDOE Office of Technology Development Technology Support Group for Biotechnology
Former Member of Advisory Committee for the University of Tennessee Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Former Member of Ecology and Groundwater Committees of the Water and Environment Federation
Former member of Editorial Board for Ecotoxicology
Member of 1995 NSF Review Panel for SBIR's on Biological Instrumentation

Chairperson:
Co-Chair for 7th Conference on Small Genomes, Va., 1999
Co-Chair for ?Mechanisms Regulating Microbial Diversity andPopulation Dynamics? ASLO 99 Aquatic Sciences
Co-Chair/Organizer for the Symposium on Microbial Ecology at the VII International Congress of Ecology, July 1998
Symposium on Surfactants for Bioremediation at 1996 Society for Industrial Microbiology Meeting
Organizer/Chair for DOE/OHER Meeting ''Heterogeneity at Contaminated Sites,'' October, 1996
Symposium on Bioavailability and Biosurfactants at the 1994 Annual ASM Meeting
Workshop on Techniques for Bioremediation at the 1992 Annual ASM Meeting

Invited Participant in EPA Workshop ''Development of Ecological Tier Testing Schemes for Microbial Biotechnology Applications''

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural Waste Management, Bacteriology, Biodegradation, Bioluminescence, Biomarkers, Bioremediation, Biosensors, Cell Biology, DNA Replication, Dna Sequencing, Ecology, Ecotoxicity, Environmental Effects (Hydropower), Environmental Health, Environmental Site Use Studies, Food Safety, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Organic Geochemistry, Plant Genome, Radiation Effects.

Additional Terms:

Bacterial Transport, Bioaugmentation, Biodegradation, Biology, Bioluminescence, Biomarkers, Bioremediation, Biosensors, DNA Hybridization, Diversity, Ecology, Hazardous Waste, Methanotrophs, Methylotrophs, Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, PCR, Subsurface Microbiology.

Memberships

American Geophysical Union
American Society for Microbiology
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Society for Applied Microbiology

Honors and Awards

2002, Certificate of Appreciation, U.S. Department of Energy, Subsurface Contamination Focus Area.
2001, Merit Award for Online Communications, Society for Technical Communication
1998, Two Technical Communication Awards, Society for Technical Communication.
1996, Annual Scientific Achievement Award, Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL
1995, Two Royalty-Sharing Awards, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems.

Previous Positions

1983-1986, Research Associate, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
1981-1983, Research Associate, University of North Carolina
1979-1981, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1977-1979, Fisheries Biologist, National Marine Fisheries Service, Beaufort Laboratory

Patents

Biological Tracer Method - with Janet Strong, Patent Number: 5807697, , Institution-owned, United States of America.
Position sensitive radioactivity detector for gas and liquid chromatography., Patent Number: 6229146, , Institution-owned, United States.

Funding Received

  • United States Department of Energy (DOE), OTD: Adsorption/Desorption Relative to Bioremediation, October 1994 to September 1997.
  • United States Department of Energy (DOE), OTD: Arid Monitoring Microbial Population Changes, October 1993 to September 1995.
  • United States Department of Energy (DOE), OHER: Mobility of Microorganisms in a Sandy Aquifer, October 1992 to 1996.
  • United States Department of Energy (DOE), OTD: Integrated Demonstration of TCE Degrada. Monitoring, October 1991 to September 1994.
  • Office of Science, NABIR Program: Microbially induced P bioavailability: Effects on community ecology and U sequestration - A. Palumbo, P. Sobecky, and C. Zhang, Oct 1998 to Sep 2000.
  • Office of Science - NABIR program: Non-competitive microbial diversity patterns in soils: Their causes and implications for bioremediation - J. Tiedje, J. Zhou, A. Palumbo, R. O'Neil, Oct 1997 to Sep 2000.
  • U.S. DOE, FE-NETL: Enhancing Carbon Sequestration and Reclamation of Degraded Lands with Fossil-Fuel Combustion Byproducts, 1999 to 2003.
  • Office of Science, Marine Biotechnology Program: Linking process and population studies to understand the nitrogen loss mechanisms of Pacific Northwest marine sediments - J. Tiedje, J. Zhou, A. Devol, A. Massol-Deya, A. V. Palumbo, 1997 to 2000.
  • Subsurface contamination foucs area, EM 50: Intrinsic and Accelerated Bioremediation of DNAPL: Microbial Monitoring of Contaminated Sites - A. Palumbo, S. Pfiffner, 1996 to 2001.
  • DOE - OHER Subsurface Science Program: Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Microbial Populations, 1984 to 1997.

Publications

  • Stapleton, R.D., Z. L. Sabree, A. V. Palumbo, C. Moyer, A. Devol, Y. Roh, J-Z. Zhou, Metal Reduction At Cold Temperatures By Shewanella Isolates From Various Marine Environments, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 2005
  • Palumbo AV, Schryver JC, Fields MW, Bagwell CE, Zhou JZ, Yan T, Liu X, Brandt CC, Coupling of Functional Gene Diversity and Geochemical Data From Environmental Samples., Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70(11), 6525-34, Nov 2004 Abstract
  • Zhou J, Xia B, Huang H, Palumbo AV, Tiedje JM, Microbial Diversity and Heterogeneity in Sandy Subsurface Soils., Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70(3), 1723-34, Mar 2004 Abstract
  • Palumbo, A. V., S. Fisher, M. Martin, Z. Yang, J. Tarver, S. D. Wullschleger, Application of Emerging Tools and Techniques for Measuring Carbon and Microbial Communities in Reclaimed Mine Soils, Environmental Management, 33, S518-S527, 2004
  • Pfiffner, S. M, A. V. Palumbo, G. Sayles, Microbial Population and Degradation Activities Changes Monitored During Chlorinated Solvent Biovent Demonstration, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, 102 110., 24:, 102 110, 2004
  • Palumbo, A. V., W. L. Daniels, J. A. Burger, J. F. McCarthy, S. Wullschleger, J. E. Amonette, L. S. Fisher, Prospects for Enhancing Carbon Sequestration and Reclamation of Degraded Lands With Fossil-fuel Combustion Byproducts, Adv. Envir. Res, 8, 425-438, 2004
  • Liu X, Tiquia SM, Holguin G, Wu L, Nold SC, Devol AH, Luo K, Palumbo AV, Tiedje JM, Zhou J, Molecular Diversity of Denitrifying Genes in Continental Margin Sediments Within the Oxygen-deficient Zone Off the Pacific Coast Of Mexico., Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69(6), 3549-60, Jun 2003 Abstract
  • Zhou, J. Z, B. C. Xia, H. S. Huang, D. S. Treves, L. J. Hauser, R. J. Mural, A. V. Palumbo, J. M. Tiedje, Bacterial Phylogentic Diversity and a Novel Candidate Division of Two Humid Region, Sandy Surface Soils, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 35, 915-924, 2003
  • Martin, M. Z, S. D. Wullschleger, C. T. Garten, A. V. Palumbo, Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for the Environmental Determination of Total Carbon and Nitrogen in Soils, Appl. Optics., 42, 2072-2077, 2003
  • Phelps TJ, Palumbo AV, Beliaev AS, Metabolomics and microarrays for improved understanding of phenotypic characteristics controlled by both genomics and environmental constraints, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 13(1), 20-4, February 2002 Abstract
  • Powers. L.G., H. J. Mills, A. V. Palumbo, C. Zhang, K. Delaney, and P. A. Sobecky, Introduction of a plasmid-encoded phoA gene for constitutive overproduction of alkaline phosphatase in three subsurface Pseudomonas isolates, FEMS Microbiol Ecol 41:115-123., 41, 115-123., 2002
  • Zhou J, Xia B, Treves DS, Wu LY, Marsh TL, O'Neill RV, Palumbo AV, Tiedje JM, Spatial and resource factors influencing high microbial diversity in soil, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68(1), 326-34, January 2002 Abstract
  • Palumbo, A. V, J. Z. Zhou, C. Zhang, R. D. Stapleton, B. L. Kinsall, T. J. Phelps, Biotransformations and Biodegradation in Extreme Environments, Progress in Industrial Microbiology, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 36, 2002
  • Hurt RA, Qiu X, Wu L, Roh Y, Palumbo AV, Tiedje JM, Zhou J, Simultaneous recovery of RNA and DNA from soils and sediments, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 67(10), 4495-503, October 2001 Abstract
  • Qiu X, Wu L, Huang H, McDonel PE, Palumbo AV, Tiedje JM, Zhou J, Evaluation of PCR-generated chimeras, mutations, and heteroduplexes with 16S rRNA gene-based cloning, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 67(2), 880-7, February 2001 Abstract
  • Zhou J, Liu S, Xia B, Zhang C, Palumbo AV, Phelps TJ, Molecular characterization and diversity of thermophilic iron-reducing enrichment cultures from deep subsurface environments, Journal of Applied Microbiology, 90(1), 96-105, Jan 2001 Abstract
  • Sobecky, P, A.V. Palumbo, C.L. Zhang, L.G. Powers, Over Production of Bacterial Alkaline Phosphatase for Uranium Immobilization and Sequestration, Proceedings of in Situ and On-site Bioremediation. the Sixth International Conference., Columbus, Battle Press, 2001
  • Zhou J, Palumbo AV, Sequence to function: the 7th Conference on Small Genomes, Genetica, 108(1), vii-ix, 2000 Abstract
  • Cox, C.D, D. E. Nivens, S. Ripp, M. M. Wong, A. Palumbo, R. S. Burlage, G. S. Sayler, An Intermediate Scale Lysimeter Facility for Subsurface Bioremediation Research, Bioremediation J., 4, 69 79, 2000
  • Zhang, C., R. D. Stapleton, J. Zhou, A. V. Palumbo, and T. J. Phelps, Iron Reduction by Psychrotrophic Enrichment Cultures, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 30, 367-371, 1999
  • Gu, B., T. J. Phelps, L. Liang, M. J. Dickey, Y. Roh, B. L. Kinsall, A. V. Palumbo, and G. K. Jacobs, Biogeochemical interactions in zero-valent iron packed columns: Implications for the permeable reactive barriers, Environmental Science and Technology, 2170-2177, 1999
  • Palumbo, A. V., J-Z. Zhou, T. J. Phelps, B. Kinsall, C. Zhang, E. L. Majer, J. E. Peterson, T. Griffin, S. M. Pfiffner, Ecology and Bioremedia¬tion: a Staged Approach to Site Characterization, Proceedings of the 1998 National Conference on Environmental Remediation Science and Technology, Columbus, Battelle Press, 195-204, 1999
  • Zhang, C., A. V. Palumbo, T. J. Phelps, J. J. Beauchamp, F. J. Brockman, C. J. Murray, B. S. Parsons, and D. J. P. Swift, Grain-size and depth constraints on microbial variability in coastal plain subsurface sediments, Geomicrobiology, 171-185, 1998
  • Zhou J, Palumbo AV, Tiedje JM, Sensitive detection of a novel class of toluene-degrading denitrifiers, Azoarcus tolulyticus, with small-subunit rRNA primers and probes, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 63(6), 2384-90, June 1997 Abstract
  • Pfiffner S M, Palumbo A V, Phelps T J, Hazen T C, Effects of nutrient dosing on subsurface methanotrophic populations and trichloroethylene degradation., Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 18(2-3), 204-12, February 1997 Abstract
  • Strong-Gunderson, J. M. and A. V. Palumbo, Laboratory studies identify an innovative colloidal tracer: Implication to bioremediation, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 1997
  • Palumbo, A. V., P. J. Mulholland, and J. W. Elwood., Simultaneous measurement of periphyton production, chlorophyll, and ATP using DMSO extraction, Limnology and Oceanography, 32, 464-471, 1997
  • Palumbo, A. V, J. M. Strong Gunderson, S. Carroll, Retaining Enzyme Activity During Degradation of TCE By Methanotrophs, Appl. Biochem¬. and Biotech., 63-65, 789-796, 1997
  • Chapatwala K D, Babu G R, Vijaya O K, Armstead E, Palumbo A V, Zhang C, Phelps T J, Effect of temperature and yeast extract on microbial respiration of sediments from a shallow coastal subsurface and vadose zone, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 57-58, 827-835, April 1996 Abstract
  • Palumbo, A. V., S. P. Scarborough, C. Zhang, S. M. Pfiffner, and T. J. Phelps, Influence of media on measurement of bacterial populations, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 57-58, 905-914, 1996
  • Burlage, R. S., A. V. Palumbo, and J. F. McCarthy, Method efficiency and signal quantification of bacteria for a groundwater transport experiment, Bioaugmentation for Site Remediation, 139-148, 1995
  • Palumbo, A. V., S. P. Scarborough, S. M. Pfiffner, and T. J. Phelps, Influence of nitrogen and phosphorous on the in-situ bioremediation of trichloroethylene, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 55/56, 635-647, 1995
  • Strong-Gunderson JM, Palumbo AV, Alternative method for rapidly screening microbial isolates for their potential to degrade volatile contaminants, Journal of Industrial Microbiology, 13(6), 361-6, November 1994 Abstract
  • Palumbo A V, Lee S Y, Boerman P, The effect of media composition on EDTA degradation by Agrobacterium sp., Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 45-46, 811-22, 1 Apr 1994 Abstract
  • Phelps T J, Siegrist R L, Korte N E, Pickering D A, Strong-Gunderson J M, Palumbo A V, Walker J F, Morrissey C M, Mackowski R, Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil column lysimeters from Kwajalein island., Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 45-46, 835-45, 1 Apr 1994 Abstract
  • Cook R B, Elwood J W, Turner R R, Bogle M A, Mulholand P J, Palumbo A V, Acid-base chemistry of high-elevation streams in the great smoky mountains, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 72(1-4), 331-356, 1994
  • McCarthy, J. F., T. M. Williams, L. Liang, P. M. Jardine, L. W. Jolley, D. L. Taylor, A. V. Palumbo, and L. W. Cooper, Mobility of natural organic matter in a sandy aquifer, Environmental Science and Technology, 27, 667-676, 1993
  • Ryan-Baker M, Vo-Dinh Tuan, Griffin G D, Miller Gordon H, Alarie Jean P, Burlage R S, Palumbo A V, White Dennis C, Herbes S, Optical monitor for microbial metabolism for hazardous waste application, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1637, 196-207, 20 Jan 1992
  • Toran Laura, Palumbo A V, Colloid transport through fractured and unfractured laboratory sand columns, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 9(3), 289-303, 1992
  • Eng W, Palumbo AV, Sriharan S, Strandberg GW, Methanol suppression of trichloroethylene degradation by Methylosinus trichosporium (OB3b) and methane-oxidizing mixed cultures, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 28-29, 887-99, Spring 1991 Abstract
  • Steinman, A. D., P. J. Mulholland., A. V. Palumbo, T. F. Flum, E. J. Elwood, and D. L. DeAngelis, Resistance of lotic ecosystems to a light elimination disturbance, Oikos, 58, 80-90, 1990
  • DeAngelis, D. L., J. W. Elwood, P. J. Mulholland, A. D. Steinman, and A. V. Palumbo, Nutrient Cycling and Food Web Stability, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 20, 71-95, 1989
  • Little, C. D., A. V. Palumbo, S. E. Herbes, M. E. Lindstrom, R. L. Tyndall, and P. J. Gilmer., Trichloroethylene biodegradation by pure cultures of a methane-oxidizing bacterium, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 54, 951-956, 1988
  • Palumbo, A. V., F. K. Pfaender, and H. W. Paerl, NTA and m-cresol uptake in coastal environments, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 7, 573-585, 1988
  • Kimmel, B. L., D. M. Soballe, S. M. Adams, A. V. Palumbo, C. J. Ford, and M. S. Bevelhimer, Inter-reservoir interactions: Effects of a new reservoir on organic matter production and processing in a multiple-impoundment series, Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie, 23, 985-994., 1988
  • Palumbo, A. V., P. J. Mulholland, and J. W. Elwood., Microbial communities on leaf material protected from macroinvertabrate grazing in acidic and circumneutral streams, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 44, 1064-1070, 1987
  • Palumbo, A. V., M. A. Bogle, R. R. Turner, J. W. Elwood, and P. J. Mulholland, Bacterial communities in acidic and circumneutral streams, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 53, 337-344, 1987
  • Palumbo, A. V., P. J. Mulholland, and J. W. Elwoodmbo, A. V., P. J. Mulholland, and J. W. Elwood, Simultaneous measurement of periphyton production, chlorophyll, and ATP using DMSO extraction, Limnology and Oceanography, 32, 464-471, 1987
  • Mulholland, P. J., A. V. Palumbo, J. W. Elwood, and A. D. Rosemond, Effect of acidification on leaf decomposition in streams, Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 6, 147-158., 1987
  • Mulholland, P. J., J. W. Elwood A. V. Palumbo, and R. J. Stevenson., Effect of stream acidification on periphyton composition, chlorophyll, and productivity, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 44, 1846-1858, 1986
  • Ferguson RL, Buckley EN, Palumbo AV, Response of marine bacterioplankton to differential filtration and confinement, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 47(1), 49-55, January 1984 Abstract
  • Palumbo, A. V., R. L. Ferguson, and P. A. Rublee, Size of suspended bacterial cells and association of heterotrophic activity with size fractions of particles in estuarine and coastal waters, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 48, 157-164, 1984
  • Ortner, P. B., R. L. Ferguson, S. R. Piotrowicz, L. Chesal, G. Berberian, and A. V. Palumbo, Biological consequences of hydrographic and atmospheric advection within the Gulf Loop Intrusion, Deep-Sea Research, 31, 1101-1120, 1984
  • Palumbo, A. V., R. L. Ferguson, and P. A. Rublee., Efficient utilization of dissolved free amino acids by suspended marine bacteria, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 69, 257-266, 1983
  • Ferguson, R. L., and A. V. Palumbo, Distribution of suspended bacteria in neritic waters south of Long Island during stratified conditions, Limnology and Oceanography, 24, 697-705, 1979
  • Palumbo, A. V., and R. L. Ferguson, Distribution of suspended bacteria in the Newport River estuary, North Carolina, Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science, 7, 521-529, 1978

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