UMass Sesquicentennial

Steven Goodwin

Professor & Dean, College of Natural Sciences

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Phone:

413-545-2766

Ph.D.: 

Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, 1986

Mailing address: 

Steven D. Goodwin, Dean
College of Natural Sciences
Stockbridge Hall
University of Massachusetts
80 Campus Center Way
Amherst, MA 01003

Research Interests

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

Deangelis KM, D'haeseleer P, Chivian D, Fortney JL, Khudyakov J, Simmons B, Woo H, Arkin AP, Davenport K W, Goodwin L et al..  2011.  Complete genome sequence of "Enterobacter lignolyticus" SCF1.. Stand Genomic Sci. 5(1):69-85.
Zhang S, Kolvek S, Goodwin S, Lenz RW.  2004.  Poly(hydroxyalkanoic acid) Biosynthesis in Ectothiorhodospirashaposhnikovii: Characterization and Reactivity of a Type III PHA Synthase.. Biomacromolecules. 5(1):40-8.
Zhang S, Kolvek S, Lenz RW, Goodwin S.  2003.  Mechanism of the polymerization reaction initiated and catalyzed by the polyhydroxybutyrate synthase of Ralstonia eutropha.. Biomacromolecules. 4(3):504-9.
Zhang S, Kamachi M, Takagi Y, Lenz RW, Goodwin S.  2001.  Comparative study of the relationship between monomer structure and reactivity for two polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases.. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 56(1-2):131-6.
Scherer TM, Fuller RC, Goodwin S, Lenz RW.  2000.  Enzymatic hydrolysis of oligomeric models of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate.. Biomacromolecules. 1(4):577-83.
Zhang S, Yasuo T, Lenz RW, Goodwin S.  2000.  Kinetic and mechanistic characterization of the polyhydroxybutyrate synthase from Ralstonia eutropha.. Biomacromolecules. 1(2):244-51.
Rothermich MM, Guerrero R, Lenz RW, Goodwin S.  2000.  Characterization, seasonal occurrence, and diel fluctuation of poly(hydroxyalkanoate) in photosynthetic microbial mats.. Appl Environ Microbiol. 66(10):4279-91.
Duval B, Goodwin S.  2000.  Methane production and release from two New England peatlands.. Int Microbiol. 3(2):89-95.
Song JJ, Zhang S, Lenz RW, Goodwin S.  2000.  In vitro polymerization and copolymerization of 3-hydroxypropionyl-CoA with the PHB synthase from Ralstonia eutropha.. Biomacromolecules. 1(3):433-9.
Quinteros R, Goodwin S, Lenz RW, Park WH.  1999.  Extracellular degradation of medium chain length poly(beta-hydroxyalkanoates) by Comamonas sp.. Int J Biol Macromol. 25(1-3):135-43.
Lenz RW, Farcet C, Dijkstra PJ, Goodwin S, Zhang S.  1999.  Extracellular polymerization of 3-hydroxyalkanoate monomers with the polymerase of Alcaligenes eutrophus.. Int J Biol Macromol. 25(1-3):55-60.
Lovley DR, Giovannoni SJ, White DC, Champine JE, Phillips EJ, Gorby YA, Goodwin S.  1993.  Geobacter metallireducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a microorganism capable of coupling the complete oxidation of organic compounds to the reduction of iron and other metals.. Arch Microbiol. 159(4):336-44.
Giraldo-Gomez E, Goodwin S, Switzenbaum MS.  1992.  Influence of mass transfer limitations on determination of the half saturation constant for hydrogen uptake in a mixed-culture CH(4)-producing enrichment.. Biotechnol Bioeng. 40(7):768-76.
Champine JE, Goodwin S.  1991.  Acetate catabolism in the dissimilatory iron-reducing isolate GS-15.. J Bacteriol. 173(8):2704-6.
Research interests - short: 

Ecology and Physiology of Microorganisms in Anaerobic Ecosystems