Mary Lidstrom
American microbiologist
Mary E. Lidstrom is a professor of microbiology at the University of Washington. She also holds the Frank Jungers Chair of Engineering, in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She currently is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Bacteriology and FEMS Microbial Ecology.
Education
Lidstrom received a B.S. degree in microbiology from Oregon State University and an M.S. and PhD in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Research career
Lidstrom's work spans microbial physiology and natural complex microbial communities and has applications to biotechnology. Specifically, she has worked extensively on methylotroph bacteria that grow on one-carbon compounds.
After conducting her doctorate research on C-1 metabolism in Methylobacterium organophilum, Lidstrom undertook post-doctoral research at University of Sheffield UK with J. Rodney Quayle on species of the methylotrophic yeasts Hansenula and Candida, and then returned to the US with faculty posts at the University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the California Institute of Technology where she has taught courses on microbiology, oceanography, environmental engineering science, chemical engineering and bioengineering. While at Caltech she served as vice-chair of the Faculty. In 1996 she moved to University of Washington and has remained there.
Lidstrom is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences from 2013.
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