Thomas Wood

Professor
T. Michael O’Connor II Chair

Research Page

Telephone: (979) 862-1588
Fax Number: (979) 845-6446
E-mail: thomas.wood@che.tamu.edu

Mailing Address...
220 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building
3122 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3122

Education

Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1991
B.S., University of Kentucky, 1985

Awards & Honors

American Chemical Society Upstream Symposium Keynote Address (2008)
Five quorum sensing/biofilm papers identified by Faculty of 1000 (2005-2008)
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biochemical Engineering Plenary Award, 2007
Founding editorial board member of Microbial Biotechnology, 2007
T. Michael O’Connor II Chair, 2005
UConn campus-wide Research Excellence Award, 2005
UConn Northeast Utilities Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering Education, 2004
Editorial Board, Applied and Environmental Biotechnology, 2003-2008
UConn School of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2000
UConn Rogers Outstanding Teaching Award in Chemical Engineering, 2000
U of CA, Irvine Campuswide Faculty Career Development Award, 1996
U of CA, Irvine Department Outstanding Professor Award, 1996
U of CA, Irvine Engineering Outstanding Assistant Professor Award, 1994
U.S. Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 1992
National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1992

Research Interests

Dr. Wood’s research interests lie in metabolic engineering and protein engineering. Specifically, his interests include evolving bidirectional hydrogenases for hydrogen production; discovering the genetic basis of biofilm formation and of biofilm inhibitors; evolving oxygenases for bioremediation and green chemical synthesis; and metabolic engineering of bacteria for the degradation of chlorinated ethenes and other pollutants.

Selected Publications

"Control and benefits of CP4-57 prophage excision in Escherichia coli biofilms," X. Wang, Y. Kim, and T. K. Wood, Nature ISME Journal, online (2009).

"Indole cell signaling occurs primarily at low temperatures in Escherichia coli," J. Lee, X.-S. Zhang, M. Hegde, W. E. Bentley, A. Jayaraman, and T. K. Wood, Nature ISME Journal 2:1007-1023 (2008).

"Escherichia coli transcription factor YncC (McbR) regulates colanic acid and biofilm formation by repressing expression of periplasmic protein YbiM (McbA)," X.-S. Zhang, R. Garcia Contreras, and T. K. Wood, Nature ISME Journal 2: 615-631 (2008).

“A Stochastic Model of E. coli AI-2 Quorum Signal Circuit Reveals Alternative Synthesis Pathways," J. Li, L. Wang, Y. Hashimoto, C.-H. Tsao, T. K. Wood, J. J. Valdez, E. Zafiriou, W. E. Bentley, Nature/EMBO Molecular Systems Biology 2:67 (2006).

"Aerobic Degradation of Tetrachloroethylene by Toluene-o-Xylene Monooxygenase of Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1," D. Ryoo, H. Shim, P. Barbieri, and T. K. Wood, Nature Biotechnology 18: 775-778 (2000).


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