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Assistant Professor: University of Illinois at Springfield
Editorial Board: Microbial Ecology

TEACHING:

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Pace University
Assistant Director, Graduate Program in Environmental Science, Pace University
Assistnat Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of West Alabama
Co-academic Director, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Leadership Program for Teachers: Biology Insititue of Biodiversity, Princeton University (summer 1999)


Research:
Michael Lemke is an aquatic microbial ecologist specializing in bacterial population interactions in freshwater ecosystems. His current research incorporates a traditional ecological approach to investigation with molecular biology techniques to pursue questions about microbial processes in interface habitats (i.e., oxic-anoxic layers), bacterial and viral populations in streams, nutrient cycling with special emphasis on hydrophobic compounds, and decompositional processes in intermittent and floodplain aquatic habitats.

Recent scientific Publications:

Kuehn, K.A., M.J. Lemke, K. Suberkropp and R.G. Wetzel. 2000. Microbial biomass and production associated with decaying leaf litter of the emergent macrophyte Juncus effusus. Limnology and Oceanography. 45:862-870.

Lemke, J.J. and L.G. Leff. 1999. Bacterial populations in an anthropogenically disturbed stream: Comparison of different seasons. Microbial Ecology 38:234-243.

Leff, A.A., L.G. Leff, J.J. Lemke, R.T. Heath, and X. Gao. 1999. Abundance of viruses in Lake Erie and it relationship to selected biotic factors. Ohio Journal of Science 99:16-18.

Lemke, M.J., P. Churchill, and R.G. Wetzel. 1998. Humic acid interaction with extracellular layers of wetland bacteria. Verhandlungen International Verein. Limnologie 26:1621-1624.

Lemke, J.J. and S.H. Bowen. 1998. The nutritional value of organic detrital aggregate in the diet of fathead minnows. Freshwater biology 39:447-453.

Leff, L.G. and M.J. Lemke. 1998. Ecology of aquatic microbial populations: Lessons from applied microbiology. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 17:261-271.

Lemke, M.J., C.E. Wickstrom, and L.G. Leff. 1997. A preliminary study of the distribution of viruses and bacteria in lotic habitats. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 141:67-74

Leff, L.G., A.A. Leff, and M.J. Lemke. 1997. Seasonal changes in planktonic bacterial assemblages of two Ohio streams. Freshwater Biology 39:129-134.

Lemke, M.J., C.J. McNamara, and L.G. Leff. 1997. Comparison of methods for concentration of bacterioplankton for in situ hybridization. Journal of Microbiological Methods 29:23-29.

Lemke, M.J., B.J. Brown, and L.G. Leff 1997. The response of three bacterial populations to pollution in a stream. Microbial Ecology 34:224-231.

Lemke, M.J., P. Churchill, and R.G. Wetzel. 1995. The effect of substrate and cell surface hydrophobicity on phosphate utilization in bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60:913-919

Gimenez-Bonafe, P., M. Laszczak, H.E. Kasinsky, M.J. Lemke, J.D. Lewis, M. Iskandar, T. He, M.G. Ikonomou, F.M. White, D.F. Hunt, M. Chiva, and J. Ausio. 2000. Evolution of sperm nuclear basic proteins fromstickleback fish (suborder Gasterosteoidei). Journal of Molecular Evolution. Accepted.

Lemke, M.J., M. Chiva, B. Coyle, D. Kulak, M. MacKay, and H.E. Kasinsky. 1999. Variability of sperm nuclear basic proteins in the threespine stickleback and related species of Gasterosteoidei. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part B: Biochemistry & Molecular Bilogy. 122:339-353.

Professional Organization Memberships: American society for Microbiology, International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Ecological Society of America, North America Benthological
Society, International Society for Microbial Ecology, Illinois Lake Association