John Waterbury
Preferred Name: John B Waterbury
SCIENTIST EMERITUS
BIOLOGY
Email:
jwaterbury@whoi.edu
Phone: 508 289 2742
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mail Stop 51
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Website: https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/jwaterbury/
Education
B.A. University of Vermont, 1965, Zoology M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1971, Bacteriology Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1976, Bacteriology
Research Interests
Morphology, physiology, ecology, taxonomy, and molecular phylogeny of cyanobacteria, chemoautotrophic bacteria, aerobic nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and cellulolytic bacteria; symbiosis between bacterial species and between bacteria and eucaryotic organisms; ecology of cyanophages; mechanisms responsible for microzooflagellate feeding patterns.
