![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090507230549im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif)
Staff Directory
Matthew
D.
Kane
Program Responsibilities:
Ecosystem Science
Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles
(ETBC)
International Polar Year, 2007
Microbial Observatories (MO) and Microbial Interactions and Processes (MIP)
Science and Technology Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education
(C-MORE)
Biography:
Education and Professional Experience: B.S. in Biology University of Michigan (1982). Ph.D. in Microbiology, Michigan State University (1990). NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Univerisity of Illinois (1990-92). Research Associate in Biology, Harvard University (1992-94). Laboratory of Molecular Systematics, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution (1994-99). NSF Program Director (1999-present). NSF Programs and Activities Managed or Co-managed (1999-present): Ecosystem Science; Microbial Observatories and Microbial Interactions and Processes (MO/MIP); Microbial Genome Sequencing Program (MGSP); Science and Technology Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education (C-MORE); Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL); Environmental Genomics (EN-GEN); International Polar Year (IPY); Biocomplexity: Genome-Enabled Environmental Sciences & Engineering (BE:GEN-EN); Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Surveys & Inventories; Evolutionary Biology Synthesis Center Special Competition; Microbial Genetics/Prokaryotic Biology; Ecology of Infectious Disease; Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn; Interdisciplinary Graduate Education - Research and Training (IGERT). Representative Publications: Taylor, C. F., [and 53 other authors, including M.Kane]. 2008. Promoting coherent minimum reporting guidelines for biological and biomedical investigations: the MBBI project. Nature Biotechnol. 26: 1-8. Field, D., [and 53 other authors, including M. Kane]. Minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification. 2008. Nature Biotechnol. 26: 541-47. Hughes Martiny, J.B., B.J.M. Bohannan, J.H. Brown, R.K. Colwell, J. Fuhrman, J. Green, M. C. Horner-Devine, M. Kane, J.A. Krumings, C.R. Kuske, P. Morin, S. Naeem, L. Ovreas, A.-L. Reysenbach, V. Smith and J. Staley. 2006. Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map. Nature Rev. Microbiol. 4:102-112. Floyd, M. M., J. Tang, M. Kane and D. Emerson. 2005. Captured diversity in a culture collection: case study of the geographic and habitat distributions of environmental isolates held at the American Type Culture Collection. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71 : 2813-2823. Kane, M.D. 2004. Microbial observatories: exploring and discovering microbial diversity in the 21st century. Microb. Ecol. 48: 447-448. Donovan, S. E., K. J. Purdy, M. D. Kane, T. M. Embley, and P. Eggleton. 2004. Comparison of the euryarchaeal microbial community in guts and food-soil of the soil-feeding termite Cubitermes fungifaber across different soil types. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70:3884-3892. Kane. M. D. and U. Mueller. 2001. Insights from insect-microbe symbioses. In: J.T. Staley and A.-L. Reysenbach (eds.) Biodiversity of Microbial Life: Foundation of Earth's Biosphere; John Wiley & Sons, pp.289-313. Kane, M. D. 2001. The evolutionary biology of...everything. Syst. Biol. 50:468-469. Brauman, A., J. Dore, D. Bignell, P. Eggleton, J.A. Breznak and M.D. Kane. 2001. Molecular phylogenetic profiling of prokaryotic communities in guts of termites with different feeding habits. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 35: 27-36. Kane, M. D. 1997. Microbial fermentation in insect guts. In R. I. Mackie, and B. A. White (eds.) Ecology and Physiology of Gastrointestinal Microbes Vol. 1, Gastrointestinal Fermentations and Ecosystems pp. 231-265. Chapman and Hall, NY. Kane, M. D. and N. E. Pierce. 1994. Diversity within diversity: molecular approaches to studying microbial interactions with insects. In B. Schierwater, B. Streit, G. P. Wagner and R. DeSalle (eds.) Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications pp. 509-524. Berkhauser Verlag, Basel Brauman, A., M. D. Kane, M. Labat and J. A. Breznak. 1992. Genesis of acetate and methane by gut bacteria of nutritionally diverse termites. Science 257: 1384-1387.
|