Lisa Moore
Professor of Biology
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
University of Southern Maine
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Moore joined the Biology Department at USM in 2000 after postdoctoral work at MIT. She is a microbial ecologist and a leading expert on Prochlorococcus, perhaps the most abundant life form on Earth. In 2015, she served as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Paulsen Laboratory at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University in Australia. Dr. Moore regularly teaches the first semester of the introductory biology sequence, which focuses on cell biology (BIO 105, 106), Microbiology (BIO 281, 311), and Microbiology lab (BIO 282). She also teaches Microbial Ecology (BIO 415/515, 416/516). In Spring 2016, Dr. Moore received the Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Scholarship.
Research Interest
Her overall research interests focus on microbial phenotypic trait characterization. she have carried out extensive research on the ecology and physiology of two genera of marine cyanobacterium which form a major component of the marine food web: Prochlorococcus, the world’s most abundant photosynthetic microbe, and Synechococcus, which is more ubiquitous throughout different oceanic regimes. her primary research has focused on examining the physiological response to various ecologically significant environmental parameters, such as light, temperature and nutrients, which has been useful in helping understand spatial distributions of these marine cyanobacteria. she is also interested in the composition and distribution of natural populations of marine cyanobacteria communities as well as other members of the marine microbial web, such as photosynthetic picoeukaryotic phytoplankton and bacterioplankton, associated with marine cyanobactera.she has just been funded to expand my culture-based research to include growth optimization studies of marine microalgae that have potential in producing bioproducts.
Publications
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Biller SJ, Berube PM, Berta-Thompson JW, Kelly L, Roggensack SE, Awad L, et al. Genomes of diverse isolates of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Scientific Data [Internet]. Springer Nature; 2014 Sep 30;1:140034.
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Berube PM, Biller SJ, Kent AG, Berta-Thompson JW, Roggensack SE, Roache-Johnson KH, et al. Physiology and evolution of nitrate acquisition in Prochlorococcus. The ISME Journal [Internet]. Springer Nature; 2014 Oct 28;9(5):1195–207.
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Blank CE, Cui H, Moore LR, Walls RL. MicrO: an ontology of phenotypic and metabolic characters, assays, and culture media found in prokaryotic taxonomic descriptions. Journal of Biomedical Semantics [Internet]. Springer Nature; 2016 Apr 12;7(1).
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Mao J, Moore LR, Blank CE, Wu EH-H, Ackerman M, Ranade S, et al. Microbial phenomics information extractor (MicroPIE): a natural language processing tool for the automated acquisition of prokaryotic phenotypic characters from text sources. BMC Bioinformatics [Internet]. Springer Nature; 2016 Dec;17(1).
