William Hickey
PROFESSOR
Department of soil science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States of America
Biography
Professor William Hickey pursued his B.A. in Biology, 1982, State University of New York and his M.S. in, Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry, 1986, Iowa State University further he did his Ph.D.in Soil Science, 1990, University of California, Riverside He also holds Awards and Honors such as- 1994 Young Investigator Award. US Dept. Agriculture His Selected Publications are- “Simultaneous analysis of bacterioferritin gene expression and intracellular iron status in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 by using a rapid dual luciferase reporter assay.” “Nucleotide sequence, organization and characterization of the chlorobenzoic acids catabolic plasmid pA81 from Achromobacter xylosoxidans A8.” “The genome sequence of the chemolithoautotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium Nitrobacter winogradskyi Nb-255
Research Interest
Molecular mechanisms by which bacteria extract iron from clay minerals