FULL
CURRICULUM VITAE
Institution |
Years attended |
Degree |
Major field
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University of California, Berkeley, CA. |
1991-1993 |
B.A. |
Environmental Science/Microbiology |
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University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
1993-1998 |
Ph.D |
Environmental, Population and Organismal Biology |
Title of Dissertation: Plant-Microbe Interactions and Organic Nitrogen Availability in an Alpine Dry Meadow
APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University (8/01-present)
Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado (1/99-7/01)
TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS
Designed Microbial Ecology Lecture.
Designed laboratory section for Microbial Ecology course
Assisted in developing new field biology course: Sustainability of Coastal Ecosystems, La Paz, Mexico Jan 2003, March 2004.
Designed Graduate Seminar in Soil Science
Participated in teaching of Biology 210, 350, 354 courses
Numerous
guest lectures for SDSU and UCSD classes
Students Mentored
(*- thesis chair, §- undergraduate researcher, - Master student, - Doctoral student)
Roshan Ashoor§, Ahmet Aydogan,
Michelle Blair§, Francis Bozzolo*, Mya Breitbart,
Veronica Casas,, Yufu Cheng, Alex Christensen,
Laura Dane*, Heather Elledge§, Susana El Souki*,
Julie Feuerhelm§, Karina Fidler, Janet Garcia§,
Glen Kinoshita, Ross Lenta§, Gwynne Lloyd*,
Hongyan Luo, Edwin Manuel§, Pat McNairnie,
Yonghai Qian, Mabel Salarda§, Spring Strahm,
Shingo Tsuji§, Richard Wilson*, Monica Winters§
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
Publications In Peer-Reviewed Journals and Books
(§- SDSU undergraduate researcher, - SDSU Masters student)
(See table at end of CV for Journal Impact Factors)
MonsonΔ R.K., LipsonΔ D.A., Burns S.P., Turnipseed A.A., Delany A., Williams M.W., Schmidt S.K. (2006) High sensitivity to climate in the early-spring carbon cycle of a forest ecosystem. Nature (in press) (Δ-these two authors contributed equally)
Lipson D.A., Wilson R.A., Oechel W.C. Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on soil microbial biomass, activity and diversity in a chaparral ecosystem. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71:8573-8580
Lipson D.A., Blair§ M., Grieve K., Barron-Gafford G., Murthy R. Relationships between microbial community structure and soil processes under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. Microbial Ecology (in press)
Barron-Gafford G., Martens D., Grieve K., McLain J.E., Lipson D., Murthy R. (2005) Growth of Eastern Cottonwoods (Populus deltoides) in elevated CO2 stimulates stand-level respiration and rhizodeposition of carbohydrates, accelerates soil nutrient depletion, yet stimulates above and belowground biomass production. Global Change Biology 11:1220-1233
Lipson, D.A., and Schmidt, S.K. (2004) Seasonal Changes in an Alpine Soil Bacterial Community. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70: 2867-2879
Meyer, A.F., Lipson, D.A., Martin, A.P., Schadt, C.W., and Schmidt, S.K. (2004) Molecular and Metabolic Characterization of Cold Tolerant, Alpine Soil Pseudomonas, sensu stricto. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:483-489
Schmidt, S.K. and Lipson, D.A. (2004) Microbial growth under the snow: Implications for nutrient and allelochemical availability in temperate soils Plant and Soil 259:1-7.
Schmidt, S.K., Lipson, D.A., Ley, R.E., Fisk, M.C. and West, A.E. (2004) Impacts of chronic nitrogen additions vary seasonally and by microbial functional group in tundra soils. Biogeochemistry 69:1-17.
Schadt, C.W., Martin, A.P., Lipson, D.A., Schmidt, S.K. (2003) Seasonal Dynamics of Previously Unknown Fungal Lineages in Tundra Soils. Science 301: 1359-1361
Lipson, D.A., Schadt, C.W., Schmidt, S.K. (2002) Changes in microbial community structure and function following snow melt in an alpine soil. Microbial Ecology 43:307-314
Lipson, D.A., and Schmidt, S.K. (2002) Kinetics of Microbial Processes and Population Growth in Soil. In: (Gabriel Bitton, Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology, Wiley and Sons, NY
Lipson D.A., Schmidt S.K. (2002) Kinetics of Microbial Processes and Population Growth in Soil. In: (Gabriel Bitton, Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Agrochemicals, Wiley and Sons, NY
Ley, R.E., Lipson, D.A., Schmidt, S.K. (2001) Microbial biomass levels in barren and vegetated high altitude talus soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65:111-117
Lipson, D.A. and Nδsholm, T. (2001) The unexpected versatility of plants: organic N use and availability in terrestrial ecosystems. Oecologia 128:305-316
Lipson, D.A., Raab, T.K., Schmidt, S.K., and Monson, R.K. (2001) An empirical model of amino acid transformations in an alpine soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33:189-198
Lipson, D.A., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (2000) Carbon availability and temperature control the post-snowmelt decline of microbial biomass in an alpine soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32(4):441-448
Schmidt, S.K., Lipson, D.A. and Raab, T.K. (2000) The effect of willows (Salix brachycarpa) on populations of salicylate-mineralizing microorganisms in alpine soils. Journal of Chemical Ecology 26:2049-2057
Lipson, D.A., Raab, T.K., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Variation in competitive abilities of plants and microbes for specific amino acids. Biology and Fertility of Soils 29:257-261.
Lipson, D.A., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Links between microbial population dynamics and N availability in an alpine ecosystem. Ecology 80:1623-1631
Lipson, D.A., Schadt, C.W., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Ectomycorrhizal transfer of amino acid N to the alpine sedge, Kobresia myosuroides. New Phytologist 142:163-167
Raab, T.K., Lipson, D.A. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Soil amino acid utilization among species of the Cyperaceae: plant and soil processes, Ecology 80:2408-2419
Lipson, D.A. and Monson, R.K (1998) Plant-microbe competition for soil amino acids in the alpine tundra: effects of freeze-thaw and dry-rewet events. Oecologia 113:406-414
Lipson, D.A., Bowman, W.D. and Monson, R.K. (1996) Luxury uptake and storage of N in the rhizomatous alpine herb, Bistorta bistortoides. Ecology 77:1277-1285
Lipson, D.A., Raab, T.K. and Monson, R.K. (1996) d-Acetylornithine as a major nitrogen storgage compound in Bistorta bistortoides. Phytochemistry 41:29-30
Raab, T.K., Lipson, D.A. and Monson, R.K. (1996) Non-mycorrhizal uptake of amino acids by roots of the alpine sedge Kobresia myosuroides: implications for the alpine nitrogen cycle. Oecologia 108:488-494
(§- SDSU undergraduate researcher, - SDSU Masters student)
Dane L, Lipson D, (2004) Heterotrophic activity in cryptobiotic soil crusts of varying succesional stages. (poster) Ecological Society of America, Portland, Or.
Lipson D, Wilson R, Oechel W (2004) Elevated atmospheric CO2 increases soil microbial biomass and activity but does not alter bacterial diversity in a chaparral ecosystem. Ecological Society of America, Portland, Or.
Strahm S, Lipson D, Deutschman D (2004) Competition, invasion and small spatial pattern in California coastal sage scrub, Ecological Society of America, Portland, Or.
Wilson R, Lipson D, (2004) Plant species and soil properties control bacterial diversity in California chaparral. (oral presentation) Ecological Society of America, Portland, Or.
Dane L, Lipson D, Strahm S, Wilson R, Murthy R, Barron-Gafford G, (2003) Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on soil microbes in the Intensive Forestry Biome of Biosphere2. (oral presentation) Ecological Society of America, Atlanta, Ga.
Lipson D, Schmidt S, (2003) Seasonal
changes in an alpine soil bacterial community in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
(poster) American Society of Microbiology, Washington D.C.
Schadt C, Lipson D (2003) Novel fungal lineages and rapid seasonal shifts of fungal communities detected in alpine tundra soils. American Society of Microbiology, Washington D.C.
Wilson R, Lipson D, (2003) Diversity of general bacterial and free-living N-fixing communities from natural chaparral and live oak woodland sites. (poster) American Society of Microbiology, Washington D.C.
Winters§ W, Lipson D, (2003) The effects of an invasive plant community on the coastal sage scrub soil microbial community. (poster) Ecological Society of America, Atlanta, Ga.
Winters§ W, Lipson D, (2003) The effects of an invasive plant community on the coastal sage scrub soil microbial community. (poster) Soil Ecology Society, Palm Springs, Ca.
Lipson D (2002) Effects of seasonal microbial biomass and community dynamics on organic N availability and plant-microbe competition. (oral symposium) Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Az.
Columbia University. Effects of elevated CO2 on microbial diversity at Biosphere 2. (PI) $21,900. 7/1/02-6/30/04
NSF DBI (Instrumentation and Instrument Development) Spectroscopic Instrumentation for San Diego State University Ecology Programs. (Co-PI). $174,198. 3/1/03-2/28/05.
NSF DBI (Major Research Instrumentation) Acquisition of a Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) for SDSU Biology Department. (Co-PI) $325,097. 9/1/04-8/31/07.
NSF EAR (BE: Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles) Biocomplexity Associated With the Response of Tundra Carbon Balance to Warming and Drying Across Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales. (Co-investigator) total award: $2,000,000. subcontract to Lipson: ~$90,000, 9/01/04-8/31/08.
Pending: NSF MCB (Microbial Observatories and Microbial Interactions and Processes) Microbial diversity and flows of C and N in cryptobiotic soil crusts of California and Baja California. (PI) $307,546. 03/01/06-02/29/09
Volume Editor for Manual of Environmental Microbiogy, 3rd edition.
Reviewed grant proposals for CSUPERB, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Northern European Research Council.
Reviewed manuscripts for Ecology, Ecosystems, Global Change Biology, Journal of Arctic, Alpine and Polar Research, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Mammology, Oecologia, Plant and Soil, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Soil Science Society Journal of America, Tree Physiology.
Reviewed microbiology and ecology textbooks for McGraw Hill.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar committee
Ecology Analytical Laboratory Committee
Joint Doctoral Program in Ecology (JDPE) Admissions Committee
CSU Student Research Competition Committee
Multi-user Equipment proposals co-authored:
NSF DBI, Controlled Environmental Research Instrumentation at San Diego State University, $275,013, 7/1/05-6/30/08 (not funded, will resubmit)
NSF DBI, Acquisition of a Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) for SDSU Biology Department, $325,097, 9/1/04-8/31/07
NSF DBI, Spectroscopic Instrumentation for San Diego State University Ecology Programs, $174,198, 4/1/03-3/31/06
Platt Middle School, Boulder CO. Spring 2001.
San Diego Microbiology Group, Oct 17, 2001.
SDSU CMB Colloquium, Oct 25, 2001
La Paz Workshop on Global Change Impacts on the Californias, March 1-2, 2002, La Paz, Mexico.
Ecological Society of America, Symposium on Linking Aboveground and Belowground Interactions: Emerging Perspectives on the Feedbacks Between Plant and Soil Communities" Aug 5, 2002, Tuscon AZ.
Guest Lectures, SDSU, Biology 350, General Microbiology, 2002, 2004.
Guest Lecture, SDSU, Biology 210, Fundamentals of Microbiology, 2004.
Biosphere2 Center, soils workshop, Oct 3-4, 2002, Oracle AZ.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Ecology Luncheon Seminar, Oct 9, 2002, La Jolla CA.
Microbiology Group Meeting, Nov 14, 2002, UC Berkeley.
UCSD PREP (Population Reduction and Ecological Preservation) club Fall 2003
Guest lecture, CICESE (Ensenada, Mexico), Ecology Department, Fall 2004
Guest lectures, UCSD, Integrative Microbiology, Spring 2004, 2005
Guest lectures, UCSD, Human Impacts on the Environment, Spring 2004, 2005
Microbial Ecology Journal Club, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Spring 2005.
Invited symposium at International Conference on Alpine and Polar Microbiology, to be held in Inssbruck, Austria, March 2006.
Mentored science fair projects for two Platt Middle School (Boulder CO) students. 2000-2001.
Mentored science fair project for Torry Eagle, Lewis Middle School. Spring 2002. (1st Place in Microbiology category, Lewis Middle School)
Future Aztecs Day This is an event designed to recruit future college students into the Biology department. I directed visiting high school students to teaching displays, and discussed teaching and research of biology at SDSU with them.
Volunteer activities in B.C. Mexico: Construction of schools in Colonia Esperanza, Tijuana; Participated in Dot-to-Dot Summer Sharing 2003 (Convivio de Verano), an art fair for children in Rosarito. Assisted in teaching art class for children, Spring 2004.
Assisted Friends of Famosa Slough with soil and water analysis, Fall 2005.