Born in rural south-central Illinois, Matthew Sattley obtained a bachelor's degree in Biology from Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. After completing a two-year postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, he served as a biology faculty member for two years at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas. He joined the Department of Biology at Indiana Wesleyan University as an associate professor in 2010.
INTERESTS
Dr. Sattley studies the ecology, physiology and genomics of extremophilic prokaryotic microorganisms. His current research projects include the genomic characterization and analysis of photosynthetic bacteria that thrive in hot, cold and alkaline environments, and the culture and characterization of cold-adapted, carbon- and sulfur-cycling bacteria from Antarctic lakes.
PHD
Microbiology
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
BA
Biology
Blackburn College
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
- Baker et al. (2019). Chemoorganotrophic bacteria from Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10:156.
- Renbarger et al. (2017). Slow and steady wins the race: An examination of bacterial persistence. AIMS Microbiology, 3(2), 171–185.
- Baker et al. (2017). Genome sequence of Rhodoferax antarcticus ANT.BRT. Microorganisms, 5(1):8.
- Madigan et al. (2017). Cold-active bacterium isolated from the South Pole “Ice Tunnel.” Extremophiles, 21, 891–901.
- Vander Schaaf et al. (2015). Cold-active, heterotrophic bacteria from Lake Vanda. Microorganisms, 3(3), 391–406.
- Sattley & Madigan (2010). Temperature and nutrient responses of Lake Fryxell sulfate-reducing prokaryotes. Extremophiles, 14, 357–366.
- Sattley & Blankenship (2010). Heliobacterial photosynthesis insights from the genome of H. modesticaldum. Photosynthesis Research, 104, 113–122.
- Sattley et al. (2008). Psychrosinus fermentans gen. nov., sp. nov. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 287, 121–127.
- Sattley et al. (2008). Genome of Heliobacterium modesticaldum. Journal of Bacteriology, 190, 4697–4696.
- Swingley et al. (2008). Genome expansion in Acaryochloris marina. PNAS, 105, 2005–2010.
- Sattley & Madigan (2007). Cold-active acetogenic bacteria from Lake Fryxell. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 272, 48–54.
- Sattley & Madigan (2006). Cold-active sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from Lake Fryxell. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72, 5562–5568.
- Karr et al. (2006). Archaea in Lake Fryxell. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72, 1663–1666.
- Karr et al. (2005). Sulfate-reducing bacteria in Lake Fryxell. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, 6353–6359.
- Madigan et al. (2003). Diversity of anoxygenic phototrophs. Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park.
- Karr et al. (2003). Diversity of phototrophic purple bacteria in a frozen Antarctic lake. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69, 4910–4914.
Book chapters:
- The Chlorobiaceae, Chloroflexaceae, and Heliobacteriaceae. In Modern Topics in the Phototrophic Prokaryotes (Springer, 2017).
- Energy conservation in heliobacteria. In The Structural Basis of Biological Energy Generation (Springer, 2014).
- Heliobacterial genome evolutionary implications. In Genome Evolution of Photosynthetic Bacteria (Elsevier, 2013).
- The Family Heliobacteriaceae. In The Prokaryotes (Springer, 2014).
- Microbiology. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Wiley, 2015).
Books:
- Brock Biology of Microorganisms, multiple editions (2008, 2014, 2017), Pearson.
