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K. Eric Wommack

Plant & Soil Science

Phone: (302) 831-4362

Email: wommack@dbi.udel.edu

Office: DE Biotechnology Institute DBI

• An environmental microbiologist, Wommack studies viruses, the most abundant biological entities on Earth. Particular focus is on the ecology of viruses in soil and marine environments.
• Has conducted expeditions to the deep sea hydrothermal vents. Work includes diving to depths of greater than 2 miles deep, where both temperatures and pressure are at high levels. Wommack analyzes microbes of vent environments through DNA sequences from samples collected during the dives.
• Is the first scientist ever to explore the ecology of viruses within soils using direct procedures that do not require isolation and cultivation of microorganisms.
• Founding co-editor of the journal Microbiome.
• Can also discuss microbes associated with the human vagina.

Curriculum Vitae:
http://www.udel.edu/experts/cvs/326586446-K_Eric_Wommack.pdf

Web Site:
http://www.dbi.udel.edu/People/wommack.html

Titles:
Professor, Plant and Soil Science
Professor, Biological Sciences
Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment

In The News:
Scientists to explore deep-sea vent viruses two miles under the ocean's surface (Daily Mail, U.K.)

UDaily Article:
UD researchers study viruses at deep-sea vents

Keywords:
microbiolgy, soil science, virus