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Mark
Mark Radosevich   Ph.D.
Professor

Office: 132 BIO
Phone: (865) 974-7266
Email: mrad@utk.edu
    Specialty: Soil microbiology & biochemistry

    Educational & Research Programs:
    • Biodegradation; Bioavailability of nutrients and contaminants; Ecology of soil bacteriophage
    Courses:
    • ESS 516 Soil Biology and Biochemistry
    • ESS 355 Environmental Soil Biology

Recent selected publications

Ghosh, D., K. Roy, V. Srinivasan, T. Mueller, O.H. Tuovinen, A. Peacock, K. Sublette, and M. Radosevich.  2009.  In-situ enrichment and analysis of atrazine-degrading microbial communities using atrazine-containing porous beads.  Soil Biol. Biochem. 2009, 41:6, 1331-1334.

Ghosh, D., K. Roy, D.C. White, K.E. Wommack, K. Sublette, and M. Radosevich.  2008.  Prevalence of Lysogeny among Soil Bacteria and Presence of 16S rRNA and trzN Genes in Viral-Community DNA.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008, 74:2, p. 495-502.

K.E. Williamson, J.B. Schnitker, M. Radosevich, D.W. Smith, and K.E. Wommack.  2008.  Cultivation-Based Assessment of Lysogeny Among Soil Bacteria.  Microb. Ecol. 56:437-44.

K.E. Williamson, M. Radosevich, D.W. Smith, and K.E. Wommack.  2007.  Incidence of lysogeny within temperate and extreme soil environments.  Environ. Microbiol. 9:2563-2574.

S.R. Bench, T.E. Hanson, K.E. Williamson, D. Ghosh, M. Radosevich, and K. Wang. et. al..  2007.  Metagenomic Characterization of Chesapeake Bay Virioplankton.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007, 73:7629-7641.

Biggerstaff, J.P., M. Le Puil, B.L. Weidow, J. Prater, K. Glass, and M. Radosevich.  2006.  New methodology for viability testing in environmental samples.  Molecular and Cellular Probes, 20:141-146.

Chun, S., J. Lee, M. Radosevich, D. White, and R. Geyer.  2006.  Influence of agricultural antibiotics and 17beta estradiol on microbial community of soil.  J. of Environ. Sci. & Health, 41:923-935.

Williamson, K.E., M. Radosevich, and K.E. Wommack.  2005.  Abundance and Diversity of Bacteriophages in Six Delaware Soils. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71:3119-3125.

Recent theses directed

E.C. Martin  2006.  Cultivation of phylogentically diverse and metabolically novel atrazine-degrading bacteria using Bio-Sep beads. 

Recent grants/contracts

Radosevich, M., Susan Pfiffner.  MO: Collab. research: Influence of land mgt. practices on virus-host interactions in soil..  USDA CSREES .

Radosevich, M.  Microbial degradation of emerging contaminants.  TAES-Hatch.