Joseph Vallino
Principal Investigator
The Ecosystems Center
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Phone: 508-289-7648
Fax: 508-457-1548
email: jvallino@mbl.edu Web Page
Education:
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 1991, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge.
M.S., Chemical Engineering, 1985, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena.
B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1983, University of California,
Berkeley.
Professional Experience:
1997-Present Assistant Scientist, The Ecosystems Center,
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Research Associate, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological
Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Ecosystems Center, Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Lakian Postdoctoral Scholar, The Ecosystems Center, Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, San Diego, CA
Recent publications:
Vallino, J. J. and C. S. Hopkinson. 1998. Estimation of
dispersion and characteristic mixing times in plum island sound
estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
46:333-350.
Hopkinson, C. S, I. Buffam, J. E. Hobbie, J. J. Vallino, M.
Perdue, B. Eversmeyer, F. Prahl, J. Covert, R. Hodson, M. A.
Moran, E. Smith, J. Baross, B. Crump, S. Findlay, and D. Foreman.
(In press). Terrestrial inputs of organic matter to coastal
ecosystems: an intercomparison of chemical characteristics and
bioavailability. Biogeochemistry.
Jay, D.A., R. J. Uncles, J. Largier, W. R. Geyer, J. J.
Vallino, and W. R. Boynton. (1997). A review of recent
developments in estuarine scalar flux estimation. Estuaries
20:262-280.
Vallino, J .J., C. S. Hopkinson, and J. E. Hobbie. (1996).
Modeling bacterial utilization of dissolved organic matter:
optimization replaces monod growth kinetics. Limnology and
Oceanography 41:1591-1609.
Hopkinson, C. S., and J. J. Vallino. (1995). The relationship
between man’s activities in watersheds and rivers and
patterns of estuarine community metabolism. Estuaries
18:598-621
Hopkinson, C. S., and J. J. Vallino. (1994). Toward the
development of generally applicable models of the microbial loop
in aquatic ecosystems. Microb. Ecol. 28:321-326.
Vallino, J. J. and G. Stephanopoulos. (1994). Carbon flux
distributions at the pyruvate branch point in Corynebacterium
glutamicum during lysine overproduction. Biotech. Prog.
10:320-326.
Vallino, J. J. and G. Stephanopoulos. (1994). Carbon flux
distributions at the glucose 6-phosphate branch point in
Corynebacterium glutamicum during lysine overproduction.
Biotech. Prog. 10:327-334
Wikner, J., J. J. Vallino, G. Steward, D. Smith, and F. Azam.
(1993). Nucleic acids from the host bacterium as a major source of
nucleotides for three marine bacteriophages. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol.
12:237-248.
Vallino, J. J. and G. Stephanopoulos. (1993). Metabolic Flux
distributions in Corynebacterium glutamicum during growth
and lysine overproduction. Biotechnol. Bioeng.
41:633-646.
Stephanopoulos, G. and Vallino, J. J. (1991). Network rigidity
and metabolic engineering in metabolite overproduction. Science
252:1675-1681.
