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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
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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.
 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreements #OCE-9726921, #OCE-0423565, #OCE-1058747. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.