Dr. Tracy Bank

Office: 710 Natural Sciences Complex Phone: 716.645.4262 Email: tlbank@buffalo.edu Website: Coming Soon Title: Assistant Professor Degree: PhD Geoscience (Geochemistry) Virginia Tech 2003 Specialty: Biogeochemistry

Courses Offered

Gly 569 Biogeochemistry

Research Interests

Research Interests: The focus of my research is mineral-microbe interactions including the fate and transport of toxic metal contaminants in natural porous media and the adhesion of environmentally important bacterial cells to mineral surfaces.

Recent Publications

Bank, T.L., Vishnivetskaya, T.A., Ginder-Vogell, M.A., Fendorf, S.E., Baldwin , M.E, and Jardine, P.M. (2007) Elucidating Biogeochemical Reduction of Chromate via Carbon Amendments and Soil Sterilization, Geomicrobiology Journal (in print)

Neal, A.L. Bank, T.L , Hochella, M.F., and Rosso, K.M. (2005) Cell adhesion of Shewanella oneidensis to iron oxide minerals: effect of different single crystal faces. Geochemical Transactions , v. 6, p. 77-84.

Cail, T.L . and Hochella, M.F., Jr. (2005) The Effects of Solution Chemistry on the Sticking Efficiencies of Viable Enterococcus faecalis : An Atomic Force Microscopy and Modeling Study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , v. 69, p. 2959-2969.

Cail, T.L . and Hochella, M.F., Jr. (2005) Experimentally Derived Sticking Efficiencies of Microparticles Using Atomic Force Microscopy. Environmental Science and Technology, v.39, p. 1011-1017.