Donald A. Klein
Professor
Phone: 491-6947
Fax: 491-1815
Email:
Donald.Klein@colostate.edu
Office: B209 Microbiology Building
Degrees
- B.S., M.S., University of Vermont
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests
Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Physiology
- Major areas of interest are in environmental microbiology, including the study of microbial communities in soils and waters, fungal-bacterial functional-structural relationships, fungal molecular ecology, and plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere.
Selected Publications
- Klein, Donald A. 2007. Seeking Microbial Communities in Nature: a
Postgenomic Perspective. ASM "Microbe" 2 (12): 591-595. Dec., 2007
- Prescott, L. M., J. P. Harley and D. A. Klein. 2007. Fundamentals of
Microbiology (Korean), ISBN 978-986-157-414-1 670 pp. plus appendices
- White Paper - "Basic statements concerning molecular microbial ecology"
- Willey, J. M., L. M. Sherwood, and C. J. Woolverton 2008. Prescott, Harley and Klein's Microbiology, 7th ed. McGraw-Hill, Dubuque, IA (published March, 2007) 1088 pp. plus appendices.
- Klein, D. A. 2006. Biodiversity of Chytrids. pp. 165-187. In: Biodiversity of Agricultural Production Systems, G. Benckhiser and S. Schnell. (eds.), CRC Press Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL
- Donald A. Klein, Mark W. Paschke and Tamara L. Heskett. 2006. Comparative fungal responses in managed Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea maculosa Lam.), and Diffuse Knapweed (C. diffusa Lam.) - infested plant communities. Invited submission for special issue on ecological invasions. Applied Soil Ecology 32: 89-97.
- Thorne, M. S., M. J. Trlica, W. C. Leininger, R. D. Child and D. A. Klein. 2005. Soil CO2
- David W. Hendricks; William F. Clunie; Gregory D. Sturbaum, Donald A. Klein, Tory L. Champlin, Paul Kugrens, Julie Hirsch, Bill McCourt, George R. Nordby, Mark D. Sobsey, D. John Hunt, and Martin J. Allen. 2005. Filtration Removals of Microorganisms and Particles. Journal of Environmental Engineering ASCE JEE Paper #EE/2002/023240
- Donald A. Klein and Mark W. Paschke 2004. Filamentous fungi: the indeterminate lifestyle and microbial ecology. Microbial Ecology 47: 224-235. (Invited Festschrift contribution)
- Prescott, L., Harley, J. P., and Klein, D. A. 2004. Microbiology, 6th. Edition. Wm C. Brown - McGraw Hill, Dubuque, IA. 992 pp. plus appendices. (Copyright 2005)
- Donald A. Klein and Mark W. Paschke 2003. Filamentous fungi: the indeterminate lifestyle and microbial ecology. Microbial Ecology (in press) (Invited Festschrift contribution).
- Lozupone, C. A., and D. A. Klein. 2002. Molecular and cultural assessment of chytrid and Spizellomyces populations in grassland soils. Mycologia. 94(3):411-420.
- Prescott, L., J.P. Harley, and D.A. Klein. 2002. Microbiology, 5th Edition. Wm. C. Brown/McGraw Hill, New York, NY. 962 pp. plus appendices (has also appeared in Chinese, French, Korean, and Spanish editions).
- Lowell, J. L. and D. A. Klein. 2001. Comparative single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) and microscopy-based analysis of nitrogen cultivation interactive effects on the fungal community of a semiarid steppe soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 1239:1-8
- Klein, D.A., and M.W. Paschke. 2000. A soil microbial community structural-functional index: the microscopy-based Total/Active/Active Fungal Bacterial (TA/AFB) Biovolumes Ratio. Applied Soil Ecology. 14:257-268.
- Lowell, J.L., and D.A. Klein. 2000. Heteroduplex resolution using T7 Endonuclease I. in microbial community analysis. BioTechniques. 28(4):676-681.
- Klein, D.A. 2000. The Rhizosphere. In: Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 2nd Edition. J. Lederberg, et al. (eds.), Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 4:117-126.
- Lozupone, C.A., and D.A. Klein. 1999. Chytridiomycota of little importance in soils? ASM News. 62:662-663.
- Sturbaum, G.D., Y.R. Ortega, R.H. Gilman, C.R. Sterling, L. Cabrera and D.A. Klein. 1998. Detection of Cyclospora cayetanensis in wastewater. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:2284-2286.
