Tracy L. Bank

Appointent: Assistant Professor of Geology

Office: 710 Natural Sciences Complex

Phone: (716) 645-6800 ext. 3985

Fax:(716) 645-3999

Email: tlbank at buffalo edu

Home Page:http://www.geology.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/bank.shtml

Research Interests: 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, 24(2):125-132.
• 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, 6:77-84.
• Cali, 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, 69:2959-2969.

last updated: 12/08