Positions:

1997-present	Research Biologist and Senior Lecturer, Marine Biology Research Division and Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1993-1997	Associate Research Biologist and Lecturer, Marine Biology Research Division and Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1987-1993	Assistant Research Biologist and Lecturer, Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1985-1986	Associate Research Scientist, Chesapeake Bay Institute, Johns Hopkins University
1983-1985	Postdoctoral Research Associate,, School of Oceanography, University of Washington

Selected Publications:

• Tebo, B.M., L. van Waasbergen, C.A. Francis, L.M. He, D.B. Edwards, and K. Casciotti. Manganese oxidation by spores of the marine Bacillus sp. strain SG-1: application for the bioremediation of metal pollution. In: New Developments in Marine Biotechnologies, Y. Le Gal ,ed. Plenum. In press.
• Caspi, R., B.M. Tebo, M.G. Haygood C-type cytochromes and manganese oxidation in Pseudomonas putida strain MnB1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. In press.
• Tebo, B.M. and A. Obraztsova. 1998. Novel sulfate-reducing bacterium grows with Cr(VI), U(VI), Mn(IV), and Fe(III) as electron acceptors . FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 162:193-198.
• Tebo, B.M. and L.M. He. 1998. Microbially mediated oxidative precipitation reactions. In: Kinetics and Mechanisms of Reactions at the Mineral/Water Interface, T. Grundl and D.L. Sparks, eds. American Chemical Society. In press.
• He, L.M. and B.M. Tebo. 1998. Surface characterization of and Cu(II) adsorption by spores of a marine Bacillus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:1123-1129.
• Tebo, B.M. 1998. Mn(II) Oxidation in marine environments is likely bacterial. Comment on "Comment on 'Oxidation of cobalt and manganese in seawater via a common microbially catalyzed pathway' by J.W. Moffett and J. Ho." Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62:357-358.
• Tebo, B.M., R. Ganesh, W.K. Tolley, and A.E. Grow. 1997. Microbial Metal Accumulation and Microsolid Separation for Treating and Recovering Metals from Industrial Rinsewaters. Pp. 493-506 in: Biotechnology for Water Use and Conservation: The Mexico '96 Workshop, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
• Tebo, B.M., W.C. Ghiorse, L.G. van Waasbergen, P.L. Siering, and R. Caspi. 1997. Bacterially-mediated mineral formation: Insights into manganese(II) oxidation from molecular genetic and biochemical studies. In:. Geomicrobiology: Interactions Between Microbes and Minerals. Reviews in Mineralogy, J.F. Banfield and K.H. Nealson, eds. 35:225-266.
• Caspi, R.M., G. Haygood, and B.M. Tebo. 1996. Unusual ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/ oxygenase genes from a marine manganese-oxidizing bacterium. Microbiology 142: 2549-2559.
• van Waasbergen, L.G., M. Hildebrand and B.M. Tebo 1996. Identification and characterization of a gene cluster involved in manganese oxidation by spores of the marine Bacillus sp. strain SG-1. Journal of Bacteriology 178:3517-3530.
• Mandernack, K. W., M.L. Fogel, B.M. Tebo, and A. Usui. 1995. Oxygen isotope analyses of chemically and microbially produced manganese oxides and manganates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 59: 4409-4425.
• Mandernack, K.W., J. Post and B.M. Tebo. 1995. Manganese mineral formation by bacterial spores of a marine Bacillus, strain SG-1: evidence for the direct oxidation of Mn(II) to Mn(IV). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59: 4393-4408.
• Juniper, S.K. and B.M. Tebo. 1995. Microbe-metal interactions and mineral deposition at hydrothermal vents. Pp. 219-253 in: The Microbiology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents, Chapter 5, D.M. Karl, ed. CRC Press.
• Tebo, B. M. 1995. Metal precipitation by marine bacteria: potential for biotechnological applications. Pp. 231-262 in: Genetic Engineering-Principles and Methods, Vol. 17, J.K. Setlow, ed. Plenum Press, New York.
• Tebo, B. M. 1995. Metal precipitation by marine bacteria: potential for biotechnological applications. Pp. 231-263 in: J.K. Setlow ed. Genetic Engineering-Principles and Methods, vol. 17, Plenum Press, New York, p.231-263.
• Lee, Y. and B.M. Tebo. 1994. Cobalt oxidation by the marine manganese(II)-oxidizing Bacillus sp. strain SG-1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60: 2949-2957.
• Tebo, B.M. and Y. Lee. 1993. Microbial Oxidation of Cobalt. Pp. 695-704 in: Biohydrometallurgical Technologies, vol. I, A.E. Torma, J.E. Wey and V.L. Lakshmanan Eds. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, Warrendale, PA.
• van Waasbergen, L.G., J.A. Hoch, and B.M. Tebo. 1993. Genetic analysis of manganese oxidation in the marine Bacillus sp. strain SG-1: Tn917 mutagenesis and identification of two major loci involved in manganese oxidation. Journal of Bacteriology 175: 7594-7603.
• Grow, A.E., J.H.P. Watson, D.C. Ellwood, and B.M. Tebo 1993. Metal and organic pollutant-uptake processing (MOP-UP). Pp. 77-83 in: Proceedings of the 1992 ERDEC Scientific Conference on Chemical Defense Research, 17-20 November 1992. J.D. Williams Jr., D.A. Berg, P.J. Reeves eds. U.S. Army Chemical and Biological Defense Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.