Stephen Spiro is Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and the C.L. and Amelia A. Lundell Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.
I am interested in bacterial genetics and physiology. Research is focused on denitrification (the reduction of nitrate to dinitrogen) and various aspects of the metabolism of nitric oxide. Recently, we have also developed an interest in the physiology and molecular biology of methylotrophy (the use of methanol and other one-carbon compounds as sources of carbon and energy). The model organisms studied in my lab are Paracoccus denitrificans and Escherichia coli.
