| Mary E. Lidstrom | |
| Birth Place: | Prineville, Oregon, USA |
| Fields: | Microbiology |
| Workplaces: | University of Washington |
| Alma Mater: | University of Wisconsin |
| Thesis Title: | The regulation of C-1 metabolism in Methylobacterium organophilum |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/ |
| Thesis Year: | 1977 |
Mary E. Lidstrom is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington. She also holds the Frank Jungers Chair of Engineering, in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She currently is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Bacteriology and FEMS Microbial Ecology.
Lidstrom received a B.S. degree in Microbiology from Oregon State University and an M.S. and PhD in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[1]
Lidstrom's work spans microbial physiology and natural complex microbial communities and has applications to biotechnology. Specifically, she has worked extensively on methylotroph bacteria that grow on one-carbon compounds.[2]
After conducting her doctorate research on C-1 metabolism in Methylobacterium organophilum,[3] Lidstrom undertook post-doctoral research at University of Sheffield UK with J. Rodney Quayle on species of the methylotrophic yeasts Hansenula and Candida,[4] and then returned to the US with faculty posts at the University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the California Institute of Technology where she has taught courses on microbiology, oceanography, environmental engineering science, chemical engineering and bioengineering. While at Caltech she served as Vice-Chair of the Faculty.[5] In 1996 she moved to University of Washington and has remained there.[6]
Lidstrom is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences from 2013. Lidstrom was the Vice Provost of Research at the University of Washington from 2005 until 2021.[7] [8] In addition, she served as Associate Dean for New Initiatives in Engineering from 1997 to 2005 and Interim Provost from 2010 to 2011.[9]
Lidstrom is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific publications. These include: