Matthew C. Smith

Assistant Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences

Phone: 414-382-1700
Fax: 414-382-1705
E-mail: smith926@uwm.edu

Education

PhD, Microbiology, University of Tasmania, 2003
BSc w/Honors, Microbiology, University of Tasmania, 1997
BSc, University of Tasmania, 1996

Research interests

• Automation of molecular biological methods and instrumentation development
• Developing in situ sensor technology for the detection of biological and chemical
  targets in the marine environment
  
  

Recent and selected publications

• David Fries, Matthew Smith and Stan Ivanov (2010). Flex PCBMEMS for system size
  miniaturization. IEEE-ICIT 2010 Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
  Industrial Technology. Viña del Mar, Chile 14th to 17th March 2010.
• Mark V. Brown, Gayle K. Philip, John A. Bunge, Matthew C. Smith, Andrew Bissett,
  Federico M. Lauro, Jed A. Fuhrman and Stuart P. Donachie (2009). Microbial
  community structure in the North Pacific Ocean. The ISME Journal 3: 1374-1386.
  
• Ashley Shade, Cayelan C. Carey, Emily Kara, Stefan Bertilsson, Katherine D. McMahon
  and Matthew C. Smith (2009). Can the black box be cracked? The augmentation of
  microbial ecology with high-resolution, automated sensing technologies. The ISME
  Journal 3: 881–888.
  
• Matthew C. Smith and David P. Fries (2008). A field-able RNA extraction and
  purification procedure. Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology
  16: 21-29.