Chris House 
EESI Associate
Chris House
Ph.D. in Geology, University of California, Los Angeles
Contact Information:
PA Space Grant Consortium, Director
218 Earth-Engineering Science Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-8802
Email: chh10@psu.edu
Dept. website: http://www.geosc.psu.edu/people/faculty/personalpages/chouse/index.html
Current Research Interests:
Microbial diversity and cultivation, microbial paleontology, molecular evolution and genomics, astrobiology, & geomicrobiology
Selected Publications:
Moran, J.J., House, C.H., Vrentas, J.,M., Freeman, K.H., 2008. Methyl Sulfide Production by a Novel Carbon Monoxide Metabolism in Methanosarcina acetivorans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74: 540-542.
Moran, J.J., Beal, E.J., Vrentas, J.M., Orphan, V.J., Freeman, K.H., House, C.H., 2008. Methyl sulfides as intermediates in the anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environmental Microbiology. 10: 162.
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Zerkle, A.L., C.K. Junium, D.E. Canfield, and House, C.H., 2008. Production of 15N-depleted biomass during cyanobacterial N2-fixation at high Fe concentrations, J. Geophys. Res., 113: G03014.
(Role: Major, but secondary to graduate advisee Zerkle).
Biddle, J.F., Fitz-Gibbon, S.T., Schuster, S.C., Brenchley, J.E., House, C.H., 2008. Metagenomic signatures of the subseafloor biosphere. PNAS 105: 10583-10588.
Orphan, V.J., Turk, K.A., Green, A.M., House, C.H., 2008, in press. Patterns of 15N assimilation and growth of methanotrophic ANME-2 archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria within structured syntrophic consortia revealed by FISH-SIMS. Environmental Microbiology.
House, C.H., Orphan, V.O., Turk, K.A., Thomas, B., Pernthaler, A., Vrentas, J. M., Joye, S.B., 2008, in press. Extensive carbon isotopic heterogeneity among methane seep microbiota. Environmental Microbiology.
Beal, E.J., House, C.H., Orphan, V.J., 2008, in review. Manganese and Iron Dependent Marine Methane Oxidation. Science.
Cameron, V., Vance, D. Archer, C. House, C.H., in review. Nickel Stable Isotopes: A Novel Isotope Biomarker. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.