Ann P. Wood

Research Wood's post-2000 work is associated with odours in the mouth, work that was covered in the popular press. She has also examined the link between odours in the feet, as well as the bacteria in bacterial vaginosis and periodontitis. These natural settings have included such places as the River Thames, thermal sulfur springs, and in Antarctica. Beyond studying the presence and effect of methylotrophs and sulfur oxidizing bacteria, she looked at their metabolism, taxonomy and diversity/ which named two metabolic pathways after Wood: the Padden-Wood pathway based on work with Xanthobacter tagetidis, an organism able to grow on substituted thiophenes,

Taxa named by Wood

The genera Acidithiobacillus and Thermithiobacillus of the class Acidithiobacillia, Halothiobacillus of the class Gammaproteobacteria and Starkeya of the Alphaproteobacteria, all in the phylum Pseudomonadota

The species Annwoodia aquaesulis (originally Thiobacillus aquaesulis) of the Betaproteobacteria; the species Methylorubrum podarium (originally Methylobacterium podarium), Methylorubrum thiocyanatum (originally Methylobacterium thiocyanatum), Hyphomicrobium sulfonivorans and Xanthobacter tagetidis of the Alphaproteobacteria; the species Guyparkeria halophila (originally Thiobacillus halophilus and later Halothiobacillus halophilus) of the Gammaproteobacteria, all in the phylum Pseudomonadota. The species Pseudarthrobacter sulfonivorans (originally Arthobacter sulfonivorans) and Arthrobacter methylotrophus of the Actinomycetota in the phylum Actinomycetota.

Selected publications

Honors and awards In 2017, the bacterial genus Annwoodia was named in honor of the contributions made by Wood,