Nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria

Ammonia and nitrite oxidizing prokaryotes conduct nitrification in a variety of environmental and engineered systems. We are studying the genomes and ecophysiology of these organisms in a variety of marine and freshwater ecosystems. One of the major focuses of this project is to establish a fundamental understanding of the relationship between gene, transcript, protein, and function through purely informatics studies, well controlled culture experiments, and field sampling.

Publications

Annual review of marine science. 2018-09-13;
Planktonic Marine Archaea
Santoro AE, Richter RA, Dupont CL
PMID: 30212260
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2015-01-27; 112.4: 1173-8.
Genomic and proteomic characterization of "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis": an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from the open ocean
Santoro AE, Dupont CL, Richter RA, Craig MT, Carini P, McIlvin MR, Yang Y, Orsi WD, Moran DM, Saito MA
PMID: 25587132

Funding

This collaborative work is funded through the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, while leveraging the Global Ocean Sampling expedition data.

Principal Investigator

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