Nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria
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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
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
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.