New metagenomic method from the Fuhrman Lab illuminates ocean microbial life in unprecedented detail. Continue reading “Counting Ocean Microbes, One Genome at a Time”
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Qicheng Bei, Nathan L. R. Williams, Laura E. Furtado, Daria Di Blasi, Jelani Williams, Vanda Brotas, Glen Tarran, Andrew P. Rees, Chris Bowler, Jed A. Fuhrman (2025), Quantitative metagenomics for marine prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycaf131
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New Study Illuminates Invisible Architects of the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle
In a cross-collaboration, multiple Simons Foundation-funded researchers team up to use genetic data and ecosystem modeling to simplify the complexity of marine microbes to improve climate predictions.
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Aditya Mishra, Jesse McNichol, Jed Fuhrman, David Blei, Christian L. Müller (2025), Variational inference for microbiome survey data with application to global ocean data, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycaf062
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Innovative Sequencing Technique Enhances Marine Microbial Research
New method significantly improves the accuracy of measuring cell counts of marine picocyanobacteria, a crucial component of oceanic ecosystems. Continue reading “Innovative Sequencing Technique Enhances Marine Microbial Research”
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Alexandra E. Jones-Kellett, Jesse C. McNichol, Yubin Raut, Kelsy R. Cain, François Ribalet, E. Virginia Armbrust, Michael J. Follows, and Jed A. Fuhrman (2024), Amplicon Sequencing with Internal Standards Yields Accurate Picocyanobacteria Cell Abundances as Validated with Flow Cytometry, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycae115
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Colette Fletcher-Hoppe, Yi-Chun Yeh, Yubin Raut, J. L. Weissman & Jed A. Fuhrman (2023), Symbiotic UCYN-A strains co-occurred with El Niño, relaxed upwelling, and varied eukaryotes over 10 years off Southern California, ISME COMMUN., doi: 10.1038/s43705-023-00268-y
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Yuxuan Du, Jed A. Fuhrman & Fengzhu Sun (2023), ViralCC retrieves complete viral genomes and virus-host pairs from metagenomic Hi-C data, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35945-y
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JL Weissman, Shengwei Hou and Jed Fuhrman (2022), Using DNA to predict how fast bacteria can grow, Frontiers for Young Minds, doi: 10.3389. frym.2022.714713
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Tianqi Tang, Shengwei Hou, Jed A Fuhrman, Fengzhu Sun (2022), Phage–bacterial contig association prediction with a convolutional neural network, Bioinformatics, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac239
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