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Alex Copeland is affiliated with the Joint Genome Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Specific subfields of study include Ecology, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Insect Science.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, focusing on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, as well as Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.

Copeland has contributed to multiple publications, appearing in these frequent publication venues:

  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • mSystems
  • New Phytologist
  • Environmental Microbiome
  • Phytobiomes Journal

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Copeland include:

  • DOE JGI Metagenome Workflow, 2021, mSystems
  • Metatranscriptomics sheds light on the links between the functional traits of fungal guilds and ecological processes in forest soil ecosystems, 2023, New Phytologist
  • Shotgun metagenomic analysis of microbial communities from the Loxahatchee nature preserve in the Florida Everglades, 2020, Environmental Microbiome
  • Impact of Soil Salinity on the Cowpea Nodule-Microbiome and the Isolation of Halotolerant PGPR Strains to Promote Plant Growth under Salinity Stress, 2020, Phytobiomes Journal
  • Isolation of potential plant growth-promoting bacteria from nodules of legumes grown in arid Botswana soil, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among frequent coauthors collaborating with Copeland are:

  • Alicia Clum
  • Brian Foster
  • Chris Daum
  • Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh
  • Marcel Huntemann

Best Publications

  • Nonhybrid, finished microbial genome assemblies from long-read SMRT sequencing data

    Chen Shan Chin;David H. Alexander;Patrick Marks;Aaron A. Klammer

  • Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

    Robert M. Bowers;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Miranda Harmon-Smith

  • The paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes

    Dimitrios Floudas;Manfred Binder;Robert Riley;Kerrie Barry

  • A phylogeny-driven genomic encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea.

    Dongying Wu;Dongying Wu;Philip Hugenholtz;Konstantinos Mavromatis;Rüdiger Pukall

  • Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists.

    Annegret Kohler;Annegret Kohler;Alan Kuo;Laszlo G Nagy;Laszlo G Nagy;Emmanuelle Morin;Emmanuelle Morin

  • Diverse Lifestyles and Strategies of Plant Pathogenesis Encoded in the Genomes of Eighteen Dothideomycetes Fungi

    Robin A. Ohm;Nicolas Feau;Bernard Henrissat;Conrad L Schoch

  • Comparison of the complete genome sequences of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a and pv. tomato DC3000

    Helene Feil;William S. Feil;Patrick Chain;Frank Larimer

  • A Bioinformatician's Guide to Metagenomics

    Victor Kunin;Alex Copeland;Alla Lapidus;Konstantinos Mavromatis

  • Assembling the marine metagenome, one cell at a time.

    Tanja Woyke;Gary Xie;Alex Copeland;José M. González

  • The DNA sequence and biology of human chromosome 19

    Jane Grimwood;Laurie A. Gordon;Laurie A. Gordon;Anne Olsen;Anne Olsen;Astrid Terry

  • High-resolution metagenomics targets specific functional types in complex microbial communities.

    Marina G Kalyuzhnaya;Alla Lapidus;Natalia Ivanova;Alex C Copeland

  • Phylogenetic and phylogenomic overview of the Polyporales

    Manfred Binder;Alfredo Justo;Robert Riley;Asaf Salamov

  • Deinococcus geothermalis: The Pool of Extreme Radiation Resistance Genes Shrinks

    Kira S. Makarova;Marina V. Omelchenko;Elena K. Gaidamakova;Vera Y. Matrosova

  • Comparative Genome Structure, Secondary Metabolite, and Effector Coding Capacity across Cochliobolus Pathogens

    Bradford J. Condon;Yueqiang Leng;Dongliang Wu;Kathryn E. Bushley

  • One Bacterial Cell, One Complete Genome

    Tanja Woyke;Damon Tighe;Konstantinos Mavromatis;Alicia Clum

  • High-resolution phylogenetic microbial community profiling

    Esther Singer;Brian Bushnell;Devin Coleman-Derr;Devin Coleman-Derr;Brett Bowman

  • Genome Sequence and Analysis of the Soil Cellulolytic Actinomycete Thermobifida fusca YX

    Athanasios Lykidis;Konstantinos Mavromatis;Natalia Ivanova;Iain Anderson

  • The fast changing landscape of sequencing technologies and their impact on microbial genome assemblies and annotation.

    Konstantinos Mavromatis;Miriam L. Land;Thomas S. Brettin;Daniel J. Quest

  • Ectomycorrhizal ecology is imprinted in the genome of the dominant symbiotic fungus Cenococcum geophilum

    Martina Peter;Annegret Kohler;Robin A. Ohm;Robin A. Ohm;Alan Kuo

  • The Genome of the Obligately Intracellular Bacterium Ehrlichia canis Reveals Themes of Complex Membrane Structure and Immune Evasion Strategies

    K. Mavromatis;C. Kuyler Doyle;A. Lykidis;N. Ivanova

Frequent Co-Authors

Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Lynne Goodwin
Lynne Goodwin Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cliff Han
Cliff Han Los Alamos National Laboratory
Loren Hauser
Loren Hauser Digital Infuzion (United States)
John C. Detter
John C. Detter Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
David Bruce
David Bruce Pebble Labs
Alla Lapidus
Alla Lapidus Saint Petersburg State University
Natalia Ivanova
Natalia Ivanova Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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