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Andrew E. Allen is affiliated with the J. Craig Venter Institute in the United States. Their research focuses on environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. These primary fields are complemented by work in subfields such as ecology, oceanography, molecular biology, environmental chemistry, and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment.

Their work centers on topics including microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, protist diversity and phylogeny, marine biology and ecology research, algal biology and biofuel production, marine toxins and detection methods, and diatoms and algae research.

Andrew E. Allen has published extensively, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • The ISME Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers include:

  • Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology, 2020, Nature Methods
  • Dinoflagellates alter their carbon and nutrient metabolic strategies across environmental gradients in the central Pacific Ocean, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • GNPS Dashboard: collaborative exploration of mass spectrometry data in the web browser, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Multiplexed Knockouts in the Model Diatom Phaeodactylum by Episomal Delivery of a Selectable Cas9, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Influence of nutrient supply on plankton microbiome biodiversity and distribution in a coastal upwelling region, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated multiple times with Andrew E. Allen include:

  • Robert H. Lampe
  • Ariel Rabines
  • Hong Zheng
  • John P. McCrow
  • Bethany C. Kolody

Best Publications

  • The Genome of the Diatom Thalassiosira Pseudonana: Ecology, Evolution, and Metabolism

    E. Virginia Armbrust;John A. Berges;Chris Bowler;Beverley R. Green

  • The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes

    Chris Bowler;Andrew E. Allen;Andrew E. Allen;Jonathan H. Badger;Jane Grimwood

  • The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae

    J. Mark Cock;Lieven Sterck;Pierre Rouzé;Delphine Scornet

  • Discovery of a Mutant-Selective Covalent Inhibitor of EGFR that Overcomes T790M-Mediated Resistance in NSCLC

    Annette O Walter;Robert Tjin Tham Sjin;Henry J Haringsma;Kadoaki Ohashi

  • Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

    Alexandra Z. Worden;Jae-Hyeok Lee;Thomas Mock;Pierre Rouzé

  • Comparative Genomics of Plant-Associated Pseudomonas spp.: Insights into Diversity and Inheritance of Traits Involved in Multitrophic Interactions

    Joyce E Loper;Joyce E Loper;Karl A Hassan;Dmitri V. Mavrodi;Edward W. Davis Ii

  • Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution

    Betsy A. Read;Jessica Kegel;Mary J. Klute;Alan Kuo

  • Evolution and metabolic significance of the urea cycle in photosynthetic diatoms

    Andrew E. Allen;Christopher L. Dupont;Miroslav Oborník;Aleš Horák

  • Whole-cell response of the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum to iron starvation.

    Andrew E. Allen;Julie LaRoche;Uma Maheswari;Markus Lommer

  • Efficiency of the CO2-concentrating mechanism of diatoms

    Brian M. Hopkinson;Christopher L. Dupont;Andrew E. Allen;François M. M. Morel

  • Evolutionary genomics of the cold-adapted diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus

    Thomas Mock;Robert P Otillar;Jan Strauss;Mark McMullan

  • Molecular toolbox for studying diatom biology in Phaeodactylum tricornutum.

    Magali Siaut;Marc Heijde;Manuela Mangogna;Anton Montsant

  • Comparative day/night metatranscriptomic analysis of microbial communities in the North Pacific subtropical gyre.

    Rachel S. Poretsky;Ian Hewson;Shulei Sun;Andrew E. Allen

  • Targeted metagenomics and ecology of globally important uncultured eukaryotic phytoplankton

    Marie L. Cuvelier;Andrew E. Allen;Adam Monier;John P. McCrow

  • Genomic and functional adaptation in surface ocean planktonic prokaryotes

    Shibu Yooseph;Kenneth H. Nealson;Douglas B. Rusch;John P. McCrow

  • Comparative metatranscriptomics identifies molecular bases for the physiological responses of phytoplankton to varying iron availability

    Adrian Marchetti;David M. Schruth;Colleen A. Durkin;Micaela S. Parker

  • Designer diatom episomes delivered by bacterial conjugation

    Bogumil J. Karas;Rachel E. Diner;Rachel E. Diner;Stephane C. Lefebvre;Jeff McQuaid

  • Copper‐dependent iron transport in coastal and oceanic diatoms

    Maria T. Maldonado;Andrew E. Allen;Joanne S. Chong;Kevin Lin

  • Prospects in diatom research.

    Pascal J Lopez;Julien Desclés;Andrew E Allen;Andrew E Allen;Chris Bowler

  • Oceanographic and Biogeochemical Insights from Diatom Genomes

    Chris Bowler;Assaf Vardi;Andrew E. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Christopher L. Dupont
Christopher L. Dupont J. Craig Venter Institute
Miroslav Oborník
Miroslav Oborník Sewanee: The University of the South
Ahmed A. Moustafa
Ahmed A. Moustafa Bond University
Mak A. Saito
Mak A. Saito Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Assaf Vardi
Assaf Vardi Weizmann Institute of Science
Alexandra Z. Worden
Alexandra Z. Worden Marine Biological Laboratory
Jonathan H. Badger
Jonathan H. Badger J. Craig Venter Institute
David A. Hutchins
David A. Hutchins University of Southern California
E. Virginia Armbrust
E. Virginia Armbrust University of Washington

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