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Anna-Louise Reysenbach

Anna-Louise Reysenbach

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
17310
World Ranking
6676
National Ranking
3104

Overview

Anna-Louise Reysenbach is affiliated with Portland State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Ecology and Molecular Biology within these domains.

The scientist's work covers several interconnected subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Plant Science. Their main research topics reflect a concentration on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing.

Reysenbach has published extensively across a range of scientific journals and publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • Nature Microbiology
  • Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Reysenbach are:

  • "Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes," 2023, Nature
  • "SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for prokaryotes described from sequence data," 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • "Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria," 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • "Global patterns of diversity and metabolism of microbial communities in deep-sea hydrothermal vent deposits," 2022, Microbiome
  • "Complex subsurface hydrothermal fluid mixing at a submarine arc volcano supports distinct and highly diverse microbial communities," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaboration has been an important part of their career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Emily St. John
  • Brian P. Hedlund
  • Marike Palmer
  • Karthik Anantharaman
  • Wen-Jun Li

The combination of research fields and breadth of publication venues illustrates Reysenbach's focus on the microbial ecology of extreme environments, particularly deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and the evolutionary relationships among microorganisms. Their work contributes to understanding microbial community structure, physiology, taxonomy, and genetic diversity in these environments.

Best Publications

  • Microbial biogeography : putting microorganisms on the map

    Jennifer B.Hughes Martiny;Brendan J.M. Bohannan;James H. Brown;Robert K. Colwell

  • Population structure and phylogenetic characterization of marine benthic Archaea in deep-sea sediments.

    Costantino Vetriani;Holger W. Jannasch;Barbara J. Macgregor;David A. Stahl

  • Novel bacterial and archaeal lineages from an in situ growth chamber deployed at a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent.

    Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Krista Longnecker;Krista Longnecker;Julie Kirshtein

  • Biogeography and Ecological Setting of Indian Ocean Hydrothermal Vents

    C. L. Van Dover;S. E. Humphris;D. Fornari;C. M. Cavanaugh

  • Phylogenetic analysis of the hyperthermophilic pink filament community in Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park.

    A L Reysenbach;G S Wickham;N R Pace

  • Merging genomes with geochemistry in hydrothermal ecosystems.

    Anna Louise Reysenbach;Everett Shock

  • A COMPARISON OF TAXON CO-OCCURRENCE PATTERNS FOR MACRO- AND MICROORGANISMS

    M. Claire Horner-Devine;Jessica M. Silver;Mathew A. Leibold;Brendan J.M. Bohannan

  • Pyrococcus abyssi sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent

    Gaël Erauso;Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Anne Godfroy;Jean-Roch Meunier

  • A ubiquitous thermoacidophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vents

    Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Yitai Liu;Amy B. Banta;Terry J. Beveridge

  • Deep-sea vent -proteobacterial genomes provide insights into emergence of pathogens

    Satoshi Nakagawa;Yoshihiro Takaki;Shigeru Shimamura;Anna-Louise Reysenbach

  • Microbiology of ancient and modern hydrothermal systems

    Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Sherry L Cady

  • Thermococcus barophilus sp. nov., a new barophilic and hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated under high hydrostatic pressure from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent.

    Viggó Thór Marteinsson;Jean-Louis Birrien;Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Marc Vernet

  • Wide diversity of Crenarchaeota.

    Karen L. Hershberger;Susan M. Barns;Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Scott C. Dawson

  • Metagenomes from high-temperature chemotrophic systems reveal geochemical controls on microbial community structure and function

    William P. Inskeep;Douglas B. Rusch;Zackary J. Jay;Markus J. Herrgard

  • Microbial community structure of hydrothermal deposits from geochemically different vent fields along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Gilberto E. Flores;James H. Campbell;Julie D. Kirshtein;Jennifer Meneghin

  • Geoglobus ahangari gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeon capable of oxidizing organic acids and growing autotrophically on hydrogen with Fe(III) serving as the sole electron acceptor.

    Kazem Kashefi;Jason M. Tor;Dawn E. Holmes;Catherine V. Gaw Van Praagh

  • Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic anaerobic dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium from a continental hot spring.

    Alexander Slobodkin;Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Nathalie Strutz;Michael Dreier

  • Archaeal and Bacterial Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraether Lipids in Hot Springs of Yellowstone National Park

    Stefan Schouten;Marcel T. J. van der Meer;Ellen C. Hopmans;W. Irene C. Rijpstra

  • New opportunities revealed by biotechnological explorations of extremophiles.

    Mircea Podar;Anna-Louise Reysenbach

  • Evidence for the microbial basis of a chemoautotrophic invertebrate community at a whale fall on the deep seafloor: bone-colonizing bacteria and invertebrate endosymbionts.

    Jody W. Deming;Anna-Louise Reysenbach;Stephen A. Macko;Craig R. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Mircea Podar
Mircea Podar Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Christian Jeanthon
Christian Jeanthon Université Paris Cité
Daniel Prieur
Daniel Prieur University of Western Brittany
William P. Inskeep
William P. Inskeep Montana State University
Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
Susan E. Humphris
Susan E. Humphris Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Timothy M. Shank
Timothy M. Shank Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Peter R. Girguis
Peter R. Girguis Harvard University
Frank E. Löffler
Frank E. Löffler University of Tennessee at Knoxville
William B. Whitman
William B. Whitman University of Georgia

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