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Christopher L. Dupont is affiliated with the J. Craig Venter Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, with a primary focus on medicine, environmental science, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including molecular biology, ecology, epidemiology, infectious diseases, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their main research topics encompass microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, ion channel regulation and function, marine and coastal ecosystems, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, and protist diversity and phylogeny.

Christopher L. Dupont has contributed to a range of recent papers published in prominent scientific journals. These include:

  • A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), 2023, Nature Immunology
  • Coral microbiome manipulation elicits metabolic and genetic restructuring to mitigate heat stress and evade mortality, 2021, Science Advances
  • Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology, 2020, Nature Methods
  • Microbiome disturbance and resilience dynamics of the upper respiratory tract during influenza A virus infection, 2020, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The ISME Journal, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications, and eLife.

Christopher L. Dupont collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Josh L. Espinoza, Drishti Kaul, Mak A. Saito, Mark M. Rich, and Marcelo Freire.

Best Publications

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Pluses and minuses of ammonium and nitrate uptake and assimilation by phytoplankton and implications for productivity and community composition, with emphasis on nitrogen-enriched conditions

    Patricia M. Glibert;Frances P. Wilkerson;Richard C. Dugdale;John A. Raven;John A. Raven

  • The tiny eukaryote Ostreococcus provides genomic insights into the paradox of plankton speciation

    Brian Palenik;Jane Grimwood;Andrea Aerts;Pierre Rouzé

  • Genomic insights to SAR86, an abundant and uncultivated marine bacterial lineage

    Chris L. Dupont;Douglas B. Rusch;Shibu Yooseph;Mary-Jane Lombardo

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

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

  • Microbial metagenomics: beyond the genome.

    Jack A. Gilbert;Christopher L. Dupont

  • Efficiency of the CO2-concentrating mechanism of diatoms

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

  • Copper toxicity and the origin of bacterial resistance—new insights and applications

    Christopher L. Dupont;Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing

  • Evolutionary genomics of the cold-adapted diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus

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

  • History of biological metal utilization inferred through phylogenomic analysis of protein structures.

    Christopher L. Dupont;Andrew Butcher;Ruben E. Valas;Philip E. Bourne

  • 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

  • Designer diatom episomes delivered by bacterial conjugation

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

  • Genomic and proteomic characterization of "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis": an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from the open ocean

    Alyson E. Santoro;Christopher L. Dupont;R. Alex Richter;Matthew T. Craig

  • Genome sequence of Synechococcus CC9311: Insights into adaptation to a coastal environment

    Brian Palenik;Qinghu Ren;Chris L. Dupont;Garry S. Myers

  • Modern proteomes contain putative imprints of ancient shifts in trace metal geochemistry.

    Christopher L. Dupont;Song Yang;Brian Palenik;Philip E. Bourne

  • Efficient de novo assembly of single-cell bacterial genomes from short-read data sets

    Hamidreza Chitsaz;Joyclyn L Yee-Greenbaum;Glenn Tesler;Mary-Jane Lombardo

  • Functional Tradeoffs Underpin Salinity-Driven Divergence in Microbial Community Composition

    Chris L. Dupont;John Larsson;Shibu Yooseph;Karolina Ininbergs

  • The dddP gene, encoding a novel enzyme that converts dimethylsulfoniopropionate into dimethyl sulfide, is widespread in ocean metagenomes and marine bacteria and also occurs in some Ascomycete fungi

    J. D. Todd;A. R. J. Curson;C. L. Dupont;P. Nicholson

  • Characterization of Prochlorococcus clades from iron-depleted oceanic regions

    Douglas B. Rusch;Adam C. Martiny;Christopher L. Dupont;Aaron L. Halpern

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew E. Allen
Andrew E. Allen J. Craig Venter Institute
Mak A. Saito
Mak A. Saito Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Shibu Yooseph
Shibu Yooseph University of Central Florida
Brian Palenik
Brian Palenik University of California, San Diego
J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
Jonathan H. Badger
Jonathan H. Badger J. Craig Venter Institute
Birgitta Bergman
Birgitta Bergman Stockholm University
Katherine A. Barbeau
Katherine A. Barbeau University of California, San Diego
Karen E. Nelson
Karen E. Nelson J. Craig Venter Institute

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