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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
64529
World Ranking
815
National Ranking
512

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For application of molecular microbial ecology to environmental engineering.
  • 2006 - Dupont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology

Overview

David A. Stahl is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with notable contributions across several subfields including Ecology, Pollution, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, and Environmental Engineering.

The body of work includes a focus on microbial community ecology and physiology, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, evolution and genetic dynamics, gut microbiota and health, and geophysics and gravity measurements.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David A. Stahl include:

  • Kristopher A. Hunt
  • Jizhong Zhou
  • Stephen Callister
  • Jonathan Dworkin
  • Jared Shaw

Their recent publications encompass a range of topics related to microbial adaptation, environmental stress impacts on microbial community assembly, nutrient acquisition strategies, and nitrogen cycling. Notable papers include:

  • Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity (2020, Microbiome)
  • Environmental stress mediates groundwater microbial community assembly (2024, Nature Microbiology)
  • Nitrifier adaptation to low energy flux controls inventory of reduced nitrogen in the dark ocean (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Alternative strategies of nutrient acquisition and energy conservation map to the biogeography of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea (2020, The ISME Journal)
  • Sustained nitrogen loss in a symbiotic association of Comammox Nitrospira and Anammox bacteria (2021, Water Research)

David A. Stahl has published extensively in several venues, with a concentration of work appearing in:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Water Research
  • The ISME Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology

In addition to journal publications, this scientist has contributed to book publications related to environmental microbiology, including the title Effect of Granule Sizes on Ammonia Oxidation Rates published by the Water Environment Federation in 2020.

Recognized for their work in applied and environmental microbiology, David A. Stahl received awards such as the Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, acknowledging contributions to molecular microbial ecology applied to environmental engineering, and the Dupont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flow cytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations.

    R I Amann;B J Binder;R J Olson;S W Chisholm

  • Rapid determination of 16S ribosomal RNA sequences for phylogenetic analyses

    David J. Lane;Bernadette Pace;Gary J. Olsen;David A. Stahl

  • Isolation of an autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon

    Martin Könneke;Anne E Bernhard;Anne E Bernhard;José R de la Torre;Christopher B Walker

  • Fluorescent-oligonucleotide probing of whole cells for determinative, phylogenetic, and environmental studies in microbiology.

    R I Amann;L Krumholz;D A Stahl

  • The Phylogeny of Prokaryotes

    GE Fox;E Stackebrandt;RB Hespell;J Gibson

  • Ammonia oxidation kinetics determine niche separation of nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria

    Willm Martens-Habbena;Paul M. Berube;Paul M. Berube;Hidetoshi Urakawa;José R. de la Torre;José R. de la Torre

  • Microbial ecology and evolution: a ribosomal RNA approach.

    G J Olsen;D J Lane;S J Giovannoni;N R Pace

  • Development and application of nucleic acid probes

    D. A. Stahl

  • The Analysis of Natural Microbial Populations by Ribosomal RNA Sequences

    Norman R. Pace;David A. Stahl;David J. Lane;Gary J. Olsen

  • Phylogenetic probes for analyzing abundance and spatial organization of nitrifying bacteria.

    Bruch K. Mobarry;Michael Wagner;Vincent Urbain;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Group-specific 16S rRNA hybridization probes to describe natural communities of methanogens

    L Raskin;J M Stromley;B E Rittmann;D A Stahl

  • Use of phylogenetically based hybridization probes for studies of ruminal microbial ecology.

    D A Stahl;B Flesher;H R Mansfield;L Montgomery

  • Nitrosopumilus maritimus genome reveals unique mechanisms for nitrification and autotrophy in globally distributed marine crenarchaea

    C.B. Walker;J.R. De la Torre;M.G. Klotz;H. Urakawa

  • Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Kai Xue

  • Phylogeny of Dissimilatory Sulfite Reductases Supports an Early Origin of Sulfate Respiration

    Michael Wagner;Andrew J. Roger;Jodi L. Flax;Gregory A. Brusseau

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Cultivation of a thermophilic ammonia oxidizing archaeon synthesizing crenarchaeol.

    José R. De La Torre;Christopher B. Walker;Anitra E. Ingalls;Martin Könneke

  • The oligonucleotide probe database.

    Elizabeth Wheeler Alm;Daniel B. Oerther;N. Larsen;David A. Stahl

  • Use of rRNA fluorescence in situ hybridization for measuring the activity of single cells in young and established biofilms.

    L K Poulsen;G Ballard;D A Stahl

  • Physiology and Diversity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea

    David A. Stahl;José R. de la Torre

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Bruce E. Rittmann
Bruce E. Rittmann Arizona State University
Anitra E. Ingalls
Anitra E. Ingalls University of Washington
Adam P. Arkin
Adam P. Arkin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Terry C. Hazen
Terry C. Hazen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Allan H. Devol
Allan H. Devol University of Washington
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner University of Vienna
James W. Moffett
James W. Moffett University of Southern California
Judy D. Wall
Judy D. Wall University of Missouri

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