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58
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15970
World Ranking
3219
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1243

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David L. Valentine is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields focused on environmental science and molecular biology, with significant contributions to understanding microbial communities and their roles in ecological systems.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these disciplines, their work covers several subfields, notably:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Pollution

David L. Valentine's research interests focus on a range of topics related to microbial ecology and environmental processes, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation

Their recent published papers illustrate a diverse scope of research problems:

  • "Stereodivergent photobiocatalytic radical cyclization through the repurposing and directed evolution of fatty acid photodecarboxylases," 2024, Nature Chemistry
  • "Genomic and functional analyses of fungal and bacterial consortia that enable lignocellulose breakdown in goat gut microbiomes," 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • "Microbial production and consumption of hydrocarbons in the global ocean," 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • "The first decade of scientific insights from the Deepwater Horizon oil release," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes," 2022, Cell Reports

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Xuefeng Peng
  • Eleanor C. Arrington
  • Blair G. Paul
  • Veronika Kivenson
  • Michelle O'Malley

Publication venues where David L. Valentine has contributed multiple works include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

In recognition of their scientific contributions, David L. Valentine was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes

    Elizabeth A. Dinsdale;Robert A. Edwards;Dana Hall;Florent Angly

  • Fate of Dispersants Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Elizabeth B. Kujawinski;Melissa C. Kido Soule;David L. Valentine;Angela K. Boysen;Angela K. Boysen

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Adaptations to energy stress dictate the ecology and evolution of the Archaea.

    David L. Valentine

  • New perspectives on anaerobic methane oxidation

    David L. Valentine;William S. Reeburgh

  • A Persistent Oxygen Anomaly Reveals the Fate of Spilled Methane in the Deep Gulf of Mexico

    John D. Kessler;David L. Valentine;Molly C. Redmond;Mengran Du

  • Biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of methane oxidation in anoxic environments: a review.

    David L Valentine

  • Propane Respiration Jump-Starts Microbial Response to a Deep Oil Spill

    David L. Valentine;John D. Kessler;Molly C. Redmond;Stephanie D. Mendes

  • Natural gas and temperature structured a microbial community response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Molly C. Redmond;David L. Valentine

  • Carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation by moderately thermophilic methanogens

    David L. Valentine;Amnat Chidthaisong;Andrew Rice;William S. Reeburgh

  • Omega-3 fatty acids in cellular membranes: a unified concept

    Raymond C. Valentine;David L. Valentine

  • Oil weathering after the Deepwater Horizon disaster led to the formation of oxygenated residues.

    Christoph Aeppli;Catherine A. Carmichael;Robert K. Nelson;Karin L. Lemkau

  • Water column methane oxidation adjacent to an area of active hydrate dissociation, Eel river Basin

    David L Valentine;Douglas C Blanton;William S Reeburgh;Miriam Kastner

  • Chemical data quantify Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbon flow rate and environmental distribution

    Thomas B. Ryerson;Richard Camilli;John D. Kessler;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski

  • Biodiversity and biogeography of phages in modern stromatolites and thrombolites

    Christelle Desnues;Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Steve Rayhawk;Scott Kelley

  • Fallout plume of submerged oil from Deepwater Horizon

    David L. Valentine;G. Burch Fisher;Sarah C. Bagby;Robert K. Nelson

  • HydroDesktop: Web services-based software for hydrologic data discovery, download, visualization, and analysis

    Daniel P. Ames;Jeffery S. Horsburgh;Yang Cao;Jiří Kadlec

  • Genomic and functional analyses of fungal and bacterial consortia that enable lignocellulose breakdown in goat gut microbiomes.

    Xuefeng Peng;St. Elmo Wilken;Thomas S. Lankiewicz;Thomas S. Lankiewicz;Sean P. Gilmore

  • Carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation associated with the aerobic microbial oxidation of methane, ethane, propane and butane

    Franklin S. Kinnaman;David L. Valentine;Stanley C. Tyler

  • An integrated system for publishing environmental observations data

    Jeffery S. Horsburgh;David G. Tarboton;Michael Piasecki;David R. Maidment

  • Dynamic autoinoculation and the microbial ecology of a deep water hydrocarbon irruption

    David L. Valentine;Igor Mezić;Senka Maćešić;Nelida Črnjarić-Žic

  • Emerging topics in marine methane biogeochemistry.

    David L. Valentine

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher M. Reddy
Christopher M. Reddy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robert K. Nelson
Robert K. Nelson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Alex L. Sessions
Alex L. Sessions California Institute of Technology
William S. Reeburgh
William S. Reeburgh University of California, Irvine
David R. Maidment
David R. Maidment The University of Texas at Austin
David G. Tarboton
David G. Tarboton Utah State University
Ryan P. Rodgers
Ryan P. Rodgers Florida State University
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Sean P. Sylva
Sean P. Sylva Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jeff F. Miller
Jeff F. Miller University of California, Los Angeles

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