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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

E. Virginia Armbrust is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in related subfields such as ecology, oceanography, molecular biology, renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental chemistry.

The core subjects of their work include microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, protist diversity and phylogeny, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, marine biology and ecology research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Armbrust has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • "Alternative strategies of nutrient acquisition and energy conservation map to the biogeography of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea," 2020, The ISME Journal
  • "Anthropogenic Asian aerosols provide Fe to the North Pacific Ocean," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A single-cell polony method reveals low levels of infected Prochlorococcus in oligotrophic waters despite high cyanophage abundances," 2020, The ISME Journal
  • "Latitudinal constraints on the abundance and activity of the cyanobacterium UCYN-A and other marine diazotrophs in the North Pacific," 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Particulate Metabolites and Transcripts Reflect Diel Oscillations of Microbial Activity in the Surface Ocean," 2021, mSystems

Their frequent collaborators include François Ribalet, Kelsy Cain, Angelicque White, Ryan D. Groussman, and Sacha Coesel.

Armbrust's work has appeared mainly in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The ISME Journal, and Limnology and Oceanography.

In recognition of their contributions, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

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

  • Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria

    S. A. Amin;L. R. Hmelo;H. M. van Tol;B. P. Durham

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • The life of diatoms in the world's oceans

    E. Virginia Armbrust

  • pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree

    Frederick A Matsen;Robin B Kodner;E Virginia Armbrust

  • Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO2 World

    M. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez;Paul R. Halloran;Rosalind E. M. Rickaby;Ian Robert Hall

  • Interactions between Diatoms and Bacteria

    Shady A. Amin;Micaela S. Parker;E. Virginia Armbrust

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of Particle-Attached and Free-Living Bacterial Communities in the Columbia River, Its Estuary, and the Adjacent Coastal Ocean

    Byron C. Crump;E. Virginia Armbrust;John A. Baross

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

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

  • A Model for Carbohydrate Metabolism in the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Deduced from Comparative Whole Genome Analysis

    Peter G. Kroth;Anthony Chiovitti;Ansgar Gruber;Véronique Martin-Jézéquel

  • Untangling genomes from metagenomes: Revealing an uncultured class of marine euryarchaeota

    Vaughn Iverson;Robert M. Morris;Christian D. Frazar;Chris T. Berthiaume

  • Cryptic carbon and sulfur cycling between surface ocean plankton

    Bryndan P. Durham;Shalabh Sharma;Haiwei Luo;Christa B. Smith

  • Pigments, size, and distributions of Synechococcus in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

    Robert J. Olson;Sallie W. Chisholm;Erik R. Zettler;E. Virginia Armbrust

  • Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs.

    Bruce A. Curtis;Goro Tanifuji;Goro Tanifuji;Fabien Burki;Ansgar Gruber;Ansgar Gruber

  • Evolutionary genomics of the cold-adapted diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus

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

  • Ferritin is used for iron storage in bloom-forming marine pennate diatoms

    Adrian Marchetti;Micaela S. Parker;Lauren P. Moccia;Ellen O. Lin

  • Marine ammonia-oxidizing archaeal isolates display obligate mixotrophy and wide ecotypic variation

    Wei Qin;Shady A. Amin;Willm Martens-Habbena;Christopher B. Walker

  • 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

  • Genome size differentiates co-occurring populations of the planktonic diatom Ditylum brightwellii (Bacillariophyta)

    Julie A Koester;Jarred E Swalwell;Peter von Dassow;E Virginia Armbrust

Frequent Co-Authors

Anitra E. Ingalls
Anitra E. Ingalls University of Washington
Andrew E. Allen
Andrew E. Allen J. Craig Venter Institute
James W. Moffett
James W. Moffett University of Southern California
David A. Stahl
David A. Stahl University of Washington
Allan H. Devol
Allan H. Devol University of Washington
Angelicque E. White
Angelicque E. White University of Hawaii at Manoa
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Alexandra Z. Worden
Alexandra Z. Worden Marine Biological Laboratory
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Assaf Vardi
Assaf Vardi Weizmann Institute of Science

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