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Erika Lindquist is affiliated with the United States Department of Energy in the United States. Their research contributions span several fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Key subfields in their work include Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Plant Science, Biotechnology, and Ecology.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass biofuel production and bioconversion, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, protist diversity and phylogeny, bioenergy crop production and management, and plant gene expression analysis.

Among recent publications attributed to Erika Lindquist are:

  • The biogeographic differentiation of algal microbiomes in the upper ocean from pole to pole, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Serendipita Fungi Modulate the Switchgrass Root Transcriptome to Circumvent Host Defenses and Establish a Symbiotic Relationship, 2021, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
  • Identification of functional single nucleotide polymorphism of Populus trichocarpa PtrEPSP-TF and determination of its transcriptional effect, 2020, Plant Direct
  • Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose, 2020, Biotechnology for Biofuels
  • Clinical Findings in Migrants With Asymptomatic Plasmodium Infections, 2025, Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Erika Lindquist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Kerrie Barry, Vasanth Singan, Igor V. Grigoriev, Kara Martin, and Katrin Schmidt.

Their scientific output has appeared in various publication venues such as Nature Communications, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Plant Direct, Biotechnology for Biofuels, and Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence of the palaeopolyploid soybean

    Jeremy Schmutz;Steven B. Cannon;Jessica Schlueter;Jessica Schlueter;Jianxin Ma

  • The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions

    Sabeeha S. Merchant;Simon E. Prochnik;Olivier Vallon;Elizabeth H. Harris

  • The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Thomas Butts;David E. K. Ferrier;Rebecca F. Furlong

  • The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants

    Stefan A. Rensing;Daniel Lang;Andreas D. Zimmer;Astrid Terry

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    John P. Vogel;David F. Garvin;Todd C. Mockler;Jeremy Schmutz

  • The paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes

    Dimitrios Floudas;Manfred Binder;Robert Riley;Kerrie Barry

  • Sea Anemone Genome Reveals Ancestral Eumetazoan Gene Repertoire and Genomic Organization

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Mansi Srivastava;Uffe Hellsten;Bill Dirks

  • The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex

    John K. Colbourne;Michael E. Pfrender;Michael E. Pfrender;Donald Gilbert;W. Kelley Thomas

  • Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome

    John L Bowman;Takayuki Kohchi;Katsuyuki T Yamato;Jerry Jenkins

  • The genome of Tetranychus urticae reveals herbivorous pest adaptations

    Miodrag Grbić;Miodrag Grbić;Thomas Van Leeuwen;Richard M. Clark;Stephane Rombauts

  • The genome of Laccaria bicolor provides insights into mycorrhizal symbiosis

    F. Martin;A. Aerts;D. Ahrén;A. Brun

  • Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists.

    Annegret Kohler;Annegret Kohler;Alan Kuo;Laszlo G Nagy;Laszlo G Nagy;Emmanuelle Morin;Emmanuelle Morin

  • The genome of Eucalyptus grandis

    Alexander Andrew Myburg;Dario Grattapaglia;Dario Grattapaglia;Gerald A. Tuskan;Gerald A. Tuskan;Uffe Hellsten

  • Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria

    Jeffrey L Bennetzen;Jeremy Schmutz;Hao Wang;Ryan Percifield;Ryan Percifield

  • The Selaginella genome identifies genetic changes associated with the evolution of vascular plants.

    Jo Ann Banks;Tomoaki Nishiyama;Mitsuyasu Hasebe;Mitsuyasu Hasebe;John L. Bowman;John L. Bowman

  • The genome of the western clawed frog xenopus tropicalis

    Uffe Hellsten;Richard M. Harland;Michael J. Gilchrist;David Hendrix

  • Obligate biotrophy features unraveled by the genomic analysis of rust fungi

    Sébastien Duplessis;Christina A. Cuomo;Yao-Cheng Lin;Andrea Aerts

  • Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi

    Robert Riley;Asaf A. Salamov;Daren W. Brown;Laszlo G. Nagy

  • Comparative genome sequence analysis underscores mycoparasitism as the ancestral life style of Trichoderma

    Christian P Kubicek;Alfredo Herrera-Estrella;Verena Seidl-Seiboth;Diego A Martinez

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Asaf Salamov
Asaf Salamov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kerrie Barry
Kerrie Barry United States Department of Energy
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Alan Kuo
Alan Kuo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kurt LaButti
Kurt LaButti United States Department of Energy
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
Scott E. Baker
Scott E. Baker Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ronald P. de Vries
Ronald P. de Vries Utrecht University

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