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78
Citations
20304
World Ranking
4579
National Ranking
2228

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Ferran Garcia-Pichel is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on microbial ecology, environmental science, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of microbial communities, particularly within biocrust ecosystems and aquatic habitats.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • A symbiotic nutrient exchange within the cyanosphere microbiome of the biocrust cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • MicroNiche: an R package for assessing microbial niche breadth and overlap from amplicon sequencing data, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts, 2023, Annual Review of Microbiology
  • Long-read metagenomics of soil communities reveals phylum-specific secondary metabolite dynamics, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Coleofasciculaceae, a Monophyletic Home for the Microcoleus steenstrupii Complex and Other Desiccation-tolerant Filamentous Cyanobacteria, 2021, Journal of Phycology

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Ana Giraldo-Silva
  • Corey Nelson
  • Vanessa Fernandes
  • Luis González-de-Salceda
  • Julie Bethany

Ferran Garcia-Pichel has published in several recurring academic venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Communications Biology
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Microorganisms

Their main fields of study encompass several scientific disciplines, including:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields within these main areas reflect specific research foci such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

The core topics investigated in their work include:

  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

In 2021, Ferran Garcia-Pichel was awarded the status of Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA).

Best Publications

  • PCR primers to amplify 16S rRNA genes from cyanobacteria.

    Ulrich Nübel;Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Gerard Muyzer

  • CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SCYTONEMIN, A CYANOBACTERIAL SHEATH PIGMENT

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Richard W. Castenholz

  • Occurrence of UV-Absorbing, Mycosporine-Like Compounds among Cyanobacterial Isolates and an Estimate of Their Screening Capacity

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Richard W. Castenholz

  • The structure of scytonemin, an ultraviolet sunscreen pigment from the sheaths of cyanobacteria.

    P. J. Proteau;W. H. Gerwick;W. H. Gerwick;F. Garcia-Pichel;F. Garcia-Pichel;R. Castenholz;R. Castenholz

  • Phylogenetic and Morphological Diversity of Cyanobacteria in Soil Desert Crusts from the Colorado Plateau

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Alejandro López-Cortés;Ulrich Nübel;Ulrich Nübel

  • A model for internal self‐shading in planktonic organisms and its implications for the usefulness of ultraviolet sunscreens

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel

  • Microbial ultraviolet sunscreens

    Qunjie Gao;Ferran Garcia-Pichel

  • EVIDENCE FOR AN ULTRAVIOLET SUNSCREEN ROLE OF THE EXTRACELLULAR PIGMENT SCYTONEMIN IN THE TERRESTRIAL CYANOBACTERIUM Chiorogloeopsis sp.

    Ferran Garcia‐Pichel;Nelson D. Sherry;Richard W. Castenholz

  • Microenvironments and microscale productivity of cyanobacterial desert crusts

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Jayne Belnap

  • Evidence Regarding the UV Sunscreen Role of a Mycosporine-Like Compound in the Cyanobacterium Gloeocapsa sp.

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Christopher E. Wingard;Richard W. Castenholz

  • Cyanobacterial Responses to UV Radiation

    Richard W. Castenholz;Ferran Garcia-Pichel

  • MICROBIAL DIVERSITY OF A HEAVILY POLLUTED MICROBIAL MAT AND ITS COMMUNITY CHANGES FOLLOWING DEGRADATION OF PETROLEUM COMPOUNDS

    Raeid M. M. Abed;Nimer M. D. Safi;Jürgen Köster;Dirk de Beer

  • Quantifying Microbial Diversity: Morphotypes, 16S rRNA Genes, and Carotenoids of Oxygenic Phototrophs in Microbial Mats.

    Ulrich Nübel;Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Michael Kühl;Gerard Muyzer

  • Soil Biogeochemical Processes within the Critical Zone

    Jon Chorover;Ruben Kretzschmar;Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Donald L. Sparks

  • The phylogeny of unicellular, extremely halotolerant cyanobacteria.

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Ulrich Nübel;Gerard Muyzer

  • Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Virginia Loza;Virginia Loza;Yevgeniy Marusenko;Pilar Mateo;Pilar Mateo

  • The prokaryotic diversity of biological soil crusts in the Sonoran Desert (Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ)

    Moria L Nagy;Alejandro Pérez;Ferran Garcia-Pichel

  • Phenotypic and phylogenetic analyses show Microcoleus chthonoplastes to be a cosmopolitan cyanobacterium

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Lee Prufert-Bebout;Lee Prufert-Bebout;Gerard Muyzer

  • Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust

    Lara Rajeev;Ulisses Nunes da Rocha;Niels Klitgord;Eric G Luning

  • Estimates of global cyanobacterial biomass and its distribution

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel;Jayne Belnap;Susanne Neuer;Ferdinand Schanz

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard W. Castenholz
Richard W. Castenholz University of Oregon
Trent R. Northen
Trent R. Northen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jayne Belnap
Jayne Belnap United States Geological Survey
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nichole N. Barger
Nichole N. Barger University of Colorado Boulder
Gerard Muyzer
Gerard Muyzer University of Amsterdam
William H. Gerwick
William H. Gerwick University of California, San Diego
Jack D. Farmer
Jack D. Farmer Arizona State University
Matthew A. Bowker
Matthew A. Bowker Northern Arizona University
Martin F. Wojciechowski
Martin F. Wojciechowski Arizona State University

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