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107
Citations
47565
World Ranking
1092
National Ranking
657

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Forest Rohwer is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States and specializes in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields, including Ecology, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work primarily focuses on topics such as Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, Marine and coastal plant biology, Plant Virus Research Studies, and Marine and fisheries research.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Dietary prophage inducers and antimicrobials: toward landscaping the human gut microbiome," 2020, Gut Microbes
  • "The landscape of lysogeny across microbial community density, diversity and energetics," 2021, Environmental Microbiology
  • "A multiomic analysis of in situ coral-turf algal interactions," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Genomic and ecological attributes of marine bacteriophages encoding bacterial virulence genes," 2020, BMC Genomics
  • "Virulence as a Side Effect of Interspecies Interaction in Vibrio Coral Pathogens," 2020, mBio

Frequent collaborative partners in their research include Cynthia B. Silveira, María Isabel Rojas, Andreas F. Haas, Antoni Luque, and Ty N. F. Roach.

Forest Rohwer's contributions are regularly published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Visualized Experiments, mSystems, Frontiers in Marine Science, and PeerJ.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Diversity and distribution of coral-associated bacteria

    Forest Rohwer;Victor Seguritan;Farooq Azam;Nancy Knowlton

  • Viruses in the faecal microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers

    Alejandro Reyes;Matthew Haynes;Nicole Hanson;Florent E. Angly;Florent E. Angly

  • Development and Use of Personalized Bacteriophage-Based Therapeutic Cocktails To Treat a Patient with a Disseminated Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

    Robert T. Schooley;Biswajit Biswas;Jason J. Gill;Adriana Hernandez-Morales

  • Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communities

    Mya Breitbart;Peter Salamon;Bjarne Andresen;Joseph M. Mahaffy

  • The marine viromes of four oceanic regions

    Florent E Angly;Ben Felts;Mya Breitbart;Peter Salamon

  • Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes

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

  • Here a virus, there a virus, everywhere the same virus?

    Mya Breitbart;Forest L. Rohwer

  • Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands

    Stuart A. Sandin;Jennifer E. Smith;Edward E. DeMartini;Elizabeth A. Dinsdale

  • Bacteriophage adhering to mucus provide a non-host-derived immunity.

    Jeremy J. Barr;Rita Auro;Mike Furlan;Katrine L. Whiteson

  • Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community from Human Feces

    Mya Breitbart;Ian Hewson;Ben Felts;Joseph M. Mahaffy

  • RNA Viral Community in Human Feces: Prevalence of Plant Pathogenic Viruses

    Tao Zhang;Mya Breitbart;Wah Heng Lee;Jin-Quan Run

  • Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation

    Francisco Rodriguez-Valera;Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado;Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Lejla Pašić

  • The Phage Proteomic Tree: a Genome-Based Taxonomy for Phage

    Forest Rohwer;Rob Edwards

  • Viruses manipulate the marine environment

    Forest Rohwer;Rebecca Vega Thurber;Rebecca Vega Thurber

  • Metagenomic analysis of stressed coral holobionts

    Rebecca Vega Thurber;Dana Willner-Hall;Beltran Rodriguez-Mueller;Christelle Desnues

  • Metagenomics and future perspectives in virus discovery.

    John L Mokili;Forest Rohwer;Bas E Dutilh;Bas E Dutilh

  • Laboratory Procedures to Generate Viral Metagenomes

    Rebecca V Thurber;Matthew Haynes;Mya Breitbart;Linda Wegley

  • Metagenomic and Small-Subunit rRNA Analyses Reveal the Genetic Diversity of Bacteria, Archaea, Fungi, and Viruses in Soil

    Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Mya Breitbart;James Nulton;Peter Salamon

  • Three Prochlorococcus cyanophage genomes: signature features and ecological interpretations.

    Matthew B Sullivan;Maureen L Coleman;Peter Weigele;Forest Rohwer

  • Using pyrosequencing to shed light on deep mine microbial ecology.

    Robert A Edwards;Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Linda Wegley;Matthew Haynes

Frequent Co-Authors

Mya Breitbart
Mya Breitbart University of South Florida
Jennifer E. Smith
Jennifer E. Smith University of California, San Diego
Stuart A. Sandin
Stuart A. Sandin University of California, San Diego
Mark J. A. Vermeij
Mark J. A. Vermeij University of Amsterdam
Elizabeth A. Dinsdale
Elizabeth A. Dinsdale Flinders University
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
Rebecca Vega Thurber
Rebecca Vega Thurber Oregon State University
Enric Sala
Enric Sala National Geographic Society
Nancy Knowlton
Nancy Knowlton National Museum of Natural History
David I. Kline
David I. Kline University of California, San Diego

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