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  • 2013 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Gregory J. Dick is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. The research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in ecology, environmental chemistry, and oceanography. Their work explores molecular biology as well as ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics of their research include microbial community ecology and physiology, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, gut microbiota and health, biocrusts and microbial ecology, oral health in cancer treatment, and aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity.

Frequent publication venues for this scientist are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Harmful Algae
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research

They have collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, including:

  • E. Anders Kiledal
  • Colleen E. Yancey
  • Vincent J. Denef
  • Derek J. Smith
  • David H. Sherman

Selected recent papers illustrate their scientific contributions:

  • Models predict planned phosphorus load reduction will make Lake Erie more toxic, 2022, Science
  • The genetic and ecophysiological diversity of Microcystis, 2021, Environmental Microbiology
  • Individual Microcystis colonies harbour distinct bacterial communities that differ by Microcystis oligotype and with time, 2021, Environmental Microbiology
  • Gammaproteobacteria mediating utilization of methyl-, sulfur- and petroleum organic compounds in deep ocean hydrothermal plumes, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Metagenomic and Metatranscriptomic Insights into Population Diversity of Microcystis Blooms: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of mcy Genotypes, Including a Partial Operon That Can Be Abundant and Expressed, 2022, Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The scientist received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Biogenic manganese oxides: Properties and mechanisms of formation

    Bradley M. Tebo;John R. Bargar;Brian G. Clement;Gregory J. Dick

  • Community-wide analysis of microbial genome sequence signatures

    Gregory J Dick;Gregory J Dick;Anders F Andersson;Anders F Andersson;Brett J Baker;Sheri L Simmons

  • Evidence for the presence of Mn(III) intermediates in the bacterial oxidation of Mn(II)

    Samuel M. Webb;Gregory J. Dick;John R. Bargar;Bradley M. Tebo

  • Enigmatic, ultrasmall, uncultivated Archaea

    Brett J. Baker;Luis R. Comolli;Gregory J. Dick;Loren J. Hauser

  • Genomic resolution of linkages in carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling among widespread estuary sediment bacteria.

    Brett J Baker;Brett J Baker;Cassandre Sara Lazar;Cassandre Sara Lazar;Andreas P Teske;Gregory J Dick

  • The microbiomes of deep-sea hydrothermal vents: distributed globally, shaped locally.

    Gregory J. Dick

  • Sulfur oxidation genes in diverse deep-sea viruses

    Karthik Anantharaman;Melissa B. Duhaime;John A. Breier;Kathleen A. Wendt

  • Metagenomic Evidence for the Presence of Comammox Nitrospira-Like Bacteria in a Drinking Water System.

    Ameet J. Pinto;Daniel N. Marcus;Umer Zeeshan Ijaz;Quyen Melina Bautista de Lose Santos

  • Ecophysiological Examination of the Lake Erie Microcystis Bloom in 2014: Linkages between Biology and the Water Supply Shutdown of Toledo, OH

    Morgan M. Steffen;Timothy W. Davis;R. Michael L. McKay;George S. Bullerjahn

  • The microbiology of deep-sea hydrothermal vent plumes: ecological and biogeographic linkages to seafloor and water column habitats

    Gregory J. Dick;Karthik Anantharaman;Brett J. Baker;Meng Li

  • Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms are a biological disturbance to Western Lake Erie bacterial communities

    Michelle A. Berry;Timothy W. Davis;Rose M. Cory;Melissa B. Duhaime

  • Genomic evidence for distinct carbon substrate preferences and ecological niches of Bathyarchaeota in estuarine sediments

    Cassandre Sara Lazar;Cassandre Sara Lazar;Cassandre Sara Lazar;Brett J. Baker;Kiley Seitz;Andrew S. Hyde

  • Evidence for hydrogen oxidation and metabolic plasticity in widespread deep-sea sulfur-oxidizing bacteria

    Karthik Anantharaman;John A. Breier;Cody S. Sheik;Gregory J. Dick

  • Metabolic flexibility of enigmatic SAR324 revealed through metagenomics and metatranscriptomics

    Cody S. Sheik;Sunit Jain;Gregory J. Dick

  • Direct Identification of a Bacterial Manganese(II) Oxidase, the Multicopper Oxidase MnxG, from Spores of Several Different Marine Bacillus Species

    Gregory J. Dick;Justin W. Torpey;Terry J. Beveridge;Bradley M. Tebo

  • Gene-centric approach to integrating environmental genomics and biogeochemical models

    Daniel C. Reed;Christopher K. Algar;Julie A. Huber;Gregory J. Dick

  • Community Genomic and Proteomic Analyses of Chemoautotrophic Iron-Oxidizing “Leptospirillum rubarum” (Group II) and “Leptospirillum ferrodiazotrophum” (Group III) Bacteria in Acid Mine Drainage Biofilms

    Daniela S. Aliaga Goltsman;Vincent J. Denef;Steven W. Singer;Nathan C. VerBerkmoes

  • Models predict planned phosphorus load reduction will make Lake Erie more toxic

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  • The metatranscriptome of a deep-sea hydrothermal plume is dominated by water column methanotrophs and lithotrophs.

    Ryan A Lesniewski;Sunit Jain;Karthik Anantharaman;Patrick D Schloss

  • Genomic and transcriptomic evidence for scavenging of diverse organic compounds by widespread deep-sea archaea.

    Meng Li;Brett J. Baker;Brett J. Baker;Karthik Anantharaman;Sunit Jain

  • Community transcriptomic assembly reveals microbes that contribute to deep-sea carbon and nitrogen cycling.

    Brett J Baker;Cody S Sheik;Chris A Taylor;Sunit Jain

  • Interactions between nitrogen form, loading rate, and light intensity on Microcystis and Planktothrix growth and microcystin production.

    Justin D. Chaffin;Timothy W. Davis;Derek J. Smith;Mikayla M. Baer

Frequent Co-Authors

Brett J. Baker
Brett J. Baker The University of Texas at Austin
Brandy M. Toner
Brandy M. Toner University of Minnesota
Bradley M. Tebo
Bradley M. Tebo Oregon Health & Science University
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Thomas H. Johengen
Thomas H. Johengen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel C. Reed
Daniel C. Reed University of California, Santa Barbara
Susan B. Watson
Susan B. Watson Environment and Climate Change Canada
Nathan D. Sheldon
Nathan D. Sheldon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Steven W. Wilhelm
Steven W. Wilhelm University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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