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Overview

Hilary G. Morrison is affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory in the United States. Their research is primarily concentrated within the intersecting domains of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, and Medicine. Morrison's work often explores detailed mechanisms within molecular biology and ecological contexts, with significant contributions to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Epidemiology, and Oceanography.

The scientist's main research topics encompass Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Infant Nutrition and Health, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens Research.

Recent scholarly output includes several papers that reflect a focus on microbiomes and their ecological and physiological interactions:

  • Functional and genetic markers of niche partitioning among enigmatic members of the human oral microbiome (2020, Genome Biology)
  • Metabolic independence drives gut microbial colonization and resilience in health and disease (2023, Genome Biology)
  • Associations between the gut microbiome and metabolome in early life (2021, BMC Microbiology)
  • Infant Feeding Alters the Longitudinal Impact of Birth Mode on the Development of the Gut Microbiota in the First Year of Life (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • The infant gut resistome is associated with E. coli and early-life exposures (2021, BMC Microbiology)

Throughout their career, Morrison has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Microbiology, Genome Biology, BMC Microbiology, and Pediatric Research, indicating a focus on microbiology, molecular biology, and health-related biology.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Morrison's work, with frequent co-authors including Margaret R. Karagas, Juliette C. Madan, Anne G. Hoen, Karen Lolans, and A. Murat Eren. These collaborations suggest multi-disciplinary engagement across epidemiological, molecular, and ecological research.

Best Publications

  • Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere”

    Mitchell L. Sogin;Hilary G. Morrison;Julie A. Huber;David Mark Welch

  • Anvi'o: an advanced analysis and visualization platform for 'omics data.

    A. Murat Eren;A. Murat Eren;Özcan C. Esen;Christopher Quince;Joseph H. Vineis

  • Accuracy and quality of massively parallel DNA pyrosequencing

    Susan M. Huse;Julie A. Huber;Hilary G. Morrison;Mitchell L. Sogin

  • Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

    Susan M. Huse;David Mark Welch;Hilary G. Morrison;Mitchell L. Sogin

  • Microbial population structures in the deep marine biosphere.

    Julie A. Huber;David B. Mark Welch;Hilary G. Morrison;Susan M. Huse

  • Genomic minimalism in the early diverging intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia.

    Hilary G. Morrison;Andrew G. McArthur;Frances D. Gillin;Stephen B. Aley

  • Oligotyping: Differentiating between closely related microbial taxa using 16S rRNA gene data.

    A. Murat Eren;Loïs Maignien;Woo Jun Sul;Leslie G. Murphy

  • Reproducible Community Dynamics of the Gastrointestinal Microbiota following Antibiotic Perturbation

    Dionysios A. Antonopoulos;Susan M. Huse;Hilary G. Morrison;Thomas M. Schmidt

  • Rapid, low-input, low-bias construction of shotgun fragment libraries by high-density in vitro transposition

    Andrew Adey;Hilary G Morrison;Asan;Xu Xun

  • Minimum entropy decomposition: unsupervised oligotyping for sensitive partitioning of high-throughput marker gene sequences.

    A Murat Eren;Hilary G Morrison;Pamela J Lescault;Julie Reveillaud

  • Serial Analysis of the Gut and Respiratory Microbiome in Cystic Fibrosis in Infancy: Interaction between Intestinal and Respiratory Tracts and Impact of Nutritional Exposures

    J. C. Madan;D. C. Koestler;B. A. Stanton;L. Davidson

  • Analysis, Optimization and Verification of Illumina-Generated 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Surveys

    Michael C. Nelson;Hilary G. Morrison;Jacquelynn Benjamino;Sharon L. Grim

  • Microplastic bacterial communities in the Bay of Brest: Influence of polymer type and size.

    Laura Frère;Lois Maignien;Morgane Chalopin;Arnaud Huvet

  • A Filtering Method to Generate High Quality Short Reads Using Illumina Paired-End Technology

    A. Murat Eren;Joseph H. Vineis;Hilary G. Morrison;Mitchell L. Sogin

  • Association of Cesarean Delivery and Formula Supplementation With the Intestinal Microbiome of 6-Week-Old Infants

    Juliette C. Madan;Juliette C. Madan;Anne G. Hoen;Sara N. Lundgren;Shohreh F. Farzan

  • Sewage reflects the microbiomes of human populations.

    Ryan J. Newton;Sandra L. McLellan;Deborah K. Dila;Joseph H. Vineis

  • Broadly Sampled Multigene Analyses Yield a Well-Resolved Eukaryotic Tree of Life

    Laura Wegener Parfrey;Jessica Grant;Yonas I. Tekle;Yonas I. Tekle;Erica Lasek-Nesselquist;Erica Lasek-Nesselquist

  • GiardiaDB and TrichDB: integrated genomic resources for the eukaryotic protist pathogens Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis

    Cristina Aurrecoechea;John Brestelli;Brian P. Brunk;Jane M. Carlton

  • A Microbial Signature Approach to Identify Fecal Pollution in the Waters Off an Urbanized Coast of Lake Michigan

    Ryan J. Newton;Melinda J. Bootsma;Hilary G. Morrison;Mitchell L. Sogin

  • VAMPS: a website for visualization and analysis of microbial population structures

    Susan M Huse;David B Mark Welch;Andy Voorhis;Anna Shipunova

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitchell L. Sogin
Mitchell L. Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory
A. Murat Eren
A. Murat Eren Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Susan M. Huse
Susan M. Huse Brown University
Margaret R. Karagas
Margaret R. Karagas Dartmouth College
Deborah A. Hogan
Deborah A. Hogan Dartmouth College
Andrew G. McArthur
Andrew G. McArthur McMaster University
Sandra L. McLellan
Sandra L. McLellan University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Jason H. Moore
Jason H. Moore University of Pennsylvania
Julie A. Huber
Julie A. Huber Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Vincent B. Young
Vincent B. Young University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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