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Overview

James T. Staley is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their recent research contributions include work focused on gene expression analysis, with a specific emphasis on understanding direct effects through conditional differential gene expression methodologies.

One notable paper published by James T. Staley is titled Distilling Direct Effects via Conditional Differential Gene Expression Analysis, which appeared in 2025 in the journal bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). This publication marks their documented contribution to open-access preprint literature in the field of molecular biology and genomics.

James T. Staley collaborates frequently with a set of co-authors, indicating ongoing joint research efforts. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Jiaqi Gu
  • Andrew Skelton
  • Pierce Oran Popson
  • Peng Lei
  • Xiaoyu Song

The primary publication venue associated with James T. Staley's work is:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The focus of James T. Staley's research is reflected in the nature of their recent work, which involves advanced statistical and computational approaches to gene expression data. Although broader main fields and subfields of study are not listed, the specific contribution to differential gene expression highlights an intersection of computational biology, genetics, and bioinformatics.

Best Publications

  • Microbial biogeography : putting microorganisms on the map

    Jennifer B.Hughes Martiny;Brendan J.M. Bohannan;James H. Brown;Robert K. Colwell

  • Measurement of in situ activities of nonphotosynthetic microorganisms in aquatic and terrestrial habitats.

    James T. Staley;Allan Konopka

  • Cycloclasticus pugetii gen. nov., sp. nov., an Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacterium from Marine Sediments

    Dyksterhouse Se;Gray Jp;Herwig Rp;Lara Jc

  • Poles apart: biodiversity and biogeography of sea ice bacteria.

    James T. Staley;John J. Gosink

  • Polaribacter gen. nov., with three new species, P. irgensii sp. nov., P. franzmannii sp. nov. and P. filamentus sp. nov., gas vacuolate polar marine bacteria of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group and reclassification of 'Flectobacillus glomeratus' as Polaribacter glomeratus comb. nov

    John J. Gosink;Carl R. Woese;James T. Staley

  • Microcolonial fungi: common inhabitants on desert rocks?

    James T. Staley;Fred Palmer;John B. Adams

  • The bacterial species dilemma and the genomic-phylogenetic species concept.

    James T Staley

  • Anaerobic naphthalene degradation by microbial pure cultures under nitrate-reducing conditions

    Karl J. Rockne;Joanne C. Chee-Sanford;Robert A. Sanford;Brian P. Hedlund

  • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Degradation by a New Marine Bacterium, Neptunomonas naphthovorans gen. nov., sp. nov

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  • The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic bacteria

    David R. Boone;Richard W. Castenholz;George M. Garrity;James T. Staley

  • Diazotrophic endophytes of native black cottonwood and willow

    Sharon L. Doty;Brian Oakley;Gang Xin;Jun Won Kang

  • Genes for the cytoskeletal protein tubulin in the bacterial genus Prosthecobacter

    Cheryl Jenkins;Ram Samudrala;Iain Anderson;Brian P. Hedlund

  • Polaromonas vacuolata gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrophilic, marine, gas vacuolate bacterium from Antarctica.

    R. L. Irgens;J. J. Gosink;J. T. Staley

  • Octadecabacter arcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., and O. antarcticus, sp. nov., Nonpigmented, Psychrophilic Gas Vacuolate Bacteria from Polar Sea Ice and Water

    J.J. Gosink;R.P. Herwig;J.T. Staley

  • Fungi and bacteria involved in desert varnish formation

    S. Taylor-George;F. Palmer;J. T. Staley;D. J. Borns

  • Vibrio cyclotrophicus sp. nov., a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading marine bacterium.

    Brian P. Hedlund;James T. Staley

  • Genomics of an extreme psychrophile, Psychromonas ingrahamii

    Monica Riley;James T Staley;Antoine Danchin;Ting Zhang Wang

  • Morphological, physiological, and molecular characterization of actinomycetes isolated from dry soil, rocks, and monument surfaces

    Martin Eppard;W. E. Krumbein;Cathrin Koch;Erhard Rhiel

  • Enumeration and phylogenetic analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacteria from Puget sound sediments.

    A D Geiselbrecht;R P Herwig;J W Deming;J T Staley

  • Phylum Verrucomicrobia representatives share a compartmentalized cell plan with members of bacterial phylum Planctomycetes

    Kuo-Chang Lee;Richard I Webb;Peter H Janssen;Parveen Sangwan

  • Biodiversity: are microbial species threatened?

    James T Staley

  • The alpha-, beta-, delta-, and epsilonproteobacteria

    Don J. Brenner;Noel R. Krieg;James T. Staley;George M. Garrity

Frequent Co-Authors

Don J. Brenner
Don J. Brenner Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Fred A. Rainey
Fred A. Rainey University of Florida
George M. Garrity
George M. Garrity Michigan State University
Paul De Vos
Paul De Vos Ghent University
Michael Goodfellow
Michael Goodfellow Newcastle University
Karl-Heinz Schleifer
Karl-Heinz Schleifer Technical University of Munich
John A. Fuerst
John A. Fuerst University of Queensland
James W. Murray
James W. Murray University of Washington
William B. Whitman
William B. Whitman University of Georgia
John B. Adams
John B. Adams University of Washington

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