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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
92
Citations
51395
World Ranking
2162
National Ranking
1170

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2011 - ASM D.C. White Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2009 - ASM Carski Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2008 - ASM Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Francis E. Clark Distinguished Lectureship on the Frontiers in Soil Biology, American Society of Agronomy

Overview

Jo Handelsman is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their primary field of study is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology as a major subfield. Additional subfields include Ecology, Education, Social Psychology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's research topics prominently encompass bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, gut microbiota and health, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, microbial community ecology and physiology, career development and diversity, and bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Recent published papers include:

  • Chemically informed analyses of metabolomics mass spectrometry data with Qemistree (2020), Nature Chemical Biology
  • Microbiome composition modulates secondary metabolism in a multispecies bacterial community (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • GNPS Dashboard: collaborative exploration of mass spectrometry data in the web browser (2021), Nature Methods
  • Achieving STEM diversity: Fix the classrooms (2022), Science
  • Tiny Earth: A Big Idea for STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery (2021), mBio

Frequent coauthors include Marc G. Chevrette, Amanda Hurley, Gabriel L. Lozano, Nichole A. Broderick, and Sarah Miller.

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), mBio, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, mSystems, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Jo Handelsman has also contributed to books published by Yale University Press, including two editions of A World Without Soil (2021).

Awards received include:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019)
  • ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award, American Society for Microbiology (2013)
  • ASM D.C. White Award, American Society for Microbiology (2011)
  • ASM Carski Award, American Society for Microbiology (2009)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2008)
  • ASM Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women, American Society for Microbiology (2008)
  • Francis E. Clark Distinguished Lectureship on the Frontiers in Soil Biology, American Society of Agronomy (2002)

Best Publications

  • Metagenomics: Application of Genomics to Uncultured Microorganisms

    Jo Handelsman

  • Introducing DOTUR, a Computer Program for Defining Operational Taxonomic Units and Estimating Species Richness

    Patrick D. Schloss;Jo Handelsman

  • Molecular biological access to the chemistry of unknown soil microbes: a new frontier for natural products

    Jo Handelsman;Michelle R. Rondon;Sean F. Brady;Jon Clardy

  • Call of the wild: antibiotic resistance genes in natural environments

    Heather K. Allen;Justin Donato;Helena Huimi Wang;Karen A. Cloud-Hansen

  • Cloning the soil metagenome: a strategy for accessing the genetic and functional diversity of uncultured microorganisms.

    Michelle R. Rondon;Paul R. August;Alan D. Bettermann;Sean F. Brady

  • Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience

    Ashley Shade;Hannes Peter;Steven D. Allison;Didier L. Baho

  • Metagenomics: genomic analysis of microbial communities.

    Christian S. Riesenfeld;Patrick D. Schloss;Jo Handelsman

  • Beyond the Venn diagram: the hunt for a core microbiome

    Ashley Shade;Jo Handelsman

  • Education. Scientific teaching.

    Jo Handelsman;Diane Ebert-May;Robert Beichner;Peter Bruns

  • Increasing Persistence of College Students in STEM

    Mark J. Graham;Jennifer Frederick;Angela Byars-Winston;Anne Barrie Hunter

  • Biocontrol of Soilborne Plant Pathogens.

    Jo Handelsman;Eric V. Stabb

  • Biocontrol of plant disease : a (Gram-) positive perspective

    Elizabeth A.B Emmert;Jo Handelsman

  • Biotechnological prospects from metagenomics

    Patrick D Schloss;Jo Handelsman

  • Status of the Microbial Census

    Patrick D. Schloss;Jo Handelsman

  • Conditionally Rare Taxa Disproportionately Contribute to Temporal Changes in Microbial Diversity

    Ashley Shade;Stuart E. Jones;J. Gregory Caporaso;J. Gregory Caporaso;Jo Handelsman

  • Uncultured soil bacteria are a reservoir of new antibiotic resistance genes

    Christian S. Riesenfeld;Robert M. Goodman;Jo Handelsman

  • Isolation of antibiotics turbomycin a and B from a metagenomic library of soil microbial DNA.

    Doreen E. Gillespie;Sean F. Brady;Alan D. Bettermann;Nicholas P. Cianciotto

  • Functional metagenomics reveals diverse beta-lactamases in a remote Alaskan soil.

    Heather K Allen;Luke A Moe;Jitsupang Rodbumrer;Jitsupang Rodbumrer;Andra Gaarder

  • Census of the Bacterial Community of the Gypsy Moth Larval Midgut by Using Culturing and Culture-Independent Methods

    Nichole A. Broderick;Kenneth F. Raffa;Robert M. Goodman;Jo Handelsman

  • Midgut bacteria required for Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal activity

    Nichole A. Broderick;Kenneth F. Raffa;Jo Handelsman

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Goodman
Robert M. Goodman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Patrick D. Schloss
Patrick D. Schloss University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kenneth F. Raffa
Kenneth F. Raffa University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy Harvard University
Ashley Shade
Ashley Shade Michigan State University
Corinne A. Moss-Racusin
Corinne A. Moss-Racusin Skidmore College
Mark R. Liles
Mark R. Liles Auburn University
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego

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