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  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Jody W. Deming is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has contributed extensively to fields related to Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on subfields such as Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Plant Virus Research Studies, and Polar Research and Ecology.

Jody W. Deming has published multiple research papers in a variety of scientific journals. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages, 2022, Cell
  • Viral Ecogenomics of Arctic Cryopeg Brine and Sea Ice, 2020, mSystems
  • Divergent Genomic Adaptations in the Microbiomes of Arctic Subzero Sea-Ice and Cryopeg Brines, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Microbial metabolomic responses to changes in temperature and salinity along the western Antarctic Peninsula, 2023, The ISME Journal
  • Lower viral evolutionary pressure under stable versus fluctuating conditions in subzero Arctic brines, 2023, Microbiome

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as Frontiers in Microbiology, The ISME Journal, Limnology and Oceanography, Cell, and mSystems.

Jody W. Deming collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Josephine Z. Rapp, Matthew B. Sullivan, Zhi-Ping Zhong, Shelly D. Carpenter, and Zachary S. Cooper.

In 2003, the scientist was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The psychrophilic lifestyle as revealed by the genome sequence of Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H through genomic and proteomic analyses

    Barbara A. Methé;Karen E. Nelson;Jody W. Deming;Bahram Momen

  • Global bathymetric patterns of standing stock and body size in the deep-sea benthos

    Michael A. Rex;Ron J. Etter;Jeremy S. Morris;Jenifer Crouse

  • Bacterial Activity at −2 to −20°C in Arctic Wintertime Sea Ice

    Karen Junge;Hajo Eicken;Jody W. Deming

  • High concentrations of exopolymeric substances in Arctic winter sea ice: implications for the polar ocean carbon cycle and cryoprotection of diatoms

    C Krembs;H Eicken;K Junge;J.W Deming

  • Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats

    Antje Boetius;Alexandre M B Anesio;Jody W. Deming;Jill A. Mikucki

  • Psychrophiles and polar regions.

    Jody W Deming

  • Vent fauna on whale remains

    C. R. Smith;H. Kukert;R. A. Wheatcroft;P. A. Jumars

  • Global Patterns and Predictions of Seafloor Biomass Using Random Forests

    Chih-Lin Wei;Gilbert T. Rowe;Elva Escobar-Briones;Antje Boetius

  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages

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  • Deep-sea smokers: windows to a subsurface biosphere?

    Jody W Deming;John A Baross

  • Exopolymer alteration of physical properties of sea ice and implications for ice habitability and biogeochemistry in a warmer Arctic

    Christopher Krembs;Hajo Eicken;Jody W. Deming

  • Growth of `black smoker' bacteria at temperatures of at least 250 °C

    John A. Baross;Jody W. Deming

  • Deep-Sea Deposit-Feeding Strategies Suggested by Environmental and Feeding Constraints

    P. A. Jumars;L. M. Mayer;J. W. Deming;J. A. Baross

  • The Early Diagenesis of Organic Matter: Bacterial Activity

    Jody W. Deming;John A. Baross

  • A Predictive Model of Bacterial Foraging by Means of Freely Released Extracellular Enzymes

    YA Vetter;JW Deming;PA Jumars;BB Krieger-Brockett

  • Remarkably low temperature optima for extracellular enzyme activity from Arctic bacteria and sea ice

    Adrienne L. Huston;Barbara B. Krieger-Brockett;Jody W. Deming

  • Phylogenetic diversity of numerically important Arctic sea-ice bacteria cultured at subzero temperature.

    Junge K;Imhoff F;Staley T;Deming Jw

  • Microbial community structure of Arctic multiyear sea ice and surface seawater by 454 sequencing of the 16S RNA gene.

    Jeff S Bowman;Simon Rasmussen;Nikolaj Blom;Jody W Deming

  • Isolation of an Obligately Barophilic Bacterium and Description of a New Genus, Colwellia gen. nov.

    Jody W. Deming;Jody W. Deming;Leslie K. Somers;William L. Straube;David G. Swartz

  • Purification, Characterization, and Sequencing of an Extracellular Cold-Active Aminopeptidase Produced by Marine Psychrophile Colwellia psychrerythraea Strain 34H

    Adrienne L. Huston;Barbara Methe;Jody W. Deming

  • Production of cryoprotectant extracellular polysaccharide substances (EPS) by the marine psychrophilic bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H under extreme conditions.

    Joseph G. MarxJ.G. Marx;Shelly D. CarpenterS.D. Carpenter;Jody W. DemingJ.W. Deming

Frequent Co-Authors

Hajo Eicken
Hajo Eicken Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell University of Maryland, College Park
Gilbert T. Rowe
Gilbert T. Rowe Texas A&M University
Louis Fortier
Louis Fortier Université Laval
Tim Papakyriakou
Tim Papakyriakou University of Manitoba
Søren Rysgaard
Søren Rysgaard Aarhus University
Stephen A. Macko
Stephen A. Macko University of Virginia
Myriam Sibuet
Myriam Sibuet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
John A. Baross
John A. Baross University of Washington
David G. Barber
David G. Barber University of Manitoba

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