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Overview

Joy D. Van Nostrand is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on microbial community ecology and physiology.

Their recent publications include a range of topics related to soil biology, microbial networks, and environmental impacts. Notable works are:

  • Environmental stress mediates groundwater microbial community assembly, 2024, Nature Microbiology
  • Disentangling direct from indirect relationships in association networks, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Soil aggregate size-dependent relationships between microbial functional diversity and multifunctionality, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Gene-informed decomposition model predicts lower soil carbon loss due to persistent microbial adaptation to warming, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Warming-induced permafrost thaw exacerbates tundra soil carbon decomposition mediated by microbial community, 2020, Microbiome

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jizhong Zhou
  • Daliang Ning
  • Yunfeng Yang
  • Zhili He
  • Terry C. Hazen

Van Nostrand has published multiple papers in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Microbiome
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Microbiology

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, Van Nostrand focuses on subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pollution
  • Soil Science
  • Endocrinology

The primary topics addressed in their research are:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Best Publications

  • Deep-sea oil plume enriches indigenous oil-degrading bacteria.

    Terry C. Hazen;Eric A. Dubinsky;Todd Z. DeSantis;Gary L. Andersen

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Microbial mediation of carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate warming

    Jizhong Zhou;Kai Xue;Jianping Xie;Jianping Xie;Ye Deng

  • Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Lina Shen;Chongqing Wen

  • Reproducibility and quantitation of amplicon sequencing-based detection

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Liyou Wu;Ye Deng;Xiaoyang Zhi

  • GeoChip 3.0 as a high-throughput tool for analyzing microbial community composition, structure and functional activity

    Zhili He;Ye Deng;Joy D Van Nostrand;Qichao Tu

  • Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

    Kai Xue;Kai Xue;Mengting M. Yuan;Zhou J. Shi;Yujia Qin

  • Climate warming leads to divergent succession of grassland microbial communities

    Xue Guo;Jiajie Feng;Zhou Shi;Xishu Zhou;Xishu Zhou

  • Stochastic assembly leads to alternative communities with distinct functions in a bioreactor microbial community.

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Wenzong Liu;Wenzong Liu;Ye Deng;Yi-Huei Jiang

  • Environmental filtering decreases with fish development for the assembly of gut microbiota

    Qingyun Yan;Jinjin Li;Yuhe Yu;Jianjun Wang;Jianjun Wang

  • Metagenomic analysis reveals a marked divergence in the structure of belowground microbial communities at elevated CO2

    Zhili He;Meiying Xu;Ye Deng;Sanghoon Kang

  • Responses of the functional structure of soil microbial community to livestock grazing in the Tibetan alpine grassland

    Yunfeng Yang;Linwei Wu;Qiaoyan Lin;Mengting Yuan

  • Phasing amplicon sequencing on Illumina Miseq for robust environmental microbial community analysis

    Liyou Wu;Chongqing Wen;Chongqing Wen;Yujia Qin;Huaqun Yin;Huaqun Yin;Huaqun Yin

  • Microbial gene functions enriched in the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea oil plume

    Zhenmei Lu;Zhenmei Lu;Ye Deng;Joy D Van Nostrand;Zhili He

  • Efficient Genome Editing in Clostridium cellulolyticum via CRISPR-Cas9 Nickase.

    Tao Xu;Yongchao Li;Zhou Shi;Christopher L. Hemme

  • Functional gene diversity of soil microbial communities from five oil-contaminated fields in China.

    Yuting Liang;Joy D Van Nostrand;Joy D Van Nostrand;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Zhili He;Zhili He

  • Soil aggregate size mediates the impacts of cropping regimes on soil carbon and microbial communities

    Pankaj Trivedi;Ian J Rochester;Chanda Trivedi;Joy D Van Nostrand

  • GeoChip 4: a functional gene-array-based high-throughput environmental technology for microbial community analysis.

    Qichao Tu;Hao Yu;Hao Yu;Hao Yu;Zhili He;Ye Deng

  • Huanglongbing alters the structure and functional diversity of microbial communities associated with citrus rhizosphere.

    Pankaj Trivedi;Zhili He;Zhili He;Joy D Van Nostrand;Joy D Van Nostrand;Gene Albrigo

  • In situ bioreduction of uranium (VI) to submicromolar levels and reoxidation by dissolved oxygen.

    Weimin Wu;Jack M Carley;Jian Luo;Matthew A. Ginder-Vogel

  • Microbial community analysis of a coastal salt marsh affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

    Melanie J. Beazley;Robert J. Martinez;Suja Rajan;Jessica J Powell

  • How sulphate-reducing microorganisms cope with stress: lessons from systems biology

    Jizhong Zhou;Qiang He;Christopher L. Hemme;Aindrila Mukhopadhyay

  • Warming enhances old organic carbon decomposition through altering functional microbial communities

    Lei Cheng;Lei Cheng;Naifang Zhang;Mengting Yuan;Jing Xiao

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Ye Deng
Ye Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liyou Wu
Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma
Terry C. Hazen
Terry C. Hazen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yunfeng Yang
Yunfeng Yang Tsinghua University
Kai Xue
Kai Xue Chinese Academy of Sciences
Daliang Ning
Daliang Ning University of Oklahoma
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University

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