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Julia Kubanek is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily centers on materials science, with a significant focus on materials chemistry. The scientist's work also spans molecular biology, ecology, biotechnology, and pharmacology.

The main topics of Julia Kubanek's research include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, marine sponges and natural products, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, and marine toxins and detection methods.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Natural Products
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Julia Kubanek has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequent coauthors include Bhuwan K. Chhetri, Cassandra L. Quave, Lewis Marquez, Riya Bhanushali, and David A. Delgadillo.

Some of the recent papers produced by Julia Kubanek's research group are:

  • "Antimalarial Peptide and Polyketide Natural Products from the Fijian Marine Cyanobacterium Moorea producens," 2020, Marine Drugs
  • "A blueprint for academic laboratories to produce SARS-CoV-2 quantitative RT-PCR test kits," 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Marine Natural Products as Leads against SARS-CoV-2 Infection," 2022, Journal of Natural Products
  • "High-Throughput Identification of Crystalline Natural Products from Crude Extracts Enabled by Microarray Technology and microED," 2023, ACS Central Science
  • "Harmful alga trades off growth and toxicity in response to cues from dead phytoplankton," 2020, Limnology and Oceanography

Best Publications

  • Seaweed resistance to microbial attack: A targeted chemical defense against marine fungi

    Julia Kubanek;Paul R. Jensen;Paul A. Keifer;M. Cameron Sullards

  • Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry reveals surface-mediated antifungal chemical defense of a tropical seaweed

    Amy L. Lane;Leonard Nyadong;Asiri S. Galhena;Tonya L. Shearer

  • CHEMICALLY MEDIATED COMPETITION BETWEEN MICROBES AND ANIMALS: MICROBES AS CONSUMERS IN FOOD WEBS

    Deron E. Burkepile;John D. Parker;C. Brock Woodson;Heath J. Mills

  • A competitive ELISA to detect brevetoxins from Karenia brevis (formerly Gymnodinium breve) in seawater, shellfish, and mammalian body fluid

    Jerome Naar;Andrea Bourdelais;Carmelo Tomas;Julia Kubanek

  • Multiple defensive roles for triterpene glycosides from two Caribbean sponges

    Julia Kubanek;Kristen E. Whalen;Sebastian Engel;Sarah R. Kelly

  • Does the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis use allelopathy to outcompete other phytoplankton

    Julia Kubanek;Melissa K. Hicks;Jerome Naar;Tracy A. Villareal

  • Predator lipids induce paralytic shellfish toxins in bloom-forming algae.

    Erik Selander;Julia Kubanek;Julia Kubanek;Mats Hamberg;Mats X. Andersson

  • A protein signal triggers sexual reproduction in Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera)

    Terry W. Snell;Julia Kubanek;William Carter;Audra B. Payne

  • Effects of harmful algal blooms on competitors: Allelopathic mechanisms of the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis

    Emily K. Prince;Tracey L. Myers;Julia Kubanek

  • New fish-killing alga in coastal Delaware produces neurotoxins.

    Andrea J Bourdelais;Carmelo R Tomas;Jerome Naar;Julia Kubanek

  • Metabolomics and proteomics reveal impacts of chemically mediated competition on marine plankton

    Kelsey L. Poulson-Ellestad;Christina M. Jones;Jessie Roy;Mark R. Viant

  • Cytotoxic alkaloids from the flatworm Prostheceraeus villatus and its tunicate prey Clavelina lepadiformis

    Julia Kubanek;David E. Williams;E.Dilip de Silva;Theresa Allen

  • Ambiguous role of phlorotannins as chemical defenses in the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus

    Julia Kubanek;Sarah E. Lester;William Fenical;Mark E. Hay

  • Community and ecosystem level consequences of chemical cues in the plankton.

    Mark E. Hay;Julia Kubanek

  • Antimalarial bromophycolides J-Q from the Fijian red alga Callophycus serratus.

    Amy L. Lane;E. Paige Stout;An-Shen Lin;Jacques Prudhomme

  • High content live cell imaging for the discovery of new antimalarial marine natural products

    Serena Cervantes;Paige E Stout;Jacques Prudhomme;Sebastian Engel

  • Bioactive bromophycolides R-U from the Fijian Red Alga Callophycus serratus.

    An-Shen Lin;E. Paige Stout;Jacques Prudhomme;Karine Le Roch

  • Fitness consequences for copepods feeding on a red tide dinoflagellate: Deciphering the effects of nutritional value, toxicity, and feeding behavior

    Emily K. Prince;Liliana Lettieri;Katherine J. McCurdy;Julia Kubanek

  • Chemical ecology of the marine plankton.

    R. Drew Sieg;Kelsey L. Poulson-Ellestad;Julia Kubanek

  • Triterpene glycosides defend the Caribbean reef sponge Erylus formosus from predatory fishes

    Julia Kubanek;Joseph R. Pawlik;Tegan M. Eve;William Fenical

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark E. Hay
Mark E. Hay Georgia Institute of Technology
Karine G. Le Roch
Karine G. Le Roch University of California, Riverside
Raymond J. Andersen
Raymond J. Andersen University of British Columbia
Terry W. Snell
Terry W. Snell Georgia Institute of Technology
William Fenical
William Fenical University of California, San Diego
Facundo M. Fernández
Facundo M. Fernández Georgia Institute of Technology
Scott G. Franzblau
Scott G. Franzblau University of Illinois at Chicago
John D. Parker
John D. Parker Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Jeffrey Skolnick
Jeffrey Skolnick Georgia Institute of Technology
Marc J. Weissburg
Marc J. Weissburg Georgia Institute of Technology

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