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Overview

Julie A. Huber is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields with a strong emphasis on Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these areas, their work touches on several subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Oceanography
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Huber's research topics are diverse but show a clear focus on microbial ecosystems and their environmental interactions. The main topics can be summarized as:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Their recent publications illustrate this breadth with papers in various scientific journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • The Enceladus Orbilander Mission Concept: Balancing Return and Resources in the Search for Life, 2021, The Planetary Science Journal
  • Impacts of Deep-Sea Mining on Microbial Ecosystem Services, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Metabolic Strategies of Marine Subseafloor Chloroflexi Inferred from Genome Reconstructions, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Oxidation Processes Diversify the Metabolic Menu on Enceladus, 2020, Icarus
  • Time-series Transcriptomics from Cold, Oxic Subseafloor Crustal Fluids Reveals a Motile, Mixotrophic Microbial Community, 2020, The ISME Journal

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated regularly with Huber include:

  • Christopher R. German
  • R. Anderson
  • Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert
  • Jeffrey S. Seewald
  • Joseph J. Vallino

Their work has been published frequently in several key venues, predominantly those focused on microbiology and environmental sciences:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • mSystems

Best Publications

  • Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere”

    Mitchell L. Sogin;Hilary G. Morrison;Julie A. Huber;David Mark Welch

  • Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

    Stilianos Louca;Martin F Polz;Florent Mazel;Florent Mazel;Michaeline B N Albright

  • Accuracy and quality of massively parallel DNA pyrosequencing

    Susan M. Huse;Julie A. Huber;Hilary G. Morrison;Mitchell L. Sogin

  • Exploring microbial diversity and taxonomy using SSU rRNA hypervariable tag sequencing.

    Susan M. Huse;Les Dethlefsen;Julie A. Huber;David B. Mark Welch

  • Microbial population structures in the deep marine biosphere.

    Julie A. Huber;David B. Mark Welch;Hilary G. Morrison;Susan M. Huse

  • Temporal changes in archaeal diversity and chemistry in a mid-ocean ridge subseafloor habitat.

    Julie A. Huber;David A. Butterfield;John A. Baross

  • Host-specificity among abundant and rare taxa in the sponge microbiome.

    Julie Reveillaud;Loïs Maignien;A Murat Eren;Julie A Huber

  • Bacterial diversity in a subseafloor habitat following a deep-sea volcanic eruption

    Julie A Huber;David A Butterfield;John A Baross

  • Microbial life in ridge flank crustal fluids.

    Julie A. Huber;H. Paul Johnson;David A. Butterfield;John A. Baross

  • Gene-centric approach to integrating environmental genomics and biogeochemical models

    Daniel C. Reed;Christopher K. Algar;Julie A. Huber;Gregory J. Dick

  • SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE AND INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS FOR PROTECTION OF ACTIVE HYDROTHERMAL VENT ECOSYSTEMS FROM DEEP-SEA MINING

    C. L. Van Dover;Sophie Arnaud-Haond;M. Gianni;S. Helmreich

  • Active submarine eruption of boninite in the northeastern Lau Basin

    Joseph A. Resing;Kenneth H. Rubin;Robert W. Embley;John E. Lupton

  • Diverse styles of submarine venting on the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise

    C.R. German;A. Bowen;M.L. Coleman;D.L. Honig

  • Effect of PCR amplicon size on assessments of clone library microbial diversity and community structure

    Julie A. Huber;Hilary G. Morrison;Susan M. Huse;Phillip R. Neal

  • A dynamic microbial community with high functional redundancy inhabits the cold, oxic subseafloor aquifer

    B. J. Tully;C. G. Wheat;B. T. Glazer;J. A. Huber

  • Mixing, Reaction and Microbial Activity in the Sub‐Seafloor Revealed by Temporal and Spatial Variation in Diffuse Flow Vents at Axial Volcano

    David A. Butterfield;Kevin K. Roe;Marvin D. Lilley;Julie A. Huber

  • Microbial provinces in the subseafloor

    Matthew O. Schrenk;Julie A. Huber;Katrina J. Edwards

  • Correction: Exploring Microbial Diversity and Taxonomy Using SSU rRNA Hypervariable Tag Sequencing

    Susan M. Huse;Les Dethlefsen;Julie A. Huber;David Mark Welch

  • The Enceladus Orbilander Mission Concept: Balancing Return and Resources in the Search for Life

    Shannon M. MacKenzie;Marc Neveu;Marc Neveu;Alfonso F. Davila;Johnathan I. Lunine

  • Impacts of deep‐sea mining on microbial ecosystem services

    Beth N. Orcutt;James A. Bradley;William J. Brazelton;Emily R. Estes

  • Coupled RNA-SIP and metatranscriptomics of active chemolithoautotrophic communities at a deep-sea hydrothermal vent

    Caroline S Fortunato;Julie A Huber

  • Isolated communities of Epsilonproteobacteria in hydrothermal vent fluids of the Mariana Arc seamounts

    Julie A. Huber;Holly V. Cantin;Susan M. Huse;David B. Mark Welch

  • Hydrogen-limited growth of hyperthermophilic methanogens at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

    Helene C. Ver Eecke;David A. Butterfield;Julie A. Huber;Marvin D. Lilley

  • Subseafloor microbial communities in hydrogen‐rich vent fluids from hydrothermal systems along the Mid‐Cayman Rise

    Julie Reveillaud;Emily Reddington;Jill M. McDermott;Christopher K. Algar

  • Phylogenetic diversity and functional gene patterns of sulfur-oxidizing subseafloor Epsilonproteobacteria in diffuse hydrothermal vent fluids.

    Nancy H Akerman;Nancy H Akerman;David A Butterfield;Julie A Huber

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Butterfield
David A. Butterfield University of Washington
Jeffrey S. Seewald
Jeffrey S. Seewald Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Peter R. Girguis
Peter R. Girguis Harvard University
Mitchell L. Sogin
Mitchell L. Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory
Sean P. Sylva
Sean P. Sylva Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Christopher R. German
Christopher R. German Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Max Coleman
Max Coleman Jet Propulsion Lab
Susan M. Huse
Susan M. Huse Brown University
John A. Baross
John A. Baross University of Washington
Tori M. Hoehler
Tori M. Hoehler Ames Research Center

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