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Justin R. Seymour is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Endocrinology.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, highlighting areas such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Vibrio bacteria research studies, and Marine and coastal plant biology.

Publications featuring Justin R. Seymour's contributions have often appeared in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Aquaculture
  • Environmental Microbiology

Some of the recent papers include:

  • Chemotaxis shapes the microscale organization of the ocean's microbiome, 2022, Nature
  • Symbiodiniaceae-bacteria interactions: rethinking metabolite exchange in reef-building corals as multi-partner metabolic networks, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Unlocking the phylogenetic diversity, primary habitats, and abundances of free-living Symbiodiniaceae on a coral reef, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Climate change alters the haemolymph microbiome of oysters, 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation, 2023, Earth system science data

Frequent co-authors with whom Justin R. Seymour has collaborated include:

  • Nachshon Siboni
  • Jean-Baptiste Raina
  • Martin Ostrowski
  • Anna R. Bramucci
  • David J. Suggett

Best Publications

  • Zooming in on the phycosphere: the ecological interface for phytoplankton-bacteria relationships.

    Justin R. Seymour;Shady A. Amin;Jean Baptiste Raina;Roman Stocker

  • Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches

    Roman Stocker;Justin R. Seymour;Azadeh Samadani;Dana E. Hunt

  • Chemoattraction to Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web

    Justin R. Seymour;Justin R. Seymour;Justin R. Seymour;Rafel Simó;Tanvir Ahmed;Roman Stocker

  • Can we manage coastal ecosystems to sequester more blue carbon

    Peter I. Macreadie;Daniel A. Nielsen;Jeffrey J. Kelleway;Jeffrey J. Kelleway;Trisha B. Atwood

  • Ecology and Physics of Bacterial Chemotaxis in the Ocean

    Roman Stocker;Justin R. Seymour

  • The role of microbial motility and chemotaxis in symbiosis

    Jean-Baptiste Raina;Vicente Fernandez;Bennett Lambert;Roman Stocker

  • A bacterial pathogen uses dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a cue to target heat-stressed corals

    Melissa Garren;Kwangmin Son;Jean Baptiste Raina;Jean Baptiste Raina;Roberto Rusconi

  • Chemotaxis shapes the microscale organization of the ocean’s microbiome

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  • Iron defecation by sperm whales stimulates carbon export in the Southern Ocean

    Trish J. Lavery;Ben Roudnew;Peter Gill;Justin Seymour;Justin Seymour

  • A phylogenomic and ecological analysis of the globally abundant Marine Group II archaea ( Ca . Poseidoniales ord. nov.)

    Christian Rinke;Francesco Rubino;Lauren F Messer;Noha Youssef

  • Simulated Marine Heat Wave Alters Abundance and Structure of Vibrio Populations Associated with the Pacific Oyster Resulting in a Mass Mortality Event.

    Timothy J. Green;Timothy J. Green;Nachshon Siboni;William L. King;Maurizio Labbate

  • Losses and recovery of organic carbon from a seagrass ecosystem following disturbance.

    Peter I. Macreadie;Peter I. Macreadie;Stacey M. Trevathan-Tackett;Charles G. Skilbeck;Jonathan Sanderman

  • Increased seawater temperature increases the abundance and alters the structure of natural Vibrio populations associated with the coral Pocillopora damicornis

    Jessica Tout;Nachshon Siboni;Lauren F. Messer;Melissa Garren

  • Symbiodiniaceae-bacteria interactions: rethinking metabolite exchange in reef-building corals as multi-partner metabolic networks

    Jennifer L. Matthews;Jean Baptiste Raina;Tim Kahlke;Justin R. Seymour

  • Sediment anoxia limits microbial-driven seagrass carbon remineralization under warming conditions.

    Stacey M Trevathan-Tackett;Justin R Seymour;Daniel A Nielsen;Peter I Macreadie;Peter I Macreadie

  • Defining the core microbiome of the symbiotic dinoflagellate, Symbiodinium.

    Caitlin A. Lawson;Jean-Baptiste Raina;Tim Kahlke;Justin R. Seymour

  • Oyster disease in a changing environment: Decrypting the link between pathogen, microbiome and environment.

    William L. King;Cheryl Jenkins;Justin R. Seymour;Maurizio Labbate

  • Bacterioplankton Dynamics within a Large Anthropogenically Impacted Urban Estuary

    Thomas C. Jeffries;Thomas C. Jeffries;Maria L. Schmitz Fontes;Daniel P. Harrison;Virginie Van-Dongen-Vogels

  • A horizon scan of priorities for coastal marine microbiome research

    Stacey M. Trevathan-Tackett;Craig D. H. Sherman;Megan J. Huggett;Megan J. Huggett;Alexandra H. Campbell;Alexandra H. Campbell

  • Resource Patch Formation and Exploitation throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web

    J. R. Seymour;Marcos;R. Stocker

  • Metagenomic comparison of microbial communities inhabiting confined and unconfined aquifer ecosystems

    Renee J. Smith;Thomas C. Jeffries;Ben Roudnew;Alison J. Fitch

  • Chronic Rhinosinusitis: Potential Role of Microbial Dysbiosis and Recommendations for Sampling Sites

    Elizabeth Copeland;Katherine Leonard;Richard Carney;Justin Kong

Frequent Co-Authors

James G. Mitchell
James G. Mitchell Flinders University
Laurent Seuront
Laurent Seuront Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Roman Stocker
Roman Stocker ETH Zurich
Peter J. Ralph
Peter J. Ralph University of Technology Sydney
Jean-Baptiste Raina
Jean-Baptiste Raina University of Technology Sydney
Mark V. Brown
Mark V. Brown University of Technology Sydney
Peter I. Macreadie
Peter I. Macreadie Deakin University
David J. Suggett
David J. Suggett University of Technology Sydney
David G. Bourne
David G. Bourne James Cook University
Martina A. Doblin
Martina A. Doblin University of Technology Sydney

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