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Katherine D. McMahon is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. The main area of their research lies within Environmental Science, with a substantial focus on Ecology and Molecular Biology among other subfields. Their work encompasses various specialized topics related to microbial ecology and environmental processes.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

The subfields in which they have contributed notably are:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pollution
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering

Key research topics covered in their publications involve:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Katherine D. McMahon has contributed to a range of recent scientific papers in prominent journals. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics" (2020, Nature)
  • "Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages" (2022, Cell)
  • "Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics" (2023, Nature)
  • "Standardized multi-omics of Earth's microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity" (2022, Nature Microbiology)
  • "Depth-discrete metagenomics reveals the roles of microbes in biogeochemical cycling in the tropical freshwater Lake Tanganyika" (2021, The ISME Journal)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Elizabeth McDaniel
  • Patricia Q. Tran
  • Benjamin D. Peterson
  • Daniel R. Noguera
  • Robin R. Rohwer

Publication venues where they have frequently contributed consist of:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mSystems
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nature Microbiology
  • The ISME Journal

Best Publications

  • Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

    Robert M. Bowers;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Miranda Harmon-Smith

  • A Guide to the Natural History of Freshwater Lake Bacteria

    Ryan J. Newton;Stuart E. Jones;Alexander Eiler;Katherine D. McMahon

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Metagenomic analysis of two enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) sludge communities

    Héctor García Martín;Natalia Ivanova;Victor Kunin;Falk Warnecke

  • Tetracycline resistance genes in activated sludge wastewater treatment plants.

    Eric A. Auerbach;Erin E. Seyfried;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Metabolic network analysis reveals microbial community interactions in anammox granules.

    Christopher E. Lawson;Sha Wu;Ananda S. Bhattacharjee;Joshua J. Hamilton

  • Anaerobic codigestion of municipal solid waste and biosolids under various mixing conditions--I. Digester performance.

    Peter G. Stroot;Katherine D. McMahon;Roderick I. Mackie;Lutgarde Raskin

  • Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

    Christopher E. Lawson;William R. Harcombe;Roland Hatzenpichler;Stephen R. Lindemann

  • Methanogenic population dynamics during start-up of anaerobic digesters treating municipal solid waste and biosolids.

    Matt E. Griffin;Katherine D. McMahon;Roderick I. Mackie;Lutgarde Raskin

  • Anaerobic codigestion of municipal solid waste and biosolids under various mixing conditions-II : microbial population dynamics

    Katherine D. McMahon;Peter G. Stroot;Roderick I. Mackie;Lutgarde Raskin

  • Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics

    Frederik Schulz;Simon Roux;David Paez-Espino;Sean Jungbluth

  • New Abundant Microbial Groups in Aquatic Hypersaline Environments

    Rohit Ghai;Lejla Pašić;Lejla Pašić;Ana Beatriz Fernández;Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado

  • “Candidatus Accumulibacter” Population Structure in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Sludges as Revealed by Polyphosphate Kinase Genes

    Shaomei He;Daniel L. Gall;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Synchrony in aquatic microbial community dynamics.

    Angela D Kent;Angela D Kent;Anthony C Yannarell;Anthony C Yannarell;James A Rusak;Eric W Triplett

  • Cohesion: a method for quantifying the connectivity of microbial communities.

    Cristina M Herren;Katherine D McMahon

  • Genome-wide selective sweeps and gene-specific sweeps in natural bacterial populations

    Matthew L. Bendall;Sarah L.R. Stevens;Leong Keat Chan;Stephanie Malfatti

  • Keystone taxa predict compositional change in microbial communities.

    Cristina M. Herren;Cristina M. Herren;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Lake microbial communities are resilient after a whole-ecosystem disturbance

    Ashley Shade;Jordan S Read;Nicholas D Youngblut;Noah Fierer

  • Denitrification capabilities of two biological phosphorus removal sludges dominated by different ‘Candidatus Accumulibacter’ clades

    Jason J. Flowers;Shaomei He;Safak Yilmaz;Daniel R. Noguera

  • Microbial population dynamics during start-up and overload conditions of anaerobic digesters treating municipal solid waste and sewage sludge.

    Katherine D. McMahon;Dandan Zheng;Alfons J M Stams;Roderick Ian Mackie

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Noguera
Daniel R. Noguera University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council
Susannah G. Tringe
Susannah G. Tringe Joint Genome Institute
Ashley Shade
Ashley Shade Michigan State University
Stuart E. Jones
Stuart E. Jones University of Notre Dame
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Philip Hugenholtz
Philip Hugenholtz University of Queensland
Ramunas Stepanauskas
Ramunas Stepanauskas Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Natalia Ivanova
Natalia Ivanova Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

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