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Mak A. Saito is a researcher affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of Ecology, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Themes central to their research include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Protist diversity and phylogeny, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Among the recent scientific papers associated with the broader research field they contribute to are:

  • Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle (2022, Nature Microbiology)
  • Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics (2023, Nature)
  • The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • Dinoflagellates alter their carbon and nutrient metabolic strategies across environmental gradients in the central Pacific Ocean (2021, Nature Microbiology)
  • Metabolic versatility of the nitrite-oxidizing bacterium Nitrospira marina and its proteomic response to oxygen-limited conditions (2020, The ISME Journal)

Mak A. Saito has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Matthew R. McIlvin, Dawn M. Moran, Noelle A. Held, Riss M. Kellogg, and Natalie R. Cohen.

Their publication record includes frequent contributions to venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biogeosciences, Journal of Proteome Research, Metallomics, and the Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community.

In addition to journal articles, Mak A. Saito has been involved in producing book publications under the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution eBooks series, which include titles focused on data curation, software sharing, and community resources within the oceanographic research community.

Best Publications

  • The Genome of the Diatom Thalassiosira Pseudonana: Ecology, Evolution, and Metabolism

    E. Virginia Armbrust;John A. Berges;Chris Bowler;Beverley R. Green

  • Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation

    C. M. Moore;M. M. Mills;K. R. Arrigo;I. Berman-Frank

  • The integral role of iron in ocean biogeochemistry

    Alessandro Tagliabue;Andrew R. Bowie;Philip W. Boyd;Kristen N. Buck

  • Biochemistry: a cadmium enzyme from a marine diatom.

    Todd W. Lane;Mak A. Saito;Graham N. George;Ingrid J. Pickering

  • A global ocean inventory of anthropogenic mercury based on water column measurements

    Carl H. Lamborg;Chad R. Hammerschmidt;Katlin L. Bowman;Gretchen J. Swarr

  • The bioinorganic chemistry of the ancient ocean: the co-evolution of cyanobacterial metal requirements and biogeochemical cycles at the Archean–Proterozoic boundary?

    Mak A Saito;Daniel M Sigman;François M.M Morel

  • Some thoughts on the concept of colimitation: Three definitions and the importance of bioavailability

    Mak A. Saito;Tyler J. Goepfert;Jason T. Ritt

  • Marine Bioinorganic Chemistry: The Role of Trace Metals in the Oceanic Cycles of Major Nutrients

    François M M Morel;Allen J. Milligan;M. A. Saito

  • The Transcriptome and Proteome of the Diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana Reveal a Diverse Phosphorus Stress Response

    Sonya T. Dyhrman;Bethany D. Jenkins;Tatiana A. Rynearson;Mak A. Saito

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Niche of harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens revealed through ecogenomics

    Christopher J. Gobler;Dianna L. Berry;Sonya T. Dyhrman;Steven W. Wilhelm

  • Culturing the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus

    Lisa R. Moore;Allison Coe;Erik R. Zinser;Mak A. Saito

  • Genomic and proteomic characterization of "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis": an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from the open ocean

    Alyson E. Santoro;Christopher L. Dupont;R. Alex Richter;Matthew T. Craig

  • Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle

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  • Cobalt limitation and uptake in Prochlorococcus

    Mak A. Saito;James W. Moffett;Sallie W. Chisholm;John B. Waterbury

  • Vitamin B12 and iron colimitation of phytoplankton growth in the Ross Sea

    Erin M. Bertrand;Mak A. Saito;Julie M. Rose;Christina R. Riesselman

  • Iron conservation by reduction of metalloenzyme inventories in the marine diazotroph Crocosphaera watsonii

    Mak A. Saito;Erin M. Bertrand;Stephanie Dutkiewicz;Vladimir V. Bulygin

  • Siderophore-based microbial adaptations to iron scarcity across the eastern Pacific Ocean.

    Rene M. Boiteau;Daniel R. Mende;Nicholas J. Hawco;Nicholas J. Hawco;Matthew R. McIlvin

  • Zinc isotope fractionation during high-affinity and low-affinity zinc transport by the marine diatom Thalassiosira oceanica

    Seth G. John;Robert W. Geis;Mak A. Saito;Edward A. Boyle

  • Production of cobalt binding ligands in a Synechococcus feature at the Costa Rica upwelling dome

    Mak A. Saito;Gabrielle Rocap;James W. Moffett

  • Regional distributions of nitrogen‐fixing bacteria in the Pacific Ocean

    Matthew J. Church;Karin M. Björkman;David M. Karl;Mak A. Saito

  • Complexation of cobalt by natural organic ligands in the Sargasso Sea as determined by a new high-sensitivity electrochemical cobalt speciation method suitable for open ocean work

    Mak A. Saito;James W. Moffett

  • Multiple nutrient stresses at intersecting Pacific Ocean biomes detected by protein biomarkers

    Mak A. Saito;Matthew R. McIlvin;Dawn M. Moran;Tyler J. Goepfert

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew E. Allen
Andrew E. Allen J. Craig Venter Institute
Carl H. Lamborg
Carl H. Lamborg University of California, Santa Cruz
Christopher L. Dupont
Christopher L. Dupont J. Craig Venter Institute
Giacomo R. DiTullio
Giacomo R. DiTullio College of Charleston
James W. Moffett
James W. Moffett University of Southern California
Phoebe J. Lam
Phoebe J. Lam University of California, Santa Cruz
David A. Hutchins
David A. Hutchins University of Southern California
Benjamin S. Twining
Benjamin S. Twining Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Peter N. Sedwick
Peter N. Sedwick Old Dominion University
Alessandro Tagliabue
Alessandro Tagliabue University of Liverpool

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