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Nicole Dubilier

Nicole Dubilier

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
12021
World Ranking
16037
National Ranking
1123

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Microbiology and Immunology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Nicole Dubilier is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work focuses on several specific subfields including ecology, oceanography, molecular biology, insect science, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's main topics of study cover a diverse range of marine and microbial ecological systems. These include marine biology and ecology research, microbial community ecology and physiology, coral and marine ecosystems studies, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, genomics and phylogenetic studies, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and marine and coastal plant biology.

Nicole Dubilier has published multiple papers in notable venues, with some recent significant publications including:

  • Spatial metabolomics of in situ host-microbe interactions at the micrometre scale, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Sugars dominate the seagrass rhizosphere, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses, 2021, Annual Review of Microbiology
  • Chemosynthetic symbioses, 2020, Current Biology
  • Deep-sea corals provide new insight into the ecology, evolution, and the role of plastids in widespread apicomplexan symbionts of anthozoans, 2020, Microbiome

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nicole Dubilier include:

  • Harald R. Gruber-Vodicka (22 co-authored works)
  • Manuel Kleiner (16 co-authored works)
  • Nikolaus Leisch (13 co-authored works)
  • Yui Sato (12 co-authored works)
  • Cecilia Wentrup (10 co-authored works)

Nicole Dubilier's research has frequently been published in several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 13 publications
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University) with 4 publications
  • Nature Microbiology with 2 publications
  • Microbiome with 2 publications
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements with 2 publications

Recognition for Nicole Dubilier's work includes election to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2015 in the area of Microbiology and Immunology, as well as membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

    Margaret McFall-Ngai;Michael G. Hadfield;Thomas C. G. Bosch;Hannah V. Carey

  • Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis

    Nicole Dubilier;Claudia Bergin;Christian Lott

  • Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium

    Tanja Woyke;Hanno Teeling;Natalia N. Ivanova;Marcel Huntemann

  • Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses.

    Jillian M. Petersen;Frank U. Zielinski;Thomas Pape;Richard Seifert

  • Endosymbiotic sulphate-reducing and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria in an oligochaete worm.

    Nicole Dubilier;Caroline Mülders;Tim Ferdelman;Dirk de Beer

  • A dual symbiosis shared by two mussel species, Bathymodiolus azoricus and Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae), from hydrothermal vents along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Claudia Bergin;Frank Zielinski;Anna Blazejak

  • Transport and mineralization rates in North Sea sandy intertidal sediments, Sylt-Rømø Basin, Wadden Sea

    Dirk de Beer;Frank Wenzhöfer;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Susan E. Boehme

  • Spatial metabolomics of in situ host-microbe interactions at the micrometre scale.

    Benedikt Geier;Emilia M. Sogin;Dolma Michellod;Moritz Janda

  • Metaorganisms in extreme environments: do microbes play a role in organismal adaptation?

    Corinna Bang;Tal Dagan;Peter Deines;Nicole Dubilier

  • Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy use

    Manuel Kleiner;Cecilia Wentrup;Christian Lott;Hanno Teeling

  • Dual symbiosis in a Bathymodiolus sp mussel from a methane seep on the gabon continental margin (southeast Atlantic): 16S rRNA phylogeny and distribution of the symbionts in gills

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Thierry Nadalig;Jean-Claude Caprais;Myriam Sibuet

  • Microbial community structure of sandy intertidal sediments in the North Sea, Sylt-Rømø Basin, Wadden Sea

    Niculina Musat;Ursula Werner;Katrin Knittel;Steffen Kolb

  • Diversity, relative abundance and metabolic potential of bacterial endosymbionts in three Bathymodiolus mussel species from cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Sébastien Duperron;Myriam Sibuet;Barbara J. MacGregor;Marcel M. M. Kuypers

  • Endosymbioses between bacteria and deep-sea siboglinid tubeworms from an Arctic Cold Seep (Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, Barents Sea)

    Tina Lösekann;Alberto Robador;Helge Niemann;Helge Niemann;Katrin Knittel

  • Microbiology: Create a global microbiome effort

    Nicole Dubilier;Margaret McFall-Ngai;Liping Zhao

  • Coexistence of bacterial sulfide oxidizers, sulfate reducers, and spirochetes in a gutless worm (Oligochaeta) from the Peru margin.

    Anna Blazejak;Christer Erséus;Rudolf Amann;Nicole Dubilier

  • Metabolic and physiological interdependencies in the Bathymodiolus azoricus symbiosis

    Ruby Ponnudurai;Manuel Kleiner;Lizbeth Sayavedra;Jillian M. Petersen;Jillian M. Petersen

  • Methanotrophic symbioses in marine invertebrates

    Jillian M. Petersen;Nicole Dubilier

  • Dual symbiosis of the vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata with filamentous gamma- and epsilonproteobacteria at four Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent fields

    Jillian M. Petersen;Alban Nicolas Ramette;Christian Lott;Marie-Anne Cambon-Bonavita

  • Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium

    Tanja Woyke;Hanno Teeling;Natalia N. Ivanova;Marcel Hunteman

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Christer Erséus
Christer Erséus University of Gothenburg
Olav Giere
Olav Giere Universität Hamburg
Tanja Woyke
Tanja Woyke Joint Genome Institute
Sébastien Duperron
Sébastien Duperron Sorbonne University
Eric Pelletier
Eric Pelletier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas Schweder
Thomas Schweder University of Greifswald
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bruno Huettel
Bruno Huettel Max Planck Society
Philip Rosenstiel
Philip Rosenstiel Kiel University

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