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104
Citations
37566
World Ranking
648
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Patrick J. Keeling is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple scientific domains, primarily within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as environmental science.

Their scholarly work focuses extensively on topics related to protist diversity and phylogeny, microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, coral and marine ecosystem studies, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, parasitic infections and diagnostics, and parasite biology and host interactions.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Denis V. Tikhonenkov, Vittorio Boscaro, Varsha Mathur, Brian S. Leander, and Gordon Lax.

Their research has been regularly published in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Current Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • The ISME Journal
  • Genome Biology and Evolution

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Patrick J. Keeling include:

  • Systematic evaluation of horizontal gene transfer between eukaryotes and viruses (2021, Nature Microbiology)
  • Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology (2020, Nature Methods)
  • Bacterial and archaeal symbioses with protists (2021, Current Biology)
  • Pseudofinder: Detection of Pseudogenes in Prokaryotic Genomes (2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Single cell genomics reveals plastid-lacking Picozoa are close relatives of red algae (2021, Nature Communications)

Their scientific contributions have been recognized with several honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2011
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2011

Best Publications

  • Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

    Patrick J. Keeling;Jeffrey D. Palmer

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • Nuclear-encoded proteins target to the plastid in Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum

    Ross F. Waller;Patrick J. Keeling;Robert G. K. Donald;Boris Striepen

  • Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a Model Eukaryote

    Jonathan A. Eisen;Robert S Coyne;Martin Wu;Dongying Wu

  • The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

    Patrick J. Keeling

  • Microsporidia: Biology and Evolution of Highly Reduced Intracellular Parasites

    Patrick J Keeling;Naomi M Fast

  • The tree of eukaryotes

    Patrick J. Keeling;Gertraud Burger;Dion G. Durnford;B. Franz Lang

  • CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

    Jan Wojciech Pawlowski;Stéphane Audic;Sina Adl;David Bass

  • Diversity and evolutionary history of plastids and their hosts.

    Patrick J. Keeling

  • A common red algal origin of the apicomplexan, dinoflagellate, and heterokont plastids.

    Jan Janouškovec;Aleš Horák;Miroslav Oborník;Julius Lukeš

  • Nuclear-Encoded, Plastid-Targeted Genes Suggest a Single Common Origin for Apicomplexan and Dinoflagellate Plastids

    Naomi M. Fast;Jessica C. Kissinger;David S. Roos;Patrick J. Keeling

  • The Number, Speed, and Impact of Plastid Endosymbioses in Eukaryotic Evolution

    Patrick J. Keeling

  • Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs.

    Bruce A. Curtis;Goro Tanifuji;Goro Tanifuji;Fabien Burki;Ansgar Gruber;Ansgar Gruber

  • Evidence from Beta-Tubulin Phylogeny that Microsporidia Evolved from Within the Fungi

    Patrick J. Keeling;Melissa A. Luker;Jeffrey D. Palmer

  • Mitochondrial and plastid genome architecture: Reoccurring themes, but significant differences at the extremes.

    David Roy Smith;Patrick J. Keeling

  • Alpha-tubulin from early-diverging eukaryotic lineages and the evolution of the tubulin family.

    P J Keeling;W F Doolittle

  • Dinoflagellate nuclear SSU rRNA phylogeny suggests multiple plastid losses and replacements.

    Juan F. Saldarriaga;F.J.R. Taylor;Patrick J. Keeling;Thomas Cavalier-Smith

  • Cell biology. Irremediable complexity

    M. W. Gray;J. Lukes;J. M. Archibald;P. J. Keeling

  • Lateral gene transfer and the evolution of plastid-targeted proteins in the secondary plastid-containing alga Bigelowiella natans

    John M. Archibald;Matthew B. Rogers;Michael Toop;Ken-ichiro Ishida

  • Microsporidia evolved from ancestral sexual fungi.

    Soo Chan Lee;Nicolas Corradi;Edmond J. Byrnes;Santiago Torres-Martinez

Frequent Co-Authors

Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Brian S. Leander
Brian S. Leander University of British Columbia
Alexandra Z. Worden
Alexandra Z. Worden Marine Biological Laboratory
Ross F. Waller
Ross F. Waller University of Cambridge
John M. Archibald
John M. Archibald Dalhousie University
Thomas A. Richards
Thomas A. Richards University of Oxford
Louis M. Weiss
Louis M. Weiss Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Arnab Pain
Arnab Pain King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University
David S. Roos
David S. Roos University of Pennsylvania

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