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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ramunas Stepanauskas is affiliated with the Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences in the United States. Their research focuses broadly on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on molecular biology and ecology. These fields shape much of their scientific inquiry and publication record.

The scientist's work covers several subfields and topics, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. Main subfields of study include molecular biology, ecology, environmental chemistry, oceanography, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. The primary research topics are microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protist diversity and phylogeny, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, methane hydrates and related phenomena, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Stepanauskas has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several scientific venues. The most common publication outlets are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with nine publications, The ISME Journal with seven, Frontiers in Microbiology with five, Microbiome with four, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with three papers.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages, 2022, Cell
  • Ancestral Absence of Electron Transport Chains in Patescibacteria and DPANN, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Novel integrative elements and genomic plasticity in ocean ecosystems, 2023, Cell
  • Phosphonate production by marine microbes: Exploring new sources and potential function, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Insights into the dynamics between viruses and their hosts in a hot spring microbial mat, 2020, The ISME Journal

Stepanauskas frequently collaborates with other researchers. Among their most frequent co-authors are Julia M. Brown, Tanja Woyke, Nicole Poulton, Frederik Schulz, and Eric D. Becraft.

In 2018, Ramunas Stepanauskas was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter

    Christian Rinke;Patrick Schwientek;Alexander Sczyrba;Alexander Sczyrba;Natalia N. Ivanova

  • 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

  • Co-selection of antibiotic and metal resistance.

    Craig Baker-Austin;Meredith S. Wright;Ramunas Stepanauskas;J.V. McArthur

  • Assembling Single-Cell Genomes and Mini-Metagenomes From Chimeric MDA Products

    Sergey Nurk;Anton Bankevich;Dmitry Antipov;Alexey A. Gurevich

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Assembling genomes and mini-metagenomes from highly chimeric reads

    Sergey Nurk;Anton Bankevich;Dmitry Antipov;Alexey Gurevich

  • Potential for Chemolithoautotrophy Among Ubiquitous Bacteria Lineages in the Dark Ocean

    Brandon K. Swan;Manuel Martinez-Garcia;Christina M. Preston;Alexander Sczyrba

  • Single-cell genomics reveals hundreds of coexisting subpopulations in wild Prochlorococcus.

    Nadav Kashtan;Sara E. Roggensack;Sébastien Rodrigue;Sébastien Rodrigue;Jessie W. Thompson

  • Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins

    Karen G. Lloyd;Lars Schreiber;Dorthe G. Petersen;Kasper U. Kjeldsen

  • Single-Cell Genomics Reveals Hundreds of Coexisting Subpopulations in Wild Prochlorococcus

    Nadav Kashtan;Sara E. Roggen;Sebastien Rodrigue;Jessica Weidemier Thompson

  • Prevalent genome streamlining and latitudinal divergence of planktonic bacteria in the surface ocean

    Brandon K. Swan;Ben Tupper;Alexander Sczyrba;Federico M. Lauro

  • Assembling the marine metagenome, one cell at a time.

    Tanja Woyke;Gary Xie;Alex Copeland;José M. González

  • Coselection for microbial resistance to metals and antibiotics in freshwater microcosms.

    Ramunas Stepanauskas;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Travis C. Glenn;Travis C. Glenn;Charles H. Jagoe;R. Cary Tuckfield

  • Matching phylogeny and metabolism in the uncultured marine bacteria, one cell at a time

    Ramunas Stepanauskas;Michael E. Sieracki;Michael E. Sieracki

  • New Abundant Microbial Groups in Aquatic Hypersaline Environments

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

  • Obtaining genomes from uncultivated environmental microorganisms using FACS–based single-cell genomics

    Christian Rinke;Janey Lee;Nandita Nath;Danielle Goudeau

  • Single-Cell Genomics Reveals Organismal Interactions in Uncultivated Marine Protists

    Hwan Su Yoon;Hwan Su Yoon;Dana C. Price;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Veeran D. Rajah

  • Major role of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in dark ocean carbon fixation

    Maria G. Pachiadaki;Eva Sintes;Kristin Bergauer;Julia M. Brown

  • Capturing single cell genomes of active polysaccharide degraders: an unexpected contribution of Verrucomicrobia

    Manuel Martinez-Garcia;David M. Brazel;David M. Brazel;Brandon K. Swan;Carol Arnosti

  • Single cell genomics: an individual look at microbes.

    Ramunas Stepanauskas

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicole J. Poulton
Nicole J. Poulton Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Tanja Woyke
Tanja Woyke Joint Genome Institute
Michael E. Sieracki
Michael E. Sieracki National Science Foundation
Steven J. Hallam
Steven J. Hallam University of British Columbia
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Katherine D. McMahon
Katherine D. McMahon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tullis C. Onstott
Tullis C. Onstott Princeton University
Gerhard J. Herndl
Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna
Ramiro Logares
Ramiro Logares Spanish National Research Council

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