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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Terry C. Hazen is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a specific focus on several subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, and Infectious Diseases.

Their research encompasses key topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Gut Microbiota and Health, Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing, SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Testing, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Terry C. Hazen include:

  • Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity, 2020, Microbiome
  • Environmental stress mediates groundwater microbial community assembly, 2024, Nature Microbiology
  • Genomic Features and Pervasive Negative Selection in Rhodanobacter Strains Isolated from Nitrate and Heavy Metal Contaminated Aquifer, 2022, Microbiology Spectrum
  • Characterization of subsurface media from locations up- and down-gradient of a uranium-contaminated aquifer, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Mechanism Across Scales: A Holistic Modeling Framework Integrating Laboratory and Field Studies for Microbial Ecology, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent publication venues for Terry C. Hazen include:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Microbiome

Collaborations have been notable with several co-authors who have worked extensively with Hazen, including Adam P. Arkin, Lauren Michelle Lui, Dominique C. Joyner, Jizhong Zhou, and Matthew W. Fields.

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Deep-sea oil plume enriches indigenous oil-degrading bacteria.

    Terry C. Hazen;Eric A. Dubinsky;Todd Z. DeSantis;Gary L. Andersen

  • Oil Biodegradation and Bioremediation: A Tale of the Two Worst Spills in U.S. History

    Ronald M. Atlas;Terry C. Hazen

  • Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria and the Bacterial Community Response in Gulf of Mexico Beach Sands Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Joel E. Kostka;Om Prakash;Will A. Overholt;Stefan J. Green;Stefan J. Green

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Kai Xue

  • Metagenome, metatranscriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal microbial response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Olivia U. Mason;Olivia U. Mason;Terry C. Hazen;Terry C. Hazen;Sharon Borglin;Patrick S. G. Chain;Patrick S. G. Chain

  • Environmental genomics reveals a single-species ecosystem deep within Earth.

    Dylan Chivian;Eoin L. Brodie;Eric J. Alm;David E. Culley

  • Application of a High-Density Oligonucleotide Microarray Approach To Study Bacterial Population Dynamics during Uranium Reduction and Reoxidation

    Eoin L. Brodie;Eoin L. Brodie;Todd Z. DeSantis;Dominique C. Joyner;Seung M. Baek

  • Prevalence and distribution of Aeromonas hydrophila in the United States.

    T C Hazen;C B Fliermans;R P Hirsch;G W Esch

  • Long-term sustainability of a high-energy, low-diversity crustal biome.

    Li-Hung Lin;Li-Hung Lin;Pei-Ling Wang;Douglas Rumble;Johanna Lippmann-Pipke

  • New insights into the function and global distribution of polyethylene terephthalate (PET)-degrading bacteria and enzymes in marine and terrestrial metagenomes

    Dominik Danso;Christel Schmeisser;Jennifer Chow;Wolfgang Zimmermann

  • Metagenomics reveals sediment microbial community response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Olivia U. Mason;Nicole M Scott;Antonio González González;Adam Robbins-Pianka

  • Metagenomic insights into evolution of a heavy metal-contaminated groundwater microbial community

    Christopher L Hemme;Ye Deng;Terry J Gentry;Terry J Gentry;Matthew W Fields

  • GeoChip 3.0 as a high-throughput tool for analyzing microbial community composition, structure and functional activity

    Zhili He;Ye Deng;Joy D Van Nostrand;Qichao Tu

  • Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity

    Renmao Tian;Daliang Ning;Zhili He;Ping Zhang

  • Succession of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in the aftermath of the deepwater horizon oil spill in the gulf of Mexico.

    Eric A Dubinsky;Mark E Conrad;Romy Chakraborty;Markus Bill

  • Deep‐sea bacteria enriched by oil and dispersant from the Deepwater Horizon spill

    Jacob Bælum;Sharon Borglin;Romy Chakraborty;Julian L. Fortney

  • Microbial gene functions enriched in the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea oil plume

    Zhenmei Lu;Zhenmei Lu;Ye Deng;Joy D Van Nostrand;Zhili He

  • Environmental whole-genome amplification to access microbial populations in contaminated sediments.

    Carl B. Abulencia;Denise L. Wyborski;Joseph A. Garcia;Mircea Podar

  • Survival and enumeration of the fecal indicators Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Escherichia coli in a tropical rain forest watershed.

    M Carrillo;E Estrada;T C Hazen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Adam P. Arkin
Adam P. Arkin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Blake A. Simmons
Blake A. Simmons Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Judy D. Wall
Judy D. Wall University of Missouri
Gary L. Andersen
Gary L. Andersen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matthew W. Fields
Matthew W. Fields Montana State University
Joy D. Van Nostrand
Joy D. Van Nostrand University of Oklahoma

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