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Overview

Uwe John is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research spans a diverse range of topics primarily within environmental science, with significant work also contributing to biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and earth and planetary sciences.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader disciplines, Uwe John's work increasingly focuses on specific subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Genetics

The research topics explored in their publications cover several specialized areas, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Uwe John has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators such as Sylke Wohlrab, Stefan Neuhaus, Allan Cembella, Kerstin Klemm, and Nina Lundholm.

The scientist has published work in several reputable venues where their contributions are repeatedly recognized. Notable frequent publication venues include:

  • Harmful Algae
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Global Change Biology

Selected recent publications by Uwe John demonstrate a breadth of research interests and impacts across multiple disciplines:

  • Harmful algal blooms and their effects in coastal seas of Northern Europe (2021, Harmful Algae)
  • Towards quantitative metabarcoding of eukaryotic plankton: an approach to improve 18S rRNA gene copy number bias (2022, Metabarcoding and Metagenomics)
  • Vision, challenges and opportunities for a Plant Cell Atlas (2024, Lincoln (University of Nebraska))
  • Short- and long-read metabarcoding of the eukaryotic rRNA operon: Evaluation of primers and comparison to shotgun metagenomics sequencing (2022, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • Windows of opportunity: Ocean warming shapes temperature-sensitive epigenetic reprogramming and gene expression across gametogenesis and embryogenesis in marine stickleback (2021, Global Change Biology)

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

    Alexandra Z. Worden;Jae-Hyeok Lee;Thomas Mock;Pierre Rouzé

  • Updating benchtop sequencing performance comparison

    Sebastian Jünemann;Sebastian Jünemann;Fritz Joachim Sedlazeck;Karola Prior;Andreas Albersmeier

  • Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution

    Betsy A. Read;Jessica Kegel;Mary J. Klute;Alan Kuo

  • Azadinium spinosum gen. et sp. nov. (Dinophyceae) identified as a primary producer of azaspiracid toxins

    Urban Tillmann;Malte Elbrächter;Bernd Krock;Uwe John

  • Formal Revision of the Alexandrium tamarense Species Complex (Dinophyceae) Taxonomy: The Introduction of Five Species with Emphasis on Molecular-based (rDNA) Classification

    Uwe John;R. Wayne Litaker;Marina Montresor;Shauna Murray

  • Harmful algal blooms and their effects in coastal seas of Northern Europe

    Bengt Karlson;Per Andersen;Lars Arneborg;Allan D. Cembella

  • Toxic effects of Alexandrium spp. on heterotrophic dinoflagellates: an allelochemical defence mechanism independent of PSP-toxin content

    Urban Tillmann;Uwe John

  • The smallest known genomes of multicellular and toxic cyanobacteria: comparison, minimal gene sets for linked traits and the evolutionary implications.

    Karina Stucken;Uwe John;Allan Cembella;Alejandro A. Murillo

  • Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now?

    Kevin J. Flynn;Aditee Mitra;Konstantinos Anestis;Anna A. Anschütz

  • The Application of a Molecular Clock Based on Molecular Sequences and the Fossil Record to Explain Biogeographic Distributions Within the Alexandrium tamarense “Species Complex” (Dinophyceae)

    Uwe John;Robert A. Fensome;Linda K. Medlin

  • Phylogeny-wide analysis of social amoeba genomes highlights ancient origins for complex intercellular communication

    Andrew J. Heidel;Hajara M. Lawal;Marius Felder;Christina Schilde

  • On the allelochemical potency of the marine dinoflagellate Alexandrium ostenfeldii against heterotrophic and autotrophic protists

    Urban Tillmann;Uwe John;Allan Cembella

  • Characterization of azaspiracids in plankton size-fractions and isolation of an azaspiracid-producing dinoflagellate from the North Sea

    Bernd Krock;Urban Tillmann;Uwe John;Allan D. Cembella

  • Allelochemical interactions and short-term effects of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium on selected photoautotrophic and heterotrophic protists

    Urban Tillmann;Tilman Alpermann;Uwe John;Allan Cembella

  • Phenotypic variation and genotypic diversity in a planktonic population of the toxigenic marine dinoflagellate alexandrium tamarense (dinophyceae)

    Tilman J. Alpermann;Urban Tillmann;Bánk Beszteri;Allan D. Cembella

  • Discrimination of the toxigenic dinoflagellates Alexandrium tamarense and A. ostenfeldii in co-occurring natural populations from Scottish coastal waters

    Uwe John;Allan Cembella;Christian Hummert;Malte Elbrächter

  • Transcriptomic analysis of acclimation to temperature and light stress in Saccharina latissima (Phaeophyceae).

    Sandra Heinrich;Klaus-Ulrich Valentin;Stephan Frickenhaus;Uwe John

  • The role of Azadinium spinosum (Dinophyceae) in the production of azaspiracid shellfish poisoning in mussels

    Rafael Salas;Urban Tillmann;Uwe John;Jane Kilcoyne

  • LC-MS-MS aboard ship: tandem mass spectrometry in the search for phycotoxins and novel toxigenic plankton from the North Sea

    Bernd Krock;Urban Tillmann;Uwe John;Allan Cembella

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Cembella
Allan Cembella Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Urban Tillmann
Urban Tillmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gernot Glöckner
Gernot Glöckner University of Cologne
Dedmer B. Van de Waal
Dedmer B. Van de Waal University of Amsterdam
Linda K. Medlin
Linda K. Medlin Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Nina Lundholm
Nina Lundholm University of Copenhagen
Shauna A. Murray
Shauna A. Murray University of Technology Sydney
Florian Weinberger
Florian Weinberger Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Laure Guillou
Laure Guillou Sorbonne University
Heiko Vogel
Heiko Vogel Max Planck Society

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