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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2016 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Victoria J. Orphan is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research predominantly lies within the field of Environmental Science with a particular focus on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

Their published work includes significant contributions to topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies. Additional areas of their research cover Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions, and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation.

Victoria J. Orphan has authored several research papers across numerous respected journals. Some notable publications include:

  • Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • Metabolic strategies of marine subseafloor Chloroflexi inferred from genome reconstructions, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Lateral Gene Transfer Drives Metabolic Flexibility in the Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Archaeal Family Methanoperedenaceae, 2020, mBio
  • Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes, 2022, Nature Microbiology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Daan R. Speth
  • Grayson L. Chadwick
  • Stephanie A. Connon
  • Antoine Crémière
  • Ranjani Murali

Frequent venues for their publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Science Advances
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • mBio

Victoria J. Orphan has been recognized as a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2016 and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;William J. Ripple;Kenneth N. Timmis;Farooq Azam

  • Manganese- and Iron-Dependent Marine Methane Oxidation

    Emily J. Beal;Christopher H. House;Victoria J. Orphan

  • Methane-Consuming Archaea Revealed by Directly Coupled Isotopic and Phylogenetic Analysis

    Victoria J. Orphan;Christopher H. House;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs;Kevin D. McKeegan

  • Methane metabolism in the archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota revealed by genome-centric metagenomics

    Paul N. Evans;Donovan H. Parks;Grayson L. Chadwick;Steven J. Robbins

  • Multiple archaeal groups mediate methane oxidation in anoxic cold seep sediments

    Victoria J. Orphan;Christopher H. House;Kai Uwe Hinrichs;Kevin D. McKeegan

  • Comparative Analysis of Methane-Oxidizing Archaea and Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Anoxic Marine Sediments

    Victoria J. Orphan;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs;William Ussler;Charles K. Paull

  • Single cell activity reveals direct electron transfer in methanotrophic consortia

    Shawn E. McGlynn;Grayson L. Chadwick;Christopher P. Kempes;Christopher P. Kempes;Christopher P. Kempes;Victoria J. Orphan

  • Culture-Dependent and Culture-Independent Characterization of Microbial Assemblages Associated with High-Temperature Petroleum Reservoirs

    V. J. Orphan;V. J. Orphan;L. T. Taylor;D. Hafenbradl;E. F. Delong

  • Molecular and isotopic analysis of anaerobic methane-oxidizing communities in marine sediments

    Kai Uwe Hinrichs;Roger E. Summons;Victoria Orphan;Sean P. Sylva

  • Artificial electron acceptors decouple archaeal methane oxidation from sulfate reduction

    Silvan Scheller;Hang Yu;Grayson L. Chadwick;Shawn E. McGlynn

  • Trace Metal Requirements for Microbial Enzymes Involved in the Production and Consumption of Methane and Nitrous Oxide

    Jennifer B. Glass;Victoria J. Orphan

  • Deep-Sea Archaea Fix and Share Nitrogen in Methane-Consuming Microbial Consortia

    Anne E. Dekas;Rachel S. Poretsky;Victoria J. Orphan

  • Diverse syntrophic partnerships from deep-sea methane vents revealed by direct cell capture and metagenomics

    Annelie Pernthaler;Anne E. Dekas;C. Titus Brown;Shana K. Goffredi

  • Authigenic carbonate formation at hydrocarbon seeps in continental margin sediments: A comparative study

    Thomas H. Naehr;Peter Eichhubl;Victoria J. Orphan;Martin Hovland

  • Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae

    Andy O. Leu;Chen Cai;Simon J. McIlroy;Gordon Southam

  • In situ visualization of newly synthesized proteins in environmental microbes using amino acid tagging and click chemistry

    Roland Hatzenpichler;Silvan Scheller;Patricia L. Tavormina;Brett M. Babin

  • Consumption of Methane and CO2 by Methanotrophic Microbial Mats from Gas Seeps of the Anoxic Black Sea

    Tina Treude;Victoria J. Orphan;Katrin Knittel;Armin Gieseke

  • Evolutionary innovation: a bone-eating marine symbiosis.

    Shana K. Goffredi;Victoria J. Orphan;Greg W. Rouse;Greg W. Rouse;Linda Jahnke

  • A novel family of functional operons encoding methane/ammonia monooxygenase-related proteins in gammaproteobacterial methanotrophs.

    Patricia L. Tavormina;Victoria J. Orphan;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Mike S. M. Jetten

  • Variations in archaeal and bacterial diversity associated with the sulfate-methane transition zone in continental margin sediments (Santa Barbara Basin, California).

    Benjamin K. Harrison;Husen Zhang;Will Berelson;Victoria J. Orphan

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher H. House
Christopher H. House Pennsylvania State University
Lisa A. Levin
Lisa A. Levin University of California, San Diego
David A. Fike
David A. Fike Washington University in St. Louis
Alex L. Sessions
Alex L. Sessions California Institute of Technology
Gene W. Tyson
Gene W. Tyson Queensland University of Technology
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs University of Bremen
Greg W. Rouse
Greg W. Rouse University of California, San Diego
Fumio Inagaki
Fumio Inagaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
William Ussler
William Ussler Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Robert L. Hettich
Robert L. Hettich Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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