Sean McAllister (@FeHydro) profile picture

Marine microbial ecologist, Fe enthusiast, grad student, trombonist

Joined September 2012
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Check out our new publication where we focus on the interactions of the Zetaproteobacteria with their flanking community at Lō'ihi Seamount. In particular, genomic evidence for an anaerobic iron oxidizer, Candidatus Ferristratum sp. from the DTB120 phylum doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0…
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Validating the Cyc2 neutrophilic Fe oxidation pathway using meta-omics of Zetaproteobacteria iron mats at marine hydrothermal vents biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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The Cyc2-based Fe oxidation pathway is widespread and highly expressed in neutrophilic Fe oxidizing organisms. In our new paper, we use meta-omics to explore the distribution and expression of cyc2 in the Zetaproteobacteria at Loihi, Mariana, and the MAR. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Have questions about the Zetaproteobacteria? Want to know what it means to find them in your samples? Check out our new review, which discusses our historical, ecological, and genomic perspectives on this marine Fe-oxidizing clade. biorxiv.org/content/early/20…
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ZetaHunter: a reproducible taxonomic classification tool for tracking the ecology of the Zetaproteobacteria and other poorly-resolved taxa biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
ZetaHunter is now released! Introducing the ZetaHunter program, designed for reproducible classification of 16S sequences from Zetaproteobacteria and other poorly-resolved clades in an OTU-based framework. Manuscript: biorxiv.org/content/early/20… #bioRxiv #GitHub
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So long #ISME16 , see you in Germany!
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Monica Conthe gave a very nice talk with great organization and a successful use of a handwriting-like typeface. #ISME16
Nice talk @rleonzay ! #ISME16 over 40 underrepresented archael genomes recovered.
#ISME16 Kleiner. Metaproteomics good to est. rel. microbial biomass. Metagenomics better for est. of cell number. Which is more important?
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Come by my poster 148B this afternoon to discuss Fe oxidation and denitrification gene expression in hydrothermal vents! #ISME16
#ISME16 really great talk on ANME-2d by Andy Leu. Looks like they can oxidize methane with Fe(III) and maybe Mn as an electron acceptors.
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#ISME16 Murrell. SIP to separate active methylotroph community prior to metagenomics. Obtained near complete genomes of only their target!
#ISME16 Michael Wagner. Active microcolony genomes give a wider representation of the environment than can be assembled from metagenomes.
#ISME16 @rstepanauskas Single cell genomes can allow us to better understand population dynamics, which is complicated by >1 genome/cell.
#ISME16 Dahle. Zetas in the Rift Valley, and energetic predictions show favorability in Fe oxidation metabolic density.
#ISME16 Karen Lloyd. Significant number uncultivable microbes have trehalose synthesis pathway not represented in cultured organisms.
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