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D. Gittins

University of California, Berkeley

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A roadmap for fair reuse of public microbiome data

Laura A. Hug, Roland Hatzenpichler, Cristina Moraru, André Soares, Folker Meyer, Anke Heyder, Rehab Z. Abdallah, Ammar Abdalrahem, Nafi’u Abdulkadir, Ibukun Modupe Adesiyan, Lauren V. Alteio, Karthik Anantharaman, Rika E. Anderson, A-S. Andrei, Juan Antonio Baeza, , Matthew Kellom

The paper proposes a roadmap for fair reuse of public microbiome data by introducing a Data Reuse Information tag (DRI) to facilitate communication between data creators and consumers.

Nature Microbiology · Sep 26, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Characterization of sediment and granite hosted deep underground research laboratories reveals diverse microbiome functions, limited temporal variation and substantial genomic conservation

Y. Amamo, R. Sachdeva, D. Gittins, K. Anantharaman, S. Lei, L. E. Valentin Alvarado, S. Diamond, H. Beppu, T. Iwatsuki, A. Mochizuki, K. Miyakawa, E. Ishii, H. Murakami, A. L. Jaffe, C. Castelle, , J. F. Banfield

The paper characterizes microbiomes in underground research labs, finding genomic conservation and similar functional profiles despite environmental differences.

bioRxiv · Mar 28, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology

SituSeq: An offline protocol for rapid and remote Nanopore amplicon sequence analysis

J. Zorz, C. Li, A. Chakraborty, D. Gittins, T. Surcon, N. Morrison, R. Bennett, A. MacDonald, C. R. Hubert

SituSeq enables rapid, offline analysis of 16S rRNA gene amplicons using Nanopore MinION and a laptop, validated across platforms with high sequence identity and community composition consistency.

bioRxiv · Oct 18, 2022 · PreprintMicrobiology

Geological processes mediate a subsurface microbial loop in the deep biosphere

D. Gittins, P.-A. Desiage, N. Morrison, J. E. Rattray, S. Bhatnagar, A. Chakraborty, J. Zorz, O. Horanszky, M. A. Cramm, J. Webb, A. MacDonald, M. Fowler, C. Campbell, C. R. Hubert

The paper investigates a subsurface microbial loop mediated by geological processes, showing thermophilic endospores migrate from deep oil reservoirs to the seabed and re-enter the geosphere through sedimentation.

bioRxiv · Oct 26, 2021 · PreprintMicrobiology