Silvia G. Acinas

This paper characterizes DO1Cas9, a cold-adapted Cas9 nuclease from the deep ocean, showing improved activity under cold conditions and broader organismal applicability.

The paper identifies a diverse microbial reservoir in the ultrasmall ocean fraction, including nitrogen-fixing diazotrophs, with implications for global biogeochemical cycles.

The paper identifies a high abundance of CRISPR-Cas systems in deep ocean microbiomes, highlighting their diversity and potential for bioprospecting.

This study analyzes diatom diversity and abundance in the global ocean using Tara Oceans data, identifying key environmental drivers and community patterns.

The paper quantifies plankton community structure globally, revealing inverted biomass pyramids dominated by gelatinous organisms and predicting future shifts in oceanic carbon cycles.

The paper expands the global RNA virome by five-fold, identifying new clades of RNA bacteriophages and revealing novel virus-host interactions.

This study quantifies how selection, dispersal, and drift shape prokaryotic and picoeukaryotic communities in the sunlit ocean, finding dispersal dominates picoeukaryotes while selection and dispersal balance prokaryotes.