Kimberlee Thamatrakoln

This study investigates how RNA virus infection reprograms the metabolism of a marine diatom, revealing significant changes in lipid and nitrogen pathways and stress responses.

This study shows viral infection of diatoms increases oxylipin production, enhancing carbon export in the ocean despite viral shunt processes.

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