Jesse C. McNichol

This paper calibrates metabarcoding data using flow cytometry to estimate absolute microbial abundances and gene concentrations in oceanic samples.

The paper analyzes microbial community dynamics in the Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula over six years, revealing seasonal and yearly changes in eukaryotic phytoplankton and stability in prokaryotic communities, particularly Nitrincolaceae.

A newly isolated bacterium from the Pacific Ocean kills diatoms, suggesting a pathogenic role in open-ocean ecosystems.

The paper introduces GRUMP, a database of global ocean microbial communities using universal primers, enabling direct comparison of taxonomic ratios across samples and domains.

The paper synthesizes genetic data with a marine ecosystem model to analyze functional biogeography of marine heteroprokaryotes, identifying key ecological factors shaping their distribution.

The paper introduces VI-MIDAS, a probabilistic framework for analyzing microbiome data, and applies it to Tara Ocean data to identify microbial community modules and associations.