Kurt G. Castro

This study shows Prochlorococcus forms biofilms, transitions between planktonic and biofilm states, and exudes more organic carbon, suggesting a role in deep-sea carbon export.

This study quantifies the particle-associated Prochlorococcus population globally and finds it correlates with productivity and carbon export.

This study investigates how heterotrophic bacteria affect phage infection of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus, finding that heterotrophs enable host recovery and confer resistance through non-genetic metabolic changes.

This paper develops an electroporation method to transform plasmids into two Prochlorococcus strains, enabling genetic manipulation and functional studies.

ProSynTax provides a curated protein dataset and workflow to improve taxonomic classification of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus in metagenomes with high phylogenetic resolution.