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Cristina Takacs-Vesbach

Biology

#12274

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#15740

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#2622

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Microbiology

#1131

World Rank

#1276

Historical Rank

#200

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Ecology

#1214

World Rank

#1317

Historical Rank

#307

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Cristina Takacs-Vesbach's Degrees

PhD Microbiology University of Colorado Boulder
Masters Microbiology University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Cristina Takacs-Vesbach is an American microbial ecologist conducting research on the productivity, diversity, and function of microbial communities living at the two extremes of temperature found on Earth-Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys and Yellowstone National Park's thermal springs.

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Cristina Takacs-Vesbach's Published Works

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Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale. (2008) (1517)
Do diet and taxonomy influence insect gut bacterial communities? (2012) (406)
Soil Microbial Responses to Increased Moisture and Organic Resources along a Salinity Gradient in a Polar Desert (2014) (143)
Bacterial Community Structure Along Moisture Gradients in the Parafluvial Sediments of Two Ephemeral Desert Streams (2011) (109)
Factors Controlling Soil Microbial Biomass and Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: Role of Geographic Scale (2013) (105)
Molecular Characterization of the Diversity and Distribution of a Thermal Spring Microbial Community by Using rRNA and Metabolic Genes (2008) (100)
A comparison of methods for total community DNA preservation and extraction from various thermal environments (2008) (88)
Landscape Distribution of Microbial Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Linked Biotic Processes, Hydrology, and Geochemistry in a Cold Desert Ecosystem (2009) (78)
Volcanic calderas delineate biogeographic provinces among Yellowstone thermophiles. (2008) (76)
Metagenome Sequence Analysis of Filamentous Microbial Communities Obtained from Geochemically Distinct Geothermal Channels Reveals Specialization of Three Aquificales Lineages (2013) (74)
Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica (2017) (66)
Response of heterotrophic stream biofilm communities to a gradient of resources (2011) (54)
Impact of commercial natural gas production on geochemistry and microbiology in a shale-gas reservoir (2012) (50)
Aquificales in Yellowstone National Park (2006) (49)
Spatial variation in soil active-layer geochemistry across hydrologic margins in polar desert ecosystems (2009) (48)
Niche and metabolic principles explain patterns of diversity and distribution: theory and a case study with soil bacterial communities (2015) (47)
Exploring microbial dark matter to resolve the deep archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes (2015) (45)
16S rRNA phylogenetic investigation of the candidate division "Korarchaeota". (2006) (42)
COMPLEX INTESTINAL BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES IN THREE SPECIES OF PLANORBID SNAILS (2012) (41)
Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (2016) (41)
Bacterial diversity of bryophyte-dominant biological soil crusts and associated mites (2012) (40)
Continental smokers couple mantle degassing and distinctive microbiology within continents (2016) (38)
Characterization of growing bacterial populations in McMurdo Dry Valley soils through stable isotope probing with (18) O-water. (2014) (37)
Thermal characterisation of active layer across a soil moisture gradient in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (2009) (36)
Patterns of bacterial biodiversity in the glacial meltwater streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. (2016) (34)
Hydrologic characteristics of lake‐ and stream‐side riparian wetted margins in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (2009) (32)
Environmental controls over bacterial communities in polar desert soils (2013) (30)
Leaf endophytic fungus interacts with precipitation to alter belowground microbial communities in primary successional dunes (2017) (30)
Microbial community analysis of pH 4 thermal springs in Yellowstone National Park (2016) (30)
Microbial Community Dynamics in Two Polar Extremes: The Lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and the West Antarctic Peninsula Marine Ecosystem (2016) (26)
Local and Regional Scale Heterogeneity Drive Bacterial Community Diversity and Composition in a Polar Desert (2018) (26)
Nutrient treatments alter microbial mat colonization in two glacial meltwater streams from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. (2016) (25)
Niche specialization of bacteria in permanently ice‐covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (2017) (24)
Novel, Deep-Branching Heterotrophic Bacterial Populations Recovered from Thermal Spring Metagenomes (2016) (24)
Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments: Factors promoting microbial diversity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (2010) (24)
Isotopic and genetic methods reveal the role of the gut microbiome in mammalian host essential amino acid metabolism (2020) (23)
Controls on the Spatial Dimensions of Wetted Hydrologic Margins of Two Antarctic Lakes (2007) (21)
Detection and analysis of elusive members of a novel and diverse archaeal community within a thermal spring streamer consortium (2015) (18)
Distinct Bacterial Microbiomes in Sexual and Asexual Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a New Zealand Freshwater Snail (2016) (18)
Spatial and temporal patterns of snow accumulation and aerial ablation across the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (2012) (17)
Decoupled responses of soil bacteria and their invertebrate consumer to warming, but not freeze-thaw cycles, in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. (2017) (15)
Symbiodinium diversity in the soft coral Heteroxenia sp. and its nudibranch predator Phyllodesmium lizardensis (2012) (14)
Thermal stress response in a dinoflagellate-bearing nudibranch and the octocoral on which it feeds (2014) (12)
Primary productivity as a control over soil microbial diversity along environmental gradients in a polar desert ecosystem (2017) (11)
Influence of upwelling saline groundwater on iron and manganese cycling in the Rio Grande floodplain aquifer (2009) (11)
Autonomous year-round sampling and sensing to explore the physical and biological habitability of permanently ice-covered antarctic lakes (2014) (10)
Patterns of Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) diversity and assemblages among diverse hosts and the coral reef environment of Lizard Island, Australia (2018) (9)
Seasonal controls on snow distribution and aerial ablation at the snow-patch and landscape scales, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (2012) (9)
An analysis of geothermal and carbonic springs in the western United States sustained by deep fluid inputs (2014) (7)
Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments: The legacy of aqueous environments on soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys: contexts for future exploration of martian soils (2010) (6)
Year‐Round and Long‐Term Phytoplankton Dynamics in Lake Bonney, a Permanently Ice‐Covered Antarctic Lake (2021) (6)
Limits to the three domains of life: lessons from community assembly along an Antarctic salinity gradient (2022) (5)
Watershed hydrology and salinity, but not nutrient chemistry, are associated with arid-land stream microbial diversity (2019) (4)
The Past as a Window to the Future - What Does Long Term Research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica Tell Us About the Trajectory of Polar Ecosystems? (2015) (2)
Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica (2017) (1)
Quantifying the role of the gut microbiome in host essential amino acid metabolism (2019) (1)
Cool CO2 Springs of the Western U.S.: Continental "Smokers"? (2005) (1)
Thermal stress response in a dinoflagellate-bearing nudibranch and the octocoral on which it feeds (2014) (1)
Archaeal and bacterial community analysis of several Yellowstone National Park hot springs (2012) (0)
Impact of meltwater flow intensity on the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of microbial mats in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (2023) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Uptake rates of oxygen and sulfide measured with individual Thiomargarita namibiensis cells by using microelectrodes. (2002) (0)
Limits to the three domains of life: lessons from community assembly along an Antarctic salinity gradient (2022) (0)
Wetted Margin Dynamics: The Interplay of Soil Hydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Microbial Ecology in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica (2006) (0)
An Extreme Flood Event Marks a State Change in an Antarctic Aquatic Ecosystem (2017) (0)
Nutrient Cycling in Riparian Soils and Sediments Bordering Cold Desert Streams and Lakes (2005) (0)
Symbiodinium diversity in the soft coral Heteroxenia sp. and its nudibranch predator Phyllodesmium lizardensis (2012) (0)
Title : Nutrient treatments alter microbial mat colonization in two glacial meltwater streams from the McMurdo Dry Valleys , Antarctica Running title : Nutrients alter Antarctic stream communities Author names : (2016) (0)
Detection and analysis of elusive members of a novel and diverse archaeal community within a thermal spring streamer consortium (2014) (0)
GEOCHEMICAL CONTROLS ON MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION FROM VARIED HOT SPRING ENVIRONMENTS (2007) (0)
Investigating Host Feeding Strategy as a Determinant of Insect Gut Microbial Community Profile at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (2016) (0)
Running title: Nutrients alter Antarctic stream communities (2016) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors. (2005) (0)
Travertine-Depositing Cool-Springs of the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico: Links Between Geochemistry, Tectonic Setting, and Microbial Diversity (2005) (0)
Microbial community analysis of pH 4 thermal springs in Yellowstone National Park (2016) (0)
Newsome et al. ESM from Isotopic and genetic methods reveal the role of the gut microbiome in mammalian host essential amino acid metabolism (2020) (0)
Supplementary material from "Isotopic and genetic methods reveal the role of the gut microbiome in mammalian host essential amino acid metabolism" (2020) (0)

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