E. Virginia Armbrust

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E. Virginia Armbrust's Degrees

PhD Oceanography University of Washington
Masters Oceanography University of Washington
Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, E. Virginia Armbrust is a biological oceanographer, professor, and current director of the University of Washington School of Oceanography. She is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Science, an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

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The Genome of the Diatom Thalassiosira Pseudonana: Ecology, Evolution, and Metabolism (2004) (1910)
The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes (2008) (1451)
Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO2 World (2008) (850)
pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree (2010) (825)
The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing (2014) (813)
The life of diatoms in the world's oceans (2009) (767)
Phylogenetic Analysis of Particle-Attached and Free-Living Bacterial Communities in the Columbia River, Its Estuary, and the Adjacent Coastal Ocean (1999) (686)
Interactions between Diatoms and Bacteria (2012) (685)
Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria (2015) (657)
Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas (2009) (618)
Genome size differentiates co-occurring populations of the planktonic diatom Ditylum brightwellii (Bacillariophyta) (2010) (495)
Untangling Genomes from Metagenomes: Revealing an Uncultured Class of Marine Euryarchaeota (2012) (434)
A Model for Carbohydrate Metabolism in the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Deduced from Comparative Whole Genome Analysis (2008) (403)
Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs (2012) (349)
Pigments, size, and distributions of Synechococcus in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (1990) (337)
Ferritin is used for iron storage in bloom-forming marine pennate diatoms (2009) (287)
Marine ammonia-oxidizing archaeal isolates display obligate mixotrophy and wide ecotypic variation (2014) (270)
Comparative metatranscriptomics identifies molecular bases for the physiological responses of phytoplankton to varying iron availability (2012) (266)
Evolutionary genomics of the cold-adapted diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus (2017) (264)
Cryptic carbon and sulfur cycling between surface ocean plankton (2014) (260)
Whole-genome expression profiling of the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana identifies genes involved in silicon bioprocesses (2008) (250)
The effects of darkness and anaerobiosis on dinoflagellate cyst germination1,2 (1987) (189)
Chloroplast genomes of the diatoms Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Thalassiosira pseudonana: comparison with other plastid genomes of the red lineage (2007) (183)
GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AMONG POPULATIONS OF THE PLANKTONIC MARINE DIATOM DITYLUM BRIGHTWELLII (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) 1 (2004) (179)
Analysis of Synechococcus pigment types in the sea using single and dual beam flow cytometry (1988) (176)
Genomic insights into marine microalgae. (2008) (156)
Maintenance of clonal diversity during a spring bloom of the centric diatom Ditylum brightwellii (2005) (152)
DNA fingerprinting reveals extensive genetic diversity in a field population of the centric diatom Ditylum brightwellii (2000) (152)
Chitin in Diatoms and Its Association with the Cell Wall (2009) (148)
Accelerate Synthesis in Ecology and Environmental Sciences (2009) (143)
Spring bloom development, genetic variation, and population succession in the planktonic diatom Ditylum brightwellii (2006) (142)
The production of nitric oxide by marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea and inhibition of archaeal ammonia oxidation by a nitric oxide scavenger. (2015) (142)
Plastid proteome prediction for diatoms and other algae with secondary plastids of the red lineage (2015) (141)
Probing the evolution, ecology and physiology of marine protists using transcriptomics (2016) (137)
Confounding effects of oxygen and temperature on the TEX86 signature of marine Thaumarchaeota (2015) (137)
Ammonia oxidation kinetics and temperature sensitivity of a natural marine community dominated by Archaea (2013) (133)
Genetic structure of the mating-type locus of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. (2002) (128)
SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF LIGHT, TEMPERATURE, AND NITROGEN SOURCE ON TRANSCRIPTION OF GENES FOR CARBON AND NITROGEN METABOLISM IN THE CENTRIC DIATOM THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) 1 (2005) (126)
Two distinct pools of B12 analogs reveal community interdependencies in the ocean (2016) (121)
Genome-wide diel growth state transitions in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana (2013) (120)
Nitrosopumilus maritimus gen. nov., sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus cobalaminigenes sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus oxyclinae sp. nov., and Nitrosopumilus ureiphilus sp. nov., four marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota. (2017) (120)
Light-driven synchrony of Prochlorococcus growth and mortality in the subtropical Pacific gyre (2015) (116)
Transcriptional responses of three model diatoms to nitrate limitation of growth (2014) (101)
Digital expression profiling of novel diatom transcripts provides insight into their biological functions (2010) (93)
Coordinated regulation of growth, activity and transcription in natural populations of the unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera (2017) (91)
Unveiling a phytoplankton hotspot at a narrow boundary between coastal and offshore waters (2010) (82)
Update of the Diatom EST Database: a new tool for digital transcriptomics (2008) (81)
Effect of Light on the Cell Cycle of a Marine Synechococcus Strain (1989) (80)
Influence of oxygen availability on the activities of ammonia‐oxidizing archaea (2017) (80)
Phosphate transporters in marine phytoplankton and their viruses: cross-domain commonalities in viral-host gene exchanges (2012) (75)
Sulfonate-based networks between eukaryotic phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria in the surface ocean (2019) (74)
A mating type-linked gene cluster expressed in Chlamydomonas zygotes participates in the uniparental inheritance of the chloroplast genome (1993) (73)
Identification of a New Gene Family Expressed during the Onset of Sexual Reproduction in the Centric DiatomThalassiosira weissflogii (1999) (71)
Diatom acclimation to elevated CO 2 via cAMP signalling and coordinated gene expression (2015) (70)
Ubiquitous marine bacterium inhibits diatom cell division (2016) (66)
Rapid Evolution of a Sexual Reproduction Gene in Centric Diatoms of the Genus Thalassiosira (2001) (65)
INTER‐ AND INTRASPECIFIC COMMUNITY STRUCTURE WITHIN THE DIATOM GENUS PSEUDO‐NITZSCHIA (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) 1 (2008) (65)
Molecular Genetics of Sexuality in Chlamydomonas (1995) (63)
ROLE OF LIGHT AND THE CELL CYCLE ON THE INDUCTION OF SPERMATOGENESIS IN A CENTRIC DIATOM 1 (1990) (62)
Copper requirements of the ammonia‐oxidizing archaeon Nitrosopumilus maritimus SCM1 and implications for nitrification in the marine environment (2013) (62)
MASS SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN THE TOXIGENIC DIATOMS PSEUDO‐NITZSCHIA AUSTRALIS AND P. PUNGENS (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) ON THE WASHINGTON COAST, USA 1 (2010) (60)
Coupled effects of light and nitrogen source on the urea cycle and nitrogen metabolism over a diel cycle in the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. (2012) (60)
Genetic Diversity of Attached Bacteria in the Hindgut of the Deposit-Feeding Shrimp Neotrypaea (formerly Callianassa) californiensis (Decapoda: Thalassinidae) (2002) (59)
INDUCTION OF PHOTORESPIRATION BY LIGHT IN THE CENTRIC DIATOM THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE): MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES 1 (2004) (59)
SeaFlow: A novel underway flow‐cytometer for continuous observations of phytoplankton in the ocean (2011) (58)
INTER‐ AND INTRASPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NUCLEAR DNA CONTENT AND CELL SIZE IN SELECTED MEMBERS OF THE CENTRIC DIATOM GENUS THALASSIOSIRA (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) 1 (2008) (57)
Recognition cascade and metabolite transfer in a marine bacteria‐phytoplankton model system (2017) (56)
IDENTIFICATION AND COMPARATIVE GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF SIGNALING AND REGULATORY COMPONENTS IN THE DIATOM THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA 1 (2007) (54)
Iron and silicic acid effects on phytoplankton productivity, diversity, and chemical composition in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean (2010) (51)
Stress response of a marine ammonia-oxidizing archaeon informs physiological status of environmental populations (2017) (51)
Detection of glycolate oxidase gene glcD diversity among cultured and environmental marine bacteria. (2006) (48)
Daily changes in phytoplankton lipidomes reveal mechanisms of energy storage in the open ocean (2018) (48)
Frustule‐related gene transcription and the influence of diatom community composition on silica precipitation in an iron‐limited environment (2012) (47)
Determination of four forms of vitamin B12 and other B vitamins in seawater by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry. (2014) (47)
IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF DOMOIC ACID PRODUCTION IN OCEANIC PSEUDO‐NITZSCHIA (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) FROM IRON‐LIMITED WATERS IN THE NORTHEAST SUBARCTIC PACIFIC 1 (2008) (47)
Diversity and Evolutionary History of Iron Metabolism Genes in Diatoms (2015) (47)
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GROWTH RATE, CELL SIZE, AND INDUCTION OF SPERMATOGENESIS IN THE CENTRIC DIATOM THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII (BACILLARIOPHYTA) 1 (2006) (46)
Acclimation conditions modify physiological response of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana to elevated CO2 concentrations in a nitrate‐limited chemostat (2014) (43)
Metapopulation Structure in the Planktonic Diatom Ditylum brightwellii (Bacillariophyceae). (2009) (42)
Flow Cytometry in Phytoplankton Research (2010) (42)
Succession and Diel Transcriptional Response of the Glycolate-Utilizing Component of the Bacterial Community during a Spring Phytoplankton Bloom (2007) (41)
PATTERNS OF CELL SIZE CHANGE IN A MARINE CENTRIC DIATOM: VARIABILITY EVOLVING FROM CLONAL ISOLATES 1 (1992) (39)
Assessment of the potential for copper limitation of ammonia oxidation by Archaea in a dynamic estuary (2014) (38)
Relative impacts of light, temperature, and reactive oxygen on thaumarchaeal ammonia oxidation in the North Pacific Ocean (2018) (37)
The evolution of silicon transporters in diatoms (2016) (34)
A mating type-linked mutation that disrupts the uniparental inheritance of chloroplast DNA also disrupts cell-size control in Chlamydomonas. (1995) (34)
Ocean acidification conditions increase resilience of marine diatoms (2018) (33)
Alternative strategies of nutrient acquisition and energy conservation map to the biogeography of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea (2020) (33)
OOGAMOUS REPRODUCTION, WITH TWO‐STEP AUXOSPORULATION, IN THE CENTRIC DIATOM THALASSIOSIRA PUNCTIGERA (BACILLARIOPHYTA) 1 (2006) (33)
Anthropogenic Asian aerosols provide Fe to the North Pacific Ocean (2020) (31)
Latitudinal constraints on the abundance and activity of the cyanobacterium UCYN‐A and other marine diazotrophs in the North Pacific (2020) (31)
SeaFlow data v1, high-resolution abundance, size and biomass of small phytoplankton in the North Pacific (2019) (30)
Molecular characterization of Pseudo-nitzschia community structure and species ecology in a hydrographically complex estuarine system (Puget Sound, Washington, USA). (2014) (30)
Population structure of the planktonic copepod Calanus pacificus in the North Pacific Ocean (2008) (28)
A single-cell polony method reveals low levels of infected Prochlorococcus in oligotrophic waters despite high cyanophage abundances (2020) (28)
Uncovering hidden worlds of ocean biodiversity (2015) (28)
Development of a molecular‐based index for assessing iron status in bloom‐forming pennate diatoms (2017) (27)
The influence of net community production and phytoplankton community structure on CO2 uptake in the Gulf of Alaska (2013) (26)
The genetic potential for key biogeochemical processes in Arctic frost flowers and young sea ice revealed by metagenomic analysis. (2014) (26)
Kīlauea lava fuels phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Ocean (2019) (26)
Identification of G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway proteins in marine diatoms using comparative genomics (2013) (25)
Comparative Genomic Analysis of Vibrio diabolicus and Six Taxonomic Synonyms: A First Look at the Distribution and Diversity of the Expanded Species (2018) (24)
Positive selection within a diatom species acts on putative protein interactions and transcriptional regulation. (2013) (22)
Silicic acid supplied to coastal diatom communities influences cellular silicification and the potential export of carbon (2013) (18)
flowPhyto: enabling automated analysis of microscopic algae from continuous flow cytometric data (2011) (17)
Scalable clustering algorithms for continuous environmental flow cytometry (2016) (17)
Particulate Metabolites and Transcripts Reflect Diel Oscillations of Microbial Activity in the Surface Ocean (2021) (17)
Marine Community Metabolomes Carry Fingerprints of Phytoplankton Community Composition (2020) (16)
Diel transcriptional oscillations of light-sensitive regulatory elements in open-ocean eukaryotic plankton communities (2021) (15)
Uniparental Inheritance of Chloroplast Genomes (1998) (15)
Genome-scale metabolic model of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana highlights the importance of nitrogen and sulfur metabolism in redox balance (2020) (14)
IDENTIFICATION AND DNA SEQUENCE OF A NEW H+‐ATPase IN THE UNICELLULAR GREEN ALGA CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII (CHLOROPHYCEAE) (2001) (13)
Trophic interactions with heterotrophic bacteria limit the range of Prochlorococcus (2022) (12)
STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF NUCLEAR GENES IN THE CENTRIC DIATOM THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) (2000) (12)
Viruses affect picocyanobacterial abundance and biogeography in the North Pacific Ocean (2022) (12)
Simons Collaborative Marine Atlas Project (Simons CMAP): an open-source portal to share, visualize and analyze ocean data (2021) (12)
The Importance of the Phytoplankton “Middle Class” to Ocean Net Community Production (2020) (11)
Genomes of Sea Microbes (2007) (11)
Glycine betaine uptake and metabolism in marine microbial communities (2022) (10)
Patterns of diatom diversity correlate with dissolved trace metal concentrations and longitudinal position in the northeast Pacific coastal-offshore transition zone (2019) (10)
Sexual ancestors generated an obligate asexual and globally dispersed clone within the model diatom species Thalassiosira pseudonana (2018) (10)
Accumulation of NO2‐cobalamin in nutrient‐stressed ammonia‐oxidizing archaea and in the oxygen deficient zone of the eastern tropical North Pacific (2018) (10)
The dynamic trophic architecture of open-ocean protist communities revealed through machine-guided metatranscriptomics (2021) (10)
Consequences of high CO2 and ocean acidification for microbes in the global ocean (2009) (10)
Diel Oscillations of Particulate Metabolites Reflect Synchronized Microbial Activity in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (2020) (10)
Building an OptIPlanet collaboratory to support microbial metagenomics (2009) (9)
Community-scale Synchronization and Temporal Partitioning of Gene Expression, Metabolism, and Lipid Biosynthesis in Oligotrophic Ocean Surface Waters (2020) (9)
Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle (2022) (9)
Collaborative Science Workflows in SQL (2013) (9)
Dynamics of Teleaulax-like cryptophytes during the decline of a red water bloom in the Columbia River Estuary (2017) (9)
Diel oscillations in the feeding activity of heterotrophic and mixotrophic nanoplankton in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (2020) (9)
Fe limitation decreases transcriptional regulation over the diel cycle in the model diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana (2019) (7)
SQLShare : Scientific Workflow via Relational View Sharing (2013) (7)
Simons Collaborative Marine Atlas Project (Simons CMAP): An open‐source portal to share, visualize, and analyze ocean data (2021) (6)
Genomic evidence of adaptive evolution in emergent Vibrio parahaemolyticus ecotypes (2016) (5)
Taking the pulse of ocean microbes (2014) (4)
Real-time collaborative analysis with (almost) pure SQL: a case study in biogeochemical oceanography (2013) (4)
The Life Cycle of the Centric Diatom Thalassiosira Weissflogii: Control of Gametogenesis and Cell Size (1990) (3)
Diel-Regulated Transcriptional Cascades of Microbial Eukaryotes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (2021) (3)
Diel Transcriptional Oscillations of a Plastid Antiporter Reflect Increased Resilience of Thalassiosira pseudonana in Elevated CO2 (2021) (2)
IDENTIFICATION OF A GLYCINE DECARBOXYLASE GENE IN THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII: A PROBE FOR PHOTORESPIRATION IN DIATOMS (2000) (2)
Alternative strategies of nutrient acquisition and energy conservation map to the biogeography of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea (2020) (2)
Vaughn Iverson Class of Marine Euryarchaeota Untangling Genomes from Metagenomes : Revealing an Uncultured (2012) (2)
Siderophore production and utilization by microbes in the North Pacific Ocean (2022) (2)
Research article Positive Selection within a Diatom Species Acts on Putative Protein Interactions and Transcriptional Regulation (2012) (1)
Seawater carbonate chemistry and processes during experiments with Emiliania huxleyi, 2008 (2008) (1)
Identification of G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway proteins in marine diatoms using comparative genomics (2013) (1)
Chemotaxonomic patterns in intracellular metabolites of marine microbial plankton (2022) (1)
Diel population dynamics and mortality of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (2021) (1)
A Bayesian approach to modeling phytoplankton population dynamics from size distribution time series (2022) (1)
Biological productivity, phytoplankton community structure and air-sea CO2 flux in the surface waters of the Gulf of Alaska (2010) (1)
A day in the life of Prochlorococcus : Diel ecological oscillations of cyanobacteria, viruses and grazers in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (2020) (1)
A Kernel-Based Change Detection Method to Map Shifts in Phytoplankton Communities Measured by Flow Cytometry (2020) (1)
Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana (2022) (1)
Correction for Boysen et al., “Particulate Metabolites and Transcripts Reflect Diel Oscillations of Microbial Activity in the Surface Ocean” (2023) (0)
Determining ecological provinces from optical cytometric data in the North Pacific Ocean (2020) (0)
Cyanophage abundance and infection of picocyanobacteria are defined by environmental gradients in the North Pacific Ocean (2020) (0)
PipeCyte: A miniature immersed-optic flow cytometer for autonomous platforms. (2020) (0)
Nitrogen fixation in mesoscale eddies of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: patterns and mechanisms (2021) (0)
A single-cell polony method reveals low levels of infected Prochlorococcus in oligotrophic waters despite high cyanophage abundances (2020) (0)
Phytoplankton Diversity and Geologically Relevant Carbon: Using metagenomics to determine phytoplankton biomarker production (2008) (0)
Delineating ecotypes of marine photosynthetic picoeukaryotes in the wild (2015) (0)
A flexible Bayesian approach to estimating size-structured matrix population models (2021) (0)
The three components of the reductive uptake system in diatoms. (2015) (0)
A 3-year expedition yields a treasure trove of data on microorganisms and small animals in the world ’ s oceans (2015) (0)
Correction for Heal et al., “Marine Community Metabolomes Carry Fingerprints of Phytoplankton Community Composition” (2023) (0)
A plastid antiporter as a bioindicator of Thalassiosira pseudonana resilience (2020) (0)
Spatial Variations of Siderophores in the North Pacific Ocean (2020) (0)
Hidden Worlds: Biodiversity of Marine Microbes (2015) (0)
Divergent functions of two clades of flavodoxin in diatoms mitigate oxidative stress and iron limitation (2022) (0)
Daily changes in phytoplankton lipidomes reveal mechanisms of energy storage in the open ocean (2018) (0)
Figures for insights into diatom cell biology from the genome sequence of the centric diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana (2005) (0)
Hidden Worlds of Marine Microbes (2016) (0)
Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle (2022) (0)
EXPRESSION PATTERNS OF THREE PUTATIVE SEXUAL‐SPECIFIC GENES IN THE CENTRIC DIATOM THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII (2000) (0)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recent Work Title Evolutionary genomics of the cold-Adapted diatom (2017) (0)
Mechanistic Model of B 12 -based Syntrophy Between Thalassiosira pseudonana and Ruegeria pomeroyi (2020) (0)
Analysis of Diatom Blooms Using DNA Fingerprints (2001) (0)
Sexual ancestors generated an obligate asexual and globally dispersed clone within the model diatom species Thalassiosira pseudonana (2018) (0)
Ocean acidification conditions increase resilience of marine diatoms (2018) (0)
Size Distributions and Carbon Biomass of Surface Picophytoplankton at Station ALOHA Using the SeaFlow Underway Flow Cytometer. (2020) (0)
Light Sensing in Open Ocean Eukaryotic Plankton (2020) (0)

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