Rachel J Whitaker
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Rachel J Whitaker's Degrees
- PhD Microbiology Stanford University
- Masters Biology Stanford University
- Bachelors Biology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rachel J Whitaker is a professor of Microbiology in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her laboratory's research focuses on the evolution of Archaea, Bacteria, and Viruses in both natural and clinical environments.
Rachel J Whitaker's Published Works
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Published Works
- Geographic Barriers Isolate Endemic Populations of Hyperthermophilic Archaea (2003) (825)
- Microbial Biogeography: From Taxonomy to Traits (2008) (543)
- Biogeography of the Sulfolobus islandicus pan-genome (2009) (241)
- Lake microbial communities are resilient after a whole-ecosystem disturbance (2012) (194)
- Patterns of Gene Flow Define Species of Thermophilic Archaea (2012) (186)
- Viral biogeography revealed by signatures in Sulfolobus islandicus genomes. (2009) (177)
- Genome dynamics in a natural archaeal population (2007) (130)
- Allopatric origins of microbial species (2006) (101)
- Recombination shapes the natural population structure of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus. (2005) (100)
- ITEP: An integrated toolkit for exploration of microbial pan-genomes (2014) (100)
- CRISPR Associated Diversity within a Population of Sulfolobus islandicus (2010) (99)
- Population genomics in natural microbial communities. (2006) (96)
- MULTISCALE MODEL OF CRISPR-INDUCED COEVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS: DIVERSIFICATION AT THE INTERFACE OF LAMARCK AND DARWIN (2012) (90)
- A viral ring nuclease anti-CRISPR subverts type III CRISPR immunity (2019) (82)
- Mechanisms of gene flow in archaea (2017) (80)
- A virus or more in (nearly) every cell: ubiquitous networks of virus–host interactions in extreme environments (2018) (76)
- CRISPR-Induced Distributed Immunity in Microbial Populations (2014) (68)
- The essential genome of the crenarchaeal model Sulfolobus islandicus (2018) (63)
- An anti-CRISPR viral ring nuclease subverts type III CRISPR immunity (2020) (54)
- Viral invasion fitness across a continuum from lysis to latency† (2019) (48)
- Virus-Induced Dormancy in the Archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus (2015) (48)
- The Population Structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is Characterized by Genetic Isolation of exoU+ and exoS+ Lineages (2019) (41)
- Inferring Speciation Processes from Patterns of Natural Variation in Microbial Genomes (2015) (37)
- Reassortment of CRISPR repeat-spacer loci in Sulfolobus islandicus. (2013) (36)
- The ecology and evolution of microbial CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems (2019) (35)
- A broadly applicable gene knockout system for the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus based on simvastatin selection. (2012) (29)
- Genomic and phenotypic differentiation among Methanosarcina mazei populations from Columbia River sediment (2015) (28)
- Augmenting the Genetic Toolbox for Sulfolobus islandicus with a Stringent Positive Selectable Marker for Agmatine Prototrophy (2013) (27)
- Sulfolobus islandicus: a model system for evolutionary genomics. (2013) (27)
- Cell Structure Changes in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus Lacking the S-Layer (2019) (24)
- Lineage-Specific Responses of Microbial Communities to Environmental Change (2012) (24)
- The structure of the periplasmic FlaG–FlaF complex and its essential role for archaellar swimming motility (2019) (23)
- Differentiation and Structure in Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-Shaped Virus Populations (2017) (22)
- Diversified local CRISPR-Cas immunity to viruses of Sulfolobus islandicus (2019) (22)
- Spatial structure and persistence of methanogen populations in humic bog lakes (2010) (21)
- Differentiation between sediment and hypolimnion methanogen communities in humic lakes. (2014) (21)
- Microhomology-Mediated High-Throughput Gene Inactivation Strategy for the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus (2017) (20)
- Infection with Bacteroides Phage BV01 Alters the Host Transcriptome and Bile Acid Metabolism in a Common Human Gut Microbe (2020) (19)
- Surface resistance to SSVs and SIRVs in pilin deletions of Sulfolobus islandicus (2019) (18)
- Structured Populations of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius with Susceptibility to Mobile Genetic Elements (2017) (18)
- Metapopulation Structure of CRISPR-Cas Immunity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Its Viruses (2018) (18)
- The search for a molecular-level understanding of the processes that underpin the Earth's biogeochemical cycles (2005) (17)
- Population Dynamics Through the Lens of Extreme Environments (2005) (16)
- Recombination Shapes Genome Architecture in an Organism from the Archaeal Domain (2014) (15)
- Sulfolobus islandicus meta‐populations in Yellowstone National Park hot springs (2017) (14)
- Model Systems to Study the Chronic, Polymicrobial Infections in Cystic Fibrosis: Current Approaches and Exploring Future Directions (2021) (13)
- Phytoplankton succession affects the composition of Polynucleobacter subtypes in humic lakes. (2015) (11)
- The network structure and eco-evolutionary dynamics of CRISPR-induced immune diversification (2019) (11)
- The apt/6-Methylpurine Counterselection System and Its Applications in Genetic Studies of the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus (2016) (11)
- Metagenomic evidence for reciprocal particle exchange between the mainstem estuary and lateral bay sediments of the lower Columbia River (2015) (10)
- CRISPR-Cas Systems to Probe Ecological Diversity and Host–Viral Interactions (2013) (9)
- Evolutionary causes and consequences of diversified CRISPR immune profiles in natural populations. (2013) (9)
- Killer Archaea: Virus-Mediated Antagonism to CRISPR-Immune Populations Results in Emergent Virus-Host Mutualism (2020) (8)
- A short prokaryotic Argonaute activates membrane effector to confer antiviral defense. (2022) (8)
- Evolution: Spatial Scaling of Microbial Interactions (2009) (7)
- Correction for " Biogeography of the Sulfolobus islandicus pangenome" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2009) 106, 21, (8605- 8610) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808945106) (2009) (7)
- Lying in Wait: Modeling the Control of Bacterial Infections via Antibiotic-Induced Proviruses (2019) (6)
- Viral Fitness Across a Continuum from Lysis to Latency (2018) (5)
- Prediction of Prophages and Their Host Ranges in Pathogenic and Commensal Neisseria Species (2021) (5)
- A Short Prokaryotic Argonaute Activates Membrane Effector to Confer Antiviral Defense (2021) (4)
- How do Small Things Make a Big Difference? Activities to Teach about Human—Microbe Interactions (2014) (4)
- Discovering the Molecular Determinants of Phaeobacter inhibens Susceptibility to Phaeobacter Phage MD18 (2020) (4)
- Duplication of leucyl-tRNA synthetase in an archaeal extremophile may play a role in adaptation to variable environmental conditions (2020) (3)
- Genome Sequence of a Thermoacidophilic Methanotroph Belonging to the Verrucomicrobiota Phylum from Geothermal Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park: A Metagenomic Assembly and Reconstruction (2022) (3)
- CRISPR-Cas Gatekeeper: Slow on the Uptake but Gets the Job Done. (2016) (2)
- Correction for Biogeography of the Sulfolobus islandicus pan-genome (2009) (2)
- A short prokaryotic argonaute cooperates with membrane effector to confer antiviral defense (2021) (2)
- Intraspecific antagonism through viral toxin encoded by chronic Sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus (2021) (2)
- CRISPR comparison toolkit (CCTK): Rapid identification, visualization, and analysis of CRISPR array diversity (2022) (2)
- Revealing S-layer Functions in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus (2018) (2)
- Population dynamics in acid mine drainage biofilms from the Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, California (2005) (2)
- Abigail Salyers: An Almost Unbeatable Force (2018) (2)
- Temperate and chronic virus competition leads to low lysogen frequency. (2019) (2)
- Biogeography of the Sulfolobus islandicus (2009) (2)
- Infection with novel Bacteroides phage BV01 alters host transcriptome and bile acid metabolism in a common human gut microbe (2020) (2)
- Modeling the control of bacterial infections via antibiotic-induced proviruses (2019) (1)
- Communities to Environmental Change Lineage-Specific Responses of Microbial (2013) (1)
- Interrogation of the integrated mobile genetic elements in gut-associated Bacteroidaceae with a consensus prediction approach (2021) (1)
- ITEP: An integrated toolkit for exploration of microbial pan-genomes (2014) (1)
- A New Age of Naturalists (2011) (1)
- Phage–Antibiotic Synergy Inhibited by Temperate and Chronic Virus Competition (2021) (1)
- Women in microbiology (2018) (1)
- An anti-CRISPR viral ring nuclease subverts type III CRISPR immunity (2020) (0)
- The essential genome of the crenarchaeal model Sulfolobus islandicus (2018) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Diversified local CRISPR–Cas immunity to viruses of Sulfolobus islandicus " (2019) (0)
- Host populations exhibit periods of different coevolutionary dynamics. (2014) (0)
- A New Age of Naturalists A new age of naturalists is under way as we explore the distribution and origins of microbial diversity in the natural world (2011) (0)
- Transposon Insertion Mutagenesis in Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus. (2022) (0)
- Population Genomics of Archaea: Signatures of Archaeal Biology from Natural Populations (2018) (0)
- Characterizing Sulfolobus spindle shaped viruses from Yellowstone National Park and Kamchatka, Russiaerizing (2018) (0)
- CRISPR-Induced Distributed Immunity in Microbial Populations The Harvard community made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2014) (0)
- A Rapid Targeted Gene Inactivation Approach in Sulfolobus islandicus. (2022) (0)
- Horizontal gene transfer and CRISPR targeting drive phage-bacterial host interactions and co-evolution in pink berry marine microbial aggregates (2023) (0)
- A virus or more in (nearly) every cell: ubiquitous networks of virus–host interactions in extreme environments (2018) (0)
- Integrated conjugative plasmid drives high frequency chromosomal gene transfer in Sulfolobus islandicus (2023) (0)
- Extreme Environments as a Model System to Study How Virus–Host Interactions Evolve Along the Symbiosis Continuum (2021) (0)
- Drinking water microbiome assembly induced by water stagnation (2018) (0)
- The structure of the periplasmic FlaG–FlaF complex and its essential role for archaellar swimming motility (2019) (0)
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