Lauren Seyler

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

The Dark Ecosystems, Energy, and Production laboratory at Stockton studies microbial ecology and biogeochemistry in the dark. I use a combination of cutting-edge molecular and biochemical tools to study how microbes make a living in a wide range of habitats, including deep salt marsh mud, the aphotic ocean, serpentinite-hosted aquifers, and (possibly) icy moons in our solar system. 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Seyler LM, Trembath-Reichert E, Tully BJ, and Huber JA. Time-series transcriptomics from cold, oxic subseafloor crustal fluids reveals a motile, mixotrophic microbial community. In Review at ISME J (bioRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.03.2353410)

Seyler LM, Kujawinski E, Marlow J, Lee M, Perl SM, Azua-Bustos A, and Cleaves HJ. (2020) Metabolomics as an emerging tool in the search for astrobiologically-relevant biomarkers. Astrobiol 20(12). doi: 10.1089/ast.2019.2135

Seyler LM, Brazelton WL, McLean C, Putman LI, McCollum T, Hoehler T, Kubo MDY, Cardace D, and Schrenk MO. (2020) Carbon assimilation strategies in ultrabasic groundwater: Clues from the integrated study of a serpentinization-influenced aquifer. mSystems 5(2):e00607-19. doi:10.1128/mSystems.00607-19 (bioRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/776849)

Seyler LM, Tuorto SJ, McGuinness LR, Gong D, and Kerkhof LJ. (2019) Archaeal and bacterial-specific predation in the deep North Atlantic. Front Mar Sci 6:55. doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00555

Seyler LM, McGuinness LR, Gilbert JA, Biddle JF, Gong D, Kerkhof LJ. (2018) Discerning autotrophy, mixotrophy, and heterotrophy in marine TACK archaea from the North Atlantic. FEMS Microbiol 94(3):fiy014. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiy014

Thompson LR, Sanders JG, McDonald D… and the Earth Microbiome Project Consortium. (2017) A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity. Nature 551(7681):457-463. doi:10.1038/nature24621

Seyler LM, McGuinness LM, Kerkhof LJ. (2014) Crenarchaeal heterotrophy in salt marsh sediments. ISME J 8:1534-1543. doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.15