selected publications

• journal article

  • Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies.  Nature Microbiology. 1570-1580. 2025
  • A comprehensive survey of soil microbial diversity across the Antarctic continent.  Polar Biology. 2025
  • Examining the potential of plastic-fed black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) as "bioincubators" of plastic-degrading bacteria.  Journal of Applied Microbiology. 2025
  • Three new Pseudogymnoascus species (Pseudeurotiaceae, Thelebolales) described from Antarctic soils.  IMA Fungus: the global mycological journal. 2025
  • Three new Pseudogymnoascus species (Pseudeurotiaceae, Thelebolales) described from Antarctic soils..  IMA Fungus: the global mycological journal. e142219. 2025
  • Applications of microbial bioplastic polyhydroxyalkanoates as biosignatures for astrobiological detection.  International Journal of Astrobiology. 2024
  • Taxonomic and genomic attributes of oligotrophic soil bacteria.  ISME Communications. 2024
  • Genetic analysis of the frozen microbiome at 7900 m a.s.l., on the South Col of Sagarmatha (Mount Everest).  Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 2023
  • The Early Microbial Colonizers of a Short-Lived Volcanic Island in the Kingdom of Tonga.  mBio. 2023
  • Strong Dispersal Limitation of Microbial Communities at Shackleton Glacier, Antarctica.  mSystems. 2023
  • A Metagenomic Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Changes in Sewage Microbiomes across a University Campus.  mSystems. 2022
  • Estimating biodiversity across the tree of life on Mount Everest's southern flank with environmental DNA.  iScience. 2022
  • Elevational Constraints on the Composition and Genomic Attributes of Microbial Communities in Antarctic Soils.  mSystems. 2022
  • Microbial Survival in an Extreme Martian Analog Ecosystem: Poas Volcano, Costa Rica.  Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 2022
  • Response of Antarctic soil fauna to climate-driven changes since the Last Glacial Maximum.  Global Change Biology. 644-653. 2022
  • Exploring the Boundaries of Microbial Habitability in Soil.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2021
  • Comparative mitochondrial and chloroplast genomics of a genetically distinct form of Sargassum contributing to recent “Golden Tides” in the Western Atlantic.  Ecology and Evolution. 516-525. 2017